MX Fluxbox Screenshots

[siamhie]

In keeping with my Halloween themed desktop, I copied debian-dark from /usr/share/fluxbox/styles to my fluxbox styles folder and edited it to have all active window titlebars, menu titles and selections to orange and saved it as debian-orange so that I can switch back and forth between dark and orange.

[i_ri]

hello siamhie
Thank You muchly for posting the screenshots
and for your involvement with mx.
With focus on color: that is outstanding colors!
seasonally fun too. for the haunting.
rootmenu grabbed my attention. questions about menu:
The All Apps menu: Settings submenu and after is non-standard full_menu; do You maintain rewrite that after every upgrade?
Do you key shortcut for "Run"ner?
I keep a similar custommenu all apps that requires maintenance, but it is an additional app-menu secondary to the standard full_menu that self-updates with upgrade.

[siamhie]

hello siamhie
Thank You muchly for posting the screenshots
and for your involvement with mx.
With focus on color: that is outstanding colors!
seasonally fun too. for the haunting.
rootmenu grabbed my attention. questions about menu:
The All Apps menu: Settings submenu and after is non-standard full_menu; do You maintain rewrite that after every upgrade?
Do you key shortcut for "Run"ner?
I keep a similar custommenu all apps that requires maintenance, but it is an additional app-menu secondary to the standard full_menu that self-updates with upgrade.

Thanks. I'm looking forward to creating a Christmas themed desktop next. As far as full_menu goes, what I did is open full_menu in Featherpad and saved it as all_apps within the submenus folder and edited it to my liking. full_menu still resides in the submenus folder so whenever updates gets pushed, full_menu gets updated as usual but my all_apps file doesn't get touched. My all_apps menu is launched from the main menu instead of the full_menu that's installed.

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#the default versions of the submenus are located in /usr/share/mxflux/menu

[begin] (Fluxbox)
		[submenu] (All Apps)
            [include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
   [end]
	[submenu] (Recent files) 
			[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/recent_files_menu)
			[separator]
			[exec] (Update list) {mxfb-recent-files}
		[end]
		[submenu] (Emby Server) 
			[exec] (Start) {systemctl start emby-server.service}
			[exec] (Stop)  {systemctl stop emby-server.service}
		[end]

As far as my run command goes, I edited the rofi file (.config/rofi/config.rasi) to look like this. Thanks to @Jerry3904 instructions on the web site.

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configuration {

	modi: "drun,calc:qalc,window,run";
	width: 25;
	show-icons: true;
	icon-theme: "papirus";
	lines: 20;
	fake-transparency: true;
	sidebar-mode: true;
	
}


@import "/usr/share/rofi/themes/glue_pro_blue.rasi"

and I end up with this when I launch rofi from the main menu.

[i_ri]

Ah Yes aha. rofi run,drun runner.
Very nice siamhie.

This fly-out menu

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[submenu] (All Apps)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]

equals one-way ticket to menu.

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[CustomMenu] (All Apps) {~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps}

Make a small fly-out between fly-out menu.

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[submenu] (A All Apps) {A}
[submenu] () {A Apps}
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]
[end]

[siamhie]

Ah Yes aha. rofi run,drun runner.
Very nice siamhie.

This fly-out menu

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[submenu] (All Apps)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]

equals one-way ticket to menu.

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[CustomMenu] (All Apps) {~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps}

Make a small fly-out between fly-out menu.

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[submenu] (A All Apps) {A}
[submenu] () {A Apps}
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]
[end]

@i_ri

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[submenu] () {A Apps}

So fill in the empty parenthesis with ~/.fluxbox/submenus/full_menu?

[i_ri]

the referenced empty parenthensis is text label (name) of fly-out item on the A submenu. I said small, so (name) is blank; it can be an <icon> shown, is left blank in this example. size of intermediate fly-out is determined by length of longer text line in {} and () text name. name it z for keyboard shortcut z,+Enter to keyboard select menu z. example.
type siamhie inside those paren to see what happens. safely.
And. Why?
on the application launcher menu it is a menu button can be dragged off the menu to sit anywhere on the Desktop where you want an applications button. make a menu into one button.

on menu that has a huge fly-out menu (like System, style) it will be a tiny pop-out on rollover instead of the huge fly-out that is sometimes huge in-the-way. no need to have alarming huge pop-out on hover-rollover having instead mini fly-out buffer.

Put launch screenshot throughout your menu and each submenu everywhere do launch screenshot, capture, screencapture, quickshot, screenshooter, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot

[Rodney]

My Halloween Desktop

[Jerry3904]

Fun colors!

[siamhie]

the referenced empty parenthensis is text label (name) of fly-out item on the A submenu. I said small, so (name) is blank; it can be an <icon> shown, is left blank in this example. size of intermediate fly-out is determined by length of longer text line in {} and () text name. name it z for keyboard shortcut z,+Enter to keyboard select menu z. example.
type siamhie inside those paren to see what happens. safely.
And. Why?
on the application launcher menu it is a menu button can be dragged off the menu to sit anywhere on the Desktop where you want an applications button. make a menu into one button.

on menu that has a huge fly-out menu (like System, style) it will be a tiny pop-out on rollover instead of the huge fly-out that is sometimes huge in-the-way. no need to have alarming huge pop-out on hover-rollover having instead mini fly-out buffer.

Put launch screenshot throughout your menu and each submenu everywhere do launch screenshot, capture, screencapture, quickshot, screenshooter, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot, screenshot

So it's custom menu buttons that sit on the desktop instead of using the root menu?

on menu that has a huge fly-out menu (like System, style) it will be a tiny pop-out on rollover instead of the huge fly-out

speaking of fat submenus, I trimmed system down by creating an mx tools submenu instead.

[Eadwine Rose]

Who cares about fat submenus, I wants that kitty in the moon!

@siamhie Where did you find that?