Fantastic video! I tried fluxbox a long time ago but, you just showed me so many reasons to pick it up again. Especially in the key bindings section and tiling windows, when I want to, not all the time. Now I have to watch the other videos, especially Openbox. Thank you!
MX Linux user here! also a first timer Linux user...used to use Fluxbox but an important app couldn't work properly, so I moved to the XFCE version and it's working flawlessly. I'm actually surprised to how bug free and hassle free Linux is (been a Windows user all my life). MX Tools and the Debian stable looks to be the winning combo for me.
Fluxbox is my WM since many years, I migrated over from Blackbox when the project started. I kept looking at Openbox from time to time, since I stopped using Flux's tab feature and toolbar some years ago, but in Openbox I never liked having to edit xml files for configuration, I prefer the Fluxbox text files for editing my root menu, my key bindings and stuff. I'm using my Fluxbox with xfce4-panel, xfce4-terminal, and of course Picom for the eye candy.
Hi drew, I'm a bspwm user for a long time now and also a dk user because I knew natemaia (its dev) from the ArchLabs forum and I have to say that I really enjoy your floating wm series so thank you very much indeed and if I had only one monitor I may consider fluxbox because of you. 👍
Great vid! (Re)started out 6 years ago on openbox , moved on, but still a favorite. Gotta say that Fluxbox by Adi (Archcraft) looked great. And an honorable mention to dk, recently installed that again ;-) Keep them coming, Drew! Thanks.
really helpful having these ease of access and easy to follow tutorials as usual! maybe you could do one where you can take advantage of distrobox for package access and management? combining an arch container with the super stable debian seems pretty powerful
Conky is terrific for posting Bible verses on wallpaper...keeping wallpaper but changing verses. I was glad when I was able to get Conky to function in Hyprland. Since adding temp, memory, BT, wifi, etc. to Waybar, Conky is strictly a Bible verse vehicle.
Drew, I'm enjoying this. I'm a semi-new subscriber and this is the first series on your channel that I've followed from the beginning since being subscribed. I've just decommissioned my work laptop with an i5 processor for a new 14th Gen i7. I want to have a laptop that I can play around on and allow the family the ability to get more familiar with linux (My wife is also in IT but she works primarily with Microsoft technologies). I'm hoping to pick a good lightweight WM (or multiple if I go through and follow this series all the way through) for her to play with.
Question: About fbmenugen and obmenu-generator, you seem to be using Debian or one of its derivatives -- but I could swear that ALL of the dependencies for fbmenugen and obmenu-generator were discontinued in Debian several years ago. In light of that, how did you get those menus on Debian?
No, you're good with only two dependencies and both are in debian stable. Here are the scripts I use for both menu generators. * github.com/drewgrif/bookworm-scripts/blob/main/install_scripts/fbmenugen.sh * github.com/drewgrif/bookworm-scripts/blob/main/install_scripts/obmenu.sh
@@JustAGuyLinux Thank you very much. But I still couldn't figure it out. But after some Googling, I figured out what to do, and I got it working! 😀 Again, many, many thanks!
@@JustAGuyLinuxThank you very, VERY much! Got it up and running on a lite edition of a distro I created last winter called F3OS (the Free Family-Friendly Operating System -- based on Debian Stable with built-in web content filtering), with a new edition of such coming out later this week. Thanks again!
@@JustAGuyLinux Another question: I'm now trying to package this as a .deb file. However, I tried running an edited version of the script as a postinst file, minus the first two sudo directives, deleting the other sudo instances, since this already runs with administrative privileges, since I included those as dependencies in my control file -- and got error exit status 127 when I tried installing it to an Openbox version of a distro I'm working on releasing. For now, I'll just load it in there directly instead of from my new repository so that I can get it out before Christmas and take that package out of the repository until we can get that fixed. But I'd still like to get this installing neatly as a package for future releases, such as next summer, when Debian Trixie comes out.
Can you please also make a video on FLWM(fast and light window manager) on debian? It's like openbox/fluxbox, that is it has a right click menu, however, it's got the taskbar/current running applications on the right click menu itself and moreover, if an application is full screen, you can click on the titlebar of any running application window to access the right click menu, hence, there is no need to go back to the desktop to get the right click menu.
I can't figure out how to get a completely silent boot yet. Other distros do this very nicely with just the plymouth animation and then it goes directly to the login manager. I need directions step by step if I can get them. I'm hoping most of you are more advanced than I am. I've been on linux for 16 years but sometimes the simple things get overlooked and nobody ever explains how its achieved.
I am not going to confirm this, but if I recall... edit the grub configuration with: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 sudo update-grub reboot. NO GUARANTEES
Terrible font rendering and the font is much to small. Adjust it first next time please when you do the video. My old eyes are not as sharp anymore. Even with glasses it's hard to see. I don't use Conky either. I want my desktop to be clean.
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Fantastic video!
I tried fluxbox a long time ago but, you just showed me so many reasons to pick it up again. Especially in the key bindings section and tiling windows, when I want to, not all the time.
