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MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 12:41 am
by JayM
Playing with MX Fluxbox inside a VirtualBox VM today:

Unfortunately I only have a 1280x1020 monitor so things kind of overlap a bit, but you get the general idea. Solid color background, one of the antiX themes for the menus and the bar, and a conky that autostarts with transparency thanks to the compton compositor autostarting as well. Also the panel thingie was moved to the bottom and extended to 100% length. I changed the terminal from the dropdown one to the regular windowed version too.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:13 am
by Jerry3904
Sorry, PPC, but if you are using skidoo's fluxbox version, then this is not a screenshot of MX Fluxbox and really does not belong in this thread. I moved it to the regular MX-19 Screenshots.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:16 am
by junoluna
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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:26 am
by Jerry3904
Very handsome, very zen, very fluxbox.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:11 pm
by PPC
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:13 am
Sorry, PPC, but if you are using skidoo's fluxbox version, then this is not a screenshot of MX Fluxbox and really does not belong in this thread. I moved it to the regular MX-19 Screenshots.
No problem... I've been playing with idesk to get something very close to toolbar quick start icons, that I already posted on "MX-Fluxbox v 1.2" Thread,including a how-to...
Off-topic- A suggestion:
If I may be so bold, my "idea" works even better, out of the box with your original FB layout with the toolbar on top. Just put the icons for the most used apps (Menu, Browser, File Manager and Terminal) on the same X coordinates, so the user just sees the much needed quick-launch icons, and the toolbar... no need for docks, unless the user wants a gui way to add more icons...
P.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 3:56 pm
by seaken64
oops! OK, I need some help. I am trying to participate in this thread but I've never added a picture to the forum before. I managed a screen capture and saved it. But when I try to drag and drop it I get an error saying it is too large. Where do I learn what the limits for pictures are? I will go to the Wiki I guess? Or is there a forum specific help file? Sorry, I'm so text oriented that when pictures and video get involved I get lost!
Seaken64
Edit: I think I found where to read up on this. I'll be back. Is there a "trial" section of the forum where we can practice attachments, etc. without cluttering the board? Off to here:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=50146
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:06 pm
by Jerry3904
PPC wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 12:11 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 8:13 am
Sorry, PPC, but if you are using skidoo's fluxbox version, then this is not a screenshot of MX Fluxbox and really does not belong in this thread. I moved it to the regular MX-19 Screenshots.
No problem... I've been playing with idesk to get something very close to toolbar quick start icons, that I already posted on "MX-Fluxbox v 1.2" Thread,including a how-to...
Off-topic- A suggestion:
If I may be so bold, my "idea" works even better, out of the box with your original FB layout with the toolbar on top. Just put the icons for the most used apps (Menu, Browser, File Manager and Terminal) on the same X coordinates, so the user just sees the much needed quick-launch icons, and the toolbar... no need for docks, unless the user wants a gui way to add more icons...
P.

Funny how that works: everybody has an idea that they think is better for everybody else. I ain't touchin' nuttin.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:10 pm
by seaken64
Let's try this again:
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:14 pm
by seaken64
How did you other's get the picture to show so big and in line?
Anyway, on my MX-Fluxbox it is only slightly modified from the default. I moved the toolbar to the bottom and expanded to 100%. Then I added the RootMenu indicator. I may make the changes outlined by PPC but for now I am satisfied with this. Nothing fancy here.
Seaken64
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:15 pm
by richb
Max picture requirements are 300Kib and 640x620 dimensions.To attach an image: at the bottom of the post block click on attachments, then add files. To not consume database space use an image hosting service.
WE increased from 600x600. I need to edit the requirements.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:19 pm
by seaken64
Thanks Rich. Is that how they got the big pictures? They are hosting somewhere?
Is it okay to do what I did or is that frowned upon?
Seaken64
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:34 pm
by richb
seaken64 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:19 pm
Thanks Rich. Is that how they got the big pictures? They are hosting somewhere?
Is it okay to do what I did or is that frowned upon?
Seaken64
It is OK what you did. If you click on your image it will expand. The Forum software automatically reduces the size in tin the post.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:45 pm
by seaken64
junoluna wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:16 am
....
please bear with me, one more question about the pictures.
junoluna, how did you get that picture to look so nice in the message? I used the "attachment" feature but I did not get the nice flow that your picture has in your post. Very nice desktop by the way!
Seaken64
(OK, I won't post any more questions that distract from the screen shots)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:50 pm
by richb
@sneaken. Just click inline and the picture will be placee where the cursor is.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:57 pm
by Fibogacci
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:01 pm
by seaken64
I'll try it here
ScreenMXFB1_600.png
Okay, I found the "Place inline" button below the Add Files button on the Attachments tab. I dragged and dropped but nothing happened, or so I thought. The picture was showing up below in the Attachments tab until I clicked on Place inline".
Hmm, still not what I was expecting. Still shows as a smaller attachment. Yes, it opens a larger picture. But it does not show as nice as junoluna has it placed.
Seaken64
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:05 pm
by seaken64
Hi Fibogacci,
I tried the Left Center placement for the toolbar but decided I didn't like reading it at 90 degrees. That doesn't bother you? It would be nice if we could figure out how to rotate the icons and clock to read horizontally.
Seaken64
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:20 pm
by Fibogacci
seaken64 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:05 pm
Hi Fibogacci,
I tried the Left Center placement for the toolbar but decided I didn't like reading it at 90 degrees. That doesn't bother you? It would be nice if we could figure out how to rotate the icons and clock to read horizontally.
Seaken64
Well, it doesn't because in my default set up for MX with Xfce I am using only icons (without descriptions) so it doesn't matter - I don't read them, I just know what to click and to choose
Vertical panel for me is the best and most ergonomic solution - and prefered one.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:42 pm
by imschmeg
@Seaken64
If you want a vertical wide panel that can be read normally (not at 90 degrees), I recommend using tint2 with fluxbox. Here's what my tint2 panel looks like in fluxbox:
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:53 pm
by Ruud_Kuin
Very curious about fluxbox, will try tomorrow! Maybe add this at install as an alternative for xfce at next release...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:17 pm
by Jerry3904
...as an alternative for xfce...
Let me make sure you understand: MX-Fluxbox is an "overlay" for MX-19 and its Xfce, not an alternative to it. It is only a Window Manager, and does not provide the elements of the Desktop Environment that come from Xfce.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:23 pm
by Ruud_Kuin
Hi Jerry,
Thx for your reply! It worked quite okay on my Netbook, but it's "not my cup of tea"... I'd rather stick with xfce!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:56 pm
by PPC
Ruud_Kuin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:23 pm
Hi Jerry,
Thx for your reply! It worked quite okay on my Netbook, but it's "not my cup of tea"... I'd rather stick with xfce!
Understandable. I agree that out of the box, MX-fluxbox may be too "different" from mainstream to what users expect... If you want to, doing stuff like adding a start menu, putting the toolbar on the left or on the bottom, with the clock to the right, can be very easily achieved. You can also have direct access to all your applications on the menu, etc... you may miss regular desktop icons and also quick launch icons on the toolbar, tough.
Maybe you can try out a future version???
P-
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 1:48 am
by imschmeg
my latest fluxbox tint2 panel. Note the sweet fluxbox branding:
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:45 pm
by Jerry3904
I'm working on a "traditional" option for people committed to comfort, and have come pretty close. The start icon ix actually a dockapp in the slit. It was created with a new app that will soon be in the repos called
wmalauncher; it's not easy to figure out, but it is very powerful.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2020 4:09 pm
by ceeslans
Very happy to discover MX Fluxbox flavor only today. Pleasant look & feel - and very configurable...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:32 am
by JayM
I've been playing withMX Fluxbox on my old 32-bit netbook this week. So far, so GREAT! Just 180MB idle RAM usage! I'm using the Falkon browser from the stable repo, Claws Mail instead of Thunderbird, Abiword instead of LibreOffice: lighter weight, faster alternatives.
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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:06 am
by JayM
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:45 pm
I'm working on a "traditional" option for people committed to comfort, and have come pretty close. The start icon ix actually a dockapp in the slit. It was created with a new app that will soon be in the repos called
wmalauncher; it's not easy to figure out, but it is very powerful.
Oooh, I'm looking forward to that!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:42 am
by Jerry3904
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 4:09 pm
Very happy to discover MX Fluxbox flavor only today. Pleasant look & feel - and very configurable...
Welcome to the Forum! Nice desktop--glad you like MX-Fluxbox.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:44 am
by Jerry3904
JayM wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:06 am
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:45 pm
I'm working on a "traditional" option for people committed to comfort, and have come pretty close. The start icon ix actually a dockapp in the slit. It was created with a new app that will soon be in the repos called
wmalauncher; it's not easy to figure out, but it is very powerful.
Oooh, I'm looking forward to that!
It's in 2.0, as are docks created from it. Check out the <cough> documentation for details--we have a wmalauncher gui in beta, too.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:47 am
by rokytnji.1
Just
a attaboy post. As a long time AntiX user, I love this thread.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 9:32 am
by Jerry3904
Amen. I first fell in love with fluxbox way back when antiX was using it as the default. BTW: somebody posted on the FB group:
Its better on Antix in my opinion
Guess I should just give up then...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 9:37 am
by manyroads
Here's the MX Fluxbox I created...
viewtopic.php?f=143&t=56288
Edit: btw the wallpaper and desktop colors change with every change of your terminal (PyWal does that).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2020 9:46 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks for the cross post.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:12 am
by ceeslans
Me likes fluxbox... light on resources and very configurable

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:17 am
by JayM
I like your wallpaper!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:18 am
by asqwerth
That's an awesome screenshot, ceesians.
I see you're using conkyzen in place of Conky Manager. That's a nice light conky toggling-tool that I believe does recognise new syntax conkies unlike CM, despite not having any bells and whistles.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:37 am
by ceeslans
@asqwerth: that indeed is conkyzen, which is actually a bunsenlabs application. It recognizes the new conky syntax. I quite like the absence of bells and whistles (it fits the openbox/fluxbox spirit...)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:38 am
by Jerry3904
Agreed, fabulous desktop.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:52 am
by asqwerth
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:37 am
@asqwerth: that indeed is conkyzen, which is actually a bunsenlabs application. It recognizes the new conky syntax. I quite like the absence of bells and whistles (it fits the openbox/fluxbox spirit...)
Did you just copy over the script from bunsenlabs github?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 8:53 am
by ceeslans
asqwerth wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:52 am
Did you just copy over the script from bunsenlabs github?
I copied bl-conkyzen and bl-conkysession files from /usr/bin (in bunsenlabs distro). Still needed to change the respective paths in both files to match $HOME path in MX (where my conky theme files in 1.10 syntax are located). These theme files should have .conky-conf extension otherwise yad won't find them.
bl-conky- session file to be autostarted in order for last conky(s) to survive a restart.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:09 am
by asqwerth
...match $HOME path in MX (where my conky theme files in 1.10 syntax are located)
Thanks. That's an alternative to consider, ie to have 2 different pools of conkies (old and new syntax) and a different manager for each of them. Right now I convert them back to old syntax in MX, to be visible to CM.
I've tried running both old and new conkies together, using a very basic start-conky script in MX15/16 (which didn't come with CM), but one of them will always crash after a while.
OK, won't derail this thread any more.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:11 am
by ceeslans
Call it old school, but I really like grey/blue color combo's.
MX has one of the best configured fluxbox sessions I've seen; and still pretty low on resources.
Am presently running it from USB, but plan to install it on bare metal for daily use soon.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 8:21 am
by Jerry3904
That looks great--and I'm glad you like MXFB!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:43 am
by monsieurzik
Playing with fluxbox these days with a dumb HP Pavillion dm1 whom freezes with xfce after 20 minutes of work.
I'm very impressed by this tiny fluxbox, high customizable and so light !
A conky, nextcloud and radiotray.
Really good job.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:02 pm
by seaken64
@ceesians - looks nice!
@monsieurzik - Nice, looks old time TV.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 2:42 pm
by wdscharff
I am relatively new to MX_Linux (6 month i think) and today I discovered Fluxbox for the first time and played around with it a bit.
I find fluxbox interesting, I like applications that are "economical" with resources, even if it has little relevance on my hardware
I like XFCE a lot, I have used it in the 5 years I am using Linux on all the distributions I use now, but now I am giving Fluxbox a chance.
(google translate, i can hardly english)
Original
https://web57.ws/test/2.jpg

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:57 pm
by Jerry3904
Very handsome! I never seem to find good architecture wallpapers, but yours is a keeper.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:00 pm
by andyprough
This is my first couple of weeks with MX-fluxbox. Just trying to get a workable desktop at this point where I can do all my office work.
Screenshotflux-3.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:06 pm
by Jerry3904
Nice--a good corona-virus theme! The point release (MXFB 2.1) coming out in a couple of weeks may help you.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:42 pm
by andyprough
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:06 pm
Nice--a good corona-virus theme! The point release (MXFB 2.1) coming out in a couple of weeks may help you.
Great! I'll look for the announcement. Everything is pretty much working at this point. The one issue I ran into today was that it was easier to mount an external hard drive from within Thunar in XFCE than in fluxbox. I find I spend about half the working day in fluxbox, which is a very distraction free environment.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:51 pm
by Jerry3904
Just use Thunar in MXFB: it's right there (F3)!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 5:48 pm
by andyprough
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:51 pm
Just use Thunar in MXFB: it's right there (F3)!
I did, but it didn't want to look at the external drive. It's not a typical external drive, but a laptop hard drive that's plugged into the USB port using a special cable. No problem recognizing it in XFCE, but fluxbox seemed to have trouble with it. I didn't try to diagnose any further, I'll probably mess with it over the next week and see if it was user error or if there is some real difference in the way they recognize and auto-mount the drives using that cable.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:43 am
by wdscharff
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:57 pm
Very handsome! I never seem to find good architecture wallpapers, but yours is a keeper.
Thank you. Self made 2007 in Frankfurt/Germany with a Sony DSC-R1.
I use only my own pictures, i have enough of them ;-}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:47 am
by asqwerth
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:43 am
Thank you. Self made 2007 in Frankfurt/Germany with a Sony DSC-R1.
I use only my own pictures, i have enough of them ;-}
Oh ho!
I might approach you for wallpaper contributions to MX in due course.....
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:02 am
by wdscharff
asqwerth wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:47 am
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:43 am
Thank you. Self made 2007 in Frankfurt/Germany with a Sony DSC-R1.
I use only my own pictures, i have enough of them ;-}
Oh ho!
I might approach you for wallpaper contributions to MX in due course.....
I like to use MX, if that can be my contribution to the community, then I like to do it.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:55 am
by ceeslans
Been testing MX-19.1 for a few months - and now finally installed it to my main computer.
MX has some real nice tweaks and apps, making configuration a breeze.
Xfce DE is nice and smooth - but I really prefer to run it in Fluxbox.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:56 am
by Jerry3904
Fine!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:48 pm
by andyprough
Update - got my idesk icons arranged in a better alignment after watching Jerry's power tools video.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:00 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks for watching, nice to know that somebody got something useful out of it.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:45 pm
by andyprough
I'm really enjoying working with the wbar animated dock on fluxbox today. Are there any downsides to it? I notice the cpu usage jumps up a bit when I use the animation, but the rest of the time it idles at zero. It doesn't have near as much pinpoint control of placement on the screen as the idesk icons, so I could see that could be a problem in some cases.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 8:03 am
by ceeslans
Today's screenshot of my MX Fluxbox 2.1 - without docks and desktop icons.
Don't get me wrong, dockmaker and idesktool are really nice apps - but icons just are not my thing; I rather prefer textual visualization where possible.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 8:29 am
by anticapitalista
Very nice!
Where did you get the gui for PMRP?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 8:41 am
by Jerry3904
Terrific, thanks for posting!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 07, 2020 9:50 am
by ceeslans
anticapitalista wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 8:29 am
Where did you get the gui for PMRP?
The GUI is a yad script by Misko_2083, that I found on Bunsenlabs forum:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=4099
Made some alterations for myself, mainly to point to correct path of stations file, dimensions etc. Application icon is my doing too.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed May 13, 2020 2:23 pm
by ceeslans
Now have "fbmenugen" working on MX-Fluxbox...
fbmenugen generates a (semi-)dynamic application menu, on basis of *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications & ~/.local/applications directory.
scrot or it did not happen:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 6:14 am
by Jerry3904
@ceeslans sorry that I missed this earlier. Could you post a how-to in a separate thread about getting fbmenugen to work?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 9:51 pm
by titoux
Bonsoir,
Je ne parle pas anglais, je suis nouveau sur le forum et je n'ai pas encore renseigné mes configurations, mon matériel, ect, désolé. Je découvre MX et antiX, et plus récemment MX-Fluxbox 2.1 sur MX. J'aurais des choses à dire bien sûr (je suis handicapé avec cette histoire d'anglais), mais je voulais au moins communiquer ma petite vision des choses avec les outils et le design offerts par la distribution. Je suis globalement conquis (des détails peuvent se discuter quand même ceci-dit... je me répète).
Quelques captures?
Basique :
MC entre en jeu :
Puis MOC :
Mais aussi "Poor Man's Radio Player" (merci antiX!) :
Enfin, pour le fun :
Eh bien! c'est pas mal du tout sans sortir du contexte de la distribution ("Poor Man's...' d'antiX, bon d'accord mais ça reste dans la famille)
Allez! je poste parce qu'il est trop tard.
Bonne nuit à tous!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 6:15 am
by ceeslans
titoux wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 9:51 pm
(snip)
Je ne parle pas anglais, je suis nouveau sur le forum et je n'ai pas encore renseigné mes configurations, mon matériel, ect, désolé. Je découvre MX et antiX, et plus récemment MX-Fluxbox 2.1 sur MX. J'aurais des choses à dire bien sûr (je suis handicapé avec cette histoire d'anglais), mais je voulais au moins communiquer ma petite vision des choses avec les outils et le design offerts par la distribution. Je suis globalement conquis (des détails peuvent se discuter quand même ceci-dit... je me répète).
(snip)
@titoux merci d'avoir posté vos captures d'écran !
veuillez noter qu'il existe également un forum MX français, où vous pouvez poster vos messages relatifs au MX
viewforum.php?f=13.
vous pouvez faire traduire votre message dans un moteur de traduction en ligne, comme Deeple
https://www.deepl.com/translator, puis poster votre texte en français et en anglais
Si votre sujet est lié à MX-Fluxbox, veuillez continuer à poster ici dans la section Fluxbox. Je serais intéressé de voir l'évolution de votre Fluxbox bureau (comme je pense que d'autres personnes le font aussi)
(english)
@titoux thanks for posting your screen captures!
please note there is also a french MX forum, where you can post your MX related messages.
you could have your message translated in an online translation engine, like Deeple and then post your text in both french and english
If your topic is related to MX-Fluxbox, then please do continue to post here in the Fluxbox section. I would be interested to see the further development of your Fluxbox desktop (as I think other people do too)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 7:20 am
by titoux
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 6:15 am
@titoux thanks for posting your screen captures!
please note there is also a french MX forum, where you can post your MX related messages.
you could have your message translated in an online translation engine, like Deeple and then post your text in both french and english
If your topic is related to MX-Fluxbox, then please do continue to post here in the Fluxbox section. I would be interested to see the further development of your Fluxbox desktop (as I think other people do too)
I didn't know Deepl, but I'll use this translation engine to post here (and elsewhere if needed). Thanks for advising me.
Yes, I had seen that there was a French section, very generalist. I'll visit it too.
See you soon. Thank you for your help.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 7:46 pm
by dolphin_oracle
simple one with a curly-q conky and the windmills wallpaper
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 8:07 pm
by Jerry3904
An image of antechdesign that I am working on, can't figure out how to raise the logo but will get it sometime.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:39 am
by Jerry3904
I've been looking for a good b/w image. Utopia altered this gorgeous shot that wdscharff posted to black and white, and we added a small black logo. I wanted to keep the desktop clean, so set the toolbar and the dock to autohide.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:21 am
by richb
That works very nicely.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:45 am
by asqwerth
Antech's piccies are always very nice.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:51 am
by Jerry3904
asqwerth wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:45 am
Antech's piccies are always very nice.
That one is by our very own wdscharff
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:57 am
by asqwerth
referring to the wave and beach one.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:17 am
by Jerry3904
Oh...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:20 pm
by longbottom leaf
there are some nice looking desktops there!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:00 am
by ceeslans
Modified MX Fluxbox. Stripped out a bunch of Xfce components and applications. Fluxbox is now my default/single session. Replaced Xfce4-terminal for RoxTerm and Thunar for Xfe filemanager. System is idling at about 245~250 mb at bootup.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:28 am
by Jerry3904
Very handsome! One of the main attractions of MXFB for me is that the user has nearly complete control.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 6:36 am
by wdscharff
Current desktop in constant progress

Original
https://web57.ws/test/2020-0628.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 7:42 am
by Jerry3904
Very nice--love the exit-actions bar!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:04 pm
by AA BB
One of the main attractions of MXFB for me is that the user has nearly complete control.
AMEN Jerry !!
MXFB is the best user interface I've ever used, I personally have no need for MX XFCE anymore.
Can MXFB replace MX 100% or is FB set up so that it must have XFCE in the background ?
The MXFB team has puts lots of development effort into FB, IMHO this team should consider copyrighting MXFB so that big, for-profit corporations can`t snatch it away under the guise of it being in the 'public domain'
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:06 pm
by Jerry3904
MXFB needs Xfce beneath it, with which it is "completely integrated"
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:58 pm
by ceeslans
Hmmmm... MXFB may well need Xfce beneath it - but it is definitely possible to remove Xfce, including most of its components and applications. I have done so - if only to see how 'lean & mean' MX-fluxbox could get.
Replaced Thunar for Xfe, xfce4-terminal for roxTerm, xfce4-screenshooter for antiX-screenshot, xfce4-appfinder for fbmenugen, and xfce4-notify for dunst, just to name a few. With it, most of Xfce's core components could be removed. I kept some specific Xfce core components installed, like exo-utils, which automatically draw in a number of xfce4 dependencies, such as libxfce4util,libxfce4ui, xfconf and related libs. Most of the MX-tools can still be used (only MX-Tweak is really skinny now,,,).
Ultimately I ended up with fluxbox running as default/single session. Right now, the system (with 1-2 scripted conky's running) idles at approx 240-250 mb at bootup, Not bad for an amd64 system with 6gb ram...
Still, I must agree with Jerry that MXFB in its released form needs Xfce as its solid base. MXFB's jewel shines because of the Xfce integration. And I would certainly advise NOT to start hacking away, as you may easily end up with a broken system...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2020 2:35 pm
by PPC

Yes, this is pure MXFB 18.3 , without any dock, just idesk running...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:26 pm
by ceeslans
my July screenshot.
Am running an mx-dock from startup for the first time :)
It does consume an additional ~30mb.... (but hey, the system can handle that)
note the customized icons - and the non-default background/border colors (using #151515 color) of the dock.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:54 pm
by Jerry3904
Great treatment of the dock, glad to see you using it. And what a nice "Exit" icon...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 1:19 pm
by andyprough
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 12:26 pm
my July screenshot.
Am running an mx-dock from startup for the first time :)
It does consume an additional ~30mb.... (but hey, the system can handle that)
note the customized icons - and the non-default background/border colors (using #151515 color) of the dock.
Wow, that's really good looking. You could put that up against any major bloated desktop for good looks.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:54 am
by Skara_Brae
I ran Fluxbox/Debian on my late Core2Duo machine. It had a kind of green theme with a fluXbox - resembling "Xbox" logo - wallpaper on it. It was very nice, imo.
(On that machine Debian ran great. OpenSUSE, for comparison, on it ran like a turtle on Valium... Debian rocks. Thank you, Ian Murdock...)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:38 pm
by Jerry3904
Don't think I put this up yet. Photo by wdscharff, made b/w with black MXFB logo by Utopia, conky from asqwerth and beyond. Dock and toolbar on autohide to not get in the way of the aesthetics.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:51 am
by wdscharff
Meanwhile my Fluxbox installation is (almost) finished, maybe a bit of fine-tuning with the icons and a few starters will be added, but I have time.
I seem to be satisfied with Fluxbox. I have hardly used xfce the last days, although it was my default desktop for years, no matter if Mint, opensuse or MX.
The Idesktools and the Dockmaker made the changeover much easier, thanks for that!

full 1920x1200:
https://web57.ws/test/screen-07-12-2020.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:04 am
by Jerry3904
Very nice--great combination of icons and dock! A lot of work went into developing those tools so I am very pleased to hear that they have worked so well for you.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 6:14 am
by wdscharff
I'm sure I wouldn't have done it without these tools!
I looked at Fluxbox a few years ago, some arch distribution, and I found it too cumbersome to adapt it to my needs.
With MX, I wasn't interested in it at first either, until I happened to see your first video on it. That was an icebreaker :-)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:36 am
by ceeslans
I like my desktop to be low-saturated --> if not grayscaled or plain black+white.
and style/theme as dark as my coffee...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:16 am
by PPC
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:51 am
The Idesktools and the Dockmaker made the changeover much easier, thanks for that!
I liked your desktop, but one think that I never like seeing is uneven things- the fact that the dock is "taller" than the toolbar is the single thing I don't like- you can, if you also dislike that, edit the dock so the each icon is 30 or 32p in height, so it matches the toolbar, or, if you want to get your hands dirty not using a GUI, try my script over at
viewtopic.php?f=143&t=59004&start=10#p583822- first move the dock to the left sidfe (or where you want it) then you can try the script- please note that the script rewrites the toolbar config, so, if you want to try that, please back up everything! You don't have to be a programmer to know how to add icons to the scipt, I tried to make it as simple to use as possible- just read the instructions, if you want to try it :-)
P-
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:41 am
by wdscharff
I understand your concern about the different icon sizes, the icons for the idesk starters are already 32x32.
I don't know yet what I will like better in the end, 48x48 would be more comfortable for my old eyes.
Maybe I'll also make the toolbar taller.
I'm not finished yet, e.g. I haven't put my hand on the menu yet, so there's a lot of customization to do for me.
Theoretically, I could do without Dock and Icondesk, but I think that would be a bit too minimalistic.
Translated with
www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:49 am
by Jerry3904
Two easy solutions I see:
1) autohide the dock
2) change toolbar height to 34 or a bit higher (will be able to use new version of MX Tweak)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:27 am
by wdscharff
I'm getting where I'm going.
This will probably be my last picture in MX Fluxbox Screenshots, except for wallpapers you won't see anything anymore and you can look at them elsewhere :-)
MX-Fluxbox, minimized, without Conkey, Dock and idesk.
(Which could be activated at any time, with full "comfort" the Ram consumption in idle mode is at least 120mb higher)
Tidy desktop, but the menu is a swiss knife. No need for the xfce-appfinder.
The xfce-appfinder has the disadvantage, once started it remains in the ram and with >50mb it is not very economical
Thanks to FBmenugen I have saved a lot of typing work, the installation and operation is also very well explained.
Clipit was replaced with parcellite on a trial basis, it is also a bit lighter (-10mb) than Clipit. Makes no difference in functionality for me now.
Bildschirmfoto-3_ji.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:13 am
by ceeslans
hehe, pleased to see that I am not the only one to use (and appreciate) FBmenugen!
Nice desktop, and clearly very light on resources...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 1:51 pm
by mowest
Twice Fluxbox Theme with Graybird-Dark MX, a bing wallpaper of the day, and a nice matching conky that I just had to edit to sit in the lower right hand corner of the scree
MXFluxbox2020-07-21.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 8:50 am
by tascoast
I don't have Flushbox happening here and only just beginning to play seriously with AntiX but I love this wallpaper anyway,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8Tnl8 ... sp=sharing
showing what looks like River Redgums somewhere in SE Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, via:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/ ... s/12472926
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 5:46 am
by ceeslans
First August 2020 screenshot of my MX Fluxbox desktop.
Showing flavor and colors of BunsenLabs 'Lithium', which was officially released yesterday.
Fluxbox style by PackRat.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:44 am
by Jerry3904
Great wallpapers here!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:18 pm
by seaken64
This is my screenshot from MX-Fluxbox running on an old P-III with 512MB. After making mods for low memory computers.
mxfluxon32bit.jpg
MX 19.2 32-bit, MX-Fluxbox 2.1
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:38 pm
by Jerry3904
Nice. I often use that myself, along with "spring"
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:02 pm
by seaken64
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 6:38 pm
Nice. I often use that myself, along with "spring"
Yes, spring is nice too. But I'm partial to blue.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2020 7:25 pm
by Jerry3904
I'm posting this, one of three new official backgrounds being uploaded and packaged this weekend, as a way of telling @wdscharff that we are delighted to be using some of his gorgeous photos. I keep dock and toolbar hidden so I can enjoy beautiful backgrounds like this.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:13 am
by wdscharff
Thanks that I can participate and contribute to MX-Linux in this way
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:28 pm
by ceeslans
^ That's a beautiful scenic shot. Very comfy and yet ominous picture...
Even though my hardware has a voluptuous 6GB ram available, am trying to minimize system memory usage.
I disabled startup applications like idesk, gkrellm, clipit and apt-notifier, as well as xfce4-power manager (falling back to basic power settings).
Qt-variables, polkit-agent, nm-applet and volumeicon are run at startup, as well as Wma-launcher dock, compton, conky and nitrogen (setting wallpaper instead of feh).
Even with mx-dock and a weather-scripted conky, the system idles at 245-250MB at startup...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:43 pm
by Jerry3904
That's very handsome!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:02 pm
by seaken64
@jerry3904 and @wdscharff,
very nice wallpaper!
Seaken64
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:47 pm
by Jerry3904
Another of the wdscharff images as MXFB wallpaper--I call it "meadow" and love the colors

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:22 pm
by Jerry3904
Now with the new tint2 panel on the bottom (on autohide, held visible here with the mouse) and a predatory bee staring at me

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:35 pm
by Jerry3904
Want to follow that up with a view of the tint2 config apps.

I am using a theme I like called trollwut-orange-dark
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2020 6:09 am
by PPC

My MXFB, running Tint2, and my personalized menu, with window preview... All the functionality of a modern OS, none of the fat!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 1:48 pm
by wdscharff
In joyful expectation of the next version of Fluxbox, I have processed what might come, especially Tint2 and Rofi.
After a few small teething troubles (the thing with the systray) I got it working.
I was surprised by the possibilities of Tint2, for example that you can specify additional "application directories", which is very useful for me.
current state
fullscreen:
https://web57.ws/test/Bildschirmfoto_20 ... -18-18.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:05 pm
by thinkpadx
really nice pic there!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:16 pm
by Jerry3904
Very nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:18 pm
by asqwerth
@PPC, the window preview thing within MXFB is impressive. What program is that?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 10:13 am
by PPC
asqwerth wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:18 pm
@PPC, the window preview thing within MXFB is impressive. What program is that?
It's a Tint2 functinality. tint2 will be available in the next MXFB version, according to Jerry- Tint2 takes abour 3 meg of idel RAM and offers a great way to access quick launch icons, window previews, etc... Not sure if you can find any magic to get window preview working on the XFCE, without using Tint2 as a toolbar...
For a very nice general preview of all non minimized Windows (like Window10 and MacOs), I also use skippy-xd, available on the MX repo...
P.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:14 am
by asqwerth
I use skippy-xd+ bunsenlabs hotcorner package, on one install each of mx 17 and mx19, and compiz on my 2nd mx17 and mx19 installs.
You don't get the preview of each opened window tab on the panel though.
Thanks.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 7:54 am
by wdscharff
Fluxbox 2.2 is here and I first looked at it in the default settings, very nice.
I then transferred my previous settings to the different config files with the usual copy&paste.
Great what the MX and Fluxbox Team has delivered again!

full hd:
https://web57.ws/test/2020-September-06-13.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:19 am
by Jerry3904
What a nice background! ;-D
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 8:29 am
by wdscharff
The black and white version with fluxbox logo is included with the wallpapers. If you want the "colored" version, I have provided it for MX-Linux (no matter which desktop).
The link to my MX wallpapers is in my signature :-D
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:32 pm
by ceeslans
Installed MXFB 2.2 today, toggled the toolbar to tint2 (nice script!) - and modified tint2rc to my liking.
With every reload (command "killall -SIGUSR1 tint2" }, tint2 is flooding ~/xsession-errors with imlib- and icon path errors --> but this toolbar really is a joy to configure...
running mxdock may be overkill. Will probably remove it from startup.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 7:11 pm
by thinkpadx
that is really nice!!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:43 am
by wdscharff
also very nice
and someone else who also uses fbmenugen :-)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:16 am
by Jerry3904
Radically simplifying things (dock on autohide at top) for a while...may have to restore the systray.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:03 pm
by PPC
Very cool looking conky, and also the system monitor (it looks good transparent!) - both integrate perfectly with the desktop image
I guess that looks great, but the systray is useful sometimes, it really may be worth restoring it... I myself do love Tint2- it does away with the need for Docks and desktop icons- it's, for me, probably the best change in MXFB 2.2 :-)
P.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:39 pm
by wdscharff
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:16 am
Radically simplifying things (dock on autohide at top) for a while...may have to restore the systray.
very minimalist.
With me, except for conky, everything is faded out. Tint2 Toolbar classic below and on the left side a Tint2 Dock. auto hide with the settings Panel Layer = Top and maximized windows = fill the screen
2020-September-23.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 1:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Very fine.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:57 pm
by Jerry3904
I wanted to advertise the MXFB wallpapers that Auro Kumar Sahoo is producing by showing one of the recent ones on
his Flicker site that I am now using.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:05 pm
by thinkpadx
that is nice.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:56 pm
by Jerry3904
(the conkies are my addition, of course)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 3:42 pm
by ceeslans
Last screenshot for September 2020.
Personalized and stripped MX19 Fluxbox desktop; memory is idling at ~240 MB at system boot (non-systemd).
* 2x tint2 = MX-Xfce styled vertical toolbar incl Rofi startmenu (left) + hidden dock/deskbar (right)
* 4x Conky = GoogleNow weather + BBQ-Digital2 + AnalogClock/Calendar + ScratchMusic
* RootMenu with (semi) auto-updating 'applications' menu (fbmenugen) - incl 'recent files' entry --> thanks @ppc for the script !

