MX-23 Fluxbox development

[siamhie]

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

@anticapitalista Thanks for the clarification. I honestly can't remember all the changes between 2003 and 2015 anymore (without referring to the web site).

[dolphin_oracle]

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 

I'll tell you one that is broke, and it bugs me all the time: fluxbox 1.3.7 does not have a right-click settings menu on the fluxbox toolbar. Its very irritating.

[DeepDayze]

Is FB 1.3.7 packaged in the Test Repo for users to test?

I used FB for a time when I was running AntiX and the little annoyances with themes, especially on multimonitor setups bugged me.

[dolphin_oracle]

Is FB 1.3.7 packaged in the Test Repo for users to test?

I used FB for a time when I was running AntiX and the little annoyances with themes, especially on multimonitor setups bugged me.

its in main.

[siamhie]

I'll tell you one that is broke, and it bugs me all the time: fluxbox 1.3.7 does not have a right-click settings menu on the fluxbox toolbar. Its very irritating.

@dolphin_oracle That is the normal behavior of Fluxbox when installed from source and or packing.
When you right-click on the program stationed in (FB's) toolbar, you're presented with the same option's as if you were to right-click on it's widow's toolbar.

What makes MXFB so great is it's inclusion of the tint2 toolbar. Thank you @Jerry3904 for that.

Here is what a standard Fluxbox desktop looks like. (I did modify my menu to include GIMP so that i could make the screenshot).

[PPC]

Hi, all!

I stopped using mx because my only pc that had it installed died...
But now and then I take a look at the mxfb forum...
The only version I tested recently was on an on-line virtual machine, and I loved it!
The most recent fluxbox version on antiX was upgraded recently, and it now allows toolbar text buttons... like I suggested long ago, this toolbar can use glyphs as pseudo-icons. I assume mxfb uses the same version.
My test toolbar can be a close approximation of the default mxfb tint2 toolbar... All steps to configure that are available at https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... available/

I hope some of this info can be used in mxfb.

P.

[Jerry3904]

Hey, good to see you! Thanks for the link, we'll put it into the pot for the future since this is well down the road.

[Jerry3904]

Looking for feedback on pending rootMenu changes for beta:

1. Add "Extras" with the weather in mxfb-goodies, bl-xkcd--if we can get it working--and two other items out of existing Style (which I'm simplifying)

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[submenu] (Extras)
    	[exec] (Weather) {weather_cli}
    	[submenu] (Window options)
    	   	[Exec] (Border size and color) {mxfb-borders}
    		[Exec] (Titlebar mode) {mxfb-top}
        [end]
    [end]

2. radical simplification of Appearance > Theme using @dolphin_oracle's terrific new version of MX Tweak being released today

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   	[Exec] (Theme) {mx-tweak --theme}

3. Addition of Appearance > Font, using a lost little app that needs updating of form and content--and perhaps an eventual expansion

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  [Exec] (Font) {mxfb-menufont} 

4. Renaming for clarification that @ceeslans asked for

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    [submenu] (Toolbars)
        [exec] (Fluxbox toolbar) {toggletint2}
        [exec] (tint2 panel) {toggletint2}
    [end]

This will require some additional work on localization, but not too bad. I intend to set that in motion during beta testing, no time right now...

EDIT: changed the menu entry to plural-- "Toolbars" -- to make it clearer what it is about

[siamhie]

Looking for feedback on pending rootMenu changes for beta:

1. Add "Extras" with the weather in mxfb-goodies, bl-xkcd--if we can get it working--and two other items out of existing Style (which I'm simplifying)

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[submenu] (Extras)
    	[exec] (Weather) {weather_cli}
    	[submenu] (Window options)
    	   	[Exec] (Border size and color) {mxfb-borders}
    		[Exec] (Titlebar mode) {mxfb-top}
        [end]
    [end]

Would it be possible to move weather to the Accessories category?

2. radical simplification of Appearance > Theme using @dolphin_oracle's terrific new version of MX Tweak being released today

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   	[Exec] (Theme) {mx-tweak --theme}

I like the look of the new mx-tweak tool

tweak.jpg

but could we also keep lxappearance? I like its preview section.

lxappearance.jpg

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[submenu] (Theme)
[exec] (MX Tweak) {mx-tweak --theme}
[exec] (LXAppearance) {lxappearance}
[end]

3. Addition of Appearance > Font, using a lost little app that needs updating of form and content--and perhaps an eventual expansion

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  [Exec] (Font) {mxfb-menufont} 

I love that idea. Currently you have to modify the overlay file to set up default fonts.

4. Renaming for clarification that @ceeslans asked for

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    [submenu] (Toolbar)
        [exec] (Fluxbox toolbar) {toggletint2}
        [exec] (tint2 panel) {toggletint2}
    [end]

That makes it easier to understand.

[Jerry3904]

Thanks.

1. You mean in the desktop file?
2. There is an automatic preview built into the new Tweak. We won't keep lxappearance installed by default, but every user of course can install it for him-/herself.
3. the Overlay file will still need to be modified, but through a GUI instead of manually.
4. kudos to the complainer...