Post your fluxbox setting with screenshot

[tomcheng76]

idesk for desktop icon
adesklets for weather
conky for system monitor
rxvt-unicode for background terminal
Ximian Heaven style
any good style?

[kerry_s]

rox -p=icons = aka: rox-filer pinboard for desktop icons
conky = monitor
rxvt-unicode-lite = terminal, mc, axel, i run it with the daemon(uxrvtd, use the client uxrvtc)

i try to recycle the resources, to ease the load on the crappy cpu. simple colored background from theme(cuthlain modified a little)
trim install only what i actually use, vaio pcg-f430 450mhz 256 ram 20gig hd
debian-minimal+fluxbox

[urukrama]

rox -p=icons = aka: rox-filer pinboard for desktop icons
conky = monitor
rxvt-unicode-lite = terminal, mc, axel, i run it with the daemon(uxrvtd, use the client uxrvtc)

i try to recycle the resources, to ease the load on the crappy cpu. simple colored background from theme(cuthlain modified a little)
trim install only what i actually use, vaio pcg-f430 450mhz 256 ram 20gig hd
debian-minimal+fluxbox

What is that 'to do list' thingy on your desktop?

[happy-and-lost]

Debian Etch on a 1GHz Duron with 386MB RAM. Boots fully into the Fluxbox "desktop" in 56 seconds. I keep it simple to keep it fast.

What you can see...
Theme: Noir
Conky for keeping an eye on things
XMMS with the ATER white skin, using the OSD song change plugin and "hotkeys" to enable my multimedia keyboard buttons
Thunar file manager, using gtk-theme-switch and the .gtkrc-2.0 to set MurrinaGraphiteGentle + Tango icons



Sadly most of the potential responsiveness is sabotaged by the faulty S3 graphics driver supplied with Etch

[Onyros]

Debian Etch on a 1GHz Duron with 386MB RAM. Boots fully into the Fluxbox "desktop" in 56 seconds. I keep it simple to keep it fast.

What you can see...
Theme: Noir
Conky for keeping an eye on things
XMMS with the ATER white skin, using the OSD song change plugin and "hotkeys" to enable my multimedia keyboard buttons
Thunar file manager, using gtk-theme-switch and the .gtkrc-2.0 to set MurrinaGraphiteGentle + Tango icons



Sadly most of the potential responsiveness is sabotaged by the faulty S3 graphics driver supplied with Etch

Love it! But you should really look into PCManFM: it's Thunar with tabs, with far less dependencies.

Check out the screenie with it in action

[tomcheng76]

just switched from nautilus --no desktop --browser to pcmanfm
definitely faster
how to use gtk-theme-switch and the .gtkrc-2.0 to change look of pcmanfm ?

[happy-and-lost]

Love it! But you should really look into PCManFM: it's Thunar with tabs, with far less dependencies.

Nice! I've not tried that one before. I can get rid of all the XFCE clutter installed with Thunar now

how to use gtk-theme-switch and the .gtkrc-2.0 to change look of pcmanfm ?

Add the gtk-theme-switch to ~/.fluxbox/startup like this:

gtk-theme-switch2 /path/to/gtk/theme/folder/eg/MurrinaGraphiteGentle/ &

And because gtk-theme-switch will take control on your .gtkrc-2.0, you have to create a ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine file and add the line: gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango" (or whatever icon set you want) to change the icons. Works for Thunar and PCManFM

[kerry_s]

What is that 'to do list' thingy on your desktop?

that's just xpad, i'm getting old and if i don't jot it down i forget what i was doing.
i just leave it there when i'm multi-tasking, it's very light and dead simple to use. I also use xcal a very simple scheduler. i try and use only very light applications, things that are very small and fast, they may not look fancy, but they get the job done and doesn't make me wait for it to load. I try and use what ever's built in if i can, things like xcalc that's part of xorg, there's also a clock, calendar, text editor already installed on every ones system, they may not look good but they are light.

oop's forgot to finish that note.: my mp3 player can be started and will continue to play when i close it, i can start it again to stop the music or switch to a different folder. time for sleep

[urukrama]

thanks, kerry. I've used xpad in the past, but I don't think I'll use xcal. But thanks to you I also discovered xcalc. Now I don't have to install the gnome calculator.

[kerry_s]

thanks, kerry. I've used xpad in the past, but I don't think I'll use xcal. But thanks to you I also discovered xcalc. Now I don't have to install the gnome calculator.

here's my xcalc setting for the .Xdefaults file to get rid of the stock ugly grey.

xcalc*geometry: 200x275
xcalc.ti.bevel.background: #111111
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.DEG.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.DEG.foreground: Black
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.GRAD.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.GRAD.foreground: Black
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.RAD.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.RAD.foreground: Black
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.INV.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.INV.foreground: Red
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.LCD.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.LCD.foreground: Black
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.LCD.shadowWidth: 0
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.M.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.M.foreground: Black
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.P.background: Green
xcalc.ti.bevel.screen.P.foreground: Black
xcalc.ti.Command.foreground: White
xcalc.ti.Command.background: black
xcalc.ti.button5.background: orange
xcalc.ti.button20.background: red
xcalc.ti.button25.background: red
xcalc.ti.button30.background: red
xcalc.ti.button35.background: red
xcalc.ti.button40.background: green
xcalc.ti.button22.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button23.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button24.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button27.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button28.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button29.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button32.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button33.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button34.background: blue
xcalc.ti.button37.background: blue
XCalc*Cursor:                 hand2
XCalc*ShapeStyle:             rectangle