Fluxbox 1.3 Released | What’s new | Compile Fluxbox

Posted on February 20, 2011 by mhnassif

Fluxbox is a great lightweight X window manager based on Blackbox 0.61.1 built using C++. Fluxbox has a simple friendly user-interface quite easy to use for any user, and does not require a high machine performance to use it. Been a long time since last Fluxbox stable release from two years, finally Fluxbox 1.3 has been released today with quite a few new features we will take a look at along with installation methods for Fluxbox 1.3. Continue reading →

How To: Install FluxBox Window Manager on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Posted on May 9, 2010 by mhnassif

FluxBox window manager is the real simple of X window system you will have ever see, Lightweight window manger, can be modified with a lot of styles and themes, and really easy to use. FluxBox was based on BlackBox 0.61.1

Installations Guide :

1. simply open terminal and type

sudo apt-get install fluxbox

it will take a while till the installation process done.

and other way to install the FluxBox

2. Visit Download FluxBox site

and download the last stable version there. or if you are interesting in test development release

Download it then simply compile the package

access the directory for the download file then open terminal and type this commands

./configure

make

sudo make install

and here is some screenshots For FluxBox 1.1 after installing it on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with different styles

That’s it for now