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:06 pm
by asqwerth
Very very nice, ceeslans.
May I have a link to the wallpaper and also the AnalogClock conky?
Also, are you using the GoogleNow conky with openweather, accuweather or some other weather script? I had to adjust my old GoogleNow conky to use openweathermap after the original yahooweather no longer worked.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:15 pm
by ceeslans
asqwerth wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:06 pm
May I have a link to the wallpaper ...
Found it on Imageboard Scraper
https://nik.bot.nu/vi.fu?id=3528431. Cleaned it up, inverted/saturated colors, changed brightness and resolution. Updated version is here
https://i.imgur.com/ZLT28Nh.png.
asqwerth wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:06 pm
... and also the AnalogClock conky?
@Damo provided a great base-script for configurable analogue clocks in conky. Check it at
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=6939.
I used that in a conky, combined with a nice week-calendar. Below is my conkyrc, the clock-settings config file, as well as the two scripts :
W170-Clock_calendar.conkyrc
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-- clock_conky_110 --
-- @ damo Aug 2020 --
---------------------
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1,
no_buffers = true,
double_buffer = true,
use_spacer = 'none',
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'override',
--own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 16,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky',
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'ConkyClock',
draw_shades = false,
default_shade_color = '000000',
draw_outline = false,
default_outline_color = '000000',
border_inner_margin = 10,
draw_borders = true,
default_color = '202020',
use_xft = true,
font = 'Dejavu Sans Condensed:size=8',
xftalpha = 1,
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = true,
minimum_width = 170,
maximum_width = 170,
minimum_height = 225,
gap_x = 60,
gap_y = 60,
alignment = 'br',
color0 = 'BCBCBC', --LightGray
color1 = '80D0D0', --SlateBlue
color2 = 'FF8C00', --DarkOrange
color3 = '7FFF00', --Chartreuse
color4 = 'FFA07A', --LightSalmon
color5 = 'FFDEAD', --NavajoWhite
color6 = '00BFFF', --DeepSkyBlue
color7 = '00FFFF', --Cyan
color8 = 'DA4C30', --Orange
color9 = 'B22222', --Firebrick
lua_load = '~/.conky/LUA/clock_conky_110.lua',
lua_draw_hook_pre = 'conky_clock',
lua_startup_hook = 'conky_load_config /home/one/.conky/W170-clock_settings',
};
conky.text = [[
${voffset 190}${goto 14}${color0}${execp ~/.conky/scripts/week_1.sh}\
${voffset 15}${goto 17}${font DejaVu Sans Condensed:size=8}${color8}${time %a}${goto 155}${time %b}${color}${font}${voffset 0}
]];
W170-clock_settings
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-- config file to be sourced by clock_conky_110.lua
-- by damo August 2020
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- if "nil" value is used, then a default value is set by the script
-- Default value in comments is "[value]"
clock_vars = {
{
-- if x,y = "nil", clock size is relative to conky window
x = 95, -- x and y coords (center), relative to the top left
y = 98, -- corner of conky, in px [conky_window.width/2]
radius = 60, -- [x*0.95] (to fit conky window)
border = true, -- draw clock border [false]
border_width = 2, -- border width in px [line_width]
border_out = true, -- if "true", border is drawn outside clock radius [false]
line_width = 1, -- used for marks, and default border width [2]
color = 0xcdcdcd, -- border color. [0xffffff]
alpha = 0.5, -- border alpha [1]
hours_num = 12, -- options: "12" or "24" [12]
color_hands = nil, -- hour and minute hands color [color]
alpha_hands = 0.5, -- hour and minute hands alpha [1]
color_sec = 0xDA4C30, -- seconds hand color [color]
alpha_sec = 0.5, -- seconds hand alpha [1]
color_face = nil, -- clock face color [0xffffff]
alpha_face = 0.25, -- clock face alpha [0.5]
color_marks = nil, -- hour and minute marks color [color]
alpha_marks = nil, -- hour and minute marks alpha [alpha]
color_center = nil, -- center spot color [color]
alpha_center = 0.5, -- center spot alpha [1]
numerals = true, -- write hour numerals [false]
text_radius = 1.2, -- % radius of numerals from center [0.75]
font_name = "Noto Sans", -- ["Noto Sans"]
font_size = 13, -- [12]
font_color = nil, -- [color]
font_alpha = 0.5, -- [alpha]
italic = false, -- [false]
oblique = false, -- [false]
bold = true, -- [false]
clock_face = false, -- draw background clock face [false]
hours_marks = true, -- draw hours marks [true]
minutes_marks = true, -- draw minutes marks [false]
clock_center = true, -- draw center spot [false]
clock_center_radius = 0.08, -- % radius of clock of center spot [0.1]
marks_radius_mins = 0.95, -- % radius of clock of start of mark [0.95]
marks_radius_hrs = 0.9, -- % radius of clock of start of mark [0.9]
hour_radius = 0.50, -- % radius of clock of hour hand [0.65]
minute_radius = 0.75, -- % radius of clock of minute hand [0.8]
seconds_radius = 0.90, -- % radius of clock of seconds hand [0.9]
hour_hand_width = 6, -- hour hand thickness, px [6]
minute_hand_width = 4, -- minute hand thickness, px [4]
seconds_hand_width = 2, -- seconds hand thickness, px [2]
hand_style = 0, -- cap shape of hands, 0="round" or 1="square" [1]
},
}
clock_conky_110.lua
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-- clock_conky_110.lua
-- by damo, August 2020
--
-- With inspiration from:
-- Air Clock by Alison Pitt (londonali1010) (2009)
-- seamod_rings.lua http://custom-linux.deviantart.com/art/Conky-Seamod-v0-1-283461046
-- Boris Krinkel <olgmen>
-- to be used by clock_conky_110.conf
------------------------------------------------------------------------
require 'cairo'
-- called by "lua_startup_hook" in conky
-- "config" = /path/to/config file (set in conky)
function conky_load_config (config)
if file_exists(config) then
-- get clock settings from external config file
clock_variables = loadfile(config)()
else
return
end
end
function file_exists(name)
local f=io.open(name,"r")
if f~=nil then
io.close(f) return true
else
print("Configuration file not found")
return false
end
end
-- called by "lua_draw_hook_pre" in conky
-- draw clock using settings from "config"
function conky_clock (config)
if conky_window == nil then return end
local cs = cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, conky_window.width, conky_window.height)
-- allow conky window to be established before trying to draw clock
local updates=conky_parse('${updates}')
update_num=tonumber(updates)
if update_num>1 then
for i, cv in pairs(clock_vars) do
check_settings (cv)
cr = cairo_create (cs)
display_clock (cv)
cairo_destroy (cr)
end
end
end
function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha)
return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha
end
function check_settings (t) -- lua doesn't have a case/switch statement:
-- set default values if necessary
if t.x == nil then -- if x,y,radius = "nil", set up clock relative to conky window.
t.x = conky_window.width/2
elseif t.y == nil then
t.y = t.x
elseif t.radius == nil then
t.radius = t.x*0.95 -- so it fits inside conky window
elseif t.border == nil then
t.border = false
elseif t.border_out == nil then
t.border = false
elseif t.color == nil then
t.color = 0xffffff
elseif t.alpha == nil then
t.alpha = 1
elseif t.line_width == nil then
t.line_width = 2
elseif t.border_width == nil then
t.border_width = t.line_width
elseif t.hours_num == nil then
t.hours_num = 12
elseif t.color_hands == nil then
t.color_hands = t.color
elseif t.alpha_hands == nil then
t.alpha_hands = 1
elseif t.color_sec == nil then
t.color_sec = t.color
elseif t.alpha_sec == nil then
t.alpha_sec = t.alpha
elseif t.color_face == nil then
t.color_face = 0xffffff
elseif t.alpha_face == nil then
t.alpha_face = 0.5
elseif t.color_marks == nil then
t.color_marks = t.color
elseif t.alpha_marks == nil then
t.alpha_marks = t.alpha
elseif t.color_center == nil then
t.color_center = t.color
elseif t.alpha_center == nil then
t.alpha_center = 1
elseif t.numerals == nil then
t.numerals = false
elseif t.text_radius == nil then
t.text_radius = 0.75
elseif t.font_name == nil then
t.font_name = "Noto Sans"
elseif t.font_size == nil then
t.font_size = 12
elseif t.italic == nil then
t.italic = false
elseif t.oblique == nil then
t.oblique = false
elseif t.bold == nil then
t.bold = false
elseif t.font_color == nil then
t.font_color = t.color
elseif t.font_alpha == nil then
t.font_alpha = t.alpha
elseif t.clock_face == nil then
t.clock_face = false
elseif t.hours_marks == nil then
t.hours_marks = true
elseif t.minutes_marks == nil then
t.minutes_marks = false
elseif t.clock_center == nil then
t.clock_center = false
elseif t.clock_center_radius == nil then
t.clock_center_radius = 0.1
elseif t.marks_radius_mins == nil then
t.marks_radius_mins = 0.95
elseif t.marks_radius_hrs == nil then
t.marks_radius_hrs = 0.9
elseif t.hour_radius == nil then
t.hour_radius = 0.65
elseif t.minute_radius == nil then
t.minute_radius = 0.8
elseif t.seconds_radius == nil then
t.seconds_radius = 0.9
elseif hour_hand_width == nil then
hour_hand_width = 6
elseif minute_hand_width == nil then
minute_hand_width = 4
elseif seconds_hand_width == nil then
seconds_hand_width = 2
elseif t.hand_style == nil then
t.hand_style = 1
end
end
function display_clock (t)
local slant = CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL
local weight =CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL
if t.italic then slant = CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_ITALIC end
if t.bold then weight = CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD end
cairo_select_font_face(cr, t.font_name, slant, weight)
cairo_set_font_size(cr, t.font_size)
te=cairo_text_extents_t:create()
cairo_text_extents (cr,t.text,te)
-- make sure clock radius has been set before drawing:
if t.radius then
-- draw border ring
if t.border then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr, rgb_to_r_g_b(t.color, t.alpha))
cairo_set_line_width(cr, t.border_width)
if t.border_out then -- draw border ring outside clock radius
cairo_arc (cr, t.x, t.y,t.radius+t.border_width/2, 0, 2*math.pi)
else
cairo_arc (cr, t.x, t.y, t.radius-t.border_width/2, 0, 2*math.pi)
end
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
-- Set clock face
if t.clock_face then
if t.color_face then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(t.color_face,t.alpha_face))
cairo_arc(cr,t.x,t.y,t.radius,0,2*math.pi)
cairo_fill(cr)
end
end
-- draw hour marks
if t.hours_marks then
if t.color_marks then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(t.color_marks,t.alpha_marks))
end
cairo_set_line_width(cr, t.line_width)
local i = 0
-- is clock 12H or 24H?
if t.hours_num == 12 then
num_hours = 11
angle_hours = math.rad(30)
else
num_hours = 23
angle_hours = math.rad(15)
end
local num = num_hours
local angle = angle_hours
for i= 0, num, 1 do
cairo_move_to(cr, t.x - math.sin(angle*i)*t.radius, t.y - math.cos(angle*i)*t.radius)
cairo_line_to(cr, t.x - math.sin(angle*i)*(t.radius*t.marks_radius_hrs), t.y - math.cos(angle*i)*(t.radius*t.marks_radius_hrs))
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
end
-- draw minute marks
if t.minutes_marks then
if t.hours_num == 24 then
num_mins = 119
angle_mins = math.rad(3)
else
num_mins = 59
angle_mins = math.rad(6)
end
local num = num_mins
local angle = angle_mins
cairo_set_line_width(cr, t.line_width*0.5)
for i=0, num, 1 do
cairo_move_to(cr, t.x - math.sin(angle * i) * t.radius, t.y - math.cos(angle * i) * t.radius)
cairo_line_to(cr, t.x - math.sin(angle * i) * (t.radius * t.marks_radius_mins), t.y - math.cos(angle * i) * (t.radius*t.marks_radius_mins))
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
end
-- numbers radius,color,alpha
if t.numerals then
cairo_save (cr)
cairo_translate(cr, t.x, t.y)
mx, my = 0, 0
local i = 0
-- is clock 12H or 24H?
if t.hours_num == 24 then
num_hours = 24
angle_hours = math.rad(15)
else
num_hours = 12
angle_hours = math.rad(30)
end
local num = num_hours
local angle = angle_hours
for i = 1, num, 1 do
mov_x = math.sin(angle*i)*(t.radius*t.text_radius)
mov_y = math.cos(angle*i)*(t.radius*t.text_radius)
te=cairo_text_extents_t:create()
cairo_text_extents (cr,i,te)
if t.font_color then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr, rgb_to_r_g_b(t.font_color, t.font_alpha))
end
mx = -te.width/2
my = -te.height/2-te.y_bearing
cairo_move_to(cr, mx + mov_x, my - mov_y)
cairo_show_text(cr, i)
end
cairo_restore (cr)
end -- end of numerals test
local hours = os.date("%I")
local mins = os.date("%M")
local secs = os.date("%S")
secs_arc = (2*math.pi/60)*secs
mins_arc = (2*math.pi/60)*mins
hours_arc = (2*math.pi/12)*hours + mins_arc/12
-- hour and minute hand color
if t.color_hands then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr, rgb_to_r_g_b(t.color_hands, t.alpha_hands))
if t.hand_style == 0 then -- set line end cap shape
cairo_set_line_cap(cr, CAIRO_LINE_CAP_ROUND)
else
cairo_set_line_cap(cr, CAIRO_LINE_CAP_BUTT)
end
-- draw hour hand
xh = t.x + t.hour_radius*t.radius*math.sin(hours_arc)
yh = t.y - t.hour_radius*t.radius*math.cos(hours_arc)
cairo_set_line_width(cr, t.hour_hand_width)
cairo_move_to(cr, t.x, t.y)
cairo_line_to(cr, xh, yh)
cairo_stroke(cr)
-- draw minute hand
xm = t.x + t.minute_radius*t.radius*math.sin(mins_arc)
ym = t.y - t.minute_radius*t.radius*math.cos(mins_arc)
cairo_set_line_width(cr, t.minute_hand_width)
cairo_move_to(cr, t.x, t.y)
cairo_line_to(cr, xm, ym)
cairo_stroke(cr)
-- draw seconds hand
-- set color for seconds hand
if t.color_sec then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr, rgb_to_r_g_b(t.color_sec, t.alpha_sec))
xs = t.x + t.seconds_radius*t.radius*math.sin(secs_arc)
ys = t.y - t.seconds_radius*t.radius*math.cos(secs_arc)
cairo_set_line_width(cr, t.seconds_hand_width)
cairo_move_to(cr, t.x, t.y)
cairo_line_to(cr,xs,ys)
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
end
-- draw centre on top of hands
if t.clock_center then
if t.color_center then
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(t.color_center,t.alpha_center))
cairo_arc(cr,t.x,t.y,t.radius*t.clock_center_radius,0,2*math.pi)
cairo_fill(cr)
end
end
end -- end of radius test
end
week_1.sh
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#!/bin/bash
# by: mobilediesel
font=("\${voffset -9}\${font digitalk:size=8}" "\${voffset -3}\${font digitalk:size=12}" "\${voffset -2}\${font digitalk:size=18}" "\${voffset -4}\${font digitalk:size=36}\${color8}" "\${voffset -14}\${font digitalk:size=18}" "\${voffset -4}\${font digitalk:size=12}" "\${voffset -1}\${font digitalk:size=8}")
color=("" "" "" "\${color0}" "" "" "")
for i in $(seq -3 3); do
echo -n "${font[$[i+3]]}$(date '+%d' -d "$i days")${color[3]}\${offset 3}"
done
asqwerth wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 4:06 pm
Also, are you using the GoogleNow conky with openweather, accuweather or some other weather script? I had to adjust my old GoogleNow conky to use openweathermap after the original yahooweather no longer worked.
Am using openweather for this. Below is the conkyrc for my (stripped- and downsized) GoogleNow version
W170-GoogleNow.conkyrc
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-- GoogleNow style conky --
---------------------------
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1,
total_run_times = 0,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 1,
imlib_cache_size = 0,
background = false,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'override',
--own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 16,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'ConkyGoogleNow',
-- own_window_colour = '2D2D2D',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = true,
border_width = 1,
default_color = '202020',
draw_graph_borders = false,
border_inner_margin = 10,
border_outer_margin = 1,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Dejavu Sans Condensed:size=8',
xftalpha = 0,
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = true,
minimum_width = 170,
maximum_width = 170,
minimum_height = 225,
gap_x = 60,
gap_y = 55,
alignment = 'tr',
color1 = 'EEEEEE',
color2 = '9933CC',
color3 = '669900',
color4 = 'FF8800',
color5 = 'CC0000',
color6 = 'AAAAAA',
color7 = '3CCDFF',
color8 = 'DA4C30', --Orange
};
conky.text = [[
### SCRIPT CALL
${color1}${voffset 10}\
${execi 300 l=en; l=${l%%_*}; curl -s "api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast/daily?APPID=85a4e3c55b73909f42c6a23ec35b7147&id=2747891&cnt=5&units=metric&lang=$l" -o ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json}\
${execi 300 l=en; l=${l%%_*}; curl -s "api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?APPID=85a4e3c55b73909f42c6a23ec35b7147&id=2747891&cnt=5&units=metric&lang=$l" -o ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.json}\
### LOCATION
${font Dejavu Sans Condensed:size=8:weight=bold}${alignc}${color8}${execi 300 jq -r .city.name ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json}, ${execi 300 jq -r .city.country ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json}${font}${color1}
### CURRENT CONDITIONS
${voffset 5}${font Dejavu Sans Condensed:size=36}${alignr}${execi 300 jq -r .main.temp ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°${font}${color1}\
${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky/GoogleNow/$(jq .weather[0].id ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.json).png ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.png}${image $HOME/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.png -p 10,35 -s 48x48}${color1}
${voffset 14}${goto 15}${execi 300 jq -r .weather[0].description ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.json | sed "s|\<.|\U&|g"}${font}
${image $HOME/.conky/GoogleNow/wind.png -p 15,105 -s 15x15}${goto 55}${voffset 4}${execi 300 jq -r .wind.speed ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num} m/s
${image $HOME/.conky/GoogleNow/humidity.png -p 15,120 -s 15x15}${goto 55}${voffset 2}${color1}${execi 300 jq -r .main.humidity ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/weather.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num} %
### NEXT DAYS FORECAST
${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky/GoogleNow/$(jq .list[1].weather[0].id ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json).png ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-1.png}${image ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-1.png -p 5,165 -s 25x25}\
${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky/GoogleNow/$(jq .list[2].weather[0].id ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json).png ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-2.png}${image ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-2.png -p 50,165 -s 25x25}\
${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky/GoogleNow/$(jq .list[3].weather[0].id ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json).png ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-3.png}${image ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-3.png -p 95,165 -s 25x25}\
${execi 300 cp -f ~/.conky/GoogleNow/$(jq .list[4].weather[0].id ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json).png ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-4.png}${image ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast-4.png -p 140,165 -s 25x25}\
${voffset 10}${font}${color8}\
${goto 20}${execi 300 LANG=en LC_TIME=en date -d +1day +%^a}\
${goto 65}${execi 300 LANG=en LC_TIME=en date -d +2days +%^a}\
${goto 110}${execi 300 LANG=en LC_TIME=en date -d +3days +%^a}\
${goto 155}${execi 300 LANG=en LC_TIME=en date -d +4days +%^a}\
${voffset 50}${color1}\
${goto 22}${execi 300 jq .list[1].temp.max ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${goto 67}${execi 300 jq .list[2].temp.max ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${goto 112}${execi 300 jq .list[3].temp.max ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${goto 157}${execi 300 jq .list[4].temp.max ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${voffset 15}\
${goto 22}${execi 300 jq .list[1].temp.min ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${goto 67}${execi 300 jq .list[2].temp.min ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${goto 112}${execi 300 jq .list[3].temp.min ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
${goto 157}${execi 300 jq .list[4].temp.min ~/.conky/GoogleNow/cache/forecast.json | awk '{print int($1+0.5)}' # round num}°\
]];
Hope I did not forget anything... let me know if you need something else :)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:12 pm
by asqwerth
Thanks so much. Hopefully I have time to try them out this weekend.
Yep, the GoogleNow openweather bits look like mine. Though I had to adjust the naming (numbering) of all the Google weather icons that came with the original conky as well, since they were numbered for yahooweather weather codes.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:34 am
by PPC
Mx-fluxbox with tint2 and the "XFCE menu" working perfectly:

and with a full blown fluxbox debian menu:

P.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:05 am
by Jerry3904
More Menus = Merrier!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:06 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:27 pm
by ceeslans
i_ri wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:06 pm

@i_ri: I like the traditional look of your fluxbox desktop. Are toolbar and/or wma-dock hidden, or intentionally left out?
Also noticed you have icons in the rootmenu. Do you know if there is a way to 'toggle' these icons by means of a command - or setting in the theme config file or overlay file?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:44 pm
by Jerry3904
Icons are available by just adding my<icon path> to the menu entries. A toggle might be doable by replacing all "<' with "#<" using sed and the "'g" switch.
Fehlix said once there is a toggle capability within sed itself.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:51 pm
by ceeslans
PPC wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:34 am
Mx-fluxbox with tint2 and the "XFCE menu" working perfectly:
...
and with a full blown fluxbox debian menu:
...
P.
@ppc: Nice! Can you please provide the button commands and/or scripts?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:54 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:44 pm
Icons are available by just adding my<icon path> to the menu entries. A toggle might be doable by replacing all "<' with "#<" using sed and the "'g" switch.
Fehlix said once there is a toggle capability within sed itself.
Would love to know about the 'toggle' in sed. Or do you have an example script for replacement using seed and "g" switch?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 1:57 pm
by Jerry3904
We have a sed toggle in one of our existing scripts, will look. For the use of "g" see if this is useful:
https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-se ... -in-files/
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:26 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and ceeslans , I always jump to see your screencapture often showing the root menu.
((__)(Right extension display; ))
That rootMenu continues to show elements of first-edition mxfluxbox. Pixmaps in that menu portion by several selection and manual input. The new edition mxfluxbox is just beautiful; I like it with Shade Style
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:52 am
by wdscharff
At some point I will have to tidy up, at the moment I use all the usual possibilities, so an actually unnecessary high redundancy :)
rofi, rootmenu (fbmenugen 0.85 and additional starters/scripts inserted by me) , Tint2 Taskbar/systray and three tint2 docks (hidden).
I also like to do feasibility studies, what works and what doesn't work, this doesn't always have to be useful, but it helps me on my way to find the best solution for me :)
(I think the three docks are not really necessary for me :-D )
2020-October-15-09b_jiw.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 5:08 am
by PPC
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 12:51 pm
PPC wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:34 am
Mx-fluxbox with tint2 and the "XFCE menu" working perfectly:
...
and with a full blown fluxbox debian menu:
...
P.
@ppc: Nice! Can you please provide the button commands and/or scripts?
Hi:
1-the full debian menu: the script to generate this is over at
viewtopic.php?f=143&t=60848 , you can download it from
https://github.com/jerry3904/mxfb-goodi ... -generator
2-The "XFCE menu"- I discussed it on the forum, but, long story short:
The right click on tint2's "MX start" icon points to this script (that toggles the "menu" on/off):
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#! /bin/bash
# run xlsclients to see if appfinder is running
current_windows=$(xlsclients)
if [[ ${current_windows} != *"xfce4-appfinder"* ]];then
echo "appfinder is not running, starting it" & xfce4-appfinder ; exit
else
echo appfinder is already running, checking if it has focus
#check if appfinder is active:
app_name="xfce4-appfinder"
focused_app=$(cat /proc/$(xdotool getwindowpid $(xdotool getwindowfocus))/comm)
if [ "$focused_app" = "$app_name" ]; then
echo "appfinder has focus, killing it." & killall xfce4-appfinder
else
echo "appfinder is running but has no focus, changing focus to it" & killall xfce4-appfinder && xfce4-appfinder
fi
fi
I also edited ~/.fluxbox/apps and added this section, to remove xfce4-appfinder's window decorations, and choose it's placing, adapt as according to your needs:
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[app] (name=xfce4-appfinder) (class=Xfce4-appfinder)
[Dimensions] {55% 84%}
[Position] (UPPERLEFT) {0% 16%}
[Deco] {NONE}
[Hidden] {yes}
[end]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:34 pm
by ceeslans
@ppc: that part I understand.
But what puzzles me, is the 'command' that you bind to the 'start' button (lckick or rclick) in tint2.
Could you please help me out?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:49 pm
by PPC
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:34 pm
@ppc: that part I understand.
But what puzzles me, is the 'command' that you bind to the 'start' button (lckick or rclick) in tint2.
Could you please help me out?
Oh, sorry, I missed that one : it's simply "fluxbox-remote rootmenu"

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:49 am
by ceeslans
^
Thanks @ppc for the correct command
Still some issue bugs me: rofi-menu can be correctly positioned above the tint2 toolbar (using its geometry settings), whereas the root-menu doesn't (and covers the tint2-toolbar) --> see below screen clipping.
Is there a geometry setting for rootmenu - or perhaps for workspace size-limitation?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:05 pm
by ceeslans
My today's MX-19 fluxbox desktop.
Tint2 toolbar includes a few executors (memory | cpu | network | volume | system monitor) and battery state.
In this setup, nm-applet and volume-icon are disabled (memory usage is idling at ~235 Mb at bootup). The system tray is 'empty' at startup, being populated upon initialization of an app (e.g. audacious as in this case).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 7:47 pm
by Jerry3904
Neat! PPC has been urging me to look at executors and your screenshot reminds me that I can finally do that this week.
TBH I never spend time with tint2, but will certainly dig down more as the next dev cycle opens up.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:31 pm
by thinkpadx
ceeslans - really nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:35 am
by wdscharff
My current Fluxbox, without all the blingbling, which is anyway limited to conky. The two additional Tint2 Docks (left and below) invisible as usual.
2020-November-11-10-_jiw.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 6:10 am
by Jerry3904
Very handsome!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:02 pm
by Jerry3904
I've switched to celebrate the release of MX-19.3. Used the new mxfb-appearance to adjust toolbar transparency (which looks a lot less massive at a setting of 100) and width, a wallpaper of AKS that I love, my dock (normally auto-hide) and the "fb" version of the BritPanel conky which puts everything there but not in my face.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:07 pm
by Jerry3904
Here's the new tool at work:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:11 pm
by andyprough
I see your menu icon at the top of the dock, and then MX tools, Thunar, and settings icons. What's the next icon down (#5), and the one two down from that (#7)? What programs are those for?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:13 pm
by Jerry3904
#5 is for DeaDBeeF, my music player; #7 is for the new mxfb-quick-weather goodie
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:45 pm
by Jerry3904
OK, I'll stop with this. Using an image called wallhaven-725196 posted by Lysander666 in the Slackware thread on LQ:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:40 pm
by andyprough
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 11, 2020 7:13 pm
#5 is for DeaDBeeF, my music player; #7 is for the new mxfb-quick-weather goodie
Ohhh, our own weather app? Very nice, something new to play with.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:15 am
by Jerry3904
This one is *simple* though I like it. But we have a great one coming for the tint2 toolbar from ceeslans that is being tested now.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:08 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:15 am
This one is *simple* though I like it. But we have a great one coming for the tint2 toolbar from ceeslans that is being tested now.
Here is a screenshot showing what this weather-widget may look like after testing is finished.
It places an icon in the toolbar, displaying a pictogram of the current weather condition + current temperature.
This tint2-executor will obtain geo-location details by default - or a fixed location can be set. It also has an option to set the system to 'metric' (celcius) or to 'imperial' (fahrenheit).
When left-clicking the icon, detailed information about the current weather conditions is displayed in a pop-up window (here shown as a notify message)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:41 am
by asqwerth
That's awesome, ceeslans. What weather service will you be using?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:40 am
by ceeslans
asqwerth wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:41 am
That's awesome, ceeslans. What weather service will you be using?
It uses OpenWeatherMaps services.
You will need to register to obtain a (free) api-key, which is to be inserted in the script(s).
This script requires 'jq' to be installed, for JSON data parsing.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:30 am
by kobaian
The weather application looks great, but the simple wttr.in-widget shows you the forecast for three days (morning, afternoon, evening and night). And on that screenshot there is only current weather, so you can just look through the window to get the same information.

So is it really worth registering and installing the dependencies?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 5:20 am
by asqwerth
Thanks, ceeslans.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 7:39 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Sun Nov 15, 2020 4:30 am
The weather application looks great, but the simple wttr.in-widget shows you the forecast for three days (morning, afternoon, evening and night). And on that screenshot there is only current weather, so you can just look through the window to get the same information.

So is it really worth registering and installing the dependencies?
left-click: shows current weather conditions in popup window
right-click: opens the 8-days forecast in a browser window
middle-click: opens 'wttr.in' 3-days forecast in terminal window.
or any configuration you want.
it is meant to be a 'goodie', that's all... nobody is forcing you to download/install or register anything
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2020 8:23 am
by Jerry3904
+1
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:47 pm
by Jerry3904
Missing my beloved vertical panel, so starting to work on a config for a future possible set of default configs for mx-fluxbox (dock is always autohide)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:28 am
by ceeslans
Nice vertical setup! Certainly does fit the MX look ...
If you want the weather icon and temperature (or any executor) to show up centered in a vertical bar, then you can set this in tint2rc file:
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:57 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks for that suggestion. I'm still stumbling around ATM with the settings, especially for executors, but I think it's a good start.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:03 am
by Jerry3904
BTW: I've found it handy to have a tint2 refresh since I use the config file a lot, so changed the refresh entry in the menu:
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[submenu] (Refresh)
[exec] (Fluxbox) { fluxbox-remote restart; idesktoggle idesk refresh }
[exec] (tint2) {killall -SIGUSR1 tint2}
[end]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:37 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
The moon is roundish.
wine by ant is fitting for fluxbox. beautiful image for fluxbox.
.curves of fluxbox logo,
you previously caught me showing only the right extended screen; that is my workarea, kept clear of anything on the desktop. On right screen the middle-click and right-click start me in a direction.
here is the left screen with fluxbox toolbar all windows. Style Twice. ( i shade windows, so unfocused window title text has been brightened.) idesk is autostart. moon in slit. mxclocky and GKrellM shown for screencapture admiration, not usually remaining active. my cursor rarely visits screen left.
I have been trialing with fluxbox toolbar at the top showing only iconified windows; complement middle-click in desktop navigation, that layout type is starting to work for me. the mouse can keep to the upper area. So-many apps are tabbed that this feels like where to tab multi-tabbed apps. instead of drop-down terminal minimize terminal to top-down taskbar(?) it has its habits. minimized app finder habit? i do root menu. still shading. toggles? keyboard? layouts take a term of use to determine suitability. taskbar and titlebar for window control; placement near each other can reduce mouse area, or opposite sides of the screen has both sides covered for nearest mouse area. habits will come to suit yourself. ((eyelevel is the bottom of the screen, so reading taskbar is easier at the bottom choice on this display.)) that's for us mousers. i click for everything. left-click action; right-click menu; middle-click navigates special control properties determined within the area clicked. The keyboarders too know where they want the clicky things. to pop-up.
In alike manner to coinciding panel, sometimes desktop, of xfce, kde, mswindows, the
fluxbox toolbar taskbar showing all windows is best for overall window management control using windowmenu in taskbar; it creates a center of windowmenu control near the titlebars or across the screen, to optimize your workflow or otherwise satisfy your habits.
Hello Jerry3904
I am waiting to see what ceeslans does with CustomMenu. How about You? I mean the waiting on others; You are the default guy; , for You, there is no universal default CustomMenu is there (?) ox-yi-somehow that is just not right …
The vertical panel is ingrained in us!
The launchers at top of tint2 is only a short step from the top fluxbox toolbar that you previously showed chosen, so that kinda makes sense. top. upper. even if it is on the side. maybe you like a top panel, Jerry3904.? can You like the vertical placement of where things pop-out? I never tried a full tint2 vertical. only at vertical a tint2 pager only icons, once upon a time. can you manage where the menus show? how is it working for you? pixmap only? or text?
Your screencapture published op under "Nov.22 … with tint2" is really nice; when stark is beautiful in fluxbox, with everything desktop, unseen, available, start, with a click. [keystroke.] Maybe panel going to the bottom was too much for You. You responded to yourself with the vertical panel(?) Don't work too hard.. It all works great. can't choose? hide where? what? goodies . transparent eliminates a couple choices… (?)
When showing tint2, I better like showdesktop on rootmenu leaving tint2 in normal Layer.
You tempted me with showing of the MX Linux Wine wallpaper. captivated since the initial mxflux release …

