fluxbox

Configuration for fluxbox window manager.

What is this?

The files included here normally reside in admin users home directory ~/.fluxbox.

Fluxbox is a lightning fast window manager which is very good suited for running on

• home servers (in case you need a browser or window applications there)
• internet servers, accessible via nomachine VNC or XRDP Server
• small hardware like Rasperry PIs

Some features which really make fun since this stuff is so fast:

• Moving windows between workspaces (Drag Drop or via keys)

Prerequisites

On debian-like systems without desktop environment ("Ubuntu Server", debootstrap-systems), the installation of xorg server and fluxbox is < 400MB in size:

apt-get install -y xorg fluxbox rxvt-unicode-256color qalculate grun xfe

this installs following executables:

• startx: start x server and fluxbox under current user's context
• rxvt: terminal emulator with unicode support
• qalculate: cool calculator
• grun: application starter better then the built-in fbrun
• xfe: simple file manager with 3 panes

Todo

• configure
  • window handling keys for local screen WIN-<key>: mix of
    • windows resizing behaviour
    • WIN-xxx app start (WIN-r, WIN-e)
  • workspace handling keys
    • MacOS workspace switching Control-,
  • window <> workspace handling: move windows between workspace
• add apple keyboard switch script to menu and system
• add xrdp server
• add help text for keyboard shortcuts, onscreen desplay on start workspace like

/usr/bin/wterm -tr -fn  "-misc-*-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" -fg grey +sb -e cat /dev/xconsole &