MXFB Tips n Tricks

[siamhie]

I prefer the look of an icon/action button free window title bar, so here's my trick.

In the init file, remove these entry values:

for the action buttons on the left (stick) and right (minimize, maximize, close)

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session.screen0.titlebar.left:	
session.screen0.titlebar.right:

for the program icon on the left side change this value to false

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session.screen0.tabs.usePixmap:	false

You can then use the keybindings to minimize, maximize, close any window. If you want to stick a window, then right click on the window's title bar and select stick from there. (I've never used this feature but I'm sure there's a keybinding you could create)
I prefer to mouse over the program on the toolbar (tint2) and either left click to minimize the window or right click to close it.


and as a bonus tip, if you want to move the title bars text from it's center position, open your overlay file and add this entry. (values are left, center or right)

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window.justify: Right

*note, this overrides any style you select, so if you only want to change it for the style your currently using, then edit that styles theme.cfg file and go to the window section.

[kobaian]

I prefer the look of an icon/action button free window title bar, so here's my tip.

Your tip is interesting, but rather not for me.
I think the window title is the least needed function of titlebar and it does nothing to me more than using space on my screen. It seems even more useless, when you consider the fact, that the window name you've got also on your tint2- or fluxbox-panel. So its main function is to double the information you already know. So without the buttons the title-bar looses any sense for me.
I love Fluxbox, but there are a couple of things i don't like about it. And the one is, that the titlebar buttons have to be squares. I didn't managed them to be flat but wide rectangles that will allow me to have a very thin titlebar without the title, but with some still clickable buttons like that from this one xfwm4 theme: https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1016255. But the problem iwith Fluxbox is that by decreasing the height of the titlebar you also decrease the width of the buttons. It is a pity for me, because Fluxbox, as very lightweight window manager, works very good on old netbooks and laptops with low-resolution screen, where every pixel of space counts. But the design of the titlebar is made worse for old netbooks than XFCE.

[siamhie]

I prefer the look of an icon/action button free window title bar, so here's my tip.

Your tip is interesting, but rather not for me.
I think the window title is the least needed function of titlebar and it does nothing to me more than using space on my screen. It seems even more useless, when you consider the fact, that the window name you've got also on your tint2- or fluxbox-panel. So its main function is to double the information you already know. So without the buttons the title-bar looses any sense for me.

I changed it from tip to trick but basically I wanted to have a clean looking title bar. I'm still searching on how to remove the text from within the title bar.

[kobaian]

I changed it from tip to trick but basically I wanted to have a clean looking title bar. I'm still searching on how to remove the text from within the title bar.

I don't know. As I tried doing something like that some time ago, I just put the same color on the titlebar and the title font.

[siamhie]

I changed it from tip to trick but basically I wanted to have a clean looking title bar. I'm still searching on how to remove the text from within the title bar.

I don't know. As I tried doing something like that some time ago, I just put the same color on the titlebar and the title font.

Thanks @kobaian . That worked out perfect on this style. I copied the same hex value from the focused and unfocused title bar value for the text.

[Melber]

...I love Fluxbox, but there are a couple of things i don't like about it. And the one is, that the titlebar buttons have to be squares. I didn't managed them to be flat but wide rectangles that will allow me to have a very thin titlebar without the title, but with some still clickable buttons like that from this one xfwm4 theme: https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1016255...

@kobaian
I was fiddling around and discovered by accident that fluxbox allows the same window button to appear multiple times.
Editing the init file to this

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session.screen0.titlebar.right:	Minimize Minimize Minimize Maximize Maximize Maximize Close Close Close

allowed me to pack 3 minimise, maximise and close buttons next to each other and make a thin title bar with "long buttons" like this

thin-title.png

I know it's clunky and inelegant and not exactly what you were looking for, but anyway...

[kobaian]

...I love Fluxbox, but there are a couple of things i don't like about it. And the one is, that the titlebar buttons have to be squares. I didn't managed them to be flat but wide rectangles that will allow me to have a very thin titlebar without the title, but with some still clickable buttons like that from this one xfwm4 theme: https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1016255...

@kobaian
I was fiddling around and discovered by accident that fluxbox allows the same window button to appear multiple times.
Editing the init file to this

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session.screen0.titlebar.right:	Minimize Minimize Minimize Maximize Maximize Maximize Close Close Close

allowed me to pack 3 minimise, maximise and close buttons next to each other and make a thin title bar with "long buttons" like this
thin-title.png


I know it's clunky and inelegant and not exactly what you were looking for, but anyway...

That's a good idea! I'll try it out.
I've got an ASUS EEEPC netbook with only 1024x600px resolution screen. I'd like to preserve the minimize maximize and close buttons, but I'd like to have the titlebar as slim as possible. But 2 or 3px squares are unclickable for me.
Because it is not my main machine or even not my main mobile laptop it doesn't have to be very elegant.

[Jerry3904]

For the few people who use gkrellm, which for me is default on MXFB:

I installed the plugins gkrellm-reminder and gkrellmoon. The second was just for fun, but the first is actually very compact and useful. In this capture it is located near the bottom where the cursor is pointing:

gkrellm-reminder.png

A right-click opens the config window:

reminder_setup.png

On the settings tab, I found that selecting the Popup reminder worked best for me, and I could position the small window right next to the plugin location.

Very small, very easy and very effective.

[Jerry3904]

I want now and then to check the monitors but usually don't want to be seeing it all the time. Solution for me is to use a toggle:

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#check monitors
Ctrl m :Exec toggle-mx gkrellm

Now I can easily look at them when I have a reason to check (e.g., wondering about battery level).

[Jerry3904]

I use some of the mxfb-goodies every day, so put it in the rootMenu:

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    [submenu] (Goodies)
    	[exec] (Weather) {weather_cli}
    	[exec] (Xkcd) {bl-xkcd}
    [end]

Other ideas have been proposed elsewhere in this FB Forum, I seem to remember, but this is good for me because it's simple to enable.