mxlinux.org/mx18-official-wallpaper ;, MX Home, Products, Art, Wallpaper,
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2020 9:42 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks--and that is still the most gorgeous wallpaper (I want to improve the logo in my capture above)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:27 am
by mowest
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:47 pmMissing my beloved vertical panel, so starting to work on a config for a future possible set of default configs for mx-fluxbox (dock is always autohide)
Jerry3904, this is an interesting setup, but raises a question in my mind if this becomes the default config for MX Fluxbox. You have changed out the default Fluxbox toolbar for Tint2. You have added the dock at the top. Are there Fluxbox features that you are still utilizing? I'm not super familiar with Openbox other than the time I spent in Bunsen Labs, but this current incarnation appears more Openbox like than Fluxbox, perhaps because Tint2 is often paired with Openbox. I guess I'm wondering if this is the direction you would like to move the project, would a move to Openbox better fit your long term goals for the project? Just kind of wondering which Window Manager would offer your the most bang for your resource usage, especially if you are moving away from using the Fluxbox built in tools. I haven't done any tests, perhaps Openbox takes more resources out of the box than Fluxbox, that alone might be a good reason to stick with Fluxbox.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:10 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks for this question. It would take a separate thread to really explore, and I'm not totally prepared anyway to discuss this in detail b/c there is no "there" there. At some point next year I intend to collect a number of interested parties to have a Zoom meeting about the future of MXFB, but hey: it's not quite 1 year in existence so still a growing infant.
A couple of corrections:
1) I have not changed the default Fluxbox toolbar to TInt2--except for the Base edition, because it is aimed at a different sort of audience. Ditto for the dock location.
2) I have not moved away from Fluxbox tools--which I use all the time myself--but rather have striven since the beginning of this project to provide alternative pathways: icons, docks, graphical UIs for some of the FB tools (e.g., mxfb-appearance, an option), etc.
3) None of the changes are forced on users, since it takes merely a single click to change toolbar, dock location, etc.
I have no interest in moving to Openbox BTW.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:53 pm
by Jerry3904
A friend of mine took this picture a couple of days ago with the first serious snowfall in northern Ohio, and I think it makes a wonderful winter wallpaper.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:59 pm
by thinkpadx
i like it! Nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:52 am
by deanr72
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:08 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 6:15 am
This one is *simple* though I like it. But we have a great one coming for the tint2 toolbar from ceeslans that is being tested now.
Here is a screenshot showing what this weather-widget may look like after testing is finished.
It places an icon in the toolbar, displaying a pictogram of the current weather condition + current temperature.
This tint2-executor will obtain geo-location details by default - or a fixed location can be set. It also has an option to set the system to 'metric' (celcius) or to 'imperial' (fahrenheit).
When left-clicking the icon, detailed information about the current weather conditions is displayed in a pop-up window (here shown as a notify message)
That is by far the nicest looking fluxbox I've ever seen!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2020 10:31 am
by ceeslans
↑ thanks for the compliment...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:17 pm
by Girafenaine
Hello,
Here is a "floating bar" MX Fluxbox setting. It was intended to :
- not take to much place, without any launchers (app launching with keyboard shortcuts + rofi, or any launcher you like)
- allow to maximise windows on the whole screen, with "floating panel" buttons staying here but not bothering.
- use several desktops in an easy way, and be able to "see where we are" in an obvious way (with the active desktop being colorful)
It works very well with multitouch gestures (managed by fusuma, three fingers swipe on the left or the right drive you on the left or right desktop).
Picture from the nice Linux Mint collection (that's indeed a thing I have kept from LM... their background pictures are great).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:34 pm
by AVLinux
Wow! Some beautiful setups here!! I guess I need to read up on 'ole Fluxxy!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:00 pm
by thinkpadx
i agree. reeeealllllyyy nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 6:39 pm
by Jerry3904
@Girafenaine: very nice! (Looks like a sweetgum).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:39 pm
by Girafenaine
Hello,
Here is the "floating panel" tint2 config file if it could help :
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#---- Generated by tint2conf a7e2 ----
# See https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/Configure for
# full documentation of the configuration options.
#-------------------------------------
# Gradients
# Gradient 1
gradient = vertical
start_color = #2d2d2d 80
end_color = #000000 80
color_stop = 70.000000 #1c1c1c 80
# Gradient 2
gradient = vertical
start_color = #2d2d2d 80
end_color = #000000 80
color_stop = 0.000000 #2d2d2d 80
# Gradient 3
gradient = vertical
start_color = #2d2d2d 80
end_color = #000000 80
#-------------------------------------
# Backgrounds
# Background 1: Horloge, Nom du bureau inactif, Zone de notification
rounded = 3
border_width = 0
border_sides = T
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #312f2e 100
border_color = #333333 0
gradient_id = 0
background_color_hover = #ffffff 55
border_color_hover = #555555 0
gradient_id_hover = 0
background_color_pressed = #000000 80
border_color_pressed = #555555 80
gradient_id_pressed = 0
# Background 2: Tâche icônifiée, Tâche par défaut
rounded = 5
border_width = 0
border_sides = B
border_content_tint_weight = 80
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #383838 0
border_color = #777777 0
background_color_hover = #a5a5a5 58
border_color_hover = #cccccc 0
background_color_pressed = #1e1e1e 100
border_color_pressed = #777777 30
# Background 3:
rounded = 0
border_width = 2
border_sides = B
border_content_tint_weight = 100
background_content_tint_weight = 100
background_color = #ffffff 100
border_color = #d9d9d9 100
background_color_hover = #ffffff 73
border_color_hover = #d9d9d9 100
background_color_pressed = #989898 73
border_color_pressed = #d9d9d9 100
# Background 4: Tâche urgente
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #aa4400 100
border_color = #aa7733 100
background_color_hover = #aa4400 100
border_color_hover = #aa7733 100
background_color_pressed = #aa4400 100
border_color_pressed = #aa7733 100
# Background 5: Infobulle
rounded = 2
border_width = 1
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #ffffaa 100
border_color = #999999 100
background_color_hover = #ffffaa 100
border_color_hover = #999999 100
background_color_pressed = #ffffaa 100
border_color_pressed = #999999 100
# Background 6: Nom du bureau actif
rounded = 3
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #986132 100
border_color = #777777 0
background_color_hover = #986a42 87
border_color_hover = #cccccc 0
background_color_pressed = #777777 21
border_color_pressed = #777777 100
# Background 7: Tâche active
rounded = 2
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 70
background_content_tint_weight = 40
background_color = #ffffff 60
border_color = #d9d9d9 100
background_color_hover = #ffffff 100
border_color_hover = #d9d9d9 100
background_color_pressed = #a9a9a9 21
border_color_pressed = #d9d9d9 100
#-------------------------------------
# Panel
panel_items = FTFSFC
panel_size = 66% 25
panel_margin = 0 2
panel_padding = 0 0 20
panel_background_id = 0
wm_menu = 1
panel_dock = 0
panel_position = bottom center horizontal
panel_layer = normal
panel_monitor = all
panel_shrink = 0
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0
autohide_hide_timeout = 1
autohide_height = 2
strut_policy = none
panel_window_name = barre tint2
disable_transparency = 0
mouse_effects = 1
font_shadow = 0
mouse_hover_icon_asb = 100 -7 10
mouse_pressed_icon_asb = 100 3 0
scale_relative_to_dpi = 0
scale_relative_to_screen_height = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_hide_if_empty = 0
taskbar_padding = 60 1 11
taskbar_background_id = 0
taskbar_active_background_id = 0
taskbar_name = 1
taskbar_hide_inactive_tasks = 0
taskbar_hide_different_monitor = 0
taskbar_hide_different_desktop = 0
taskbar_always_show_all_desktop_tasks = 0
taskbar_name_padding = 7 1
taskbar_name_background_id = 1
taskbar_name_active_background_id = 6
taskbar_name_font = Roboto Bold 11
taskbar_name_font_color = #dddddd 100
taskbar_name_active_font_color = #dddddd 100
taskbar_distribute_size = 1
taskbar_sort_order = none
task_align = left
#-------------------------------------
# Task
task_text = 0
task_icon = 1
task_centered = 1
urgent_nb_of_blink = 100000
task_maximum_size = 55 27
task_padding = 0 0 5
task_font = Roboto Bold 11
task_tooltip = 0
task_thumbnail = 0
task_thumbnail_size = 210
task_font_color = #af744f 100
task_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_background_id = 2
task_active_background_id = 7
task_urgent_background_id = 4
task_iconified_background_id = 2
mouse_left = toggle_iconify
mouse_middle = close
mouse_right = desktop_right
mouse_scroll_up = prev_task
mouse_scroll_down = next_task
#-------------------------------------
# System tray (notification area)
systray_padding = 10 1 10
systray_background_id = 1
systray_sort = ascending
systray_icon_size = 30
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 0
systray_monitor = 1
systray_name_filter =
#-------------------------------------
# Launcher
launcher_padding = 10 0 12
launcher_background_id = 0
launcher_icon_background_id = 0
launcher_icon_size = 24
launcher_icon_asb = 100 0 0
launcher_icon_theme = Papirus-Dark
launcher_icon_theme_override = 1
startup_notifications = 1
launcher_tooltip = 1
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/deadbeef.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/darktable.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/palemoon.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/exo-file-manager.desktop
launcher_item_app = ~/.local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop
#-------------------------------------
# Clock
time1_format = %H:%M
time2_format =
time1_font = Sans Bold 11
time1_timezone =
time2_timezone =
clock_font_color = #eeeeee 100
clock_padding = 10 0
clock_background_id = 1
clock_tooltip = %A %d %B
clock_tooltip_timezone =
clock_lclick_command = zenity --calendar --text ""
clock_rclick_command = orage
clock_mclick_command =
clock_uwheel_command =
clock_dwheel_command =
#-------------------------------------
# Battery
battery_tooltip = 1
battery_low_status = 7
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
battery_full_cmd =
bat1_font = Sans Bold 10
battery_font_color = #eeeeee 100
bat1_format =
bat2_format =
battery_padding = 3 0
battery_background_id = 0
battery_hide = 101
battery_lclick_command =
battery_rclick_command =
battery_mclick_command =
battery_uwheel_command =
battery_dwheel_command =
ac_connected_cmd =
ac_disconnected_cmd =
#-------------------------------------
# Tooltip
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.5
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.1
tooltip_padding = 2 2
tooltip_background_id = 5
tooltip_font_color = #222222 100
tooltip_font = sans 9
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks. I'm collecting unusual ones to eventually be able to provide MXFB users with a unique collection of "ready-mades"
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:55 pm
by andyprough
Anyone else working on tiling? I arranged a simple tiling setup today. Good enough for my needs for now.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:56 pm
by Girafenaine
Thanks for the kind words about this setup :)
I suggest MX Fluxbox could put forward a few more modern, different, appealing themes for fluxbox itself and tint2. It would interest new users. I find that screenshots from MX website, and suggested themes, look too "old" (It took me some time to explore themes through the web and customize them). One will probably thinks "oh that's for some very old PC, or very geeky engineer, I do prefer xfce". Actually fluxbox is able to make one's PC more modern and interesting and easy-to-use... but let's make it famous :)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 7:00 pm
by Jerry3904
Great, I love it!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:24 pm
by mowest
Girafenaine wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:56 pm
Thanks for the kind words about this setup :)
I suggest MX Fluxbox could put forward a few more modern, different, appealing themes for fluxbox itself and tint2. It would interest new users. I find that screenshots from MX website, and suggested themes, look too "old" (It took me some time to explore themes through the web and customize them). One will probably thinks "oh that's for some very old PC, or very geeky engineer, I do prefer xfce". Actually fluxbox is able to make one's PC more modern and interesting and easy-to-use... but let's make it famous :)
I love this attitude too! I have been amazed by some of the set ups that I'm seen in this thread. I'm super happy with mine which is just a slight difference from the latest default using the Fluxbox toolbar, but these others are beautiful. I also love the idea of collecting a number of great ones, and package them as optional layouts. Ubuntu Mate did something similar with their "Mate Tweak" tool. You could pick layouts that looked like the old Ubuntu Unity desktop, the Apple Mac desktop, or the Windows 10 desktop, along with some others that were more standard Gnome 2.0 looking. It would be neat to provide a selection of "best of" layouts for MX Fluxbox to give users some ideas about what is possible.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:27 pm
by mowest
andyprough wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:55 pm
Anyone else working on tiling? I arranged a simple tiling setup today. Good enough for my needs for now.
I use Pseudo Tiling in Fluxbox all the time, one of my favorite features. I wrote about it in my blog and included my keys file additions in the article. What you have looks nice. I also like how you put the Fluxbox panel and the dock up on the top side by side. That is a neat idea as well.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:37 pm
by andyprough
mowest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:27 pm
andyprough wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:55 pm
Anyone else working on tiling? I arranged a simple tiling setup today. Good enough for my needs for now.
I use Pseudo Tiling in Fluxbox all the time, one of my favorite features. I wrote about it in my blog and included my keys file additions in the article. What you have looks nice. I also like how you put the Fluxbox panel and the dock up on the top side by side. That is a neat idea as well.
Oh yes, I'm reading your blog now, your tiling is very similar to my setup. I hacked mine together based on something similar to yours I found online today. I'm using the 1-9 keys on the number keypad:
Code: Select all
# Tiling
Mod4 KP_1 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 BottomLeft}
Mod4 KP_2 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 Bottom}
Mod4 KP_3 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 BottomRight}
Mod4 KP_4 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Left}
Mod4 KP_5 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 Center}
Mod4 KP_6 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Right}
Mod4 KP_7 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 TopLeft}
Mod4 KP_8 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 Top}
Mod4 KP_9 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 TopRight}
Mod4 Return :ToggleCmd {Maximize} {Restore}
I'll probably need to go with key combos like yours for when I'm not using a full sized keyboard with a number pad.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:39 pm
by mowest
andyprough wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:37 pm
I'll probably need to go with key combos like yours for when I'm not using a full sized keyboard with a number pad.
I like how you have set up your tiling with the 10 Key. I use the keyboard short cuts that I have because I use MX Fluxbox on a laptop without a 10 Key so it helps my old brain to have the same keyboard shortcuts on all of my MX computers.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:06 am
by andyprough
mowest wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:39 pmI like how you have set up your tiling with the 10 Key. I use the keyboard short cuts that I have because I use MX Fluxbox on a laptop without a 10 Key so it helps my old brain to have the same keyboard shortcuts on all of my MX computers.
Yes I saw that, makes perfect sense. And those keys are probably much easier to reach for you than going up to the number row at the top of the keyboard.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 8:59 am
by kobaian
andyprough wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:55 pm
Anyone else working on tiling? I arranged a simple tiling setup today. Good enough for my needs for now.
My current settings:
Code: Select all
# Make active window 1/2 of the screen
Mod4 KP_4 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Left}
Mod4 KP_6 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Right}
Mod4 KP_8 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 Up}
Mod4 KP_2 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 Bottom}
# Make active window 1/4 of the screen
Mod4 KP_7 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 Up}
Mod4 KP_9 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 TopRight}
Mod4 KP_1 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 BottomLeft}
Mod4 KP_3 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 50% 50%} {MoveTo 00 00 BottomRight}
# Make active window 1/3 of the screen
Mod4 Shift KP_4 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 33% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Left}
Mod4 Shift KP_6 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 33% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Right}
Mod4 Shift KP_5 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 34% 100%} {MoveTo 33% 00 Up}
# toggle active window: Maximized/ last size
Mod4 KP_0 :ToggleCmd {Maximize} {Restore}
Mod4 KP_5 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 80% 80%} {MoveTo 00 00 Center}
# Make active window 1/3 of the screen on the top
Control Mod4 KP_8 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 33%} {MoveTo 00 00 Up}
Control Mod4 KP_2 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 33%} {MoveTo 00 00 Bottom}
Control Mod4 KP_5 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 34%} {MoveTo 00 33% Up}
# Make active window 2/3 of the screen
Control Mod4 KP_4 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 67% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Left}
Control Mod4 KP_6 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 67% 100%} {MoveTo 00 00 Right}
Mod4 Shift KP_8 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 67%} {MoveTo 00 00 Up}
Mod4 Shift KP_2 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 100% 67%} {MoveTo 00 00 Bottom}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:25 am
by Jerry3904
@andyprough: you have seen the tiling app that is comes when you install mxfb-goodies, right? One of my videos ("mxfb-goodies") takes a look at that
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:57 am
by andyprough
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:25 am
@andyprough: you have seen the tiling app that is comes when you install mxfb-goodies, right? One of my videos ("mxfb-goodies") takes a look at that
Oh I see - I missed that video, but watching it now as I need the mxfb goodies. Your tiling is very similar to the one @mowest uses. Mine is basically the same except I'm using the "Super" key and the numbers on the keypad in a grid pattern. We are all using MacroCmd and ResizeTo and MoveTo to accomplish the same basic concepts though.
That Nitrogen wallpaper picker is really nice! I'm loving it.
Have you tried Zoom on fluxbox? I had a Zoom meeting this morning, and I had no window decorations, so I had to use some hacky methods of moving the Zoom window and scaling it's size properly. Couldn't grab or resize the window with the mouse or with keyboard. Is there a --gtk option I should be using when I start it up? What's weird is now that I start it a second time, I do have window decorations. Maybe I just need to start, close, and re-start it to get it to work properly?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:23 am
by Jerry3904
I have, but the Zoom screen does not scale properly for me either. After finally figuring out what was going on, I do Alt+RightClick to make it smaller, then move it down to where I can see the maximize button. Clicking on that gives me a correct screen. I could probably put something into the app folder, but I forget each time...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:39 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 9:25 am
@andyprough: you have seen the tiling app that is comes when you install mxfb-goodies, right? <snip>
That's what I am using also, specifically the Alt+KeyPad tiling - albeit in a slightly altered form.
I like to keep some space between the tiles, and therefore reduced the percentages by 1% :
Code: Select all
### ALt and NUMPAD keys :
Mod1 KP_1 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 49% 49%} {MoveTo 15 05 BottomLeft}
Mod1 KP_2 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 99% 49%} {MoveTo 00 05 Bottom}
Mod1 KP_3 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 49% 49%} {MoveTo 15 05 BottomRight}
Mod1 KP_4 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 49% 99%} {MoveTo 15 00 Left}
Mod1 KP_6 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 49% 99%} {MoveTo 15 00 Right}
Mod1 KP_7 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 49% 49%} {MoveTo 15 05 TopLeft}
Mod1 KP_8 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 99% 49%} {MoveTo 10 05 Up}
Mod1 KP_9 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 49% 49%} {MoveTo 15 05 TopRight}
### center and resize 70%
Mod1 KP_5 :MacroCmd {ResizeTo 70% 70%} {MoveTo 00 00 Center}
### toggle full screen / restore
Mod1 KP_0 :ToggleCmd {Restore} {ResizeTo 50% 50%}

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:42 pm
by andyprough
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:39 pm
That's what I am using also, specifically the Alt+KeyPad tiling - albeit in a slightly altered form.
I like to keep some space between the tiles, and therefore reduced the percentages by 1%
Smart! Great idea.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 8:33 am
by ceeslans
Slowly getting in Xmas mood...
Session: MX19 Fluxbox 64bit
Menu+window style: myDefcon
Conky: scratch-conky, by moi
Tint2: launchy-vertical original by addy, modified by moi)
and dock: tint2 dock, (all launchers, icons by moi)
Weather: tint2-weather executor for mxfb
Xmas-greeter: a christmas tree on bash (
ChristBASHTree)
Wallpaper:snowscape found on the web, slightly edited by moi

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 9:16 am
by CyberGhost
Very nice ceesians!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:45 am
by Jerry3904
Man, Cees: you have a good eye!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 2:52 pm
by thinkpadx
i agree! THat is really nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:56 pm
by AVLinux
Agree +1!
That is one of the coolest Linux screenshots I've seen ever on any D.E.! Very nice work!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:21 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 10:45 am
Man, Cees: you have a good eye!
uhhmmmm... actually pretty nearsighted

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 4:40 pm
by Jerry3904
Then I'll correct it:
man, you have good corrective lenses.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:28 am
by asqwerth
I love it, ceeslans!
The Christmas bash thingy is very cute!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:20 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM
happy new year everyone

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:29 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM
installed package <anypaper>
it did in mxflux gui change the wallpaper.
73MiB [next time came on with 41MiB] ran gui; close and gone.
.( okay, fixed that missing mx-tools icon missing hicolor 48x48 changed to 96x96 and there is now icon )
an edit here available 48x48 .png mx-tools icon .
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:25 pm
by ceeslans
Last screenshot in 2020
XFCE updated to 4.16 "final" test version. Thunar right-click menu is functioning correctly now.
Session: MX19 Fluxbox 64bit
Menu+window style: Flux-Numix (with icons - merit of fbmenugen)
Icon theme: Papirus-Dark
3x Conky: GoogleNow | BBQ Digital2 | Damo Clock+Calendar, all heavily modified
2x Tint2: Crunchbang-style toolbar & autohiding dock
Compton: Slight transparency + shading only of windows (fading disabled)
Wallpaper: beautifully lighted trees on a rocky hill in Chamba Valley India, slightly edited

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:16 pm
by Jerry3904
Fine way to end the year--and may this year go to where the sun never shines!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:35 am
by tequila
Main fluxbox screenshot.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:43 am
by Jerry3904
Very nice! Thanks for posting it, and welcome to the Forum.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:36 pm
by Vipul88
How's this, Fluxbox?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 1:10 pm
by Jerry3904
Bright!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:22 pm
by andyprough
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:25 pm
Last screenshot in 2020
XFCE updated to 4.16 "final" test version. Thunar right-click menu is functioning correctly now.
Session: MX19 Fluxbox 64bit
Menu+window style: Flux-Numix (with icons - merit of fbmenugen)
Icon theme: Papirus-Dark
3x Conky: GoogleNow | BBQ Digital2 | Damo Clock+Calendar, all heavily modified
2x Tint2: Crunchbang-style toolbar & autohiding dock
Compton: Slight transparency + shading only of windows (fading disabled)
Wallpaper: beautifully lighted trees on a rocky hill in Chamba Valley India, slightly edited
Is that wallpaper something you can share? I like that one a lot.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:23 pm
by andyprough
tequila wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:35 am
Main fluxbox screenshot.
I also like this wallpaper - is this something you can share?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:52 pm
by ceeslans
andyprough wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:22 pm
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:25 pm
<snip>
Wallpaper: beautifully lighted trees on a rocky hill in Chamba Valley India, slightly edited
Is that wallpaper something you can share? I like that one a lot.
Sure. Here is a link to the hi-res 4049x2689 original:
https://i.redd.it/2ynfpeyq22c41.jpg
unless you want my 1920x1080 wallpaper edit?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:01 pm
by andyprough
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:52 pm
andyprough wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:22 pm
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:25 pm
<snip>
Wallpaper: beautifully lighted trees on a rocky hill in Chamba Valley India, slightly edited
Is that wallpaper something you can share? I like that one a lot.
Sure. Here is a link to the hi-res 4049x2689 original:
https://i.redd.it/2ynfpeyq22c41.jpg
unless you want my 1920x1080 wallpaper edit?
That's great, I've got it in the random mix in my wallpaper folder now. Yes if you have a copy of your edited one you want to share that would be awesome. I really like the landscape scenes, and I don't have enough dark, wintry ones.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:41 pm
by ceeslans
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:48 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
I was just going to ask for the same thing.
ceeslans , congratulations with a single word. Those two you posted, both are great. The last one could easily be the default official of any distro, so nice.
In fact: "I want them all"

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:04 pm
by ceeslans
Huckleberry Finn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:48 pm
I was just going to ask for the same thing.
<snip> Those two you posted, both are great <snip>
the 'second' being the snowscape, right?
https://i.imgur.com/mgrIaSR.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:08 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
Yep. Thank you.
But I meant (not only the wallpapers) all are fine on both desktops, Menus, panel etc.
So, though you described a bit, maybe (if you don't mind) you open a dedicated thread and tell how to (for all average users) how to, where to find themes etc .. All in one place, for those who would like to do the same :)
_________________________________
Meanwhile, I
agree with Girafenaine and such works will make it more appealing.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:44 pm
by andyprough
Oh wow, I did not see the snowscape. You just keep tossing those beautiful wallpapers up here, I'll keep putting them into my mix.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:32 am
by tequila
andyprough
Hello, I just got it, I worked, I can only send the link:
https://www.hdwallpapers.in/yosemite_na ... apers.html
another:
https://www.hdwallpapers.in/nature__lan ... apers.html
very good mx linux congratulations to all developers!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:53 am
by andyprough
Wow, that's a lot of wallpapers! Some real good ones here, thank you very much.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:33 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone
wmalauncher dock slit on the side conducive pick an icon for <fbrun -nearmouse>
will come up atop the icon, [near(?)] when left-click,
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 9:23 am
by ceeslans
January 2021 --> time for an updated avatar and new screenshot
Fluxbox 1.3.7 on MX 19.3 64bit
Stripped out most xfce4 applications, except xfce4-terminal, thunar and xfce4-power-manager (latter is available on demand).
Network-manager has been replaced with ceni. Volume control, battery level and weather indicators thru tint2-executors
Booting with sysvinit, idle system memory usage levels at ~225mb after startup.
Menu+window style: Modified 'circles' style by
tenner 2006
Icon theme: Papirus-Dark (and Poky icon-font for the conky)
Conky: Sidebar Diagnostics v.2 (my own creation)
2x Tint2: Crunchbang-style toolbar & autohiding dock
Compton: Fading disabled, slight shading of windows and menus (tint2 panels and conky excluded)
Wallpaper: MXFluxbox-cube --> my mod of original vector by
Marie Ringeard
Log-out: Modified bunsenlabs yad-script

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:01 am
by asqwerth
Another cool screenie! Could you post your mxfb rubik's wallpaper?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:11 am
by ceeslans
asqwerth wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:01 am
Another cool screenie! Could you post your mxfb rubik's wallpaper?
Here you go
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:18 am
by Jerry3904
Very nice indeed!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:57 am
by asqwerth
Most grateful.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:17 pm
by ceeslans
February 2021 screenshot....
Menu+window style: 'Yeti' style by
packrat (menu slightly modified, window decor now a weird combo with 'circles' graphics)
WM theme: 'Yeti' gtk theme by
cog
Icon theme: Papirus-Dark
Conky: 'Scratch' (have added 'now-playing' details in topbar)
2x Tint2: Bottom toolbar (orig by addy, heavily modified) & autohiding tint2 dock
Compton: Fading disabled, shading of windows and menus only
Wallpaper:
Hack/G.U. --> heavily saturated and cleaned
Running 'dunst' for audacious' song-change notification

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2021 6:13 pm
by Jerry3904
Another beauty!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:04 pm
by ceeslans
Mid-month screenshot of my MX Fluxbox desktop - mainly to show the implementation of 'jgmenu' X11 application menu launching from tint2 toolbar.
Much like xfce4-appfinder (which I removed from my system long time ago, together with various other Xfce components), jgmenu draws a cascading menu from *desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Jgmenu let's you search for applications. The menu auto-toggles. It is a highly configurable application launcher. You can display icons in the menu (as shown in below screenshot) or text-only, which I normally prefer.
My desktop reflects the seasonal weather conditions, so now very much in line with winter.
Wallpapers, Fluxbox styles, gtk themes and wallpapers are likewise lighter than usual.
Menu+window style: 'Lilidog' style by me (with modified 'synaptic' pixmaps original by
tenner)
Gtk2 theme: 'Lilidog-Grey' by sleekmason
Icon theme: Papirus-Dark with yaru folders (can be set by folder-icons)
Conky: 'Scratch+Music' (my own creation)
2x Tint2: Launch-style toolbar (with jgmenu cascading menu) & hidden tint2-dock
Compton: Fading disabled, slight shading of windows and menus (tint2 panels and conky excluded)
Wallpaper:
Wondrous country road in fog

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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 3:47 pm
by Jerry3904
Fine, fine.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 12:29 am
by asqwerth
Very nice, @ceeslans
Is the lilidog-grey theme also for gtk3 applications?
[Added] I found the github page, looks like there are no accompanying xfwm themes.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:18 am
by i_ri
ceeslans. Take a bow. desirable desktop. gorgeous.
Makes me want to click on it.
The ones that make me want to click on something are special screencaptures.
Many here are special, now i am moved to comment on Yours, i feel guilty for not commenting on previous fantastic screencaptures of great number on these pages.
The black text is great. black font is black when highlighted ,, perfect! (except fluxbox menu)
Really good one ceeslans. fine looking too. A "I want mine to look like that" kind of desktop. understandable.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:13 am
by ceeslans
@i_ri thanks for the kind comments.
You are right about menu-hilite color. Changed this to #000000 black and now looks more coherent.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 9:55 am
by Vipul88
https://0x0.st/-ZcF.png
custom themed fluxbox within mx 19.3 patito feo

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:11 am
by Jerry3904
Nice work! That's a gorgeous yellow.
Thanks for posting it.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:39 am
by richb
@Vipul88
Moderator:
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I have removed the [img] tags. The image can be viewed by clicking the link.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:06 am
by Vipul88
richb wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:39 am
@Vipul88
Moderator:
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I have removed the [img] tags. The image can be viewed by clicking the link.
Ok. I added a preview
Is that hotlink fine now,
@richb ?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:09 am
by richb
Vipul88 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:06 am
richb wrote: ↑Wed Mar 10, 2021 10:39 am
@Vipul88
Moderator:
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I have removed the [img] tags. The image can be viewed by clicking the link.
Ok. I added a preview with 640x620 size it should be fine now.
Looks fine. Thank you.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:26 am
by Huckleberry Finn
Huck's MX Fluxbox
...or ... "too simplified" ? .. or .. "old fashioned" ?
______________
P.S. Grabbed the "Burrard Inlet" and "Full Moon" from L. Mint once upon a time (don't tell anyone) ..
And I know "that conky" (colors) don't fit the background on T. Kinkade, I just felt lazy to change :)
How could we forget "The Legendary" MX Reflection ?
Panel: full transparent tint2 .
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:48 am
by Jerry3904
Great fun! The Drake Passage is great, have read a lot about that and it blows my mind that those people would just sail in without knowing what they would find (e.g , cannibals).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:22 pm
by dolphin_oracle
doing a little matcha-dark-azul wit papirus icons and the mx-blue-squared style, along with a dalek of course.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:47 am
by Jerry3904
I like that!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 8:52 am
by Jerry3904
Spring arrives officially in 4 days, but I would like to pivot these screenshots to the topic of Spring. Enough already of dark and gloomy, let's talk rebirth!
On that note, I've switched my MXFB to ant's beautiful and clean wallpaper that we have in the little MXFB collection

