MX Fluxbox Screenshots

[wdscharff]

@siamhie , about fbpanel
I didn't know it yet, so I tried it out right away.
An interesting alternative, although the complete "plugin control" (GUI) is displayed for me, but doesn't work. But the plain text config file is manageable, and I can do it manually.

An interesting alternative to Tint2. Not as powerful, but much more manageable and easier to configure.
The only "catch" for me, I'm dogmatic about this :-), is that it uses more RAM.

Although, in absolute terms, it doesn't really matter whether you need ~15mb (tint2) or ~50mb (fbpanel).

[siamhie]

@siamhie , about fbpanel
I didn't know it yet, so I tried it out right away.
An interesting alternative, although the complete "plugin control" (GUI) is displayed for me, but doesn't work. But the plain text config file is manageable, and I can do it manually.

@wdscharff I was looking up something related to fluxbox and saw screenshots showing off fbpanel and had completely forgotten about this panel. I remember running it back in the day.

An interesting alternative to Tint2. Not as powerful, but much more manageable and easier to configure.
The only "catch" for me, I'm dogmatic about this :-), is that it uses more RAM.

Although, in absolute terms, it doesn't really matter whether you need ~15mb (tint2) or ~50mb (fbpanel).

I suspect it's due to all the plugins you use in the default settings. I count 20 that are enabled.


*I was looking for those screenshots and just found a forked version listed as a modified 7.2 version for Slackel linux. (https://github.com/djemos/fbpanel)
It was updated 4 months ago. I wonder how it stacks up to the Debian version from 2021 that I posted the link to.

[wdscharff]

@siamhie
After installing it, I remembered having tried it before.
But it was still a 6.xx version, and since I already had Tint2, I abandoned it :-)

[siamhie]

@siamhie
After installing it, I remembered having tried it before.
But it was still a 6.xx version, and since I already had Tint2, I abandoned it :-)

I'm playing around with it purely for nostalgic reasons. It was one of the first panels I tried outside of fluxbox's native toolbar.

[ceeslans]

Indulged myself and installed jgmenu on this skinny Devuan5 fluxbox setup.
Wanted to enable a places drop-down menu, where jgmenu executes a (bunsenlabs) pipemenu to create the up-to-date 'places' menu.
Calling the 'places-menu' here with a left mouseclick - and a 'recent-files' list with a right mouseclick.

jgmenu can also act as application launcher, dropping down from the topleft toolbar.button (see insert in below screenshot).
Haven't yet configured jgmenu to act as a floating desk-menu --> simply because I'm extremely happy with good ole fluxbox' rootMenu ...

[Jerry3904]

Love the frog ...

[purplemoon]

@siamhie Been using fbpanel v7 + fluxbox for a long time on my laptop. Customized with unity desktop (on steroids) in mind.

fbpanel_unity1.jpg

fbpanel_unity2.jpg

[siamhie]

@siamhie Been using fbpanel v7 + fluxbox for a long time on my laptop. Customized with unity desktop (on steroids) in mind.
fbpanel_unity1.jpg
fbpanel_unity2.jpg

@purplemoon +1
It's a cool little toolbar.

[ceeslans]

September desktop, a bit brighter then usual

[AVLinux]

September desktop, a bit brighter then usual

Great stuff, that Clock Conky is pretty cool! Is it in the MX collection?