MX-23 Fluxbox development

[siamhie]

the traditional method? wouldn't that be the styles menu? I'm really not catching what you are throwing.

When a user changes his style

style1.png

it initially changes but not completely (notice the wire frame of the new style on the right side)

style2.png

it only changes completely after the user has refreshed his desktop.

style3.png

[dolphin_oracle]

Ok. restarting the whole window manager seems harsh to just change the theme. I can add the code, but that would get annoying fast. its also very slow.

I wonder if this is broken in fluxbox 1.3.7? I've never noticed a problem running antiX, which I think is still using 1.3.5. but I haven't been paying close attention either, since I usually set my theme once and forget about it.

[Melber]

Ok. restarting the whole window manager seems harsh to just change the theme...

It has been like this since I started using mxfb, always needs a fluxbox-remote restart to completely apply a changed fb style

... I usually set my theme once and forget about it.

Heresy

[Jerry3904]

Then let's just leave it as it is.

[siamhie]

I wonder if this is broken in fluxbox 1.3.7? I've never noticed a problem running antiX, which I think is still using 1.3.5. but I haven't been paying close attention either, since I usually set my theme once and forget about it.

I think the code was changed between Fluxbox 1.3.5 (Feb 13 2013) and Fluxbox 1.3.7 (Feb 08 2015).
I went and installed Fluxbox 1.3.7 from Debian's experimental repo (https://packages.debian.org/experimental/fluxbox) on my XFCE23-a2 install and I see the same behavior when I changed from bora_black to debian-blue (wire frame present until desktop refresh).

flux-1.3.7.png

[dolphin_oracle]

That is terrible. We should never have updated fluxbox.

What’s 1.3.7 have that is worth the upgrade?

[anticapitalista]

Just to let you know that the same issue appears on antiX.
User has to click Restart after changing theme.

[dolphin_oracle]

Just to let you know that the same issue appears on antiX.
User has to click Restart after changing theme.

that stinks.

@Jerry3904 I can add the restart to mx-tweak, but I'm going to introduce some delay between starting the restart and letting the user choose another theme. Not sure yet how I'll put that together.

[dolphin_oracle]

Ok dumb question. is the idesktoggle necessary? it also restart's conky, which is a lot of restarting for a theme change.

the fluxbox-restart isn't too bad without the rest of it.

[siamhie]

What’s 1.3.7 have that is worth the upgrade?

@dolphin_oracle There's been a lot of upgrades/features between 1.3.5 and 1.3.7. I ran Fluxbox as my default desktop with 2003 Slackware 10 (FB 0.1.14) thru 2015 Slackware 14.2 (FB 1.3.7) with no issues.
I don't understand why Debian still clings onto version 1.3.5 after all these years.

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Fluxbox 1.3.6 - It's about time.
Tue Jan 06 08:53:46 UTC 2015

After a long long long time it's finally time to give the world a new release: 1.3.6. Many thanks to all the contributors who brought you:

Critical Bugfixes:

    Clocktool problems
    Rendering long text
    Race condition on shutdown
    Lost keypresses after workspace switch
    Corruption of fbrun-history

Minor Bugfixes:

    Resize and Move problems

Features:

    'ArrangeWindowsStack' action
    Treat Windows with WM_CLASS == "DockApp" as DockApps

Minor:

    Updated translations (Bulgarian, Hebrew, Japanese)

Let it 'flux'! And a happy and successful 2015!
The Fluxbox team 

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Fluxbox 1.3.7 - Bam! Zero Bugs!!11!
Sun Feb 08 12:57:55 UTC 2015

To release 1.3.6 ~ a month ago was a great success: A lot of you, our users, who rarely run bleeding edge fluxbox.git, 
were confronted with what was hidden in the git repository for almost 2 years. Due to the lack of testing power there was 
no other way to get "massive" feedback. 1.3.6 generated the feedback we needed to make 1.3.7. There will be bugs, obviously, 
but we think 1.3.7 is in pretty good shape. Without further ado:

Critical Bugfixes:

    Segfault on startup (mostly *BSD)
    Segfault on shutdown
    Segfault on clicking the Remember menu
    Menu crops on TypeAhead

Minor Bugfixes:

    _NET_REQUEST_FRAME_EXTENTS
    Working autorepeat keys
    Working vertical rotated Tabs and Toolbar
    Proper size of titlebar buttons on restart / detaching tabs
    Missing windowmenu works again
    Several glitches in the menu
    Correct handling of 'maximized' statement in the apps file

Features:

    The improved TypeAhead sytem is not limited to matches on beginning of menu items anymore, the behavior is configurable:
        Nowhere - disables TypeAhead support
        ItemStart - matches typed text only at the start of a menu item
        Somewhere - matches typed text somewhere in a menu item (Currently this is a configfile-only option)

    Minor tweaks to the i18n system
    Updated turkish translations

End User unrelated:

    Code refactoring and cleanup, assisted by Coverity and clang static code analysis

Get it at the usual places, downloading the source is one option.
The Fluxbox team