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 4:45 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote:
Spring arrives officially in 4 days, but I would like to pivot these screenshots to the topic of Spring. Enough already of dark and gloomy, let's talk rebirth!
Let me chime in on that springtime feeling...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:08 am
by Jerry3904
Very nice!
I have been thinking of how to represent Spring in an unusual way, and like this image (my own pic) of the early spring woods just before sunrise.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:10 am
by Huckleberry Finn
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:01 am
by Jerry3904
That's a whole lot of Spring--thanks!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:33 am
by ceeslans
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:22 am
by asqwerth
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 4:45 pm
Let me chime in on that springtime feeling...
Wonderful as usual.
I like the look of that conky. Could you provide the conky config for that, and the lua script that creates those circle indicators? These lua scripts that create circular and bar indicators are a mystery to me.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:07 am
by ceeslans
asqwerth wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:22 am<snip>
I like the look of that conky. Could you provide the conky config for that, and the lua script that creates those circle indicators? These lua scripts that create circular and bar indicators are a mystery to me.
Here are both files.
conkyrc
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----------------------
-- Conky-Grey-Black --
----------------------
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1,
total_run_times = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
text_buffer_size = 2048,
temperature_unit = 'celsius',
use_spacer = 'none',
top_name_width = 18,
background = false,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_colour = '#000000',
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
own_window_class = 'conky',
own_window_title = 'conkyGreyBlack',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
border_inner_margin = 0,
border_width = 0,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Candara:size=10',
xftalpha = 0.5,
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = false,
minimum_width = 225, maximum_width = 225,
minimum_height = 1000,
gap_x = 20,
gap_y = 0,
alignment = 'middle_right',
default_color = 'cccccc',
color1 = '#839097',
lua_load = '~/.conky/LUA/conky_grey.lua',
lua_draw_hook_post = 'main',
};
conky.text = [[
#### INFO ####
${voffset 15}
${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}INFO:${color}${font}${voffset 4}
${goto 20}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo|grep 'model name'|sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-32}
${goto 20}CPU Speed: ${freq cpu0}MHz
${goto 20}Kernel: $kernel
${goto 20}OS: ${execi 86400 cat /etc/mx-version | cut -c 1-7} [${execi 86400 printenv XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP}]
${goto 20}Updates: ${execi 360 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}
\
#### CPU/MEM ####
${voffset 20}${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}CPU:${color}
${voffset 80}${alignr 15}${font Liberation Sans:size=7} ${mem}
\
#### DISK ####
${voffset 15}
${voffset 45}${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}DISK:${color}
${voffset 62}${alignr 15}${font Liberation Sans:size=7}${fs_used /}
${voffset 6}${alignr 15}${fs_used /home}
${voffset 6}${alignr 15}${fs_used /mnt/DATA}
\
#### NET ####
${voffset 0}
${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}NET:${color}
${voffset 90}${alignr 15}${font Liberation Sans:size=7}${upspeed wlan0}/s UP
${alignr 15}${downspeed wlan0}/s DOWN
\
#### PROCESSES ####
${voffset 20}
${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}CPU PROCESSES:${color}${font}${voffset 5}
${goto 20}${top name 1}${alignr 15}${top cpu 1}%
${goto 20}${top name 2}${alignr 15}${top cpu 2}%
${goto 20}${top name 3}${alignr 15}${top cpu 3}%
${goto 20}${top name 4}${alignr 15}${top cpu 4}%
${voffset 5}
${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}MEM PROCESSES:${color}${font}${voffset 5}
${goto 20}${top_mem name 1}${alignr 15}${top mem 1}%
${goto 20}${top_mem name 2}${alignr 15}${top mem 2}%
${goto 20}${top_mem name 3}${alignr 15}${top mem 3}%
${goto 20}${top_mem name 4}${alignr 15}${top mem 4}%
\
#### NETWORK ####
${voffset 5}
${goto 15}${font Candara:bold:size=12}${color1}NETWORK:${color}${font}${voffset 5}
${goto 20}Private IP:${alignr 15}${addr wlan0}
${goto 20}Public IP:${alignr 15}${execi 1000 wget -O - -q icanhazip.com}
${goto 20}Inbound Ports:${alignr 22}${tcp_portmon 1 32767 count}
${goto 20}Outbound Ports:${alignr 22}${tcp_portmon 32768 61000 count}
${voffset 8}${font Candara:size=9}\
${goto 20}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 0} ${alignr 15}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 1}
${goto 20}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 2} ${alignr 15}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 3}
${goto 20}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 4} ${alignr 15}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 5}
${goto 20}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 6} ${alignr 15}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 7}
${goto 20}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 8} ${alignr 15}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 9}
${goto 20}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 10} ${alignr 15}${tcp_portmon 1 65535 rip 11}
]];
conky_grey.lua
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--==============================================================================
-- conky_grey.lua
--
-- display : CLOCK - ring gauge
-- author : SLK
-- version : v20121005-01
-- license : Distributed under the terms of GNU GPL version 2 or later
--
--==============================================================================
require 'cairo'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- gauge DATA
gauge = {
{
name='cpu', arg='cpu0', max_value=100,
x=145, y=235,
graph_radius=35,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=255,
graph_unit_angle=1.8, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=33,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=28,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.6,
caption=' cpu0',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='cpu', arg='cpu1', max_value=100,
x=145, y=235,
graph_radius=50,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=240,
graph_unit_angle=1.8, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=48,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=32,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.6,
caption=' cpu1',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='cpu', arg='cpu2', max_value=100,
x=145, y=235,
graph_radius=65,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=225,
graph_unit_angle=1.8, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=63,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=28,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.6,
caption=' cpu2',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='cpu', arg='cpu3', max_value=100,
x=145, y=235,
graph_radius=80,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=210,
graph_unit_angle=1.8, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=78,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=32,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.6,
caption=' cpu3',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='cpu', arg='cpu4', max_value=100,
x=145, y=235,
graph_radius=95,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=195,
graph_unit_angle=1.8, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=93,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=32,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.6,
caption=' cpu4',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='cpu', arg='cpu5', max_value=100,
x=145, y=235,
graph_radius=110,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=185,
graph_unit_angle=1.8, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=108,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=32,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.6,
caption=' cpu5',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='memperc', arg='', max_value=100,
x=175, y=275,
graph_radius=22,
graph_thickness=3,
graph_start_angle=225,
graph_unit_angle=2.7, graph_unit_thickness=2.7,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.8,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=10,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.8,
graduation_radius=40,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=2,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.5,
caption='mem',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='fs_used_perc', arg='/', max_value=100,
x=135, y=387,
graph_radius=25,
graph_thickness=5,
graph_start_angle=190,
graph_unit_angle=1.2, graph_unit_thickness=1.0,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.9,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=35,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.7,
graduation_radius=50,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.5,
caption='Root',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.6,
},
{
name='fs_used_perc', arg='/home', max_value=100,
x=120, y=385,
graph_radius=45,
graph_thickness=5,
graph_start_angle=170,
graph_unit_angle=1.4, graph_unit_thickness=1.2,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.9,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=55,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.7,
graduation_radius=56,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.5,
caption=' Home',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.6,
},
{
name='fs_used_perc', arg='/mnt/DATA', max_value=100,
x=105, y=385,
graph_radius=65,
graph_thickness=5,
graph_start_angle=160,
graph_unit_angle=1.6, graph_unit_thickness=1.4,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.9,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=75,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=9.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.7,
graduation_radius=62,
graduation_thickness=0, graduation_mark_thickness=1,
graduation_unit_angle=27,
graduation_fg_colour=0x000000, graduation_fg_alpha=0.5,
caption=' Data',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.6,
},
{
name='upspeedf', arg='wlan0', max_value=100,
x=85, y=535,
graph_radius=42,
graph_thickness=5,
graph_start_angle=165,
graph_unit_angle=3.0, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.9,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=34,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=0.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.5,
graduation_radius=36,
graduation_thickness=3, graduation_mark_thickness=2,
graduation_unit_angle=18,
graduation_fg_colour=0x839097, graduation_fg_alpha=0.1,
caption=' UP',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
{
name='downspeedf', arg='wlan0', max_value=100,
x=85, y=535,
graph_radius=62,
graph_thickness=5,
graph_start_angle=170,
graph_unit_angle=3.0, graph_unit_thickness=1.8,
graph_bg_colour=0x000000, graph_bg_alpha=0.5,
graph_fg_colour=0x839097, graph_fg_alpha=0.9,
hand_fg_colour=0x839097, hand_fg_alpha=0.8,
txt_radius=10,
txt_weight=0, txt_size=0.0,
txt_fg_colour=0x839097, txt_fg_alpha=0.5,
graduation_radius=58,
graduation_thickness=3, graduation_mark_thickness=2,
graduation_unit_angle=18,
graduation_fg_colour=0x839097, graduation_fg_alpha=0.1,
caption=' DN',
caption_weight=1, caption_size=10.0,
caption_fg_colour=0xffffff, caption_fg_alpha=0.5,
},
}
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- rgb_to_r_g_b
-- converts color in hexa to decimal
--
function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour, alpha)
return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- angle_to_position
-- convert degree to rad and rotate (0 degree is top/north)
--
function angle_to_position(start_angle, current_angle)
local pos = current_angle + start_angle
return ( ( pos * (2 * math.pi / 360) ) - (math.pi / 2) )
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- draw_clock_ring
-- displays clock
--
function draw_clock_ring(display, data, value)
local max_value = data['max_value']
local x, y = data['x'], data['y']
local graph_radius = data['graph_radius']
local graph_thickness, graph_unit_thickness = data['graph_thickness'], data['graph_unit_thickness']
local graph_unit_angle = data['graph_unit_angle']
local graph_bg_colour, graph_bg_alpha = data['graph_bg_colour'], data['graph_bg_alpha']
local graph_fg_colour, graph_fg_alpha = data['graph_fg_colour'], data['graph_fg_alpha']
-- background ring
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graph_radius, 0, 2 * math.pi)
cairo_set_source_rgba(display, rgb_to_r_g_b(graph_bg_colour, graph_bg_alpha))
cairo_set_line_width(display, graph_thickness)
cairo_stroke(display)
-- arc of value
local val = (value % max_value)
local i = 1
while i <= val do
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graph_radius,( ((graph_unit_angle * i) - graph_unit_thickness)*(2*math.pi/360) )-(math.pi/2),((graph_unit_angle * i) * (2*math.pi/360))-(math.pi/2))
cairo_set_source_rgba(display,rgb_to_r_g_b(graph_fg_colour,graph_fg_alpha))
cairo_stroke(display)
i = i + 1
end
local angle = (graph_unit_angle * i) - graph_unit_thickness
-- graduations marks
local graduation_radius = data['graduation_radius']
local graduation_thickness, graduation_mark_thickness = data['graduation_thickness'], data['graduation_mark_thickness']
local graduation_unit_angle = data['graduation_unit_angle']
local graduation_fg_colour, graduation_fg_alpha = data['graduation_fg_colour'], data['graduation_fg_alpha']
if graduation_radius > 0 and graduation_thickness > 0 and graduation_unit_angle > 0 then
local nb_graduation = 360 / graduation_unit_angle
local i = 1
while i <= nb_graduation do
cairo_set_line_width(display, graduation_thickness)
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graduation_radius, (((graduation_unit_angle * i)-(graduation_mark_thickness/2))*(2*math.pi/360))-(math.pi/2),(((graduation_unit_angle * i)+(graduation_mark_thickness/2))*(2*math.pi/360))-(math.pi/2))
cairo_set_source_rgba(display,rgb_to_r_g_b(graduation_fg_colour,graduation_fg_alpha))
cairo_stroke(display)
cairo_set_line_width(display, graph_thickness)
i = i + 1
end
end
-- text
local txt_radius = data['txt_radius']
local txt_weight, txt_size = data['txt_weight'], data['txt_size']
local txt_fg_colour, txt_fg_alpha = data['txt_fg_colour'], data['txt_fg_alpha']
local movex = txt_radius * (math.cos((angle * 2 * math.pi / 360)-(math.pi/2)))
local movey = txt_radius * (math.sin((angle * 2 * math.pi / 360)-(math.pi/2)))
cairo_select_font_face (display, "Liberation Sans", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, txt_weight);
cairo_set_font_size (display, txt_size);
cairo_set_source_rgba (display, rgb_to_r_g_b(txt_fg_colour, txt_fg_alpha));
cairo_move_to (display, x + movex - (txt_size / 2), y + movey + 3);
cairo_show_text (display, value);
cairo_stroke (display);
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- draw_gauge_ring
-- displays gauges
--
function draw_gauge_ring(display, data, value)
local max_value = data['max_value']
local x, y = data['x'], data['y']
local graph_radius = data['graph_radius']
local graph_thickness, graph_unit_thickness = data['graph_thickness'], data['graph_unit_thickness']
local graph_start_angle = data['graph_start_angle']
local graph_unit_angle = data['graph_unit_angle']
local graph_bg_colour, graph_bg_alpha = data['graph_bg_colour'], data['graph_bg_alpha']
local graph_fg_colour, graph_fg_alpha = data['graph_fg_colour'], data['graph_fg_alpha']
local hand_fg_colour, hand_fg_alpha = data['hand_fg_colour'], data['hand_fg_alpha']
local graph_end_angle = (max_value * graph_unit_angle) % 360
-- background ring
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graph_radius, angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, 0), angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, graph_end_angle))
cairo_set_source_rgba(display, rgb_to_r_g_b(graph_bg_colour, graph_bg_alpha))
cairo_set_line_width(display, graph_thickness)
cairo_stroke(display)
-- arc of value
local val = value % (max_value + 1)
local start_arc = 0
local stop_arc = 0
local i = 1
while i <= val do
start_arc = (graph_unit_angle * i) - graph_unit_thickness
stop_arc = (graph_unit_angle * i)
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graph_radius, angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, start_arc), angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, stop_arc))
cairo_set_source_rgba(display, rgb_to_r_g_b(graph_fg_colour, graph_fg_alpha))
cairo_stroke(display)
i = i + 1
end
local angle = start_arc
-- hand
start_arc = (graph_unit_angle * val) - (graph_unit_thickness * 2)
stop_arc = (graph_unit_angle * val)
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graph_radius, angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, start_arc), angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, stop_arc))
cairo_set_source_rgba(display, rgb_to_r_g_b(hand_fg_colour, hand_fg_alpha))
cairo_stroke(display)
-- graduations marks
local graduation_radius = data['graduation_radius']
local graduation_thickness, graduation_mark_thickness = data['graduation_thickness'], data['graduation_mark_thickness']
local graduation_unit_angle = data['graduation_unit_angle']
local graduation_fg_colour, graduation_fg_alpha = data['graduation_fg_colour'], data['graduation_fg_alpha']
if graduation_radius > 0 and graduation_thickness > 0 and graduation_unit_angle > 0 then
local nb_graduation = graph_end_angle / graduation_unit_angle
local i = 0
while i < nb_graduation do
cairo_set_line_width(display, graduation_thickness)
start_arc = (graduation_unit_angle * i) - (graduation_mark_thickness / 2)
stop_arc = (graduation_unit_angle * i) + (graduation_mark_thickness / 2)
cairo_arc(display, x, y, graduation_radius, angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, start_arc), angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, stop_arc))
cairo_set_source_rgba(display,rgb_to_r_g_b(graduation_fg_colour,graduation_fg_alpha))
cairo_stroke(display)
cairo_set_line_width(display, graph_thickness)
i = i + 1
end
end
-- text
local txt_radius = data['txt_radius']
local txt_weight, txt_size = data['txt_weight'], data['txt_size']
local txt_fg_colour, txt_fg_alpha = data['txt_fg_colour'], data['txt_fg_alpha']
local movex = txt_radius * math.cos(angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, angle))
local movey = txt_radius * math.sin(angle_to_position(graph_start_angle, angle))
cairo_select_font_face (display, "Liberation Sans", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, txt_weight)
cairo_set_font_size (display, txt_size)
cairo_set_source_rgba (display, rgb_to_r_g_b(txt_fg_colour, txt_fg_alpha))
cairo_move_to (display, x + movex - (txt_size / 2), y + movey + 3)
cairo_show_text (display, value)
cairo_stroke (display)
-- caption
local caption = data['caption']
local caption_weight, caption_size = data['caption_weight'], data['caption_size']
local caption_fg_colour, caption_fg_alpha = data['caption_fg_colour'], data['caption_fg_alpha']
local tox = graph_radius * (math.cos((graph_start_angle * 2 * math.pi / 360)-(math.pi/2)))
local toy = graph_radius * (math.sin((graph_start_angle * 2 * math.pi / 360)-(math.pi/2)))
cairo_select_font_face (display, "Liberation Sans", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, caption_weight);
cairo_set_font_size (display, caption_size)
cairo_set_source_rgba (display, rgb_to_r_g_b(caption_fg_colour, caption_fg_alpha))
cairo_move_to (display, x + tox + 5, y + toy + 1)
-- bad hack but not enough time !
if graph_start_angle < 105 then
cairo_move_to (display, x + tox - 30, y + toy + 1)
end
cairo_show_text (display, caption)
cairo_stroke (display)
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- go_clock_rings
-- loads data and displays clock
--
function go_clock_rings(display)
local function load_clock_rings(display, data)
local str, value = '', 0
str = string.format('${%s %s}',data['name'], data['arg'])
str = conky_parse(str)
value = tonumber(str)
draw_clock_ring(display, data, value)
end
for i in pairs(clock_h) do
load_clock_rings(display, clock_h[i])
end
for i in pairs(clock_m) do
load_clock_rings(display, clock_m[i])
end
for i in pairs(clock_s) do
load_clock_rings(display, clock_s[i])
end
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- go_gauge_rings
-- loads data and displays gauges
--
function go_gauge_rings(display)
local function load_gauge_rings(display, data)
local str, value = '', 0
str = string.format('${%s %s}',data['name'], data['arg'])
str = conky_parse(str)
value = tonumber(str)
draw_gauge_ring(display, data, value)
end
for i in pairs(gauge) do
load_gauge_rings(display, gauge[i])
end
end
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- MAIN
function conky_main()
if conky_window == nil then
return
end
local cs = cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, conky_window.width, conky_window.height)
local display = cairo_create(cs)
local updates = conky_parse('${updates}')
update_num = tonumber(updates)
if update_num > 5 then
-- go_clock_rings(display)
go_gauge_rings(display)
end
cairo_surface_destroy(cs)
cairo_destroy(display)
end
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:31 am
by asqwerth
Thanks! That was quick!
[ADDED] I love the movement of the CPU indicators.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:34 pm
by wdscharff
Really very nice, unfortunately not feasible for me, too much cores
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2021 2:31 pm
by Jerry3904
Great stuff! I need to look in detail one of these days.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:11 am
by kobaian
My fluxbox-desktop is spring-ready now.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:28 am
by Jerry3904
Indeed it is, very handsome.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:50 am
by ceeslans
Great shot. What icon theme are you using here?
and the background is wonderful. Can you share a link to the wallpaper please
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:04 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 4:50 am
Great shot. What icon theme are you using here?
and the background is wonderful. Can you share a link to the wallpaper please
The icon theme is Obsidian Mint. You can download from MX-repos. If you check - Obsidian - you wil get all color themes.
For Idesktop use
https://iconarchive.com/artist/guillendesign.html converted to 64x64 with XnView (also from MX-repos).
The Wallpaper is a photo taken by myself.

If you like, I would try to upload it on DeviantArt. Just tell me what resolution do you need.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:38 am
by ceeslans
↑ resolution of 1920x1080px or higher. Thanks for uploading to DeviantArt or imgur.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:48 am
by Jerry3904
I would love to add that to the MXFB collection--possible?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:58 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:38 am
↑ resolution of 1920x1080px or higher. Thanks for uploading to DeviantArt or imgur.
I've just uploaded it o my deviantart gallery
https://www.deviantart.com/am1g0 .
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:16 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:48 am
I would love to add that to the MXFB collection--possible?
Yes, of course!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:16 am
by Jerry3904
Gorgeous on my laptop (yeah vertical panel!).
BTW: notice the change in the Wallpaper menu that will come in MXFB-21: the otherwise pretty well hidden options of Rotate and Separate are now made easily accessible. Thanks to fehlix for helping with adapting existing code to get the rotate dialog box.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:19 am
by ceeslans
Thanks for the upload.
btw: I was pleasantly surprised to see Zamek Grodno pictures in your DA gallery. I visited the site in 2019 and was in awe about the castle's authenticity
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:00 am
by wdscharff
really a gorgeous picture!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 10:34 am
by kobaian
Thank you! Nice to see, you like it.
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:19 am
btw: I was pleasantly surprised to see Zamek Grodno pictures in your DA gallery. I visited the site in 2019 and was in awe about the castle's authenticity
I'm very impressed about monuments and the landscape in the area of Wałbrzych. There are so many interesting places to explore. Zagórze and the Grodno-castle is one of the highlights. Unfortunately there are still many interesting abandoned and ruined historical monuments in Lower Silesia that no one takes care of.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:46 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:16 am
<snip>
BTW: notice the change in the Wallpaper menu that will come in MXFB-21: the otherwise pretty well hidden options of Rotate and Separate are now made easily accessible. Thanks to fehlix for helping with adapting existing code to get the rotate dialog box.
@Jerry3904 Could you plz provide the code/script(s) for 'rotate' and 'separate' actions?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2021 1:17 pm
by Jerry3904
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:37 pm
by kobaian
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:57 pm
by ceeslans
↑ very cool !!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:38 pm
by Jerry3904
Back to Spring: I was hiking with my son in West Virginia, way out in the Western panhandle, and caught a nice image of the forest just beginning to leaf out with a redbud shouting out its name! 500 feet down below is the Potomac River, here about 180 miles upstream from DC.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:04 am
by anticapitalista
Nice pic jerry - but it looks like Autumn/Fall to me.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:07 am
by Huckleberry Finn
Yep :)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:33 am
by anticapitalista
Actually, when you open the image to full size, it does look more like Spring.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:58 am
by ceeslans
My current Fluxbox desktop on MX19.4
Conky + tint2 toolbar + jgmenu in 'Lilidog' theme colors
fullsize-image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:16 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:58 am
My current Fluxbox desktop on MX19.4
Conky + tint2 toolbar + jgmenu in 'Lilidog' theme colors
Very nice. What's your gtk theme?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 12:26 pm
by Jerry3904
That is very nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:06 pm
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:16 am
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:58 am
My current Fluxbox desktop on MX19.4
Conky + tint2 toolbar + jgmenu in 'Lilidog' theme colors
Very nice. What's your gtk theme?
Gtk theme (both gtk2 and gtk3) is 'Lilidog-Grey' by sleekmason. You can download it from his
github page
I also created a matching fluxbox style (not shown in above screenshot - check out my
earlier post if you're interested). Let me know if you want me to upload the style files.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:31 pm
by Melber
Hello all,
Following
@Huckleberry Finn's advice, I've been playing around with Fluxbox and I have to say I really like it.
I have been fiddling around trying to create a flat, colourful style to complement my favourite MX wallpaper.
I'm sure I'll keep tweaking, but It has at least received preliminary approval from the target audience (my kids).
Autohide launcher at bottom showing for completeness.
fullsize
https://imgur.com/lYIUm1A.png and with menu
https://imgur.com/sJqZbmB.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:05 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:06 pm
kobaian wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:16 am
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:58 am
My current Fluxbox desktop on MX19.4
Conky + tint2 toolbar + jgmenu in 'Lilidog' theme colors
Very nice. What's your gtk theme?
Gtk theme (both gtk2 and gtk3) is 'Lilidog-Grey' by sleekmason. You can download it from his
github page
I also created a matching fluxbox style (not shown in above screenshot - check out my
earlier post if you're interested). Let me know if you want me to upload the style files.
I like your work very much.
I'm working now with my "new" old Macbook and I'm looking for themes that have some MacOs look and feel. I don't want to have a Linux clone of MacOs, but only something that just reminds me, what kind of computer it is. I'm happy with the Pantherine fluxbox theme
https://www.box-look.org/p/1016687 , but I'm still searching for a gtk theme that fits the fluxbox theme. Standard MacOs-like gtk themes seem to me too white, so I'm looking for something that is still a light theme, but a little bit darker. the Lilidog-Grey looks ok, but this one seems to me a little bit too dark. So now I must decide if I want to do some changes in Pantherine, to be a little bit darker, or search for another one gtk-theme.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:18 am
by asqwerth
@Melber
Very nice and cheerful!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:46 am
by wdscharff
Tried out on the fly, Lilydog-grey on my Fluxbox
2021-April-14-10_jiw.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:09 am
by Huckleberry Finn
@Melber Really so good , congratulations ! :)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:04 am
by kobaian
An FB-impression with an "Office" submenu created in YAD. The bash-script is simmilar to mxfb-appearance, uses smaller Obsidian-icons and it is launched by right-clicking on the Tint2's "Office"-button.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:37 am
by Jerry3904
Very handsome. Are you using tint2 for that dock?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 9:02 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:37 am
Very handsome. Are you using tint2 for that dock?
Yes. The dock is the second tint2 panel.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 1:49 pm
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:04 am
An FB-impression with an "Office" submenu created in YAD. The bash-script is simmilar to mxfb-appearance, uses smaller Obsidian-icons and it is launched by right-clicking on the Tint2's "Office"-button.
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@kobaian: kindly share the yad script for your office submenu launcher, thnx a lot!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:06 pm
by Jerry3904
The bash-script is simmilar to mxfb-appearance
Hey, I wrote that! Nice to see it put to some use.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2021 5:56 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 1:49 pm
kobaian wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:04 am
An FB-impression with an "Office" submenu created in YAD. The bash-script is simmilar to mxfb-appearance, uses smaller Obsidian-icons and it is launched by right-clicking on the Tint2's "Office"-button.
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@kobaian: kindly share the yad script for your office submenu launcher, thnx a lot!
Code: Select all
#! /bin/bash
yad --undecorated --posx=1 --posy=950 --borders=8 --title=Office --skip-taskbar --close-on-unfocus \
--text="Aplikacje biurowe:" \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/32/libreoffice-main.png!Libre-Office":libreoffice \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/32/libreoffice-calc.png!Arkusze kalkulacyjne LO":"libreoffice --calc" \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/32/libreoffice-draw.png!Rysunki i wykresy LO":"libreoffice --draw" \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/32/libreoffice-impress.png!Prezentacje LO":"libreoffice --impress" \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/32/libreoffice-writer.png!Dokumenty tekstowe LO":"libreoffice --writer" \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/32/galculator.png!Kalkulator":galculator \
--button="!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian-Mint/places/32/folder-documents.svg!Katalog Dokumenty":"thunar $HOME/Dokumenty" \
--window-icon=!/usr/share/icons/Obsidian/apps/24/libreoffice-main.png
First of all you should change the position
to fit your screen resolution and the position and size of your tint2-panel, and then you should change the text and the description to your language.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 1:26 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:06 pm
The bash-script is simmilar to mxfb-appearance
Hey, I wrote that! Nice to see it put to some use.
I really appreciate your work, and I like the idea of having YAD-quasi-menus YAD very much.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:21 am
by ceeslans
↑
@kobaian: thanks for the yad script, that was helpful...
To set the yad box next/above the toolbar, irrespective of screen resolution, you can use a negative position value. I prefer to use the geometry (WxH+x+y) option, e.g:
Not being a fan of iconized menus, I created a text-styled popup in form format. Libreoffice is not installed on my system, but I used its icons for an optional icon menu. The script is called from a tint2 launcher - see below screenshot.
That said - and mostly based on my extremely-limited yad-scripting skills - I don't think I will pursue its menu-style customizing. I'm not aware of possibilities for automatic recognition of tint2 theme colors&opacity (it now follows gtk-theme colors) and/or offset settings. In that respect jgmenu does as much easier/better job...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2021 5:38 am
by kobaian
I have played for a while with "fields" instead of "buttons" in YAD, and I really dislike the centered layout. It doesn't look good to me especially while using text with the icons. And I don't know how to move the icons and the text to the left.
There is another advantage for me to use horizontal layout instead of vertical. When I use a horizontal panel and I place the horizontal YAD dialog-box above my quick-launch buttons, I can use one and the same position for all menus - Office, Graphics, Music etc., because every time the dialog-window is directly above the button. For a vertical menu I will have to define the position for every menu and I will have to change it every time I add or remove a button from my panel.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 06, 2021 10:32 am
by ceeslans
May 6th screenshot - with Fluxbox 1.3.7 running on MX-19.4
WM theme = 'Shiki-Stadler-Dark' --> which came with legendary Crunchbang distro). It's gtk2 only, and regretfully I've been unable to create a gtk3 version for it...
Fluxbox style = 'Shiki-Stadler-Dark' (my own creation)
Tint2 toolbar = 'Lilidog-Dark' by Sleekmason
Conky = 'Date-Time' by me - and 'BuildingConky' by Jesse Avalos modified by me
wallpaper found on
4chan Imageboard scraper (fantastic wallpaper resource) - direct link:
https://nik.bot.nu/o3642858.jpg
fullsize image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 4:22 pm
by Melber
Think I have reached the end of my fiddling with this one. No major changes, just tweaks.
Got sick of looking for icons that I liked for the bottom launcher, so I ended up fudging together some of my own. Played around using google and guesswork until I got the executors in top panel showing the info I want. Settled on Flatery Blue for the system icons, orange was just a little too much.

full size:
https://imgur.com/5GeeOkv.png
Now have to decide what direction the next desktop is going to go. Perhaps a little more restrained, but then again, a funky highlight colour is hard to resist...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 10, 2021 6:03 pm
by Jerry3904
Looks pretty nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 4:44 pm
by Melber
New look is more subdued with a take on the MX sidebar.
fullsize
https://imgur.com/FKcRDIw.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 4:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Really nice. I love your sidebar...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 4:50 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
" Hats Off ! " :)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 5:49 pm
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 4:44 pm
New look is more subdued with a take on the MX sidebar.
That toolbar is great. Would love to try it out. Can you please share the tint2rc with us?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 3:01 am
by Melber
@ceeslans Sure, no problem. I'll upload it when I can get back on the laptop later this afternoon or tonight.
Should I place the tint2rc as code or is it better as an attachment? Do you want the executor scripts too?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 4:26 am
by Jerry3904
Paste as code is the easiest, thanks. Executor scripts would be nice to see too if you want to share them.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 1:07 pm
by AVLinux
Hi folks!
Following this thread with great interest.. I'm still on XFCE/Openbox but you guys are doing some tremendous work in this thread, I'm going to definitely look into that YAD launcher... brilliant!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 1:22 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon May 17, 2021 5:49 pmCan you please share the tint2rc with us?
... and the wallpaper ?..

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 5:46 pm
by Melber
@ceeslans ,
@Jerry3904
here's the tint2rc for the greyblue toolbar
Code: Select all
#---- Generated by tint2conf b90c ----
# See https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/Configure for
# full documentation of the configuration options.
#-------------------------------------
# Gradients
#-------------------------------------
# Backgrounds
# Background 1: Active taskbar, Inactive taskbar, Launcher, Launcher icon, Panel, Tooltip
rounded = 0
border_width = 1
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #414b5b 100
border_color = #003c7b 100
background_color_hover = #000000 100
border_color_hover = #003c7b 100
background_color_pressed = #000000 100
border_color_pressed = #000000 100
# Background 2: Separator, Systray
rounded = 0
border_width = 22
border_sides = T
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #000000 100
background_color_hover = #007eff 100
border_color_hover = #007eff 100
background_color_pressed = #007eff 100
border_color_pressed = #505050 67
# Background 3: Clock, Executor
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #0b68c9 100
border_color = #003c7b 100
background_color_hover = #ff0006 100
border_color_hover = #505050 67
background_color_pressed = #007eff 100
border_color_pressed = #007eff 100
# Background 4: Button
rounded = 0
border_width = 1
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #ffffff 100
background_color_hover = #ffffff 78
border_color_hover = #000000 67
background_color_pressed = #252525 67
border_color_pressed = #606060 67
# Background 5: Iconified task
rounded = 0
border_width = 1
border_sides = R
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #414b5b 100
border_color = #ffffff 100
background_color_hover = #003c7b 100
border_color_hover = #ffffff 100
background_color_pressed = #252525 67
border_color_pressed = #606060 67
# Background 6: Default task, Normal task
rounded = 0
border_width = 3
border_sides = R
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #414b5b 100
border_color = #ffffff 100
background_color_hover = #003c7b 100
border_color_hover = #ffffff 100
background_color_pressed = #000000 100
border_color_pressed = #003c7b 100
# Background 7: Active task
rounded = 0
border_width = 6
border_sides = R
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #414b5b 100
border_color = #0b68c9 100
background_color_hover = #003c7b 100
border_color_hover = #0b68c9 100
background_color_pressed = #252525 67
border_color_pressed = #606060 67
#-------------------------------------
# Panel
panel_items = PC:EEE:T:L:S:P
panel_size = 100% 56
panel_margin = 0 0
panel_padding = 0 0 0
panel_background_id = 1
wm_menu = 1
panel_dock = 0
panel_position = center left vertical
panel_layer = bottom
panel_monitor = all
panel_shrink = 0
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0
autohide_hide_timeout = 0.5
autohide_height = 1
strut_policy = follow_size
panel_window_name = tint2
disable_transparency = 0
mouse_effects = 1
font_shadow = 0
mouse_hover_icon_asb = 100 0 0
mouse_pressed_icon_asb = 100 4 15
scale_relative_to_dpi = 0
scale_relative_to_screen_height = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = single_desktop
taskbar_hide_if_empty = 0
taskbar_padding = 0 0 20
taskbar_background_id = 1
taskbar_active_background_id = 1
taskbar_name = 0
taskbar_hide_inactive_tasks = 0
taskbar_hide_different_monitor = 0
taskbar_hide_different_desktop = 0
taskbar_always_show_all_desktop_tasks = 0
taskbar_name_padding = 1 3
taskbar_name_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_active_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_font_color = #909090 100
taskbar_name_active_font_color = #cccccc 100
taskbar_distribute_size = 0
taskbar_sort_order = application
task_align = right
#-------------------------------------
# Task
task_text = 0
task_icon = 1
task_centered = 1
urgent_nb_of_blink = 0
task_maximum_size = 36 36
task_padding = 0 0 0
task_font = Roboto Bold 11
task_tooltip = 1
task_thumbnail = 1
task_thumbnail_size = 180
task_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_normal_font_color = #000000 100
task_active_font_color = #000000 100
task_urgent_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_iconified_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_iconified_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_background_id = 6
task_normal_background_id = 6
task_active_background_id = 7
task_urgent_background_id = 0
task_iconified_background_id = 5
mouse_left = toggle_iconify
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = close
mouse_scroll_up = none
mouse_scroll_down = none
#-------------------------------------
# System tray (notification area)
systray_padding = 0 3 10
systray_background_id = 2
systray_sort = ascending
systray_icon_size = 44
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 100
systray_monitor = 1
systray_name_filter =
#-------------------------------------
# Launcher
launcher_padding = 0 0 18
launcher_background_id = 1
launcher_icon_background_id = 1
launcher_icon_size = 36
launcher_icon_asb = 100 0 0
launcher_icon_theme = DarK-svg-white
launcher_icon_theme_override = 1
startup_notifications = 0
launcher_tooltip = 1
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/tint2conf.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-impress.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/thunar.desktop
#-------------------------------------
# Clock
time1_format = %H:%M
time2_format =
time1_font = Roboto Bold 14
time1_timezone =
time2_timezone =
clock_font_color = #ffffff 100
clock_padding = 0 8
clock_background_id = 3
clock_tooltip = %A %d %B %Y
clock_tooltip_timezone =
clock_lclick_command = gsimplecal
clock_rclick_command =
clock_mclick_command =
clock_uwheel_command =
clock_dwheel_command =
#-------------------------------------
# Battery
battery_tooltip = 0
battery_low_status = 5
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
battery_full_cmd =
battery_font_color = #eeeeee 100
bat1_format =
bat2_format =
battery_padding = 0 0
battery_background_id = 0
battery_hide = 101
battery_lclick_command =
battery_rclick_command =
battery_mclick_command =
battery_uwheel_command =
battery_dwheel_command =
ac_connected_cmd =
ac_disconnected_cmd =
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 1
separator = new
separator_background_id = 3
separator_color = #777777 80
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 10
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 2
separator = new
separator_background_id = 3
separator_color = #777777 83
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 11
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 3
separator = new
separator_background_id = 1
separator_color = #777777 80
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 48
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 4
separator = new
separator_background_id = 1
separator_color = #777777 83
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 22
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 5
separator = new
separator_background_id = 2
separator_color = #777777 83
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 0
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 1
execp = new
execp_command = /home/XXX/.config/tint2/executors/store-perc
execp_interval = 60
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_tooltip =
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Roboto Bold 11
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 0 0
execp_background_id = 3
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 30
execp_icon_h = 30
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 2
execp = new
execp_command = /home/XXX/.config/tint2/executors/mem-perc
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Roboto Bold 11
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 1 0
execp_background_id = 3
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 20
execp_icon_h = 20
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 3
execp = new
execp_command = /home/XXX/.config/tint2/executors/temp-perc
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_tooltip =
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Roboto Bold 11
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 1 0
execp_background_id = 3
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 20
execp_icon_h = 20
#-------------------------------------
# Button 1
button = new
button_icon = /usr/share/icons/DarK-svg-white/48x48/pool/shutdown.svg
button_text =
button_lclick_command = /home/XXX/.fluxbox/scripts/mxfb-logout
button_rclick_command =
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #000000 100
button_padding = 0 0
button_background_id = 3
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 48
#-------------------------------------
# Button 2
button = new
button_icon = /usr/share/icons/DarK-svg-white/48x48/pool/mx-logo.svg
button_text =
button_lclick_command = xfce4-appfinder
button_rclick_command =
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #000000 100
button_padding = 0 0
button_background_id = 4
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 48
#-------------------------------------
# Tooltip
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.2
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.2
tooltip_padding = 0 0
tooltip_background_id = 1
tooltip_font_color = #ffffff 100
tooltip_font = Roboto Bold 12
The icon theme is DarK-icons discussed here
viewtopic.php?p=603199#p603199 and found here
https://gitlab.com/sixsixfive/DarK-icons. I converted the svg icons to white using the svg_changecolor.sh script included with the icon theme. IIRC I had to comment out the check for "optipng" to get past a not found error, the script then ran okay.
Here are the executors, which seem to work on my setup. Files saved under /home/XXX/.config/tint2/executors/
WARNING: I know next to nothing about bash. These scripts are a combination of google, guess work, trial and many errors. To anyone who knows better, please feel free to offer corrections, improvements, complete rewrites...
Store-perc
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#!/bin/sh
ROOT=$(df -h | awk '/\/$/ {print $5}')
DATA=$(df -h -BG /dev/sda2 | awk '/\// {print $5}')
SWAP=$(cat /proc/swaps | awk '/\// { printf("%.0f%"), $4/$3*100 }')
echo "H $ROOT"
echo "D $DATA"
echo "S $SWAP"
Mem-perc
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#!/bin/bash
mem1=$(free -t | grep Mem | awk '{printf("%.0f%"),$3/$2*100}')
cpu1=$(vmstat 1 2|tail -1|awk '{printf("%.0f%"),100-$15}')
echo M "$mem1" C "$cpu1"
Temp-perc
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#!/bin/sh
TEMPC=$(sensors coretemp-isa-0000 | grep 'Core 0'| tr -d '(),+' | awk '{printf("%.0f"),$3}')
TEMPG=$(sensors nouveau-pci-0100 | grep 'temp1'| tr -d '(),+' | awk '{printf("%.0f"),$2}')
echo "C $TEMPC°C"
echo "G $TEMPG°C"
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 5:51 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks--looks like fun!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 5:56 pm
by Melber
@Huckleberry Finn
Wallpaper is here
https://imgur.com/a/Lwg3y8h. I made it playing around in photoshop, still haven't got my head around how things work in gimp.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 6:00 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
Thank you. So, a nice present from you to MX Community ( hoping it's not a "fait accompli" ) :)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 6:43 pm
by Melber
I'm happy that someone likes it. I've got a couple of other ideas for wallpapers, maybe I'll get around to using them as a learning exercise for gimp. Although my new hobby seems to have become fiddling around with tint2

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed May 19, 2021 10:37 am
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 6:43 pm
<snip> ... Although my new hobby seems to have become fiddling around with tint2
Keep up that spirit, your 'fiddling' produces wonderful results !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 5:18 pm
by ceeslans
Having fun fiddling with kobaian's macOS styled topbar and appdock.
Using the DarK-black icon theme for both bars; also jgmenu is displaying these icons just fine
link to fullsize image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 5:24 pm
by AVLinux
That's a cool minimalist look!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 20, 2021 5:52 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 5:18 pm
Having fun fiddling with kobaian's macOS styled topbar and appdock.
Using the DarK-black icon theme for both bars; also jgmenu is displaying these icons just fine
Looks really nice! I like how the panel, gtk-theme, icons and conky fit together.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:24 pm
by purplemoon
Since my MX external HDD died, and waiting for next release for reinstall, I'm just playing with Fluxbox themes. Here is a very basic FB style for use with Amethyst GTK theme and Candy icons, for small screens - inspired by Utouch FB style.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:36 pm
by Jerry3904
Great colors!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:34 pm
by purplemoon
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 7:36 pm
Great colors!
... A more standard Fluxbox style (and last) to match ChromeOs Dark GTK theme and Reversal Blue Dark icons... And now back to work!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:56 pm
by Melber
Hello all, time for a new theme/tint2/wallpaper variation...
Restricted myself to one bright colour and moved some items out of the side panel because I figured out how to fudge big round buttons.

full size
https://imgur.com/tNTMHBg.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 4:04 pm
by Jerry3904
That is really nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:36 pm
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:56 pm
Hello all, time for a new theme/tint2/wallpaper variation...
Restricted myself to one bright colour and moved some items out of the side panel because I figured out how to fudge big round buttons.
Very well themed and coherent desktop. You have a good eye for that.
Nice to see your big round tint2 buttons.
I also figured this out some months ago (because of a typo in the
rounded = value