Now I have to watch the other videos, especially Openbox.
Thank you!
You are very welcome. Good luck!
MX Linux user here! also a first timer Linux user...used to use Fluxbox but an important app couldn't work properly, so I moved to the XFCE version and it's working flawlessly. I'm actually surprised to how bug free and hassle free Linux is (been a Windows user all my life).
MX Tools and the Debian stable looks to be the winning combo for me.
Welcome to the light! LOL
Great content i was searching for MX Fluxbox theming.
Fluxbox is my WM since many years, I migrated over from Blackbox when the project started. I kept looking at Openbox from time to time, since I stopped using Flux's tab feature and toolbar some years ago, but in Openbox I never liked having to edit xml files for configuration, I prefer the Fluxbox text files for editing my root menu, my key bindings and stuff. I'm using my Fluxbox with xfce4-panel, xfce4-terminal, and of course Picom for the eye candy.
Hi drew, I'm a bspwm user for a long time now and also a dk user because I knew natemaia (its dev) from the ArchLabs forum and I have to say that I really enjoy your floating wm series so thank you very much indeed and if I had only one monitor I may consider fluxbox because of you. 👍
Thanks for sharing!
Great vid! (Re)started out 6 years ago on openbox , moved on, but still a favorite. Gotta say that Fluxbox by Adi (Archcraft) looked great. And an honorable mention to dk, recently installed that again ;-) Keep them coming, Drew! Thanks.
love dk wm
really helpful having these ease of access and easy to follow tutorials as usual!
maybe you could do one where you can take advantage of distrobox for package access and management? combining an arch container with the super stable debian seems pretty powerful
Great suggestion!
don't know why ... but Fluxbox is one of my absolute favourits in the floating area since decades
Conky is terrific for posting Bible verses on wallpaper...keeping wallpaper but changing verses. I was glad when I was able to get Conky to function in Hyprland. Since adding temp, memory, BT, wifi, etc. to Waybar, Conky is strictly a Bible verse vehicle.
Drew, I'm enjoying this. I'm a semi-new subscriber and this is the first series on your channel that I've followed from the beginning since being subscribed. I've just decommissioned my work laptop with an i5 processor for a new 14th Gen i7. I want to have a laptop that I can play around on and allow the family the ability to get more familiar with linux (My wife is also in IT but she works primarily with Microsoft technologies). I'm hoping to pick a good lightweight WM (or multiple if I go through and follow this series all the way through) for her to play with.
Question: About fbmenugen and obmenu-generator, you seem to be using Debian or one of its derivatives -- but I could swear that ALL of the dependencies for fbmenugen and obmenu-generator were discontinued in Debian several years ago. In light of that, how did you get those menus on Debian?
No, you're good with only two dependencies and both are in debian stable.
Here are the scripts I use for both menu generators.
* github.com/drewgrif/bookworm-scripts/blob/main/install_scripts/fbmenugen.sh
* github.com/drewgrif/bookworm-scripts/blob/main/install_scripts/obmenu.sh
@@JustAGuyLinux Thank you very much. But I still couldn't figure it out. But after some Googling, I figured out what to do, and I got it working! 😀 Again, many, many thanks!
@@JustAGuyLinuxThank you very, VERY much! Got it up and running on a lite edition of a distro I created last winter called F3OS (the Free Family-Friendly Operating System -- based on Debian Stable with built-in web content filtering), with a new edition of such coming out later this week. Thanks again!
@@JustAGuyLinux Another question: I'm now trying to package this as a .deb file. However, I tried running an edited version of the script as a postinst file, minus the first two sudo directives, deleting the other sudo instances, since this already runs with administrative privileges, since I included those as dependencies in my control file -- and got error exit status 127 when I tried installing it to an Openbox version of a distro I'm working on releasing. For now, I'll just load it in there directly instead of from my new repository so that I can get it out before Christmas and take that package out of the repository until we can get that fixed. But I'd still like to get this installing neatly as a package for future releases, such as next summer, when Debian Trixie comes out.
Can you please also make a video on FLWM(fast and light window manager) on debian? It's like openbox/fluxbox, that is it has a right click menu, however, it's got the taskbar/current running applications on the right click menu itself and moreover, if an application is full screen, you can click on the titlebar of any running application window to access the right click menu, hence, there is no need to go back to the desktop to get the right click menu.
I can't figure out how to get a completely silent boot yet. Other distros do this very nicely with just the plymouth animation and then it goes directly to the login manager. I need directions step by step if I can get them. I'm hoping most of you are more advanced than I am. I've been on linux for 16 years but sometimes the simple things get overlooked and nobody ever explains how its achieved.
I am not going to confirm this, but if I recall...
edit the grub configuration with:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
sudo update-grub
reboot.
NO GUARANTEES
throw in loglevel=0 as a kernel parameter as well
Terrible font rendering and the font is much to small. Adjust it first next time please when you do the video. My old eyes are not as sharp anymore. Even with glasses it's hard to see. I don't use Conky either. I want my desktop to be clean.
Noted