Must have apps for fluxbox

[ja660k]

as the title says :D

gimme your list of must have apps for fluxbox
right now i have

gkrellm
opera
gedit
nautilus
Eterm
vlc
KPDF



yeah... any more i need?

[Nythain]

firefox 2 (in every de/wm i use)
vlc
gimp
gtk-chtheme2 (for changing my gtk themes)
rxvt-unicode (an excellent terminal emulator)
brasero (cd creation tool similar to k3b but gtk based)
mpd/ncmpc (ncurses based front end for command line Music Player Daemon)
htop (command line system monitor tool)
nano/gedit (cli for simple edits, gedit when i dont want nano to eff up my layout)
gmrun (omfg why didnt i discover this tool before, way better than fbrun)
not sure what else

[Inxsible]

haha..Its funny.. I just posted a similar reply about 5 seconds ago...

Here's the link..

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5148614#post5148614

[spupy]

I recommend choosing another file manager instead of nautilus. Since you are not using the Gnome desktop, nautilus will be slower. I personally use Rox, but it's a bit strange, so try thunar and pcmanfm.

Gedit and brasero suffer from not being in Gnome too, but not so much. If you run them, they start some gnome junk with them. I personally don't like this, so i replaced them with other programs (leafpad+scite, graveman), but some might see this as a sacrifice.

For terminal, rxvt-unicode, aterm is nice too, has transparency.

For mpd check out sonata or gmpd (or gmpc, dunno) - light gtk frontends for mpd.

gtk-chtheme2 is good, but lxappearance is better IMHO - has some additional options.

If you want to have only gtk apps, replace KPDF with epdfview (i still like evince better).

HTOP is very nice; if need something graphical, gnome-task-manager (or whatever it is called) is bit too heavy - check out lxtask.

Screensaver - xscreensaver (config command - xscreensaver-demo)

EDIT: Nythain: Thanks for gmrun! ;)

[Nythain]

thanks in return for the skinny on the lx apps... i had looked at lxde but wasnt pleased with a lot of thier defaults, didnt pay much attention to the fact that they had a few of their own lightweight apps out there too

[InTheFlatField]

My list would be:

Feh: Got to have something to set the background with that supports transparency.

URXVT: Light, supports Unicode, pseudo transparency, looks particularly awesome without decorations.

Thunar: Light and awesome file manager that has support for auto mounting new thumb drives and what not built in.

Scite: Easy to use light text editor with syntax highlighting for a ton of stuff.

Conky: Highly configurable text based system monitor, useful and pretty.

GMRun: Lovely little app launcher.

Sonata/MPD: Small clean music player, with the bonus of all of MPDs inherent advantages.

XArchiver: Decent desktop environment agnostic file roller alternative.

RipOff: Very clean, light, easy to use CD ripper.

Graveman: Very clean, light, easy to use CD burner.

Comix: Designed for comic books but a very cool image viewer nonetheless.

[Inxsible]

I have been trying to install Recorder (http://code.google.com/p/recorder/) on my Debian. but I am having problems. See this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=822992). I get errors when i "make install"

How is Graveman? I might just switch to that. Does it burn DVDs? Can you give me rundown of the features that it has?

[InTheFlatField]

Graveman does audio CDs, data CDs/DVDs, and burns ISO images to discs.

It does not do video, so if that's important to you go with something else.

Otherwise it's awesome.

[Nythain]

i've also been known to use,
pcmanfm for file management
xarchiver allready mentioned, but very usefull if you arent familiar with the cli
midnight commander a very good ncurses cli file manager

and im currently considering switching from mpd/ncmpc to moc... it seems very nifty

[atomkarinca]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned any panels? PyPanel (http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/), perlpanel (http://packages.ubuntu.com/perlpanel), even LXPanel (http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/LXPanel) are nice panels. wbar (http://code.google.com/p/wbar/) is a cool dock and at last but not least with adesklets (http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/) you can have lightweight desklets.

[spupy]

Why hasn't anyone mentioned any panels? PyPanel (http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/), perlpanel (http://packages.ubuntu.com/perlpanel), even LXPanel (http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/LXPanel) are nice panels. wbar (http://code.google.com/p/wbar/) is a cool dock and at last but not least with adesklets (http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/) you can have lightweight desklets.


What do you need panels for in Fluxbox? :O It has a pretty normal taskbar with a try and it has the slit.

[DAC1138]

My main setup consists of:

Firefox
Conky
Thunar
Pidgin

I use thunar for file management because it's lighter than Nautilus, and better than Rox. It also manages mounted disk drives very easily, something rox fails to do.

[rjmdomingo2003]

If you need icons, use iDesk.

[urukrama]

and im currently considering switching from mpd/ncmpc to moc... it seems very nifty

My current favourite is cplay.

[Inxsible]

Graveman does audio CDs, data CDs/DVDs, and burns ISO images to discs.

It does not do video, so if that's important to you go with something else.

Otherwise it's awesome.
I checked out the website as well. but the last update on that website was made somewhere in 2006. Have they not updated the software since to include DVD videos and such.

Actually, I do not normally burn videos or discs for that matter. The only CD burning that I do is iso images for all the different Linux distributions that I keep trying out.

So I guess it should work for me, but I would still like to have the DVD burning facility - just in case I need it :)

Lets see what other lightweight cd/dvd burners we have out there.

[Inxsible]

My current favourite is cplay.+ 1 for cplay :)