). Seeing your screenshot with the rounded buttons, made me investigate the possibilities to capture executors in the very same round shapes. The vertical tint2 dock on the right is autohiding. Will likely tinker further with adding a few more executors - and subsequently smaller sizes...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:47 pm
by Jerry3904
God, you people--terrific stuff!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:07 pm
by Melber
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 5:36 pm
... Seeing your screenshot with the rounded buttons, made me investigate the possibilities to capture executors in the very same round shapes. The vertical tint2 dock on the right is autohiding. Will likely tinker further with adding a few more executors - and subsequently smaller sizes...
Double side bars, I love it! Think I now need to come up with a centrally focused background so I can play around with the idea...
The executor buttons look great, are they the ones from the tint2 executors thread with the lecorbeau icons?
I started off with smaller buttons in the main side panel, can't remember the values, but it's just a matter of fiddling around with the panel width and corner rounding. Hooray for fiddling!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:06 pm
by dolphin_oracle
I’m really digging that yellow and black desktop. I often use yellow and black on my antix setups
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:18 am
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:07 pm
The executor buttons look great, are they the ones from the tint2 executors thread with the lecorbeau icons?
I started off with smaller buttons in the main side panel, can't remember the values, but it's just a matter of fiddling around with the panel width and corner rounding. Hooray for fiddling!
The origin of executors is a mix of lecorbeau's and own creations, including some other commands and code I found on the web. The diskspace button uses your store-perc script
Icons are mostly drawn from the papirus icon theme. If you like, I can zip up the necessary executor files and icons.
The 'icon-only' buttons (like in the main tint2 toolbar) are relatively easy to create by choosing the correct corner rounding. Setting the executor buttons require more tweaking (e.g. using .png icons with fixed 48x48px size only, to avoid messing up the delicate balance between button_padding and icon/font sizes).
Fwiw, below is the second tint2rc version - and related screen clipping. Still a work in progress, am now considering which left/rightclick action to add to the current 'dead' buttons...
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#-------------------------------------
#---- Tint2 SysInfo Dock -------------
#-------------------------------------
# Background 1: Panel
rounded = 5
border_width = 0
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #444444 0
border_color = #000000 50
background_color_hover = #444444 0
border_color_hover = #000000 0
background_color_pressed = #444444 0
border_color_pressed = #000000 0
# Background 2: Rounded Button
rounded = 42
border_width = 3
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #555555 75
border_color = #000000 75
background_color_hover = #666666 75
border_color_hover = #000000 75
background_color_pressed = #444444 75
border_color_pressed = #000000 75
# Background 3: Tooltip
rounded = 3
border_width = 2
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #555555 75
border_color = #000000 50
background_color_hover = #666666 75
border_color_hover = #000000 50
background_color_pressed = #444444 75
border_color_pressed = #000000 50
#-------------------------------------
# Panel
panel_items = EEEEEE
panel_size = 100% 100
panel_margin = 5 0
panel_padding = 5 5 10
panel_background_id = 1
wm_menu = 0
panel_dock = 0
panel_position = center right vertical
panel_layer = top
panel_monitor = all
panel_shrink = 1
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0
autohide_hide_timeout = 0.5
autohide_height = 2
strut_policy = follow_size
panel_window_name = tint2
disable_transparency = 0
mouse_effects = 1
font_shadow = 0
mouse_hover_icon_asb = 100 0 15
mouse_pressed_icon_asb = 100 0 0
scale_relative_to_dpi = 0
scale_relative_to_screen_height = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Button 1
button = new
button_icon = ~/.config/tint2/icons/buttons/launch.png
button_text =
button_tooltip = Start...
button_lclick_command = rofi -modi drun,run,calc -show drun -show-icons -location 0 -width 300 -xoffset 0 -yoffset -0
button_rclick_command =
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #eeeeee 100
button_padding = 20 20
button_background_id = 2
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Button 2
button = new
button_icon = ~/.config/tint2/icons/buttons/shutdown.png
button_text =
button_tooltip = Exit...
button_lclick_command = ~/bin/fb-exit/fbexit-ico
button_rclick_command =
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #eeeeee 100
button_padding = 20 20
button_background_id = 2
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor (Active Workspace)
execp = new
execp_command = xprop -root -spy | awk '/^_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP/ { print "@Desk" ($3 + 1) ; fflush(); }'
execp_interval = 1
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 1
execp_continuous = 1
execp_markup = 1
execp_tooltip = Workspace pager
execp_lclick_command = fluxbox-remote NextWorkspace
execp_rclick_command = fluxbox-remote PrevWorkspace
execp_uwheel_command = fluxbox-remote NextWorkspace
execp_dwheel_command = fluxbox-remote PrevWorkspace
execp_mclick_command = fluxbox-remote ShowDesktop
execp_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 11
execp_font_color = #eeeeee 100
execp_padding = 32 0 0
execp_background_id = 2
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor (Memory -in use)
execp = new
execp_command = ~/.config/tint2/executors/mem
execp_interval = 3
execp_has_icon = 1
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 1
execp_tooltip = RAM in use
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 9
execp_font_color = #eeeeee 100
execp_padding = 11 0 -3
execp_background_id = 2
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor (CPU -in use)
execp = new
execp_command = ~/.config/tint2/executors/cpu
execp_interval = 3
execp_has_icon = 1
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 1
execp_tooltip = CPU in use
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 9
execp_font_color = #eeeeee 100
execp_padding = 11 0 -3
execp_background_id = 2
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor (Storage)
execp = new
execp_command = ~/.config/tint2/executors/store-perc
execp_interval = 30
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 1
execp_continuous = 1
execp_markup = 1
execp_tooltip = Disk usage
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 8
execp_font_color = #eeeeee 100
execp_padding = 15 8 0
execp_background_id = 2
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor (volume control)
execp = new
execp_command = ~/.config/tint2/executors/volume
execp_interval = 0
execp_has_icon = 1
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 1
execp_tooltip = Volume
execp_lclick_command = amixer set -q Master toggle
execp_rclick_command = x-terminal-emulator -e alsamixer
execp_mclick_command = amixer set -q Master toggle
execp_uwheel_command = amixer -q set Master 2%+ unmute
execp_dwheel_command = amixer -q set Master 5%- unmute
execp_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 9
execp_font_color = #eeeeee 100
execp_padding = 11 0 -3
execp_background_id = 2
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor (weather local)
execp = new
execp_command = ~/.config/tint2/executors/weather
execp_interval = 240
execp_has_icon = 1
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 1
execp_tooltip = Current weather
execp_lclick_command = notify-send -t 8000 "$($HOME/.config/tint2/executors/weather-current)" -i $HOME/.config/tint2/executors/icons/weather/weather48.png
execp_mclick_command = xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --title "Weather Graph [wttr.in]" --geometry 75x45 -x bash -c "curl 'http://v2.wttr.in/'; read -N1;"
execp_rclick_command = exo-open https://openweathermap.org/city/2747596
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 9
execp_font_color = #eeeeee 100
execp_padding = 11 0 -3
execp_background_id = 2
execp_centered = 1
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Tooltip
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.5
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.1
tooltip_padding = 4 4
tooltip_background_id = 3
tooltip_font = DejaVu Sans Condensed 8
tooltip_font_color = #eeeeee 100
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:13 am
by Melber
@ceeslans Those buttons just keep getting better. Thanks, a zip with the executors and icons would be great.
@dolphin_oracle I can post the tint2 config und fluxbox style later if you're interested
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 10:23 am
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:13 am
@ceeslans Those buttons just keep getting better. Thanks, a zip with the executors and icons would be great
Have attached the archive.
please note that you must insert a (free) openweathermap API key in both 'weather' and 'weather-current' scripts, so the weather executor can draw current weather+icon data.
Also please make sure that 'jq' is installed, this is needed for parsing JSON data
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:10 pm
by Jerry3904
I'm kind of simple-minded. So here is a gorgeous swamp picture at sunrise coupled with my simpleclean panel that is *still* in progress.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:13 pm
by ceeslans
MX19.3 with Fluxbox 1.3.7
With minimal tint2 bottombar (no transparency, empty systray, two executors) and tint2 sidebar (docking 6 system executors and clock)
Conky is running song info (hidden when no audio playing)
Memory usage is idling at ~225 Mb at startup

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:22 pm
by dolphin_oracle
@Jerry3904 loving that burnt orange landscape
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:10 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks. That was a contest winner last year for Maryland DNR, and I'm going to try to get permission for us to use it. Photog is Wayne Zussman and its title is "Blackwater Sunrise"
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:24 pm
by Girafenaine
Hello MXFB community,
I would like to share with you my MXFB config I have been using with pleasure since a few months. Main things are :
- tint2 simple taskbar at the bottom, not to take too much space. 4 customized executors to have a look at : RAM, proc temperature, battery, and wifi.
In my eyes, an horizontal taskbar is more convenient to display 3 virtual desktop and the title of the windows, as well as the executors (a vertical taskbar gets too large for me with the same infos).
- a simple "bar" conky at the top, to have some more details on the laptop if needed. From ceeslans' model, thanks !
- of course the fluxbox menu, made to my liking. With app menu and some other convenients shortcuts for me.
- rofi for both app lauching (F1 shortcut) and file searching through my "rsearch" script (F2 shortcut). Last to be seen on the first picture :
Fullsize here
A second one with xfce4-terminal in drop-down mode (easy gesture shortcut on my laptop fingerpad), rofi as an app launcher, and the wifi panel popping up when I click on my "wifi executor" in the taskbar.
Fullsize here
Hope that could be of interest for some of you !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 5:21 pm
by Jerry3904
Definitely! Need to see it on a device other than my phone...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:00 pm
by asqwerth
Melber wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 5:56 pm
@Huckleberry Finn
Wallpaper is here
https://imgur.com/a/Lwg3y8h. I made it playing around in photoshop, still haven't got my head around how things work in gimp.
That's terrific. Yes, please start to think of ideas, as we will be calling for WP submissions for the MX21 release in due course.
I'm always happy to have more MX community members contributing original WP to our distro!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:06 pm
by asqwerth
Melber wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 3:56 pm
Hello all, time for a new theme/tint2/wallpaper variation...
Restricted myself to one bright colour and moved some items out of the side panel because I figured out how to fudge big round buttons.

full size
https://imgur.com/tNTMHBg.png
I like the clever "spotlight on MX logo" wallpaper.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:20 pm
by Melber
@asqwerth, thanks, I'll keep my eyes open for the WP announcement.
Here's a revised version of the yellow black desktop. Circles into the wallpaper and window theme, MX and shutdown button back on the left,
sidebar executors on the right as inspired by
@ceeslans with slightly smaller icons (image files resized to 48x32 pixels).

full size
https://imgur.com/YJv3VBs.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:47 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
So nice ! icons , windows, fonts (both style and size) .
@Melber you really got professional

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:10 pm
by Jerry3904
True, well done!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:29 pm
by ceeslans
Updated the v4.19 kernel now to v5.10
MX19.4 seems to like this kernel... oooh, my system really is humming!
Contrary to what I expected, it seems to use even less memory than before. RAM usage after boot (or logout/login) idles at around ~215Mb
fullsize-image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:05 pm
by Melber
Was feeling a bit silly when I did this and am willing to admit it's maybe a little over the top for daily use...
full size:
https://imgur.com/YznQsc1
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:13 pm
by Huckleberry Finn
We can call it "contemporary art"

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 2:26 am
by kobaian
Trying to reconstruct the good old Greybird in Fluxbox...


Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 1:22 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
mx-fluxbox
Does some distant pun apply for when the [bird -ish] fluxbox icon opens featherpad?

fluxbox Style creme, idesk icons and it is rotating wallpapers, mx dockmaker default exists undisturbed though some launchers are marked not visible from the Menu Slit Clients SlitList.
SlitList.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 7:48 am
by ceeslans
@i_ri: ahh... you really know your fluxbox !
I haven't even begun to explore the many options that are offered in the fluxbox config menu - and the Slit / Clients slit list is one of them. Thanks for your above tip.
That said, it must be noted that wmalauncher is quite a memory hog; with 17 launchers it consumes 44mb on startup - while a tint2 launcher dock uses about 5mb only...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2021 7:53 am
by Jerry3904
That's a big difference...it's because it's made up not of 1 instance with multiple icons, but of multiple instances of 1 icon
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:42 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
MX xfce version added mx-fluxbox

Resolution: 1600x900, 1280x1024, WM: Fluxbox, WM Style: creme, Theme: Adwaita [GTK3], Icons: Adwaita [GTK3], idesk for icons and wallpapers, mxdockmaker, rootmenu, gthumb, thunar, one display looking at image-Desktop-both displays.
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5
dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-21_beta1_x64 Wildflower July 27 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 [bullseye]
(m x 2 1_ flu x box is downbetaloading now.)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 6:55 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
MX_fluxbox Style ostrich, idesk, mxdock

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 7:35 pm
by siamhie
Style is MX-debian-blue-rounded

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:15 am
by kobaian
MX-Squared_green & Matcha-dark-pueril look really nice together in MXFB 21-beta

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:05 am
by Jerry3904
Yes they do!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 6:17 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:15 am
MX-Squared_green & Matcha-dark-pueril look really nice together in MXFB 21-beta

That would make a great default desktop for MXFB Final... it has a wildflower-ish background and all colors match perfectly.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:48 am
by Jerry3904
Good thought for sure. We are obligated to go with the uniform default background, though--which I like very much.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 8:40 am
by kobaian
Another one pair looking nice together: Greybird-dark-mx & Outcomes.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 9:53 am
by ceeslans
Installed MXFB-21 to 'metal' (well, actually installed it to a 16Gb USB-stick) for testdrive.
I know it is still in first beta stage, but it's running really smooth. There are still some rough edges (mostly aestetics, font size etc), but I'm sure it will evolve into final stage soon.
Honesty demands me saying that I made several cuts and hacks into this beta.
I ditched most of the xfce apps except xfce4-terminal and xfce4-power-manager. Thunar was replaced by PCmanFM-qt / Xfce4-app-finder by jgmenu / Xfce4-clipman by parcellite / Xfce4-notifyd by dunst.
Then also Deadbeef made way for Audacious, Mpv+Celluloid is now my media player of choice. And I installed only part of LibreOffice (writer, calc, impress and draw).
Conky was downgraded (temporarily) to v/1.10, in anticipation of of patched v/1.12.2. And fbmenugen provides the semi-auto-updating cascading application menu in fluxbox' rootmenu.
lastly, I copied quite a few conkys, scripts and tint2 configs+executors over from my existing MX-19 install. It hardly required any updating.
Below screenshot shows (more or less heavily modified) personal versions of:
conky = ManyRoads (or so I named it). Original by - and thanks to @ManyRoads
tint2 = my take on kobaian's MacOS-inspired toptoolbar and bottomdock (thanks @kobaian , they're great)
jgmenu = dropdown menu (drawing colors and font directly from tint2rc)
gtk theme and fb-style = crunchbang (not showing in this scrot)
fwiw: I'm running here an 'update' command, which can be manually started from tint2 toolbar

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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:13 am
by Jerry3904
Looks very nice!
Honesty demands me saying that I made several cuts and hacks into this beta.
That's what we expect for this "base", right?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:14 am
by junoluna
^^
That looks absolutely fabulous ,,,,,subjective of course, but that is the nicest looking fluxbox desktop i have seen
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:15 am
by AVLinux
junoluna wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:14 am
^^
That looks absolutely fabulous ,,,,,subjective of course, but that is the nicest looking fluxbox desktop i have seen
+1!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:43 am
by kobaian
I've done a quick research of fluxbox-styles, how they match current gtk-themes. I have to say, some of theme are nice, but many are for me complete rubbish, that don't match at all the default themes of MX-Linux. Especially, there is a lack of lightweight styles that have the similar shade of gray or pale as Matcha-light themes. But, why? If we've got Squared_for_Debian, why not modify it a little to be Squared for MX?

Squared_for_MX.tar.gz
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:19 am
by Jerry3904
I think the idea of looking at a style of our own is a good one. I have a number that I placed by default in the fluxbox folder, and just finished fooling around with a new one that has a bit more color than yours and rounded corners.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2021 1:53 pm
by i_ri
Papirus-mxblue is wonderful
brownish on folder tab color is just right for a Style color.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:47 am
by kobaian
Forced to play with compton why not go all the way...


Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:59 am
by Jerry3904
No idea what you are doing, but the result is great.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:12 am
by Jerry3904
I spent some time working with DO on the desktop icons, and finally decided just to take the Papirus svg icons, recolor to match the blue used in the conky and export them in Gimp to png. Going to make captions visible to remove any ambiguity about function.
Here is the result, including the style that I'm going to go with until the next Beta or Release Candidate.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:36 pm
by Melber
so, a bit of light entertainment amongst all this beta testing.
@Huckleberry Finn's modern art quip to my last desktop got me thinking...and the result is fluxbox De Stijl style

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:47 pm
by Jerry3904
I love it!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:09 am
by asqwerth
very nice, melber!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:02 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM
Find more Styles, between. More between than Styles.
There is a being-between Styles style.
Select another Style and the screen changes. Hit restart fluxbox and the Style completes its change. Sometimes the in-and-between of that first style selection click gives a combination not found in any Style, and may be attractive. Find your highlight color on a different menu color(?) Sometimes i like it enough to leave it and not hit the refresh.
tenr Style creme, with dark text, has cool pixmap buttons corner (?)
and switching from creme to ostrich
there is an in-between that is remarkable.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:09 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone
Jerry3904 thank you for talk about Style.
frameless transition, could have round bottom and squared top corners; less visual impact at the top corners upon transition(?)
Does the lack of grip in Style ostrich fit with your idea of frameless borderless windows? even with the frame it is a step in that direction (?)
Style ostrich is well-colored for 21(?) (nearly folder tab brown. range just enough.)
don't forget border size is grippable to move windows. left mouse hold, moving.
too much color matching plus transparency is a washout; retain some contrast(?)
Styles are plentiful. I give attention to the unfocus window label color, the grip focus/ unfocus color, the menu disable color. background unset, or none.
i shade windows , so need the unfocused text readable.
i like to see the grips colored when unfocused.
most Styles i cannot see the menu disable text color.
sometimes i switch the taskbar iconbar states of flat or raised focus/ unfocused to suit the Style. often i pick the opposite of most styles, with flat for focus and raised for unfocused. The color sets it apart, not the bevel. (then there is the color reverse; see garnet-reversed.)
(When fluxbox toolbar is at bottom) here is example of grip reflecting taskbar icon state color. justa trick.
using moonstone. [attaching share example data]
garnet reversed; switch the focus/ unfocus coloration. for darkened wallpaper.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... post-62713
A favorite of mine is Style Twice; it is like putting a tuxedo on the pc.
Can we say that antiX is the grandDaddy of fluxbox?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:24 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone
https://images2.imgbox.com/6b/e2/BouqXiHZ_o.png
launcher when on the side candidate is fbrun -nearmouse
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:24 am
by i_ri
hi Melber, De Stijl has your window action pixmap buttons just fabulous with the art buttons. Big work for You to give light entertainment, Thank You.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 6:05 pm
by Melber
Thanks @i_ri . It's not really work when you do it for fun, is it?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2021 5:15 pm
by ceeslans
Have updated my screenshooter scripts (fullscreen, fullscreen+5s, active-window, selected-area) to source a config file, similar to mxfb-quickshot.conf (thanks Jerry...).
I can now set a general image viewer/editor to show the saved screenshot, like gimp or ristretto or gthumb, or blazingly-fast feh (<-- which is actually my favourite).
Or disable such application alltogether, so only saving the screenshots to the Screenshots folder.
Each script can be executed either by key combo, or from the rootmenu --> see below mock-up scrot
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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 4:31 am
by i_ri
hello ceeslans
I have menu like that too. It is how I know which one i use most often of these screenshooting capture configurations.
I am always interested in seeing your fluxbox menus. Thank You ceeslans.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2021 10:38 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and hello ceeslans and everyone
Quickshot is the type of screen capture that i would reach for most often.
ceeslans Your menu list shows use of scripts, not use of commands. ,So I am wondering is that making trial of Quickshot or a script with <scrot>?
Do you find the same(?):
While outlining how to maneuver files from scrot into chosen folder location
Can be shared another way to get the scrot into a chosen folder. scrot saves to current directory. cd to the chosen directory, then scrot.
Passing no name to scrot gives timestamp-name and saves into current directory.
Passing a name and type to scrot applies name and saves into current directory using numbering for overwrite protection. ((Unless a part of that name describes a directory other than the current directory.))
like example from -quickshot script:
Code: Select all
take_shot () {
cd ${DESTDIR}
scrot -s -q 80 -d 2
}
or
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take_shot () {
cd ${DESTDIR}
scrot ${OPTION}
}
result is timestamp file in favorite folder.
Happy to see shared screenshots. Thanks everyone.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 4:56 pm
by siamhie
I shall call him Flux the Dragon.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:44 pm
by Jerry3904
That's great. I think we have a mascot, people!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:57 pm
by AVLinux
+1!
Nice work! Is that the Kali dragon?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:35 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:57 pm
+1!
Nice work! Is that the Kali dragon?
Thanks. Not sure if it is. I was on DDG searching for dark Debian wallpaper when I came across it.
EDIT: Apparently it is. I didn't even know that. hehehe
I was using this as a profile pic on Facebook a couple of years ago.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:00 am
by siamhie
So I found out that the background image I used is the Kali Linux logo and wanted to give credit to MX Fluxbox instead. So I grabbed the MX pyramid logo from the web site and laid the Fluxbox logo on top of it. Now I can add my transparent MX Fluxbox logo to any desktop image I find on the internet.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2021 6:17 pm
by ceeslans
Background is a symbiosis of @mojtabanow 's fluxlike wallpaper and @amigo 's stylish mx-linux logo. Easy on the eyes and low on resources
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2021 7:03 pm
by Jerry3904
Very handsome!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:20 pm
by Melber
Modified grey blue tint2 and style for honesty wallpaper

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:48 pm
by Jerry3904
What a fabulous modification!
Would you be willing to post the tint2 config?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:09 pm
by Melber
here you go
@Jerry3904 ...
I did this quickly, so there's bound to be some unnecessary guff in the config.
The executors are the same as in greyblue (btw, I noticed that the grayblue tint2 config in the MX21 beta still references the executors, but the scripts themselves are not included.)
Let me know if you want the accompanying fluxbox style and pixmaps.
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#honesty tint2 config by Melber 2021
#---- Generated by tint2conf 438e ----
# See https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/Configure for
# full documentation of the configuration options.
#-------------------------------------
# Gradients
#-------------------------------------
# Backgrounds
# Background 1: Active taskbar, Inactive taskbar, Launcher, Launcher icon, Panel, Tooltip
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #bc8aa5 100
border_color = #003c7b 100
background_color_hover = #000000 100
border_color_hover = #003c7b 100
background_color_pressed = #000000 100
border_color_pressed = #000000 100
# Background 2: Separator, Systray
rounded = 0
border_width = 22
border_sides = T
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #113b53 100
border_color = #113b53 100
background_color_hover = #007eff 100
border_color_hover = #007eff 100
background_color_pressed = #007eff 100
border_color_pressed = #505050 67
# Background 3: Clock, Executor
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #e93563 100
border_color = #003c7b 100
background_color_hover = #ff0006 100
border_color_hover = #505050 67
background_color_pressed = #007eff 100
border_color_pressed = #007eff 100
# Background 4: Button
rounded = 0
border_width = 1
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #113b53 100
border_color = #ffffff 100
background_color_hover = #ffffff 78
border_color_hover = #000000 67
background_color_pressed = #252525 67
border_color_pressed = #606060 67
# Background 5: Iconified task
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #e8e8e7 100
border_color = #ffffff 100
background_color_hover = #113b53 100
border_color_hover = #ffffff 100
background_color_pressed = #000000 100
border_color_pressed = #ffffff 100
# Background 6: Default task, Normal task
rounded = 0
border_width = 6
border_sides = R
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #e8e8e7 100
border_color = #bc8aa5 100
background_color_hover = #ffffff 100
border_color_hover = #113b53 100
background_color_pressed = #000000 100
border_color_pressed = #bc8aa5 100
# Background 7: Active task
rounded = 0
border_width = 6
border_sides = R
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #e8e8e7 100
border_color = #e93563 100
background_color_hover = #ffffff 100
border_color_hover = #113b53 100
background_color_pressed = #252525 100
border_color_pressed = #ffffff 100
#-------------------------------------
# Panel
panel_items = PC:EEE:T:L:S:P
panel_size = 100% 60
panel_margin = 0 0
panel_padding = 0 0 0
panel_background_id = 1
wm_menu = 1
panel_dock = 0
panel_position = center left vertical
panel_layer = bottom
panel_monitor = all
panel_shrink = 0
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0
autohide_hide_timeout = 0.5
autohide_height = 1
strut_policy = follow_size
panel_window_name = tint2
disable_transparency = 0
mouse_effects = 1
font_shadow = 0
mouse_hover_icon_asb = 100 0 0
mouse_pressed_icon_asb = 100 4 15
scale_relative_to_dpi = 0
scale_relative_to_screen_height = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = single_desktop
taskbar_hide_if_empty = 0
taskbar_padding = 0 0 3
taskbar_background_id = 1
taskbar_active_background_id = 1
taskbar_name = 0
taskbar_hide_inactive_tasks = 0
taskbar_hide_different_monitor = 0
taskbar_hide_different_desktop = 0
taskbar_always_show_all_desktop_tasks = 0
taskbar_name_padding = 1 3
taskbar_name_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_active_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_font_color = #909090 100
taskbar_name_active_font_color = #cccccc 100
taskbar_distribute_size = 0
taskbar_sort_order = application
task_align = right
#-------------------------------------
# Task
task_text = 0
task_icon = 1
task_centered = 1
urgent_nb_of_blink = 0
task_maximum_size = 36 36
task_padding = 0 0 0
task_tooltip = 1
task_thumbnail = 1
task_thumbnail_size = 180
task_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_normal_font_color = #000000 100
task_active_font_color = #000000 100
task_urgent_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_iconified_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_iconified_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_background_id = 6
task_normal_background_id = 6
task_active_background_id = 7
task_urgent_background_id = 0
task_iconified_background_id = 5
mouse_left = toggle_iconify
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = close
mouse_scroll_up = none
mouse_scroll_down = none
#-------------------------------------
# System tray (notification area)
systray_padding = 0 3 10
systray_background_id = 2
systray_sort = ascending
systray_icon_size = 44
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 100
systray_monitor = 1
systray_name_filter =
#-------------------------------------
# Launcher
launcher_padding = 0 0 18
launcher_background_id = 1
launcher_icon_background_id = 1
launcher_icon_size = 36
launcher_icon_asb = 100 0 0
launcher_icon_theme = DarK-svg-white
launcher_icon_theme_override = 1
startup_notifications = 0
launcher_tooltip = 1
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/tint2conf.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-impress.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/thunar.desktop
#-------------------------------------
# Clock
time1_format = %H
time2_format = %M
time1_font = Roboto Bold 24
time1_timezone =
time2_timezone =
time2_font = Roboto Bold 24
clock_font_color = #ffffff 100
clock_padding = 0 8
clock_background_id = 3
clock_tooltip = %A %d %B %Y
clock_tooltip_timezone =
clock_lclick_command = gsimplecal
clock_rclick_command =
clock_mclick_command =
clock_uwheel_command =
clock_dwheel_command =
#-------------------------------------
# Battery
battery_tooltip = 0
battery_low_status = 5
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
battery_full_cmd =
battery_font_color = #eeeeee 100
bat1_format =
bat2_format =
battery_padding = 0 0
battery_background_id = 0
battery_hide = 101
battery_lclick_command =
battery_rclick_command =
battery_mclick_command =
battery_uwheel_command =
battery_dwheel_command =
ac_connected_cmd =
ac_disconnected_cmd =
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 1
separator = new
separator_background_id = 3
separator_color = #777777 80
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 10
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 2
separator = new
separator_background_id = 3
separator_color = #777777 81
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 11
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 3
separator = new
separator_background_id = 1
separator_color = #777777 80
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 48
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 4
separator = new
separator_background_id = 1
separator_color = #777777 81
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 22
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 5
separator = new
separator_background_id = 2
separator_color = #777777 81
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 0
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 1
execp = new
execp_command = /home/mav/.config/tint2/executors/store-perc
execp_interval = 60
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_tooltip =
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Roboto Bold 11
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 3 1
execp_background_id = 3
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 30
execp_icon_h = 30
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 2
execp = new
execp_command = /home/mav/.config/tint2/executors/mem-perc
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Roboto Bold 11
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 3 1
execp_background_id = 3
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 20
execp_icon_h = 20
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 3
execp = new
execp_command = /home/mav/.config/tint2/executors/temp-perc
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_tooltip =
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = Roboto Bold 11
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 3 1
execp_background_id = 3
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 20
execp_icon_h = 20
#-------------------------------------
# Button 1
button = new
button_icon = /usr/share/icons/DarK-svg-white/48x48/pool/shutdown.svg
button_text =
button_lclick_command = /home/mav/.fluxbox/scripts/mxfb-logout
button_rclick_command =
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #000000 100
button_padding = 6 0
button_background_id = 3
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 48
#-------------------------------------
# Button 2
button = new
button_icon = /usr/share/icons/DarK-svg-white/48x48/pool/mx-logo.svg
button_text =
button_lclick_command = xfce4-appfinder
button_rclick_command =
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #000000 100
button_padding = 0 0
button_background_id = 4
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 48
#-------------------------------------
# Tooltip
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.2
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.2
tooltip_padding = 0 0
tooltip_background_id = 1
tooltip_font_color = #ffffff 100
tooltip_font = Roboto Bold 12
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:10 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks--looks like fun!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:11 am
by asqwerth
Melber wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:20 pm
Modified grey blue tint2 and style for honesty wallpaper
I really like that.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2021 4:59 am
by app4soft
Modified to look more Autumn-related

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:51 am
by PPC
I usually don't like publishing screen shots, but this is how I'm currently testing MXFB - to me, an extremely light OS does not have to look bad, it can even look better than the most used OS in the world...
P.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 2:51 am
by ceeslans
New day, new screenie... MX21 Fluxbox desktop, with wildflowery wallpaper.
Bottom bar is a modified version of ututo's cool "minimo" tint2 toolbar.
link to fullsize image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 5:24 am
by Jerry3904
Stunning, Cees!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:46 am
by kobaian
My current MX19 tint2 config imported to MX21:

