Fluxbox 1.3 Released | What’s new | Compile Fluxbox

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

Top 10 FluxBox Themes

FluxBox lightweight window manager based on blackbox window manager, we already reviewed FluxBox and how to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS follow this post. Another post for how to configure FluxBox window manager follow this post.

so, in this post we are going to list top ten fluxbox themes for light themes and other dark themes

1. antix_black

Download antix black

2. Area themes

Download Area

3. Semblance

Download Semblance

4. Ambientbox

Download Ambientbox

5. Color Me Bad

Download Color me Bad

6. Antistar

Download Antistar

7. Shiki mod:Flat Blue

Download Shiki mod: flat blue

8. DarkBlack theme

Download DarkBlack

9. Ubuntu Light themes

Download Ubuntu Light theme

10. PerkElementary

Download Perk elementry

That’s it for now :)

Configurations for FluxBox window manager ” 6 Steps “

FluxBox window manager is really simple window manager even the configuration for it really easy and you can do more to get the best performance and better looking desktop using a lightweight desktop and that what FluxBox can give.

we already make a post for ” [How To]: install FluxBox window manager on ubuntu 10.04 LTS ” in Here.

First go to fluxbox main menu you will find configuration you will find a lot of options there we will explain it one by one with a quick 6 steps.

1. Focus Model

you can select window by just moving the pointer to it or select the window by your self, become handy some times if you want just to preview the active window in the background.

2. Maximize Options

modifying the full maximizing options, disabling/enabling moving and resizing windows

3. Tab Options

you can control the placement for window’s tabs around the window, integrating the tab within titlebar itself without getting it outside, you can show pictures for this tab or not, and customizing the tab size.

4. Transparency

Control the the transparent for windows even active windows or windows on the background.

5. Slit

slit is almost about adding extra dock applications or in another name toolbar apps, to be integrated with the toolbar itself. and it ‘s fully customizable with slit options for moving it and the size of the dock apps, auto hiding it, even assign it to specific client.

6. Toolbar

You will find a lot of options to customize the toolbar as you wish for changing the width, auto hide it, changing the layers, changing the placement for the whole toolbar in the desktop, and changing the clock, the ordering for the clock and date.

That’s it for now

How To: Install FluxBox Window Manager on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

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 :)