PcManFM-qt instead of Thunar.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:02 pm
by ceeslans
Nice color combo's! You could consider changing color of the folders to green too, using the 'papirus-folder' script
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 5:22 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:02 pm
Nice color combo's! You could consider changing color of the folders to green too, using the 'papirus-folder' script
Good advice!
Probably I'll try it in the final version. In beta I don't customize too much. I'm rather focused on testing it as it is and doing changes only to do testing more comfortable.
The main purpose of this one was rather having tint2 that matches the Fluxbox style (one of preinstalled styles in MXFB) and GTK theme (also one of the preinstalled in MX21) and having some launchers that are very usable for testing purposes. In MX19 i use "Obsidian mint" icon theme. I didn't import all of the icon sets or styles I use in MX19, because I know that this beta will be replaced with another installation after a couple of days or weeks.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:45 pm
by siamhie
I wanted to try my hand out with conky so I loaded up MX-MyConky but couldn't make heads or tails of how it was written. So I looked at MX-ManyRoads and liked what I saw (for the most part). It was fairly easy to re-configure following the various conky wiki pages I read. I didn't care for the date and time at the top (breaks the look of the rest of the conky) so I removed it. I changed out the user and uptime section (at the top) and replaced it with date and time instead. I also didn't care for running 5 instances of conky (all the files in the folder), so I created a new folder titled MX-ManyRoadsTwo and copied over the allcombined.lua file along with the fonts and img folders and created a new config file combining all the code from the other 5 files. Did some tweaking of colors and entries and am pleased with how it came out. Now to figure out how to add weather to it.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:11 am
by wdscharff
There are some good customizable ones, for me it's 80% a combination of MX-KoO, MX-ManyRoads, and single lines from others. And a lot of copy&paste, because there are hardly any concys with more than 8Cores in the display.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:30 am
by Jerry3904
Gorgeous colors! Just wish the wolf would smile...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:44 am
by wdscharff
not a wolf, this is Sir Archibald vom Steinataler Rudel, my black German Shepherd. I have several of him as wallpapers, one of them was one of the first of me in User contributed wallpapers.
My favorite model , low hourly rate, no legal problems with image claims .... ;-}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:24 am
by ceeslans
@wdscharff: kindly share your conky configuration? thanks in advance...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:54 am
by wdscharff
@ceeslans , with pleasure.
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conky.config = {
background = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Terminus:size=8',
xftalpha = 0.5,
update_interval = 1,
total_run_times = 0,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = false,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
double_buffer = true,
--default_bar_size 0 6
maximum_width = 290,
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
default_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'red',
default_outline_color = 'green',
alignment = 'top_right',
gap_x = 15,
gap_y = 45,
no_buffers = true,
uppercase = false,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
override_utf8_locale = true,
use_spacer = 'none',
own_window_argb_value = 255,
own_window_colour = '000000',
minimum_width = 0, minimum_height = 0,
color0 = 'dodgerblue3',
color1 = 'EC0100',
color2 = 'E9E101',
color3 = '18FF00',
color4 = '66aaff',
-- network $templates
template0 = 'eth0',
template1 = 'eth1',
template2 = 'wlan0',
template3 = 'wlan1',
};
-- fluxbox adjustment
return_code = os.execute('pidof -q fluxbox')
if _VERSION == 'Lua 5.1' and math.floor(return_code/256) == 0 or
_VERSION ~= 'Lua 5.1' and return_code then
conky.config.own_window_transparent = false
conky.config.own_window_argb_visual = false
end
conky.text = [[
# SYS
${voffset -8}${font Fontawesome:size=10}${color} ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color}SYSTEM ${color EC0100}${hr 3}$color${font}
OS $alignr${head /etc/mx-version 1 86400}\
Kernel$alignr$sysname $kernel
Uptime $alignr $uptime
UPDATES: ${execi 360 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}${voffset 5}
# MEMORY
${voffset -8} ${font Fontawesome:size=10} ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color}MEMORY ${color EC0100}${hr 3}
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}RAM: ${color}$memperc% ${alignr}${color2}${membar 8,100}
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}SWAP: ${color}$swap/ $swapmax ${alignr}${color2}${swapbar 8,100}
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Used:$alignr$font $mem of $memmax
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Free:$alignr$font $memeasyfree
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Buffers / Cached:$alignr$font$buffers / $cached
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}RAM on Startup: ${execi 999999 free -m | grep -i mem | awk '{print $3}'}MiB
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}RAM Benutzer $mem
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}RAM frei/absolut : $memfree / $memmax
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}RAM Buffers / Cached:$buffers / $cached
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}freed easily:${memeasyfree}
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}RAM: ${color}$memperc% ${alignr}${color2}${membar 8,100}
$color${font Open Sans:size=8}SWAP: ${color}$swap/ $swapmax ${alignr}${color2}${swapbar 8,100}
# CPU
${voffset -8}${font Fontawesome:size=10}${color} ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color}CPU ${color EC0100}${hr 3}
#$color${font}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq} ${freq_g cpu0}GHz $alignr $cpu%
$color${font}${execi 86400 sed -ne '/model name.*: /{s///;s/@.*//;p;q}' /proc/cpuinfo} ${freq_g cpu0}GHz $alignr $cpu%
# CPU1
CPU-1${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu1}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 1} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu1}${color}
# CPU2
CPU-2${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu2}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 2} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu2}${color}
# CPU3
CPU-3${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu3}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 3} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu3}${color}
# CPU4
CPU-4${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu4}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 4} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu4}${color}
# CPU5
CPU-5${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu5}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 5} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu5}${color}
# CPU6
CPU-6${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu6}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 6} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu6}${color}
# CPU7
CPU-7${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu7}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 7} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu7}${color}
# CPU8
CPU-8${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu8}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 8} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu8}${color}
# CPU9
CPU-9${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu9}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 9} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu9}${color}
# CPU10
CPU-10${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu10}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 10} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu10}${color}
# CPU11
CPU-11${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu11}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 11} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu11}${color}
# CPU12
CPU-12${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu12}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 12} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu12}${color}
# CPU13
CPU-13${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu13}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 13} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu13}${color}
# CPU14
CPU-14${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu14}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 14} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu14}${color}
# CPU15
CPU-15${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu15}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 15} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu15}${color}
# CPU16
CPU-16${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu16}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 16} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu16}${color}
# CPU17
CPU-17${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu17}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 17} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu17}${color}
# CPU18
CPU-18${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu18}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 18} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu18}${color}
# CPU19
CPU-19${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu19}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 19} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu19}${color}
# CPU20
CPU-20${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu20}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 20} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu20}${color}
# CPU21
CPU-21${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu21}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 21} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu21}${color}
# CPU22
CPU-22${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu22}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 22} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu22}${color}
# CPU23
CPU-23${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu23}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 23} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu23}${color}
# CPU24
CPU-24${goto 50} : ${cpu cpu24}% ${goto 95}${color}${freq 24} MHz ${alignc 60}${color2}${cpubar cpu24}${color}
${voffset 5}${goto 50} ${font Open Sans:size=10}${color2}CPU:${hwmon 3 temp 1}°C ${goto 150} ${font Open Sans:size=10}${color2}GPU:${hwmon 1 temp 1}°C
# NETWORK
${voffset -15}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}NETWORK ${color EC0100}${hr 3}$color
#$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}External IP ${font}${alignr}${execi 60 curl http://google.com --connect-timeout 2 | grep -o "[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*"}$font
#${voffset -14}$alignc${execpi 4 echo "\${font}\${color}ping: \${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}\${color6}$(ping -W 1 -c 1 8.8.8.8 -q | grep rtt | egrep [0-9]+\.[0-9]+ -o | head -n 2 | tail -n 1)\${font}\${color} ms"}
${voffset -15}
${if_up $template0}\
${voffset -5}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Ethernet $font$alignr ${addr $template0}
↑ ${upspeedf $template0} kb/s $alignr ${totalup $template0}
${voffset -14}$alignc${upspeedgraph $template0 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template0} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown $template0}
${voffset -14}$alignc${downspeedgraph $template0 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}${else}\
${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}templateernet $font$alignr ${addr $template1}
↑ ${upspeedf $template1} kb/s $alignr ${totalup $template1}
${voffset -14}$alignc${upspeedgraph $template1 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template1} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown $template1}
${voffset -14}$alignc${downspeedgraph $template1 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}${endif}
${if_up $template2}\
${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}WiFi $font${wireless_bitrate $template2} $alignr ${addr $template2}
${voffset -14}$alignc${wireless_essid $template2}
$alignc${color2}${wireless_link_bar 4,260 $template2}${color E9E9E9}
↑ ${upspeedf $template2} kb/s $alignr ${totalup $template2}
${voffset -14}$alignc${upspeedgraph $template2 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template2} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown $template2}
${voffset -14}$alignc${downspeedgraph $template2 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}${else}\
${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}WiFi $font${wireless_bitrate $template3} $alignr ${addr $template3}
${voffset -14}$alignc${wireless_essid $template3}
$alignc${color2}${wireless_link_bar 4,260 $template3}${color E9E9E9}
↑ ${upspeedf $template3} kb/s $alignr ${totalup $template3}
${voffset -14}$alignc${upspeedgraph $template3 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template3} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown $template3}
${voffset -14}$alignc${downspeedgraph $template3 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}${endif}
# HDD
${voffset -8}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}DISKS ${color EC0100}${hr 3}
$color${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}\
ROOT&HOME$font ${color}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /}$alignr${fs_type /}
${color aaddff}write: ${diskio_write }${color6}${alignc -20} read:${diskio_read }$color$alignr ${fs_used_perc /}%
${color2}${fs_bar /}${color}
${if_mounted /home}
${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}\
HOME $font $alignr${fs_type /home}
${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} $alignr ${fs_used_perc /home} %
${fs_bar /home}
${endif}
# Mounted
${voffset -8}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}Disk Mounts ${color1}${hr 3}$color$font
${execpi 10 sh semplice-conky-harddisks.sh}
]];
for the additionally mounted drives
semplice-conky-harddisks.sh
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Returns a list of the harddisks, in a conky-style configuration.
# (C) 2010 Semplice Team. All rights reserved.
# This file is released under the terms of the GNU GPL license, version 3 or later.
#
# fehlix: simplified mount checks
# For now only for /home
#if mountpoint -q /home; then
#echo '${voffset -12}/home:'
#echo '${voffset 4}${fs_used /home} of ${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_bar 8,90 /home}'
#echo
#fi
awk '$2 ~ /[/]media/ { print $2 }' /proc/mounts | while read media; do
echo '${voffset -8}${color}'"$media":
echo '${voffset 4}${fs_used' "$media"'} of ${fs_size' "$media"'} ${alignr}${color #FFF600}${fs_bar 8,90' "$media}"
echo ''
done
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:55 am
by siamhie
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 6:11 am
There are some good customizable ones, for me it's 80% a combination of MX-KoO, MX-ManyRoads, and single lines from others. And a lot of copy&paste, because there are hardly any concys with more than 8Cores in the display.
Nice. I was just looking at the code for MX-Koo and it's very clean (compared to some of the others). East to understand from a newbies POV. Just curious how you were able to get the up/down arrows to show in the Network section? This is what it looks like to me when I load it.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:39 am
by wdscharff
I assume this has something to do with the font used, because you have these typical bracket boxes when the OS doesn't know the font.
Unfortunately I don't know which one it was. Fontawsome? Conkysymbols or ConkyWind?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:47 am
by ceeslans
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:39 am
I assume this has something to do with the font used, because you have these typical bracket boxes when the OS doesn't know the font.
Unfortunately I don't know which one it was. Fontawsome? Conkysymbols or ConkyWind?
@siamhie Please install fonts-fork-awesome, which is available in MXPI stable repo.
Then change in the conkyrc every occurance of 'Fontawesome' to 'forkawesome'
That should do the trick
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:50 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:47 am
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:39 am
I assume this has something to do with the font used, because you have these typical bracket boxes when the OS doesn't know the font.
Unfortunately I don't know which one it was. Fontawsome? Conkysymbols or ConkyWind?
@siamhie Please install fonts-fork-awesome, which is available in MXPI stable repo.
Then change in the conkyrc every occurance of 'Fontawesome' to 'forkawesome'
That should do the trick
Unfortunately that didn't work. Here's what the config section looks like on my end.
${if_up $template3}\
${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}WiFi $font${wireless_bitrate $template2} $alignr ${addr $template3}
${voffset -14}$alignc${wireless_essid $template3}
$alignc${color2}${wireless_link_bar 4,260 $template3}${color E9E9E9}
↑ ${upspeedf $template3} kb/s $alignr ${totalup $template3}
${voffset -14}$alignc${upspeedgraph $template3 10,120 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template3} kb/s $alignr ${totaldown $template3}
You'll notice there's the arrows showing (on the left side) but conky doesn't display them. I also looked at the MX-Full file on git-hub and it also shows the same thing.
https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-conky-da ... oO/MX-Full
UPDATE: I think (not sure) I may have found the problem. At the top of the config file, it calls for a font I don't have installed but I'm not sure which one to install.
conky.config = {
background = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'Terminus:size=8',
xftalpha = 0.5,
update_interval = 1,
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:54 pm
by ceeslans
Perhaps you can try to download and install the 'terminus' font then?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:34 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 12:54 pm
Perhaps you can try to download and install the 'terminus' font then?
Turns out fonts-terminus-otb is required. All other terminus fonts won't work.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:36 am
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:34 pmTurns out fonts-terminus-otb is required. All other terminus fonts won't work.
@siamhie: you are correct. sorry for not being more specific...
@wdscharff: That's a nice compilation of all useful system details.
I did cleanup the code a bit (e.g many references to unrecognized $align variable), edited network "if/else/endif" config and made some cosmetic changes to the layout.
Fwiw, below is my updated conkyrc"
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conky.config = {
xftalpha = 0.5,
update_interval = 1,
total_run_times = 0,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
use_spacer = 'none',
background = false,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_transparent = true,
-- own_window_argb_visual = true,
-- own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
border_width = 5,
-- default_shade_color = 'red',
-- default_outline_color = 'green',
-- default_bar_size 0 6
use_xft = true,
font = 'Terminus:size=8',
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = false,
minimum_width = 250, maximum_width = 250,
minimum_height = 0,
gap_x = 25,
gap_y = 45,
alignment = 'top_right',
default_color = 'white',
-- color0 = 'dodgerblue3',
color1 = 'EC0100',
color2 = 'E9E101',
color3 = '18FF00',
color4 = '66aaff',
-- network $templates
template0 = 'eth0',
template1 = 'eth1',
template2 = 'wlan0',
template3 = 'wlan1',
};
conky.text = [[
# SYS
${voffset -8}${font forkawesome:size=10}${color} ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color} SYSTEM ${color EC0100}${hr 3}${color}${font}${voffset 5}
OS ${alignr} ${execi 86400 awk -F'"' '/PRETTY/{gsub(/GNU\/Linux /, "");print $2}' /etc/lsb-release} - ${execi 86400 inxi -S|awk '{print $10}'} ${voffset -12}
Kernel${alignr}$sysname $kernel
Uptime ${alignr} $uptime
${voffset 5}\
${alignr}${color2}Updates: ${color}${execi 360 aptitude search "~U" | wc -l | tail}${voffset 5}
# MEMORY
${voffset -5}${font forkawesome:size=10} ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color} MEMORY ${color EC0100}${hr 3}${font}${voffset 5}
${color}RAM on Startup: ${alignr}${execi 999999 free -m | grep -i mem | awk '{print $3}'}MiB
${color}RAM user: ${alignr}${mem}
${color}RAM free / absolute : ${alignr}${memfree} / ${memmax}
${color}RAM Buffers / Cached:${alignr}$buffers / $cached
${color}Freed easily: ${alignr}${memeasyfree}
${voffset 5}\
${color}RAM: ${goto 60}${color}${memperc}% ${alignr}${color2}${membar 8,100}
${color}SWAP: ${goto 60}${color}${swap}/ ${swapmax} ${alignr}${color2}${swapbar 8,100}
# CPU
${voffset 0}${font forkawesome:size=10}${color} ${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color} CPU ${color EC0100}${hr 3}
${color}${font}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-27} ${offset 10}${freq_g cpu0}GHz ${alignr}$cpu%
#${color}${font}${execi 86400 sed -ne '/model name.*: /{s///;s/@.*//;p;q}' /proc/cpuinfo} ${freq_g cpu0}GHz ${alignr}$cpu%
Core 1: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu1}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 1} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu1 6,100}${color}
Core 2: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu2}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 2} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu2 6,100}${color}
Core 3: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu3}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 3} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu3 6,100}${color}
Core 4: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu4}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 4} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu4 6,100}${color}
Core 5: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu5}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 5} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu5 6,100}${color}
Core 6: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu6}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 6} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu6 6,100}${color}
Core 7: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu7}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 7} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu7 6,100}${color}
Core 8: ${goto 50}${cpu cpu8}% ${goto 90}${color}${freq 7} MHz ${alignr}${color2}${cpubar cpu8 6,100}${color}
${voffset 5}${goto 50} ${font Open Sans:size=10}${color2}CPU: ${color}${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C ${alignr 50}${font Open Sans:size=10}${color2}GPU: ${color}${hwmon 2 temp 1}°C
# NETWORK
${voffset -10}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}NETWORK ${color EC0100}${hr 3}${color}
\
${if_existing /proc/net/route $template0}${voffset 3}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Ethernet ${font}${alignr}${addr $template0}
↑ ${upspeedf $template0} kb/s - total ${totalup $template0} ${alignr 5}${upspeedgraph $template0 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template0} kb/s - total ${totaldown $template0} ${alignr 5}${downspeedgraph $template0 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}${else}\
${if_existing /proc/net/route $template1}${voffset 3}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Ethernet ${font}${alignr}${addr $template1}
↑ ${upspeedf $template1} kb/s - total ${totalup $template1} ${alignr 5}${upspeedgraph $template1 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template1} kb/s - total ${totaldown $template1} ${alignr 5}${downspeedgraph $template1 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}${else}\
${voffset 3}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Ethernet ${font}${alignr}Not connected\
${endif}${endif}
\
${if_existing /proc/net/route $template2}${voffset 8}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}WiFi ${alignc -20}${font}${wireless_bitrate $template2} ${alignr}${addr $template2}
${voffset 5}${color}signal ${alignc -15}${voffset 1}${color2}${wireless_link_bar 4,160 $template2}${color E9E9E9} ${alignr}${voffset -1}${color}${wireless_link_qual_perc $template2}%${voffset 2}
↑ ${upspeedf $template2} kb/s - total ${totalup $template2} ${alignr 5}${upspeedgraph $template2 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template2} kb/s - total ${totaldown $template2} ${alignr 5}${downspeedgraph $template2 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}${else}\
${if_existing /proc/net/route $template3}${voffset 8}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}WiFi ${alignc -20}${font}${wireless_bitrate $template3} ${alignr}${addr $template3}
${voffset 5}${voffset 1}${color}signal ${alignc -15}${voffset 1}${color2}${wireless_link_bar 4,160 $template3}${color E9E9E9} ${alignr}${voffset -1}${color}${wireless_link_qual_perc $template3}%${voffset 2}
↑ ${upspeedf $template3} kb/s - total ${totalup $template3} ${alignr 5}${upspeedgraph $template3 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}
↓ ${downspeedf $template3} kb/s - total ${totaldown $template3} ${alignr 5}${downspeedgraph $template3 10,90 ff0000 0000ff}${else}\
${voffset 8}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}Wifi ${font}${alignr}Not connected\
${endif}${endif}
# HDD
${voffset 0}${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}DISKS ${color EC0100}${hr 3}
${color}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}${voffset 5}\
ROOT ${font} ${alignc -20}${color}${fs_used /} / ${fs_size /} ${alignr}${fs_type /}
#${color aaddff}write: ${diskio_write} ${alignc -20}${color6}read:${diskio_read}
${color}${fs_used_perc /}% ${goto 40}${color2}${fs_bar /}${color}
${if_mounted /home}${font}${voffset 5}\
${font Open Sans:bold:size=8}HOME ${font}${alignc -20}${color}${fs_used /home} / ${fs_size /home} ${alignr}${fs_type /home}
${fs_used_perc /home} % ${goto 40}${fs_bar /home}${endif}
# Mounted
${font Open Sans:Bold:size=10}${color0}MOUNTS ${color1}${hr 3}${color}${font}
${voffset 20}${execpi 10 sh ~/.conky/scripts/semplice-conky-harddisks.sh}\
${voffset -20}]];
and a screen capture:
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:41 am
by Jerry3904
Nice looking conky for people who like seeing all that information all the time.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 1:30 pm
by ceeslans
New month --> new screenshot....
Showing the wonderful style "allegheny" by fluxbox-guru @packrat
The tint2 toolbar is created by moi, with colors obviously based on packrat's fluxbox style.
Systemtray is populated with (standard) white 'papirus' icons, which are colored to black(ish) using the icon_asb value setting, in order to be displayed on the lightgrey bar. And same goes for the originally-white launcher icons.
Wallpaper was greyscaled/colored to match the overall color scheme
link to fullsize image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 1:40 pm
by Jerry3904
Terrific!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 5:21 am
by kobaian
Nice!
And what about the good old theme, but the new fresh wallpaper?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 5:36 am
by Jerry3904
You guys are killing me with these fabulous creations!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2021 5:49 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
iso of 10-21-2021 full xfce MX-21
mxfluxbox window manager
default theme colors.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:38 am
by Jerry3904
(crossposting from the general MX-21 screenshot thread)
Working on a new one for MX-21 Fluxbox

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:49 am
by siamhie
In the spirit of Halloween

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:13 pm
by Melber
of course I couldn't resist a bit of fiddling with the mx-comfort style...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:36 pm
by Jerry3904
Parents are never satisfied with their children...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:12 am
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 10:38 am
(crossposting from the general MX-21 screenshot thread)
Working on a new one for MX-21 Fluxbox

Nice desktop Jerry!
are you gonna change the style color to olive green too?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:55 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks, cees! I have now changed it to a better color match, though I haven't got it where I want it yet (been a bit busy...). Will come back and post a current screenshot.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:08 am
by i_ri
hello everyone
Jerry3904 You have a good mustard thing there there wildflower.

.Wildflower. Growing on me.
Loving our new Desktop. MX-21.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:42 am
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 4:13 pm
of course I couldn't resist a bit of fiddling with the mx-comfort style...
That's nice!
Can you tell me, how to achieve such a nice slant division between the taskbar and the rest of the panel?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 7:03 am
by Melber
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 6:42 am
...
Can you tell me, how to achieve such a nice slant division between the taskbar and the rest of the panel?
The 'slant' is just a button on a borderless background with no defined mouse click commands and button_icon referencing a graphics file I made. IIRC the panel is 50 pixels high, so the graphics file is 50x50 px. Can look tonight if you need more info.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 12:27 pm
by 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.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:05 pm
by 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.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:59 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 4:05 pm
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.
Code: Select all
#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.
Code: Select all
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.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:01 pm
by i_ri
Ah Yes aha. rofi run,drun runner.
Very nice siamhie.
This fly-out menu
Code: Select all
[submenu] (All Apps)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]
equals one-way ticket to menu.
Code: Select all
[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]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:36 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:01 pm
Ah Yes aha. rofi run,drun runner.
Very nice siamhie.
This fly-out menu
Code: Select all
[submenu] (All Apps)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]
equals one-way ticket to menu.
Code: Select all
[CustomMenu] (All Apps) {~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps}
Make a small fly-out between fly-out menu.
Code: Select all
[submenu] (A All Apps) {A}
[submenu] () {A Apps}
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/all_apps)
[end]
[end]
@i_ri
So fill in the empty parenthesis with ~/.fluxbox/submenus/full_menu?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:15 pm
by 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
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 4:25 am
by Rodney
My Halloween Desktop

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 6:11 am
by Jerry3904
Fun colors!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:49 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 11:15 pm
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.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:56 pm
by Eadwine Rose
Who cares about fat submenus, I wants that kitty in the moon!
@siamhie Where did you find that?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:08 pm
by siamhie
Eadwine Rose wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 1:56 pm
Who cares about fat submenus, I wants that kitty in the moon!
@siamhie Where did you find that?
@Eadwine Rose This is my current go-to site for images. Select Desktop Backgrounds at the top and scroll down just a little. The original image has kitty on the right side of screen, so I created a new image in GIMP and placed the cat in the center instead.
https://www.pexels.com/search/hd%20wallpaper/
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:43 pm
by Eadwine Rose
Thank you so much, I found it

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:24 pm
by siamhie
Eadwine Rose wrote: ↑Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:43 pm
Thank you so much, I found it

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 10:14 am
by ceeslans
Finally installed MX21 fluxbox on my longtime-in-use main machine (Sony Vaio 2010)
I did copy over quite a few goodies that I collected/created for my previous MX19 install, like conkyzen and screeny scripts, most of my tint2 layouts+executors, and many FB styles.
Also installed the gtk3-ready version of fbmenugen to provide the (semi) auto-updating cascading application menu in fluxbox rootmenu. And using feh as wallpaper setter again...
Screenshot is showing:
- pcmanfm-qt (default filemanager, replacing thunar)
- featherpad (alternative to geany as my system-default texteditor)
- feh wallpaper changer (options like imagepath, thumbsize, preferred viewer/editor can be set with separate config file)
- terminal emulator running an update script (alternative for apt-notifier)
- yad text-only 'exit' script
- tint2 manager (original bunsenlabs version, slightly modified)
- tint2 bottom bar "minimo" (original version by ututo, my modification) with 5 executors: pager | volume | cpu | ram | clock
- tint2 applications dock
- Crunchbang gtk2/3 theme and Shiki-Statler fluxbox style
Compton is providing the shadow- and fading desktop effects.
Currently not running any conkies, although I do occasionally start one or two (mostly clock- or weather widgets) with conkyzen.
fullsize image
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 10:22 am
by Jerry3904
Very fine!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 10:33 am
by siamhie
@ceeslans Is that a custom fluxbox style? Very retro looking.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 12:46 pm
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 29, 2021 10:33 am
@ceeslans Is that a custom fluxbox style? Very retro looking.
Yep, custom style was created to match the (retro) Shiki-Statler gtk2 theme.
I created these in a few flavours (white/lightgrey/darkgrey/yellow). I can upload an archive if you're interested
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:21 pm
by i_ri
hello JayM and everyone
MX-21 mxfluxbox
Recolour performance.
if Out of sight were, a fitting, disappearance, then we would have Appearance and Disappearance.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 8:30 pm
by Jerry3904
Good going!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2021 3:41 pm
by Jerry3904
I said I preferred no bright white logo...and with panel and dock autohiding!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2021 8:20 pm
by siamhie
Gone OG with my setup (no mx software removed). I only tweaked my fluxbox settings.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:49 am
by ceeslans
OG ??
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2021 11:16 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:49 amOG ??
OG is a slang term for old-school

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:54 am
by siamhie
My transparent toolbar practically disappears under the moon light.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:21 am
by Jerry3904
Yes it does, but at least the conky is very visible!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2021 8:52 pm
by siamhie
Something to look forward to as winter sets in

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:31 pm
by siamhie
Purple Haze

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2021 8:02 am
by Jerry3904
November in my neck of the woods--letting Mother Nature rule my desktop for a while:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 21, 2021 3:09 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
MX-21_fluxbox64 live
An icon with two deltas caught my eye. It is a terminal.
Playing with font size, Archipelago has an interesting Settings Pane.
Additional Zoom makes effect on Actual Size font.
It does not show right-click WindowMenu; keying summon of WindowMenu for active window all works except Shade.
oh,, and inxi says ram 880 of 3723.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 8:08 pm
by siamhie
My purple-themed desktop is complete.
theme: Yaru-Purple-dark
icons: Yaru-Purple
style: tron_purple
gkrellm theme: EJ
rofi: cloud.rasi (customized)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:33 pm
by kobaian
A theme for the end of autumn.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:51 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 3:33 pm
A theme for the end of autumn.
Very coherent warm color combo. I bet the yaru-brown icons match nicely too.
Your bird is still afloat; mine are already flocking south, fleeing the upcoming winter...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:39 pm
by siamhie
A simple conky with just the pertinent info needed

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:48 pm
by wdscharff
There's not much happening with me anymore.
Installation completed, the desktop is just in 2 variants, for me and then the visitor variant, which are on dock and icons ...
me
visitor

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:04 pm
by siamhie
What size is the image you're using for neofetch?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:00 am
by wdscharff
Theoretically it doesn't matter, because the image is cut to 1:1 anyway and then scaled to the appropriate size. This is certainly the main reason why you have to install imagemagix. everything is in the wiki to neofetch.
Since that doesn't always look nice, I do the crop to 1:1 aspect ratio myself. But it doesn't matter if the image has 500x500px or 3000x3000
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:07 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 9:51 am
Your bird is still afloat; mine are already flocking south, fleeing the upcoming winter...
Nice one!
Seagulls stay with us all the winter-time. I think also winter is the best time to take pictures of them, because they are gathering in one place, don't move too much and look gorgeous on the snow.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2021 5:41 am
by Jerry3904
@ceeslans: that is very handsome indeed!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:29 pm
by Jerry3904
My Fall desktop: "Autumn Ridge," where only pines and oaks still have leaves. Pic taken in West Virginia.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2021 7:22 pm
by siamhie
wdscharff wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:00 am
Theoretically it doesn't matter, because the image is cut to 1:1 anyway and then scaled to the appropriate size. This is certainly the main reason why you have to install imagemagix. everything is in the wiki to neofetch.
Since that doesn't always look nice, I do the crop to 1:1 aspect ratio myself. But it doesn't matter if the image has 500x500px or 3000x3000
I do have imagemagix installed. This is a 700x500 transparent png I made a awhile back.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:24 am
by wdscharff
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 7:22 pm
This is a 700x500 transparent png I made a awhile back.
Transparent PNG, I didn't even think of that idea :-)
Looks good with the Fluxbox logo.
I'm not a fan of ASCII art, this part in Neofetch bothered me more the last years than its strange behavior (depending on the terminal?) not displaying everything.
I should have looked at the wiki much earlier :-)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:58 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
no persist usb3
Seventeen day Uptime on Two display panels
MX-21_fluxbox64iso live, mxfluxbox MX-comfort, idesk, tint2rc, mxDock
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:55 am
by siamhie
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:24 am
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 7:22 pm
This is a 700x500 transparent png I made a awhile back.
Transparent PNG, I didn't even think of that idea :-)
Looks good with the Fluxbox logo.
I'm not a fan of ASCII art, this part in Neofetch bothered me more the last years than its strange behavior (depending on the terminal?) not displaying everything.
I should have looked at the wiki much earlier :-)
I'm not a big fan of ASCII art myself. When I saw your neofetch screenshots on the FB group page I was blown away at how beautiful neofetch looked. I've since switched from RoxTerm to XFCE's terminal because RoxTerm apparently doesn't support images. Here's my latest neofetch window. I've turned off ascci/images in neofetch and in the xfce terminal settings used a background image instead of transparent. My next project will be to take that background image and convert it to transparency for the full effect.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:53 am
by siamhie
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 9:55 am
My next project will be to take that background image and convert it to transparency for the full effect.
Well, that was easier than expected. :)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:56 am
by Jerry3904
That's pretty nice! If there is a config file for that would you be willing to share it with me?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:06 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:56 am
That's pretty nice! If there is a config file for that would you be willing to share it with me?
Sure thing. Inside the zip file is the logo I created (Fluxbox-logo.png 700x500) and the image I created for XFCE's terminal using the logo (flux-trans.png 960x540).
Transparent-Fluxbox.tar.gz
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:08 pm
by siamhie
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:06 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:56 am
That's pretty nice! If there is a config file for that would you be willing to share it with me?
@Jerry3904 Sure thing. Inside the zip file is the logo I created (Fluxbox-logo.png 700x500) and the image I created for XFCE's terminal using the logo (flux-trans.png 960x540). Both images are transparent.
Transparent-Fluxbox.tar.gz
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:15 pm
by ceeslans
@Jerry3904: siamhie mentioned earlier he switched to xfce4-terminal to enable setting a background image.
This can easily be set in xfce4-terminal's preferences tab. Same background will automatically be set in its dropdown terminal.
Got it (sort of) working in rxvt-unicode terminal.
Guess that xterm will also allow some sort of transparent background image setting
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:46 am
by mowest
wdscharff wrote: ↑Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:48 pm
There's not much happening with me anymore.
Installation completed, the desktop is just in 2 variants, for me and then the visitor variant, which are on dock and icons ...
visitor
Lovely, desktop, but what catches my eye, is that you are using a powerhouse of a system to run MX Fluxbox, 12 core CPU and 32 GB of RAM. Wow, that's a lot of horse power that sits idle
Also, amazed at the icon set you found. Those icons on the bottom panel are rather striking. I'm still rocking all of the defaults, even the default wallpaper for MX 21 because I liked the default look so much. The only things I've change is going to the darker MX Comfort theme, and the colorscheme in Roxterm.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:14 am
by asqwerth
Oooh, the bottom panel icons are indeed striking, @mowest . Reminds me of buuf icons, but metallized.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 10:52 am
by wdscharff
Sometimes the computer has something to do, I do image and video editing.
And I'm an impatient person, I don't like to wait and while the PC is busy, I like to listen to music while I read online.
So it must be a few cores and GB more ;-}
The icons belonged to additional icon sets for Rocket Dock (windows 2000/xp). The original download sources for the additional icon sets are no longer available.
Had I not behaved so paranoid backup, I would have them also no longer, since I used it only a short time under XP.
Visually, I like them better under Linux/Fluxbox today than I ever did under Windows. There they always seemed like foreign bodies :-)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 1:30 pm
by siamhie
Spaced

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 10:34 am
by ceeslans
Personal favorite mostly grey desktop theme, based on retro crunchbang and shiki-statler gtk-theme colors.
tint2: crunchbang topbar with 4 executors (pager, volume, cpu, mem) + tint2 application dock (hidden at left screen side)
rootmenu style: crunchbang
wallpaper showing a 'amigo'-style mxfb logo + debian-swirl logo against a no-frills all-grey background

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:02 am
by Jerry3904
Very nice December desktop.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2021 7:30 pm
by siamhie
When one desktop isn't enough.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:51 pm
by Melber
Wishing you all a very neon holiday season

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 5:32 pm
by Jerry3904
Quite wonderful!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:39 pm
by rokytnji.1
Semi Stock install on older Dell Optiplex 755
Goodies-hotkeys,codecs,import google chrome passwords, import bookmarks, install and configure pinxi, sensors-detect,all updates,snapshot made, done.
Here is quicksysinfo
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System:
Kernel: 5.10.0-10-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-10-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.7 info: tint2 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: MX-21_fluxbox_x64 Wildflower Oct 20 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Dell product: OptiPlex 755 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 6 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0GM819 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A11
date: 08/04/2008
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core2 Duo E6550 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Core Merom
family: 6 model-id: 0xF (15) stepping: 0xB (11) microcode: 0xBA
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 128 KiB
desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 1x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1995 min/max: 2000/2333 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1995 2: 1995 bogomips: 9309
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds
status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2
mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GF108 [GeForce GT 430] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0de1 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Logic3 / SpectraVideo plc Wireless Optical Mouse type: USB
driver: hid-generic,usbhid bus-ID: 4-1:4 chip-ID: 1267:c002 class-ID: 0301
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1366x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 361x203mm (14.2x8.0")
s-diag: 414mm (16.3")
Monitor-1: VGA-1 res: 1366x768 hz: 60 dpi: 50
size: 697x392mm (27.4x15.4") diag: 800mm (31.5")
OpenGL: renderer: NVC1 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.3.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell Optiplex 755
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio
vendor: eVga.com. GeForce GT 430 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0bea class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.0-10-amd64 running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network vendor: Dell OptiPlex 755
driver: e1000e v: kernel port: ecc0 bus-ID: 00:19.0 chip-ID: 8086:10bd
class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.91 TiB used: 139.93 GiB (7.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD2003FYPS-27W9B0 size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
rev: 5G09 temp: 34 C scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB model: N/A size: 29.1 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter>
rev: 2.00 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
ID-3: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: SanDisk
model: Cruzer Glide size: 59.62 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 1.27 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 85.89 GiB size: 84.42 GiB (98.29%) used: 8.33 GiB (9.9%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 3.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 70.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: note: see --pkg apt: 1765 lib: 841 flatpak: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bullseye main non-free
Info:
Processes: 248 Uptime: 5h 37m wakeups: 1 Memory: 3.71 GiB
used: 2.04 GiB (55.0%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.96 runlevel: 5 default: 5
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Shell: quick-system-in
default: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.3.11
Can put a fork in her. I'm done.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 1:17 pm
by siamhie
Built a Xmas style using the green_tea style as my template.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:13 pm
by Jerry3904
Handsome desktop!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:33 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 22, 2021 2:13 pm
Handsome desktop!
Thanks
@Jerry3904. I followed the how-to from this site and it was a lot of fun creating the style.
How to make fluxbox styles:
http://www.tenr.de/howto/style_fluxbox/ ... uxbox.html
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 6:44 am
by ceeslans
Happy Xmas !!
Time to enjoy this end-of-year Top2000 broadcast on dutch NPO Radio2 ...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2021 9:09 am
by siamhie
Very clean looking @ceeslans and Merry Xmas to you
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 3:31 am
by siamhie
Christmas is over. Time to put away the desktop decorations and show off my new theme. Created a new style called Oreo (like the cookie) and tweaked MX Koo's conky to a black and semi-white look to go with b&w desktop images.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:11 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Dec 25, 2021 6:44 am
Happy Xmas !!
Time to enjoy this end-of-year Top2000 broadcast on dutch NPO Radio2 ...
Nice!
I've got a question, what icon-set do you use?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:18 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:11 am...
I've got a question, what icon-set do you use?
Take it you refer to the icons in the (tint2) dock.
This is a set of 80-or-so application icons of 96x96 pixel size, that I created for use in a dock (initially for wmalauncher but later on for tint2 application dock).
Most icons are based on early Faenza - and some on early Papirus, reworked and/or copied into a uniform frame.
All icons are in full-color, but for the tint2-dock I prefer to show them in a low-saturated mode, by setting :
launcher_icon_asb = 100 -80 -10. Similar saturation can of course be achieved also when icons are set in tint2 buttons.
If you're interested, you can
download the icons from my google drive
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2021 2:29 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:18 am
kobaian wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 4:11 am...
I've got a question, what icon-set do you use?
Take it you refer to the icons in the (tint2) dock.
This is a set of 80-or-so application icons of 96x96 pixel size, that I created for use in a dock (initially for wmalauncher but later on for tint2 application dock).
Most icons are based on early Faenza - and some on early Papirus, reworked and/or copied into a uniform frame.
All icons are in full-color, but for the tint2-dock I prefer to show them in a low-saturated mode, by setting :
launcher_icon_asb = 100 -80 -10. Similar saturation can of course be achieved also when icons are set in tint2 buttons.
If you're interested, you can
download the icons from my google drive
Thanks!
-----------------
Wintertime Fluxbox with Nordic GTK-Theme:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:22 am
by Jerry3904
When it gets cold I go for the simple: my pic from today that I call "January wheat," the simpleclean tint2 toolbar and "Mint" style.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:26 am
by ceeslans
That desktop has a nice 'stilled' feel. The tint2 toolbar with its glassy effect and blueish border is wonderful...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 5:23 pm
by ceeslans
Created a new version of my "mxfb-greycubes" wallpaper (which is part of the mxfb-art package) where the cubes are now all branded with
@Amigo's modern styled fluxbox logo. Also created one with the more traditional mxfb logo. If anyone is interested, I'll gladly upload them.
The toolbar is my modification of ututo's 'minimo' tint2 panel, which includes 5 executors (pager/volume/cpu/ram/clock). Also made a matching fluxbox style to go with this panel.
As can be seen in below screenshot, I have added a "Places" entry in my rootmenu.
I've searched hi and low (in vain) for a script that could generate a dynamic cascading menu. In absence of which, I ended up creating a static submenu to allow fast access to commonly used folders.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:06 pm
by Jerry3904
FIne. That 3 mx-greycubes wallpaper continues to be one of my favorites so I am interested in how you are changing it here. (Haven't actually seen it yet b/c imgur keeps crashing on me right now, probably b/c my wife is video chatting with a friend.)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 6:54 am
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 09, 2022 6:06 pm
FIne. That 3 mx-greycubes wallpaper continues to be one of my favorites so I am interested in how you are changing it here.
...
"Flne" --> First Language Not English ... ??
I'm using transparent logo images, with much reduced contrast to enhance the glassy effect. Then using the resize- / scaling- / perspective tools to fit them on the cubes.
Attached are the new versions of mxfb-greycubes, both in jpg format. They will convert to png format nicely (if so preferred) with filesize still under 500kb each
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 7:34 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks, will enjoy looking.
I have no idea what you are asking here, sorry:
"Flne" --> First Language Not English ... ??

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:00 pm
by siamhie
When N_Log is your skin (XMMS2) and theme (GKrellM) of choice you just have to have a matching Fluxbox style to go with them.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:50 pm
by ceeslans
@siamhie : matching beautifully! And that also applies to fluxbox' traditional toolbar. Great job
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:35 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:50 pm
@siamhie : matching beautifully! And that also applies to fluxbox' traditional toolbar. Great job
Thanks
@ceeslans. I edited my Oreo style I created 2 weeks ago (for those B&W background images) and just tackled the menu section first. Next will be the window and toolbar section....and here I thought creating conky's was addicting.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 4:15 pm
by siamhie
Added a custom weather conky to the desktop after playing around with the command line options for wttr.in
(Turned transparency off, changed the default text color to match the creme color and added to the config section
of the conky, the 'own_window_colour' variable to change the default black color conky typically displays)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:37 pm
by Jerry3904
Good job, looks great!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 6:30 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 11, 2022 5:37 pm
Good job, looks great!
Thanks
@Jerry3904. I was going to go the openweathermap route and even had created an account to get the personal api key
to setup my weather conky until I came across a post on Reddit. Fiddled around in terminal until i got the formatting just right,
then plugged that information into a conky template I use.
This is the conky. (feel free to use, just change my location in the "conky.text" section to your location)
conky.config section (for transparency, edit these two lines: remove own_window_colour & set own_window_transparent to true)
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conky.config = {
alignment = 'top_left',
background = false,
border_width = 1,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
default_color = 'F4D9A9',
default_outline_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'white',
double_buffer = true,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = true,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
extra_newline = false,
font = 'DejaVu Sans Mono:size=12',
gap_x = 7,
gap_y = 7,
minimum_width = 0, maximum_height = 200,
net_avg_samples = 2,
no_buffers = true,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_ncurses = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
out_to_x = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_transparent = false,
own_window_colour = '6B6966',
own_window_type = 'desktop',
show_graph_range = false,
show_graph_scale = false,
stippled_borders = 0,
update_interval = 1.0,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
use_xft = true,
}
conky.text = [[
${execpi 600 curl wttr.in/Forest_Grove?format="Weather:+%C\nTemperature:+%t\nRealFeel:+%f\nHumidity:+%h\nWind:+%w\nPrecipitation:+%p\nSunrise:+%S\nSunset:+%s\n"}
]];
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 6:27 am
by Jerry3904
My approach to MXFB screens is to let the image take the primary role with the aesthetics. Here is a new one using a gorgeous shot of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope:

Style is unmodified "LemonSpace" and I'm using the included graytop-tint2rc for the panel.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 9:49 am
by rokytnji.1
Pimped mine out just a little.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:03 am
by Jerry3904
So fine!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 6:26 pm
by ceeslans
Have been cherrypicking some scripts from
PPC's antiX-transformation-pack - and his "yad-calendar-ft10.sh" script in particular.
This is a nifty script that can be run from a tint2 button, which allows me to view current calendar month , add (and edit if needed) an event for an upcoming date, search and list saved events with common keywords. Saved events will be shown in a tooltip when hovering over the relevant date. Thanks
@PPC for this really nice script.
I did edit the script a bit, to adapt it to MX and my personal preferences. Below is a (composed) screenshot showing the various options.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:35 pm
by ceeslans
February 2022 screenshot of my MX21-based fluxbox desktop, spinning and purring on an xfce-free system (ie. zero xfce elements/dependencies).
Memory usage idling at ~230mb after startup. Now with roxterm as default terminal-emulator (and good-ol' stjerm for drop-down terminal).
Wallpapers by me - created on-the-fly, using the excellent 'wallcol' scripts by @brontosaurusrex. Just pick a few colors and the script creates a fantastic gradient wp... The second screenshot shows a background with colors based on the default MX-wildflower wallpaper.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:02 pm
by AVLinux
Wonderful work as always! "Simply Beautiful"..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2022 7:44 pm
by Jerry3904
Very nice.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 5:04 am
by Girafenaine
February 2022 screenshot of my MX21-based fluxbox desktop, spinning and purring on an xfce-free system (ie. zero xfce elements/dependencies).
Memory usage idling at ~230mb after startup. Now with roxterm as default terminal-emulator (and good-ol' stjerm for drop-down terminal).
Wallpapers by me - created on-the-fly, using the excellent 'wallcol' scripts by @brontosaurusrex. Just pick a few colors and the script creates a fantastic gradient wp... The second screenshot shows a background with colors based on the default MX-wildflower wallpaper.
Thanks ceeslans, very beautiful. I like the simple and efficient approaches you put forward in your desktop settings, and with artistic sense as a nice addition :) I would vote for some of your creations for a MX-fluxbox default desktop... As I think such approaches are relaxing, efficient and easier to understand and use for begginers (and for advanced users as well).
- I will try these scripts to make gradients, looks simple and nice.
- For the "no-xfce" desktop, I like the idea, but I stick with xfce4-power-manager. Let you get a notification when low-battery, can shut down the screen when unused... Do you have some other tool with similar functions ?
- I stick as well with xfce4-terminal, I am used to it with some nice customizations, and its drop-down mode. I may try your stjerm, but has been abandonned since 2017.
Actually the tool that prevent me from dropping my RAM number as low as your is keepassxc, which I like very much as a password manager - and eats 100 Mo RAM.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 7:06 am
by Jerry3904
Let you get a notification when low-battery
Actually, every single tint2 that we provide has a battery icon in the systray that we set to appear when the power level drops below 15% -- which you can of course change to anything you want. I run my Lenovo X1 Carbon every day below that level and have never failed to see the red icon show up.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 7:11 am
by anticapitalista
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:35 pm
...
using the excellent 'wallcol' scripts by @brontosaurusrex.
Got a link to these scripts?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 8:32 am
by ceeslans
anticapitalista wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 7:11 am
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:35 pm
...
using the excellent 'wallcol' scripts by @brontosaurusrex.
Got a link to these scripts?
Sure, scripts are
here. Have fun!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:01 am
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 7:06 am
Let you get a notification when low-battery
Actually, every single tint2 that we provide has a battery icon in the systray that we set to appear when the power level drops below 15% -- which you can of course change to anything you want. I run my Lenovo X1 Carbon every day below that level and have never failed to see the red icon show up.
+1
I disabled xfce4-power-manager a long time ago - and ran an executor script that would show battery status icon+percentage. I removed that executor after tint2 was configured with the redflag-warning option that Jerry mentioned.
The screen blanks after 10 minutes of non-activity. I don't know whether this is system-default, or a reminiscent of xfce4-power-manager. But it suits my needs.
Girafenaine wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 5:04 am...
I stick as well with xfce4-terminal, I am used to it with some nice customizations, and its drop-down mode.
...
Xfce4-terminal was one of the last xfce elements to be removed. Yes, feature rich, customizable and with built-in dropdown option. But I found roxterm to be a great x-terminal-emulator replacement and also well customizable. Agreed: it doesn't have a drop-down function. Stjerm is an old-but-still-well performing alternative; I probably prefer tilda over it, but found it nearly impossible to configure on my system.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 3:22 am
by PPC
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 6:26 pm
Thanks @PPC for this really nice script.
You are welcome, Ceeslans!
The aim of all the scripts included in FT10 is to add new features to the OS, without any cost on system resources, so most, if not all of them fit right in in MXFB!
(PS: I've been quiet here, but every now and then I take a peek at MXFB's part of the forum, to see how you folks are doing, I tend to think that if antiX and MX are "cousins", antiX with the FT10 transformation pack - particularly when using Fluxbox - and MXFB are siblings that look, and act, very much with each other)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:34 pm
by Girafenaine
Hello @ceeslans ,
Thanks for your answers. I use a tint2 executor for battery level too. What I like is the automatically shutting down thing, even if I don't pay attention to the laptop. I probably could add such a command in the executor, I never thought about that. I do believe the blank screen after 10 minutes is due to xfce4-power-manager... but if you don't launch it in MXFB, I wonder what could do this in your setup. If you investigate and understand that, I would be interested in !
xfce4-terminal is not a "CPU/RAM hungry thing", quite sober according to "MX-fluxbox spirit", so far so good for me.
And thanks again for having shared the wallColGradient scripts from bunsenlabs ! They are now in my fluxbox menu and a quite funny addition. I guess with some customizations, and perhaps both scripts merged in one with one or two options could be in MXFB goodies ! an idea for @Jerry3904 ? It urges to have some "desktop color management tool" able to select the same colors for tint2 elements, background picture, fluxbox theme... would be nice, but not easy as each part as its own theming options and abilities.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:46 pm
by Jerry3904
Good idea on adding those scripts, thanks. I'll take a look once the RPi 2 is out.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 11:20 am
by ceeslans
Girafenaine wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:34 pm
And thanks again for having shared the wallColGradient scripts from bunsenlabs ! They are now in my fluxbox menu and a quite funny addition. I guess with some customizations, and perhaps both scripts merged in one with one or two options could be in MXFB goodies ! an idea for @Jerry3904 ? ...
Meantime I merged the three wallcol scripts into one and renamed it ‘wallcolor’.
Also added a few arguments and options that are all set in a config file named ‘wallcolor.conf’
The script uses imagemagick, plus nitrogen or feh; these are all installed by default in mx-fluxbox.
It also needs ‘gpick’ (an advanced gnome colorpicker). This can be installed from MXPI and may need one or two additional gnome dependencies.
Place ‘wallcolor’ script in a directory of your choice, like "~/.local/bin/" or: "~/.fluxbox/scripts/" - and make the file executable...
Place 'wallcolor.conf' in '~/.config' directory. Then open 'wallcolor.conf' in a text-editor, to change settings/options to your preferences:
- working directory: --> currently set to: “$HOME/wallcolor”
- image resolution: --> currently set to read the current monitor resolution. Change if you prefer larger dimensions
- image file type: --> currently set to “png”. You can change to “jpg” to reduce filesize of the image.
- wallpaper setter: --> currently set to “nitrogen” (which is mxfb default). Alternatively you can use “feh”
If you want to have the option to add noise during image generation, then an overlay image named
“.noise.png” must be placed in the wallcolor working directory.
To generate a color wallpaper, use following command:
Code: Select all
# ( <-- single color )
path-to-wallcolor -f # example: ~/.local/bin/wallcolor -f
# ( <-- two-color gradient )
path-to-wallcolor -g2 # example: ~/.local/bin/wallcolor -g2
# ( <-- four-color gradient )
path-to-wallcolor -g4 # example: ~/.local/bin/wallcolor -g4
Note that the created background will be overwritten with each new wallpaper generated by this script. So be sure to rename the creation if you want to make it available for future background setting.
script file "
wallcolor" :
Code: Select all
#!/bin/bash
#
# wallcolor
# pick color and set that as wallpaper
# original 'wallcol' scripts by brontosaurusrex / mod by ceeslans feb'22
#
# requires: gpick, imagemagick convert, nitrogen or feh
#
### usage :
# < path-to-wallcolor -f > # ( <-- single color )
# < path-to-wallcolor -g2 > # ( <-- two-color gradient )
# < path-to-wallcolor -g4 > # ( <-- four-color gradient )
#======================#
#### START SCRIPT ####
###---------------------
source $HOME/.config/wallcolor.conf
# prepare working folder for wallcolor
mkdir -p "$walldir" || echo "$walldir not found, warning..."
if [[ $1 = "-f" ]]; then
one="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
doit () {
echo "$one"
# set 1-color
convert -size $res xc:"$one" ${walldir}/bg-1color.$ext
# optionally add noise to the gradient (make sure that ".noise.png" is present in ${walldir}/
if [[ $noise = "true" ]];then
if [[ -f ${walldir}/.noise.png ]]; then
composite -alpha off -compose overlay ${walldir}/.noise.png ${walldir}/bg-1color.$ext /tmp/tmpout.$ext
mv /tmp/tmpout.$ext ${walldir}/bg-1color.$ext
fi
fi
# set wallpaper
if [[ $appl = "nitrogen" ]];then
nitrogen --save --set-zoom-fill ${walldir}/bg-1color.$ext
elif [[ $appl = "feh" ]];then
feh --bg-fill ${walldir}/bg-1color.$ext
fi
}
[[ "$one" ]] && doit
elif [[ $1 = "-g2" ]]; then
one="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
two="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
doit () {
echo "$one > $two @ $res"
# make 2-gradient
convert -size "$res" gradient:"$one-$two" -channel RGB -separate -dither FloydSteinberg -colors 256 -combine -depth 8 ${walldir}/bg-2gradient.$ext || exit
# optionally add noise to the gradient (make sure that ".noise.png" is present in ${walldir}/
if [[ $noise = "true" ]];then
if [[ -f ${walldir}/.noise.png ]]; then
composite -alpha off -compose overlay ${walldir}/.noise.png ${walldir}/bg-2gradient.$ext /tmp/tmpout.$ext
mv /tmp/tmpout.$ext ${walldir}/bg-2gradient.$ext
fi
fi
# set wallpaper
if [[ $appl = "nitrogen" ]];then
nitrogen --save --set-centered ${walldir}/bg-2gradient.$ext
elif [[ $appl = "feh" ]];then
feh --bg-fill ${walldir}/bg-2gradient.$ext
fi
}
[[ "$one" && "$two" && "$res" ]] && doit
elif [[ $1 = "-g4" ]]; then
one="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
two="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
three="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
four="$(gpick -p -s -o)"
doit () {
echo "$one > $two > $three > $four @ $res"
# make 4-gradient
convert \( xc:"$one" xc:"$two" +append \) \
\( xc:"$three" xc:"$four" +append \) -append \
-size "$res" xc: +swap -fx 'v.p{i/(w-1),j/(h-1)}' \
-channel RGB -separate -dither FloydSteinberg -colors 256 -combine -depth 8 ${walldir}/bg-4gradient.$ext || exit
# optionally add noise to the gradient (make sure that ".noise.png" is present in ${walldir}/
if [[ $noise = "true" ]];then
if [[ -f ${walldir}/.noise.png ]]; then
composite -alpha off -compose overlay ${walldir}/.noise.png ${walldir}/bg-4gradient.$ext /tmp/tmpout.$ext
mv /tmp/tmpout.$ext ${walldir}/bg-4gradient.$ext
fi
fi
# set wallpaper
if [[ $appl = "nitrogen" ]];then
nitrogen --save --set-centered ${walldir}/bg-4gradient.$ext
elif [[ $appl = "feh" ]];then
feh --bg-fill ${walldir}/bg-4gradient.$ext
fi
}
[[ "$one" && "$two" && "$three" && "$four" && "$res" ]] && doit
else
echo "Failed to execute command, as NO option [-f or -g2 or -g4] was set..."
exit
fi
config file "
wallcolor.conf"
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####################################
# configuration for 'wallcolor' #
####################################
### set wallcolor working directory:
walldir="$HOME/wallcolor"
#walldir="$HOME/Pictures/wallcolor"
### set desired resolution:
res="$(xdpyinfo | awk '/dimensions/{print $2}')"
#res="1920x1200"
#res="1600x900"
#res="1280x800"
### set file type [png] or [jpg]:
ext="png"
#ext="jpg"
### add noise to generated wall
### (make sure that ".noise.png" is in 'walldir' directory)
noise="true"
#noise="false"
### select your wallpaper application; --> [feh] or [nitrogen]:
#appl="nitrogen"
appl="feh"
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:30 pm
by Melber
My monochrome winter desktop

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:49 pm
by alanc_2222
Day 7 using MX Fluxbox

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:57 pm
by Jerry3904
@Melber Really nice!
@alanc_2222 Glad to see you're using MX Fluxbox, welcome!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:41 pm
by siamhie
@Melber I dig black and white desktop themes.
@alanc_2222 Welcome to the group and Welcome to Fluxbox.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:44 pm
by siamhie
You can never have enough styles to play with.
user 18 styles
user2 104 styles
user3 100 styles
user4 100 styles
user5 100 styles
user6 73 styles

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2022 11:18 am
by alanc_2222
Thanks @Jerry3904 and @siamhie , great to be here!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:39 am
by siamhie
Going with a Blood Red theme. Just need to figure out how to change tint2's toolbar from blue to red.
style: bloodStains
widget: DarkBlood
icons: MB-Cherry-Suru-GLOW
xmms skin: Red_Advance
conky color: #af3333

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 5:55 am
by Melber
@siamhie
Quick and dirty method: open tint2 manager, select edit, search and replace #0f56d9 (assuming the blue is the default mx-comfort blue) with the hex code for your red colour, save as "newfilename", close and reopen tint2 manager, select "newfilename" and apply
Fun method: start tint2settings and play around with settings in the background tab (2nd from top). Then get curious and start fiddling around with the settings in all the other tabs...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:08 am
by siamhie
@Melber Seems I went with your fun method last night.
After searching online for 10 minutes I found an arch suggestion that said to modify the rc file. Looking at the file I noticed a lot of sections at the top (Background 1, Background 2, Background 3, etc.) so I reopened tint2 settings and went into config and played around with the Background settings. I modified all 8 entries and removed all traces of blue with red. I even changed the dark grayish toolbar color to a solid black. Now I have just a red line above visible tasks with the active window having a slightly thicker border and non active windows with no border color.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:18 am
by ceeslans
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:29 am
by Jerry3904
Agreed.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 12:56 pm
by kobaian

A picture taken today for wallpaper...
I've replaced launcher icons with Awesome-font characters.
And here's the new weather-executor script that solves the problem of too long error messages:
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#!/bin/bash
wtr=`curl -s wttr.in/?format=1 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'`
if [[ $wtr != Unknown* ]] ; then
echo "$wtr"
else
echo "😕 Oops!"
fi
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:57 pm
by ceeslans
Wow... that's a beautiful desktop.
How are you calling the awesome-font characters in the launcher's *.desktop files? or did you create icons from these characters?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:08 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:57 pm
Wow... that's a beautiful desktop.
Thanks!
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 1:57 pm
How are you calling the awesome-font characters in the launcher's *.desktop files? or did you create icons from these characters?
No.
There's a package in stable-repos called "fonts-font-awesome". I've made tint2 buttons that have a font-character instead of an icon e.g.
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# Button 2
button = new
button_text =
button_tooltip = Menedżer Ustawień | Motyw | Menedżer Tint2
button_lclick_command = custom-toolbox /etc/custom-toolbox/mxfb-settings.list -r
button_rclick_command = mxfb-tint2-manager
button_mclick_command = lxappearance
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font = FontAwesome 18
button_font_color = #ffffff 100
button_padding = 6 0
button_background_id = 8
button_centered = 1
button_max_icon_size = 28
I've found the proper characters using the gnome font-manager:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:51 pm
by ceeslans
Ahh yes, these are buttons - not the 'launchers' that are initiated as "L" in panel_items. Clever...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:34 pm
by i_ri
hi siamhie
" ...how to change tint2's toolbar from blue ..."
This can be scripted for the known, default tint2rc.
example trial (?): #mx-comfort-re2colour tPanel
viewtopic.php?p=662691#p662691
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 7:33 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:34 pm
hi siamhie
" ...how to change tint2's toolbar from blue ..."
This can be scripted for the known, default tint2rc.
example trial (?): #mx-comfort-re2colour tPanel
viewtopic.php?p=662691#p662691
Many thanks
@i_ri 
. This will make changing tint2's highlight color much faster.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:03 pm
by i_ri
Fun.
Thanks.
mxflux21 live.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:16 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:03 pm
Fun.
Thanks.
mxflux21
live.
101 days

. Impressive

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:11 am
by kobaian

And here's my idea for the MX-Comfort Rofi-theme that is a slightly modified Adapta-Sidebar-theme:
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/*
* mx-comfort theme,
* based on sidetab-adapta theme,
* that was based on sidetab theme by deadguy.
*
* This theme has been dedicated to the public domain.
*
*/
configuration {
show-icons: true;
sidebar-mode: true;
}
* {
background-color: transparent;
text-color: #ffffff;
accent-color: #0F56D9;
accent2-color: #0F56D9;
hover-color: #29353B;
urgent-color: #ff5252;
window-color: #ffffff;
selected-normal-foreground: @window-color;
normal-foreground: @text-color;
selected-normal-background: @hover-color;
normal-background: @background-color;
selected-urgent-foreground: @background-color;
urgent-foreground: @text-color;
selected-urgent-background: @urgent-color;
urgent-background: @background-color;
selected-active-foreground: @window-color;
active-foreground: @text-color;
selected-active-background: @hover-color;
active-background: @accent-color;
}
#window {
background-color: #1D2324EE;
margin: 0px 0px 0px;
anchor: south west;
location: south west;
width: 25%;
height: 60%;
}
#mainbox {
children: [ entry, listview, mode-switcher ];
}
entry {
expand: false;
margin: 8px;
}
element {
padding: 8px;
}
element normal.normal {
background-color: @normal-background;
text-color: @normal-foreground;
}
element normal.urgent {
background-color: @urgent-background;
text-color: @urgent-foreground;
}
element normal.active {
background-color: @active-background;
text-color: @active-foreground;
}
element selected.normal {
background-color: @selected-normal-background;
text-color: @selected-normal-foreground;
border: 0 4px solid 0 0;
border-color: @accent2-color;
}
element selected.urgent {
background-color: @selected-urgent-background;
text-color: @selected-urgent-foreground;
}
element selected.active {
background-color: @selected-active-background;
text-color: @selected-active-foreground;
}
element alternate.normal {
background-color: @normal-background;
text-color: @normal-foreground;
}
element alternate.urgent {
background-color: @urgent-background;
text-color: @urgent-foreground;
}
element alternate.active {
background-color: @active-background;
text-color: @active-foreground;
}
button {
padding: 6px;
text-color: #8FBCBB;
}
button selected {
background-color: @hover-color;
text-color: @selected-normal-foreground;
border: 4px solid 0 0 0;
border-color: @accent2-color;
}
/* vim: ft=css
For your pleasure and further improvements.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:46 pm
by Melber
+1

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:54 pm
by Jerry3904
That should do it!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 3:58 pm
by siamhie
I just love Johanna's work. She posts some of the most incredible shots I've ever seen. If you happen to be on Facebook, check out her page.
https://www.facebook.com/johannafroesephotography

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 4:05 pm
by AVLinux
Melber wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 3:46 pm
Excellent!! Yes!!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:06 pm
by ceeslans
March 2022 screeny of a fairly uncluttered fluxbox desktop.
Am using the rather monotone grey-toned 'crunchbang' theme (for gtk2/3, tint2 and fluxbox-style), which suits most backgrounds.
Conky is in its newest version (1.12.2-1 --> thanks
@Stevo ), showing 'old-style' memory level set by the added ${legacymem} variable.
And joining the crowd with a wttr.in weather report...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:23 pm
by Jerry3904
Very handsome indeed!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:42 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:06 pm
Conky is in its newest version (1.12.2-1 --> thanks @Stevo ), showing 'old-style' memory level set by the added ${legacymem} variable.
I just upgraded conky to 1.12.2 and tried the ${legacymem} variable in my code but all that shows up on screen is the code ' ${legacymem} '. How did you get it to work?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:50 pm
by AVLinux
@ceesians,
Every time I think you can't do a better one and then you do! I'd love to see your code for the conky... I've been working on the weather one from this
thread but I'm a bit stuck on how to do the moon phases with wttr.in... Any chance you could share it or at least the moon snippet?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 am
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:42 pm
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:06 pm
Conky is in its newest version (1.12.2-1 --> thanks @Stevo ), showing 'old-style' memory level set by the added ${legacymem} variable.
I just upgraded conky to 1.12.2 and tried the ${legacymem} variable in my code but all that shows up on screen is the code ' ${legacymem} '. How did you get it to work?
I didn't do anything more than upgrading the 'conky-all' package. The 'legacymem' variable is hardcoded in conky v1.12.2 --> check the manpage for it. Please verify that you applied correct spelling and punctuation characters: { }
Or try below datetime.conkyrc:
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------------------------
---- conky_datetime ----
-- @ceeslans may 2020 --
------------------------
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1,
total_run_times = 0,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
text_buffer_size = 1024,
imlib_cache_size = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
short_units = true,
use_spacer = 'none',
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
--own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'ConkyDatetime',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
border_inner_margin = 10,
border_width = 0,
draw_graph_borders = false,
use_xft = true,
font = 'DejaVu Mono:size=9:bold',
xftalpha = 0.9,
override_utf8_locale = true,
minimum_width = 150,
gap_x = 25,
gap_y = 55,
alignment = 'top_right',
default_color = 'd8dee9', --clear
color1 = 'bbbbbb', --very light grey
color2 = 'ebcb8b', --yellow
color3 = 'a3be8c', --green
color4 = 'd08770', --orange
color5 = 'bf616a', --red
color6 = '6B94BC', --blue
default_shade_color = 'black',
default_outline_color = 'white'
}
conky.text = [[
${color1}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Mono:size=80:bold}${alignc}${time %H}${font}
${color2}${voffset 2}${alignc}${time %A} ${color3}${time %d %b}${font}
${color6}${voffset -16}${font DejaVu Mono:size=80:bold}${alignc}${time %M}${color}${font}
${color3}${voffset 3}${font}${alignc}mem ${color1}${legacymem} ${color4}cpu ${color1}${cpu cpu0} %
${voffset -80}
]]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:20 am
by ceeslans
AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:50 pm
Every time I think you can't do a better one and then you do! I'd love to see your code for the conky... I've been working on the weather one from this
thread but I'm a bit stuck on how to do the moon phases with wttr.in... Any chance you could share it or at least the moon snippet?
The secret is in the choice of font. Only a few fonts apparently have a moonphase symbol that can be displayed in conky. I know it sounds weird, but found this by trial and error. Even the great Noto font falls short here. For me, fonts like Droid Sans, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Mono ultimately display it corrrectly.
Weather-wttr.conkyrc
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--[[
Minimalist Conky Designed for World Weather Widget
Release date 12 January 2022
Tested on Linux Mint 20.3
Modified @ceeslans 23 feb 2022
see below for letter code outputs
c Weather condition,
C Weather condition textual name,
x Weather condition, plain-text symbol,
h Humidity,
t Temperature (Actual),
f Temperature (Feels Like),
w Wind,
l Location,
m Moon phase,
M Moon day,
p Precipitation (mm/3 hours),
P Pressure (hPa),
D Dawn*,
S Sunrise*,
z Zenith*,
s Sunset*,
d Dusk*,
T Current time*,
Z Local timezone.
(*times are shown in the local timezone)
]]
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
net_avg_samples = 2,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
out_to_console = false,
out_to_ncurses = false,
out_to_stderr = false,
out_to_x = true,
use_spacer = 'none',
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'desktop',
own_window_transparent = false,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,below',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'Conky_wttr_geo',
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = true,
draw_outline = false,
draw_shades = false,
default_outline_color = 'white',
default_shade_color = 'white',
extra_newline = false,
show_graph_range = false,
show_graph_scale = false,
stippled_borders = 0,
border_inner_margin = 5,
border_outer_margin = 5,
use_xft = true,
font = 'DejaVu Mono:size=9',
xftalpha = 0.7,
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = false,
minimum_width = 280,
maximum_width = 280,
--minimum_height = 250,
gap_x = 60,
gap_y = 60,
alignment = 'top_left',
default_color = 'dddddd', --'eedd70',
color1 = '96B9B7', --'48bcff',
color2 = 'eeeeee',
--## location by name or geo-detect
template0 = 'Rotterdam',
--template0 = '',
--lua_load = '~/.conky/LUA/draw_bg.lua',
--lua_draw_hook_pre = 'draw_bg',
}
conky.text = [[
${voffset -15}\
## show location
${alignc}${color1}Weather * ${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%l'} *${font}
${voffset 5}\
## current condition
${alignc}${color1}Currently${font}
${voffset 0}${alignc}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%C'|fold -s45}
${voffset 10}\
## actual temp / feels like
${goto 10}${color1}Temperature ${alignr 145}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%t'}
${voffset -15}${goto 160}${color1}RealFeel ${alignr}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%f'}
## humidity / wind
${color1}${goto 10}Humidity ${alignr 145}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%h'}
${voffset -15}${goto 160}${color1}Wind ${alignr}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%w'}
## precipitation / pressure
${color1}${goto 10}Precipitation ${alignr 145}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%p'}
${voffset -15}${goto 160}${color1}Pressure ${alignr}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%P'}
## sunrise / dawn
${color1}${goto 10}Sunrise ${alignr 145}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%S'|cut -c1-5}
${voffset -15}${goto 160}${color1}Dawn ${alignr}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%D'|cut -c1-5}
## sunset / dusk
${color1}${goto 10}Sunset ${alignr 145}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%s'|cut -c1-5}
${voffset -15}${goto 160}${color1}Dusk ${alignr}${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%d'|cut -c1-5}
## moon phase / moon day
${voffset 10}\
${color1}${alignr 140}Moon phase ${color2}${font DejaVu Sans:size=15}${voffset -4}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%m'}${font}
${voffset -18}${goto 160}${color1}Moon day ${color}${execi 900 curl -s 'wttr.in/${template0}?format=%M'}
${voffset -22}
]]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:39 am
by asqwerth
@AVLinux I will add that not every font displays the wind direction arrows, though more do than that show the moon phase. Only realised this in my recent period of wttr.in conky tests. ceeslans was very helpful to me as well.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:51 am
by asqwerth
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:06 pm
March 2022 screeny of a fairly uncluttered fluxbox desktop.
Am using the rather monotone grey-toned 'crunchbang' theme (for gtk2/3, tint2 and fluxbox-style), which suits most backgrounds.
Conky is in its newest version (1.12.2-1 --> thanks @Stevo ), showing 'old-style' memory level set by the added ${legacymem} variable.
And joining the crowd with a wttr.in weather report...
....
Another beautiful desktop, ceeslans.
Accuweather script's output went wonky again yesterday, so looks like I'll be using wttr.in conkies a little more. Luckily all the accuweather RSS scripts (even the 1d one from 2017) continue to work all these years, though they don't give much weather details.
I dusted off some of TBG's weather underground ones I'd used before. Still work, and I adjusted a few to reduce the output to just a few days.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:27 am
by AVLinux
asqwerth wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:39 am
@AVLinux I will add that not every font displays the wind direction arrows, though more do than that show the moon phase. Only realised this in my recent period of wttr.in conky tests. ceeslans was very helpful to me as well.
Haha, that was to be my next question, very prescient!
*Edit - DejaVuSans saves the day for both Moon and Wind direction! As a side benefit it's a little easier to read than the Roboto I was using.. Thanks to you both, now you've got me rethinking my whole Conky...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 9:05 am
by ceeslans
asqwerth wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:51 am ... Accuweather script's output went wonky again yesterday ...
Noticed the same. But il.harun meanwhile already published an updated accuweather script on the bunsenlabs forum, which tackles the issues.
Looks like il.harun is a worthy accuweather guardian in absence of TBG

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 11:35 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 am
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 9:42 pm
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Mar 02, 2022 2:06 pm
Conky is in its newest version (1.12.2-1 --> thanks @Stevo ), showing 'old-style' memory level set by the added ${legacymem} variable.
I just upgraded conky to 1.12.2 and tried the ${legacymem} variable in my code but all that shows up on screen is the code ' ${legacymem} '. How did you get it to work?
I didn't do anything more than upgrading the 'conky-all' package. The 'legacymem' variable is hardcoded in conky v1.12.2 --> check the manpage for it.
I was editing some systemd services and noticed upon reboot that the variable is indeed working and matches what free displays. This is so nice to have conky show a respectable value now.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 12:22 pm
by siamhie
asqwerth wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:39 am
@AVLinux I will add that not every font displays the wind direction arrows, though more do than that show the moon phase. Only realised this in my recent period of wttr.in conky tests. ceeslans was very helpful to me as well.
I rely on Fontmatrix to help me track down those types of fonts. I've recently been playing around with upload/download fonts.
220303_091502.png
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${goto 60}${font DejaVu Serif}⇊${font} Download Speed
${alignc}${downspeed wlan0}
${goto 40}Total Downloaded ${totaldown wlan0}
${goto 65}${font DejaVu Serif}⇈${font} Upload Speed
${alignc}${upspeed wlan0}
${goto 40}Total Uploaded ${totalup wlan0}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:14 pm
by AVLinux
OK, not officially an MX-Fluxbox screenie, but lots of cross-pollination going on and could certainly be used with MXFB.. I've raided everyone's Conky closet for this one..lol
ksnip_20220303-215137.png
I won't post the code yet because it relies on some outside fonts and scripts (pamix, init-detect) and if there is any interest I should probably post a new topic and provide all the assets..
Thanks everyone for the brain pickings...
*Edit screenie updated with final version (lol, for now)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:16 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:14 pm
OK, not officially an MX-Fluxbox screenie, but lots of cross-pollination going on and could certainly be used with MXFB.. I've raided everyone's Conky closet for this one..lol
ksnip_20220303-154601.png
I won't post the code yet because it relies on some outside fonts and scripts (pamix, init-detect) and if there is any interest I should probably post a new topic and provide all the assets..
Thanks everyone for the brain pickings..
Yes please. I have pamixer installed and an init-id script because I have a couple of manyroads conkys backed up.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:24 pm
by AVLinux
OK, Once I finish it I will post it! More questions..
Does anyone know how to just display the total number of CPU cores and threads, I'm not looking to show each CPU core or a bar graph or anything like that.. I just want the two total numbers ie(24 Cores/48 Threads) or something like that. Advice appreciated!
*EDIT ${execi 1000 nproc --all} seems to do it, or close enough
*EDIT-2 This little gem got me my CPU Model.. (Note I had to select what number to start and stop after the 'cut' on to make it fit, see screen shot a couple of posts above):
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${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 10-29}
and by extension Vendor ID:
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${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'vendor_id' | sed -e 's/vendor_id.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2022 1:41 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Thu Mar 03, 2022 4:24 pm
OK, Once I finish it I will post it! More questions..
Does anyone know how to just display the total number of CPU cores and threads, I'm not looking to show each CPU core or a bar graph or anything like that.. I just want the two total numbers ie(24 Cores/48 Threads) or something like that. Advice appreciated!
*EDIT ${execi 1000 nproc --all} seems to do it, or close enough
*EDIT-2 This little gem got me my CPU Model.. (Note I had to select what number to start and stop after the 'cut' on to make it fit, see screen shot a couple of posts above):
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${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 10-29}
and by extension Vendor ID:
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${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'vendor_id' | sed -e 's/vendor_id.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
Dude, you're a genius. I took a little bit of this and a little bit of that to create the perfect CPU information now.
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${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-24}/${execi 1000 nproc --all} thread processor

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:09 am
by AVLinux
Very Nice!
Yes you can use that line to pretty much isolate any of the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'
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#CPU TITLE
${offset 35}${font RockSalt:size=10}${color White}Cpu${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${color}${goto 200}${hr}${font}
#CPU SECTION
${voffset 5}${goto 40}${color2}Brand:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'vendor_id' | sed -e 's/vendor_id.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Model:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 10-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Cores:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu cores' | sed -e 's/cpu cores.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Threads:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'siblings' | sed -e 's/siblings.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Usage:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}$cpu%${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Freq:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${freq_g} Ghz${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Temp:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${hwmon temp 1:} C${color}${font}
ksnip_20220305-110544.png
OK, we are getting very far off topic and I will post my finished Conky with code, fonts and other assets in the 'Community Sharing' thread sometime this weekend..
Now back to our previously scheduled programming and the beautiful world of MX Fluxbox Screenshots!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:56 am
by Jerry3904
Man, you people are doing great stuff! I appreciate all the posts in this loooong thread.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 12:46 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 11:09 am
Very Nice!
Yes you can use that line to pretty much isolate any of the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'
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#CPU TITLE
${offset 35}${font RockSalt:size=10}${color White}Cpu${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${color}${goto 200}${hr}${font}
#CPU SECTION
${voffset 5}${goto 40}${color2}Brand:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'vendor_id' | sed -e 's/vendor_id.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Model:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | sed -e 's/model name.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 10-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Cores:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'cpu cores' | sed -e 's/cpu cores.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Threads:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${execi 1000 cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'siblings' | sed -e 's/siblings.*: //'| uniq | cut -c 1-29}${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Usage:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}$cpu%${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Freq:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${freq_g} Ghz${color}${font}
${voffset 0}${goto 40}${color2}Temp:${font Hack Nerd Font:size=10} ${font}${color}${alignr}${color3}${hwmon temp 1:} C${color}${font}
ksnip_20220305-110544.png
OK, we are getting very far off topic and I will post my finished Conky with code, fonts and other assets in the 'Community Sharing' thread sometime this weekend..
Now back to our previously scheduled programming and the beautiful world of MX Fluxbox Screenshots!!
Very cool. I'm working on a new conky/desktop and this code will help fill in some gaps. I came across this post on Reddit and have decided to use my own MB's diagram.
Dummy Page.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:16 pm
by siamhie
I present bannana-rama

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 5:32 pm
by AVLinux
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:16 pm
I present bannana-rama
Wow, Cool! You went to a lot of work on that one!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 8:13 pm
by AVLinux
Hmmm,
Ran into this today and it inspired me to work on another section:
https://github.com/Madh93/conky-spotify
ksnip_20220305-200835.png
Probably will keep it as a separate module... The original script's 'small' version was too spartan with no cover art and the medium size version was quite large so I whittled it down to the same size as the rest of my Conky..
ksnip_20220305-201749.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:56 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 5:32 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:16 pm
I present bannana-rama
Wow, Cool! You went to a lot of work on that one!
Thanks. Basically I created a desktop background with the MB and WD NVMe drive I actually own and wrote the conky around it. The problem with a centered conky like that is the amount of desktop you lose to Fluxbox's right-click menu.
**reclaimed almost 800 pixels. Now I have more room to access the root menu.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:59 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 8:13 pm
Hmmm,
Ran into this today and it inspired me to work on another section:
https://github.com/Madh93/conky-spotify
ksnip_20220305-200835.png
Probably will keep it as a separate module... The original script's 'small' version was too spartan with no cover art and the medium size version was quite large so I whittled it down to the same size as the rest of my Conky..
ksnip_20220305-201749.png
Very cool. I've tried to get the XMMS code to work in conky with no luck. I think I keep getting daemon errors. +1 for Johnny Winter
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:19 am
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:56 pm
... Basically I created a desktop background with the MB and WD NVMe drive I actually own and wrote the conky around it. The problem with a centered conky like that is the amount of desktop you lose to Fluxbox's right-click menu.
...
not if you set the own_window_type variable to 'overwrite' in your conkyrc

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:36 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 2:19 am
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 9:56 pm
... Basically I created a desktop background with the MB and WD NVMe drive I actually own and wrote the conky around it. The problem with a centered conky like that is the amount of desktop you lose to Fluxbox's right-click menu.
...
not if you set the own_window_type variable to 'overwrite' in your conkyrc
Thank you, that did the trick

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 9:01 am
by Jerry3904
A stunning photo by
a photographer in Maryland named Lisa Louise that satisfies my professional and personal pleasure centers:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 10:56 am
by siamhie
Absolutely stunning. I follow three Oregon photographers for their excellent work.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 5:21 pm
by ceeslans
Today's screenshot of my MX21 based fluxbox desktop.
Running a personalized version of AVLinux' beautiful 'Diehard' conky.
Bottom tint2 toolbar 'Minimo', now with added audio controls.
'Flux-Numix' fluxbox style & 'Fluent-grey-dark' gtk2/3 theme
Background is a noisified version of one of @brontosaurusrex's rendered
'flames' . Check it out, there are some really great images ...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:24 pm
by AVLinux
Very nice! haha, not just the wallpaper is 'art'... the entire Desktop is!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 3:43 pm
by wdscharff
New monitor+old monitor=Dual monitor operation.
But then it was easier than I first thought.
Side effect, I don't know yet if I have to be happy or angry about it, I will at least adapt my favorite wallpapers to the changed conditions.
screenshots with scrots are now quite wide :-)
my little black monster
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:11 am
by ceeslans
Playing with @sleekmason's
'random wallpaper changer'.
The script allows 'random-setting' of wallpapers at a selected time interval.
Still finetuning it for use within my mxfb setup, setting up the keybinds for starting and exiting the script action, should be easy peasy.
...Fun!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:15 am
by Jerry3904
Interesting for sure, thanks for the post.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:40 pm
by ceeslans
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:11 am
Playing with @sleekmason's
'random wallpaper changer'.
The script allows 'random-setting' of wallpapers at a selected time interval.
Still finetuning it for use within my mxfb setup, setting up the keybinds for starting and exiting the script action, should be easy peasy.
...Fun!
Now with an alternative yad-script version, setting an icon in the systemtray.
Leftclicking the icon tells feh to randomly fast-flip through - and instantly set a background from the selected image folder.
Rightclicking invokes a menu, from where an interval time can be set for the random wallpaper changer.
Works a treat...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 12:13 pm
by misko-2083
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 6:40 pm
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Mar 24, 2022 9:11 am
Playing with @sleekmason's
'random wallpaper changer'.
The script allows 'random-setting' of wallpapers at a selected time interval.
Still finetuning it for use within my mxfb setup, setting up the keybinds for starting and exiting the script action, should be easy peasy.
...Fun!
Now with an alternative yad-script version, setting an icon in the systemtray.
Leftclicking the icon tells feh to randomly fast-flip through - and instantly set a background from the selected image folder.
Rightclicking invokes a menu, from where an interval time can be set for the random wallpaper changer.
Works a treat...
@
@Jerry3904 forgot to put
gtk-menu-images=1 in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini in Flux respin.
That's why you couldn't see the icons in right click menu for the
script to shuffle desktop backgrounds.
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cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors
gtk-fallback-icon-theme=gnome
gtk-font-name=Noto Sans 10
gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0
gtk-theme-name=Breeze
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 12:18 pm
by Jerry3904
Hey Misko, how nice to see you around! Not sure what you're talking about here, or why I would want to use breeze as theme, but I'll take a look.
What do you think of of the respin more generally...?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 1:42 pm
by misko-2083
Nice to know you are still here Jerry.
I haven't tried it yet. I think I had glimpse of it even before the release,
when that icon configuration script for iDesk, if I remember the name correct, was in the early alpha stage.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 2:21 pm
by siamhie
Going for maximum desktop real estate. I've got three tint2 panels going. Far left is the apps panel, dead center is the transparent toolbar and far right is the systray. Up top is a simple conky with just enough info needed.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2022 2:35 pm
by ceeslans
misko-2083 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 12:13 pm
@@Jerry3904 forgot to put
gtk-menu-images=1 in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini in Flux respin.
That's why you couldn't see the icons in right click menu for the
script to shuffle desktop backgrounds.
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cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
[Settings]
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors
gtk-fallback-icon-theme=gnome
gtk-font-name=Noto Sans 10
gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=0
gtk-theme-name=Breeze
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
Well, it seems that you can enable/disable this 'gtk-menu-images=1' setting, by ticking the box for "show icons in menu" in the 'other' tab of lxappearance. It could well be that this setting is enabled by default in mx-fluxbox ...
Anyway, am pleased that the issue is now resolved for me: icons are showing up correctly in the yad-notification menu - as you can see in above screen grab
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 6:53 am
by Jerry3904
My simple-minded approach to a beautiful FB desktop using a NASA image and recoloring the rootMenu with the new "MX Comfort" tool from
@Melber that is coming through today with mxfb-accessories.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2022 3:04 pm
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 6:53 am
the new "MX Comfort" tool from @Melber that is coming through today with mxfb-accessories.
That's good news! This is a really great tool.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:10 am
by Melber
@kobaian Thanks for the compliment, glad you like it.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:46 am
by ceeslans
My April 5th fluxbox desktop.
Tint2 toolbar is based on 'allegheny' fluxbox-style colors by @packrat - and jgmenu apps menu follows the same tint2 scheme.
Am in the middle of editing the 'beepmein' alarm/reminder script by @brontosaurusrex - and the unique wallpaper-shuffler script by @misko-2083. Lately I added an option to shuffle backgrounds from upto three different image folders. Shuffle interval times between one minute and 24 hours.
Also trying to configure the 'xmessage' output, but sofar unable to get a better-looking scalable font working. Any suggestions what
xmessage*font line in .Xresources should look like, would be welcome...
Watching a
2022 guitar+cello version of sting's "russians" song.
Author/owner of the
'roof-lantern' wallpaper is unknown to me.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2022 3:34 pm
by AVLinux
Another great one!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:25 pm
by Melber
Doing some spring cleaning I found an old background I’d made and then forgotten about.
Style is MX-comfort-plus, a variant with slightly larger title bar and window symbols, recoloured with the MX-comfort tool.
Some minor colour and border fiddling with my current tint2 to give it an MX-comfort look.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:38 pm
by Jerry3904
Very handsome! Are you willing to share the background?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 4:57 pm
by Melber
Sure, here it is
MX green.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:32 pm
by AVLinux
Wow, super cool!
You MX-Fluxxers are so much fun! I don't even use it and this is one of my favorite corners of the forum! Great computer art folks, keep it coming!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:37 pm
by Jerry3904
"MX-Fluxxers" sounds like it could be an infraction of Forum Rules...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:50 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:37 pm
"MX-Fluxxers" sounds like it could be an infraction of Forum Rules...
Haha! Just don't say it too quickly or after drinking more than 4 martinis...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 5:55 pm
by Krogmos
"MX-Fluxxers" - sounds like a mediaeval colon problem (: not ; - semi-colon)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2022 6:07 pm
by Jerry3904
Even worse infraction of the Forum Rules!!!!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:05 am
by Amiga-MX
Singularity

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:43 am
by asqwerth
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 12:05 am
Singularity
Ooooh. Nice.
Like
@AVLinux I don't use mxfb, but I enjoy the artwork and creativity here.
[also talent-scouting for future art contributions, heh heh]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:51 am
by Jerry3904
@asqwerth Now that mxfb-art has gone the way of the dodo, they're all yours!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:33 pm
by asqwerth
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 8:51 am
@asqwerth Now that mxfb-art has gone the way of the dodo, they're all yours!
Heh, nothing much to do for now until Debian Bookworm is more than a speck on the horizon.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:47 pm
by AVLinux
@asqwerth
You may need that much time to equal or outdo the phenomenal job on Wildflower, you've set a very high bar for yourself..

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 4:10 pm
by Jerry3904
True, that.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 10:03 pm
by asqwerth
@AVLinux @Jerry3904
Thanks for your kind words, but I'm mainly the coordinator who rounds up the real creative people and gets nice artwork out of them.
But let's see what happens to xfce and gtk theming in Bookworm, in the light of coming gtk4 and libadwaita.
That will probably not affect fluxbox too much though, so I won't derail this screenshot thread any further .
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:08 pm
by Amiga-MX
Changing Kernel in MX-21-FB
I also enjoy the artwork and creativity here

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MXMLGO
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2022 7:28 pm
by siamhie
Came across this background that screamed for a theme. Gpick is my favorite program to use to get the precise hex code needed to tie everything together.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2022 11:20 pm
by Amiga-MX

Magic Mushrooms ¡
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2022 12:45 am
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sun Apr 10, 2022 11:20 pm

Magic Mushrooms ¡
@Amiga-MX That explains why I'm seeing blue butterflies

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:01 pm
by ceeslans
Polished up @tenner's fluxbox-style "camo2" [2008] and created matching top|bottom tint2 panels.
Dropdown jgmenu applications menu - and yad calendar, both triggered from tint2 buttons.
I prefer feh for setting wallpaper (instead of nitrogen). Screenshot showing the selection window created with 'feh-setbg' script.
Weather conky using accuweather services.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:10 pm
by Jerry3904
Isn't that just fine! Seems to me that Tenner must have been just a bit weird...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:23 pm
by AVLinux
Hi ceeslans!
First... some kudos to
@siamhie and
@Amiga-MX for some nice work recently too..
Now back to you ceeslans..
To me that is what 'Linux' should look like... completely the opposite direction from big enterprise DE's... What you have there is unique, it's functional and it's efficient and it looks like something alternative and beautiful.. It's beauty isn't in gloss and empty effects. It's beauty is in it's synergy of craft and purpose. I am in awe of your talents and configuration skills. I really wish I had more dabbling time to dive deep into Flux/Tint world but I'm overextended already that's why this thread is so entertaining it's just as much about making the OS itself as it is about making things 'with' the OS..
All I know is my recent visit back to LXDE has reminded of the beauty of efficient simplicity that really made Linux beckon to me in the first place as a true alternative and something
different, you folks down here are masters!!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:31 pm
by Jerry3904
Nice words, and totally true for me was well !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:34 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:31 pm
Nice words, and totally true for me was well !
Well, we owe it to you good sir! You've done a tremendous job... Lol XFCE4 should be looking over it's shoulder and quaking in it's boots!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:47 pm
by Jerry3904
Easy there, Trigger!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:55 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:47 pm
Easy there, Trigger!
Haha not the developers of the XFCE4 version!! I meant MXFB is closing the gap on doing much of what XFCE4
as a D.E. in general does less and less efficiently with each release...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2022 3:23 am
by wdscharff
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 4:01 pm
I prefer feh for setting wallpaper (instead of nitrogen). Screenshot showing the selection window created with 'feh-setbg' script.
me too, but
I had knitted myself a more pleasing display of the selection with feh and skippy-xd.
The problem with Feh, for me, is that in dual monitor mode I have to write the fehbg myself, so the nice display is of no use to me.
I can just use my file manager and its (really good) image preview in the background directory and then copy the paths into the fehbg.
looks like this:
feh --no-fehbg --bg-scale '/home/winnI/backgrounds/IMG_1611_5d2.jpg' '/home/winnI/backgrounds/14_dia100-0062_IMG_1280x845.jpg'
Multi monitor operation can Nitrogen better!
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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:15 pm
by Jerry3904
I loved the shot of a clematis posted this morning by freja, so used Melber's nifty tool to add some violet to the menu and got this stunning result.

Not sure how long I will keep it but like it a great deal.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:35 pm
by AVLinux
Very nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2022 7:33 pm
by siamhie
Stunning with the purple titles and highlighted entries.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:15 pm
by Melber
@Freja's newest
background with default MX-comfort look.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:29 pm
by Jerry3904
Excellent! How did you get rid of the logo?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:34 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:29 pm
Excellent! How did you get rid of the logo?
He did an earlier version w/o the logo in Page 1 of the Freja thread
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:47 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks--headed there.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 6:53 am
by Jerry3904
Been looking more closely at the amazing website by Addy with incredibly creative tint2 panel designs.
https://github.com/addy-dclxvi/ Somewhere on there he tells how to just clone his repo inside ~/.config/tint2 so you can take a look at and use them. Some of them require some effort to get working, and I believe that
@ceeslans has worked with them to some extent.
Here is user Rudd's wonderful wallpaper that he recently posted on the Forum, pairing wonderfully with Addy's "minima" panel which I'm in the process of modifying for my daily use.

And here's a close-up of the panel:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 12:17 pm
by ceeslans
Addy's creations are great. Neat layout, exceptional graphics and colours. My 'launchy' tint2 toolbar is based on Addy's tint2rc and mostly using his panel icons.
He also created some nice scripts. Even though his github page seems unmaintained, it's definitely worth checking all out.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 01, 2022 1:04 pm
by AVLinux
@Jerry3904
Wow, that is stunning! Very nice and unique!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 02, 2022 3:46 pm
by ceeslans
New month, new screeny...
Running 'ps_mem.py' to show memory consumption shortly after startup. Not "antiX" light, but I'm pretty pleased with such low memory usage on my MX Fluxbox system.
Current GTK2/3 theme is 'Crunchbang' - as is tint2 panel & fluxbox menu/window style; been running this combo for months now.. Popup recent-files list (and hidden places+application menu) with jgmenu.
Background image 'Gangster Monkey' available at various wallpaper sites

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 02, 2022 5:12 pm
by Jerry3904
Well that's fun!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 12:39 am
by kobaian
The world around is blooming and my MX-Fluxbox follows.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 2:44 am
by Outlander
First screenshot!
Is it possible to get icons in the Fluxbox menu in MX?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 3:57 am
by siamhie
Outlander wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 2:44 am
First screenshot!
Is it possible to get icons in the Fluxbox menu in MX?
Yes. The icons will need to be in either xpm or png format. Edit the full_menu file under the submenus directory in your fluxbox folder.
The menu structure will look like this.
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[exec] (Firefox) {firefox} <'path to the firefox icon'>
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 5:47 am
by Outlander
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 3:57 am
Outlander wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 2:44 am
First screenshot!
Is it possible to get icons in the Fluxbox menu in MX?
Yes. The icons will need to be in either xpm or png format. Edit the full_menu file under the submenus directory in your fluxbox folder.
The menu structure will look like this.
Code: Select all
[exec] (Firefox) {firefox} <'path to the firefox icon'>
There's no way to automatically populate the menu with icons? fbmenugen has the option but I'd like to stick with the built in MX tools.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:03 am
by Jerry3904
Not that static menu, which is a Fluxbox menu that dates from 20 years ago. We provide by default 3 menus: this FB menu, rofi (logo key) and xfce4-appfinder. The last two have automatic icon population and continue to be developed.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:09 am
by Outlander
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 6:03 am
Not that static menu, which is a Fluxbox menu that dates from 20 years ago. We provide by default 3 menus: this FB menu, rofi (logo key) and xfce4-appfinder. The last two have automatic icon population and continue to be developed.
That's unfortunate, but understandable. I'll probably switch to fbmenugen for that menu then.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:15 am
by kobaian
In my opinion icons in FB-menu look almost always really poor (there are awful jaggies at the edges). So I have decided not to use any.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 6:34 am
by Jerry3904
Agreed. I also like it without for its clean simple look.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 8:12 am
by wdscharff
Since I am satisfied, I hardly change anything, the last adjustment was for dual monitor operation and that was it.
Icons in the root menu? That's how different approaches are, I find it easier to quickly identify the menu items with icons+text in the root menu. But I also have over -6 diopters, massive astigmatism (without glasses, circles are ellipses for me, if they are close enough that I can see them at all without glasses). And one eye is almost only good for recognising differences in brightness.
The reason I use fbmenugen is not only because of the icons, but also because I generally have more configuration options regarding the appearance and structure of my menus.
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Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 10:10 am
by ceeslans
Just like
@wdscharff and
@Outlander, I prefer fbmenugen too, because of its speed and configurability (is that a word?). Besides that , I rather like the 'text-only' appearance of the FB rootMenu anyway.
If you really want crispy icons displayed in your main menu, you could consider using jgmenu. Configuring that beast is a steep learning process tho'.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 1:07 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 10:10 am
Just like @wdscharff and @Outlander, I prefer fbmenugen too, because of its speed and configurability (is that a word?). Besides that , I rather like the 'text-only' appearance of the FB rootMenu anyway.
If you really want crispy icons displayed in your main menu, you could consider using jgmenu. Configuring that beast is a steep learning process tho'.
Nice desktop and this amazing tree-frog wallpaper!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 2:54 pm
by balarm
@wdscharff wonderfull photo,where did you get it?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 3:32 pm
by wdscharff
From my archive: EOS 20D with LEICA APO-Macro-Elmarit-R 2.8/100mm.
I only use my own images, some of which I have made available to the MX community.
This one too :-)
link
in my footer is also the link to my MX wallpapers
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat May 14, 2022 2:37 pm
by balarm
@wdscharff Thanks a lot.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 1:54 pm
by Amiga-MX
ABCHAL+1
MXMLGO
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 9:16 am
by siamhie
Checking out the styles that comes with antiX's Fluxbox desktop. This one pairs well with my aeroplane. (grabbed the styles from antiX's GitHub page)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 12:10 pm
by Melber
Honest Pixels

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 12:14 pm
by Jerry3904
Handsome colors
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 12:24 pm
by Melber
Thank @Freja for the colours, I just made the honesty wallpaper pixelly and chose a couple.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 1:02 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 12:10 pm
Honest Pixels
I'm getting flashbacks of the scrambled soft porn channels from the early 80's. Emmanuel anyone?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 22, 2022 1:22 pm
by Jerry3904
You're asking for a fish slap...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 5:25 am
by ceeslans
fluxbox-style / tint2-panel / jgmenu: all based on @ututo's "minimo" tint2 layout and colors
conky: MXFluxLogo for background-overlay & modified 'novaspririt' for system-info.
gtk theme: Lilidog-grey (rather light, but I prefer that over dark ones, especially in combination with lighter backgrounds)
applications running in sshot: roxterm, pcmanfm-qt, mpv player, gmrun and wallpaper-shuffler
using 'connman' to connect to internet. system memory idles at ~200 Mib after cold boot, ie with network-manager/nm-applet disabled - and no conky(s) running at startup.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 24, 2022 6:27 am
by Jerry3904
Extremely handsome!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 1:37 pm
by siamhie
I call this one Green Waves.
FB style: antiX's eco-green-medium
Widget: Arc-Darkest-Nord-Frost
Icons: MB-Lime-Suru-GLOW
Conky: ManyRoads CPU, Memory and Network with compton providing the drop shadow boxes.
Background image: Johanna Froese Photography on Facebook (
https://www.facebook.com/johannafroesep ... phy/photos)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 10:41 pm
by siamhie
Swap out your background image and change the compton shadow to a lime green color and you end up with a Radioactive desktop.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 11:08 pm
by Jerry3904
Sure do.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 9:52 am
by LU344928
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 5:25 am
...
That's beautiful - makes me feel like taking FB for another spin.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:19 am
by ceeslans
Updated my 'launchy' toolbar and 'sysmon' dock (both tint2 panels).
I like the 12px offset of the toolbar from left screen edge, although applications now seem to disregard its 'top' panel layer setting... Checking out how to solve that.
[EDIT] uhhhm... changing 'strut_policy' value to: "follow_size" did the trick!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 11:38 am
by Jerry3904
That's a sharp look!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 3:23 pm
by i_ri
from the tiled wallpaper topic, ceeslans, May 29,
forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=685182#p685182
this screenshot by ceeslans is of a grand desktop.
https://i.imgur.com/Rb4hvzX.jpg
thank you ceeslans for a beautiful look.
Thank you everyone for the screenshots
of your beautiful desktops.
https://imgur.com/Rb4hvzX
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 4:23 pm
by ceeslans
Thanks
@i_ri for referring to the
tiled wallpaper topic.
There
@rasat provided a link to the fabulous PropagandaTiles github page. The downloadable archive contains all the goodies... Also, if not already done, suggest you check out rasat's wallpapercave page, showing some excellent images he made - including a tiled version of the MX21 Wildflower default wallpaper.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 6:05 pm
by AVLinux
i_ri wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 3:23 pm
thank you ceeslans for a beautiful look.
Thank you everyone for the screenshots
of your beautiful desktops.
I agree!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:02 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 4:23 pm
Thanks @i_ri for referring to the
tiled wallpaper topic.
There @rasat provided a link to the fabulous PropagandaTiles github page. The downloadable archive contains all the goodies... Also, if not already done, suggest you check out rasat's wallpapercave page, showing some excellent images he made - including a tiled version of the MX21 Wildflower default wallpaper.
Most definitely
@ceeslans . I grabbed the PropagandaTiles archive and love the Aunt-Hill-Mob-2 image. It pairs well with antiX's sleek2antiX style.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:32 pm
by Melber
Decided to go a little more subdued this time round...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:43 am
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:32 pm
Decided to go a little more subdued this time round...
Nice shot! And what a great tint2 panel.
Would you mind sharing the tint2rc - and the three? executor scripts. Thnx in advance
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:27 am
by Melber
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:43 am
Would you mind sharing the tint2rc - and the three? executor scripts. Thnx in advance
Sure, I'll post them when I get back on the laptop tonight or tomorrow.
The first two exec scripts are just variants of the old memory and temperature scripts.
The third one reads the fan speeds using i8kctl command, so not really useful unless you have a dell and i8k installed. (The rightmost button on the left side also calls a script to set the fan speeds to off/low/high using i8kfans)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:29 pm
by Melber
hi
@ceeslans , here you go.
tint2
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#---- Generated by tint2conf 49ef ----
# See https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/Configure for
# full documentation of the configuration options.
#-------------------------------------
# Gradients
#-------------------------------------
# Backgrounds
# Background 1: Panel
rounded = 0
border_width = 4
border_sides = TB
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #1d2324 100
border_color = #000000 100
background_color_hover = #000000 60
border_color_hover = #000000 30
background_color_pressed = #000000 60
border_color_pressed = #000000 30
# Background 2: Active taskbar, Default task, Iconified task, Inactive taskbar
rounded = 4
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #ffffff 100
border_color = #777777 30
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 39
border_color_hover = #eaeaea 44
background_color_pressed = #555555 4
border_color_pressed = #eaeaea 44
# Background 3:
rounded = 0
border_width = 4
border_sides = T
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #0f56d9 100
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 22
border_color_hover = #eaeaea 44
background_color_pressed = #0f56d9 100
border_color_pressed = #eaeaea 44
# Background 4: Urgent task
rounded = 4
border_width = 1
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #aa4400 100
border_color = #aa7733 100
background_color_hover = #cc7700 100
border_color_hover = #aa7733 100
background_color_pressed = #555555 4
border_color_pressed = #aa7733 100
# Background 5: Clock, Tooltip
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #1d2324 100
border_color = #333333 100
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 22
border_color_hover = #000000 100
background_color_pressed = #0f56d9 100
border_color_pressed = #000000 100
# Background 6: Normal task
rounded = 0
border_width = 2
border_sides = T
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #000000 100
border_color = #0f56d9 100
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 39
border_color_hover = #eaeaea 44
background_color_pressed = #555555 4
border_color_pressed = #eaeaea 44
# Background 7: Battery, Executor, Launcher, Launcher icon, Systray
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #1d2324 100
border_color = #1d2324 100
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 22
border_color_hover = #aaaaaa 100
background_color_pressed = #000000 60
border_color_pressed = #000000 30
# Background 8: Active task
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides =
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #f7ff94 100
border_color = #777777 30
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 39
border_color_hover = #eaeaea 44
background_color_pressed = #555555 4
border_color_pressed = #eaeaea 44
# Background 9: Button
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides = TBLR
border_content_tint_weight = 0
background_content_tint_weight = 0
background_color = #000000 0
border_color = #000000 0
background_color_hover = #aaaaaa 22
border_color_hover = #000000 0
background_color_pressed = #000000 0
border_color_pressed = #000000 0
#-------------------------------------
# Panel
panel_items = :LP:T:EEESCP
panel_size = 100% 48
panel_margin = 0 0
panel_padding = 2 0 2
panel_background_id = 1
wm_menu = 1
panel_dock = 0
panel_pivot_struts = 0
panel_position = bottom center horizontal
panel_layer = top
panel_monitor = all
panel_shrink = 0
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0
autohide_hide_timeout = 0.5
autohide_height = 2
strut_policy = follow_size
panel_window_name = tint2
disable_transparency = 1
mouse_effects = 1
font_shadow = 0
mouse_hover_icon_asb = 100 -2 10
mouse_pressed_icon_asb = 100 2 2
scale_relative_to_dpi = 0
scale_relative_to_screen_height = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_hide_if_empty = 1
taskbar_padding = 0 0 0
taskbar_background_id = 2
taskbar_active_background_id = 2
taskbar_name = 0
taskbar_hide_inactive_tasks = 0
taskbar_hide_different_monitor = 0
taskbar_hide_different_desktop = 0
taskbar_always_show_all_desktop_tasks = 0
taskbar_name_padding = 2 0
taskbar_name_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_active_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_font_color = #e3e3e3 100
taskbar_name_active_font_color = #ffffff 100
taskbar_distribute_size = 0
taskbar_sort_order = application
task_align = center
#-------------------------------------
# Task
task_text = 1
task_icon = 0
task_centered = 1
urgent_nb_of_blink = 100000
task_maximum_size = 150 28
task_padding = 2 2 4
task_font = JetBrains Mono Medium 11
task_tooltip = 1
task_thumbnail = 1
task_thumbnail_size = 210
task_font_color = #000000 100
task_normal_font_color = #cacdd0 100
task_active_font_color = #1d2324 100
task_iconified_font_color = #878c92 100
task_background_id = 2
task_normal_background_id = 6
task_active_background_id = 8
task_urgent_background_id = 4
task_iconified_background_id = 2
mouse_left = toggle_iconify
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = close
mouse_scroll_up = toggle
mouse_scroll_down = iconify
#-------------------------------------
# System tray (notification area)
systray_padding = 6 4 2
systray_background_id = 7
systray_sort = ascending
systray_icon_size = 28
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 0
systray_monitor = 1
systray_name_filter =
#-------------------------------------
# Launcher
launcher_padding = 0 0 12
launcher_background_id = 7
launcher_icon_background_id = 7
launcher_icon_size = 24
launcher_icon_asb = 100 0 0
launcher_icon_theme = Shade of Z - White
launcher_icon_theme_override = 1
startup_notifications = 1
launcher_tooltip = 1
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/thunar.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop
#-------------------------------------
# Clock
time1_format = %H:%M
time2_format =
time1_font = JetBrains Mono Ultra-Bold 12
time1_timezone =
time2_timezone =
clock_font_color = #ffffff 100
clock_padding = 12 0
clock_background_id = 5
clock_tooltip = LEFT: calendar | RIGHT: timer
clock_tooltip_timezone =
clock_lclick_command = gsimplecal
clock_rclick_command = mxfb-timer
clock_mclick_command =
clock_uwheel_command =
clock_dwheel_command =
#-------------------------------------
# Battery
battery_tooltip = 1
battery_low_status = 10
battery_low_cmd = bash -c "[[ -z $(acpi 2>/dev/null) ]] && { ;} || { notify-send 'battery low'; }"
battery_full_cmd =
bat1_font = Poky 16
bat2_font = DejaVu Sans 8
battery_font_color = #df3030 100
bat1_format = 3
bat2_format = %p
battery_padding = 4 6
battery_background_id = 7
battery_hide = 11
battery_lclick_command =
battery_rclick_command =
battery_mclick_command =
battery_uwheel_command =
battery_dwheel_command =
ac_connected_cmd =
ac_disconnected_cmd =
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 1
separator = new
separator_background_id = 0
separator_color = #777777 88
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 18
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 2
separator = new
separator_background_id = 0
separator_color = #777777 80
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 6
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Separator 3
separator = new
separator_background_id = 0
separator_color = #777777 80
separator_style = empty
separator_size = 12
separator_padding = 0 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 1
execp = new
execp_command = $HOME/.config/tint2/executors/mem-perc
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = JetBrains Mono 10
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 6 0
execp_background_id = 7
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 2
execp = new
execp_command = $HOME/.config/tint2/executors/temp-perc
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = JetBrains Mono 10
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 6 0
execp_background_id = 7
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Executor 3
execp = new
execp_command = $HOME/.config/tint2/executors/fans
execp_interval = 15
execp_has_icon = 0
execp_cache_icon = 0
execp_continuous = 0
execp_markup = 0
execp_lclick_command =
execp_rclick_command =
execp_mclick_command =
execp_uwheel_command =
execp_dwheel_command =
execp_font = JetBrains Mono 10
execp_font_color = #ffffff 100
execp_padding = 6 0
execp_background_id = 7
execp_centered = 0
execp_icon_w = 0
execp_icon_h = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Button 1
button = new
button_icon = $HOME/.fluxbox/scripts/i8k-white.png
button_text =
button_tooltip = i8k
button_lclick_command = $HOME/.fluxbox/scripts/i8k11
button_rclick_command = $HOME/.fluxbox/scripts/i8k22
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #000000 100
button_padding = 6 0
button_background_id = 9
button_centered = 0
button_max_icon_size = 24
#-------------------------------------
# Button 2
button = new
button_icon = $HOME/.fluxbox/mx_fluxbox_logo.png
button_text =
button_lclick_command = xfce4-appfinder
button_rclick_command = $HOME/.fluxbox/scripts/mxfb-logout
button_mclick_command =
button_uwheel_command =
button_dwheel_command =
button_font_color = #000000 100
button_padding = 12 0
button_background_id = 9
button_centered = 0
button_max_icon_size = 0
#-------------------------------------
# Tooltip
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.5
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.1
tooltip_padding = 4 4
tooltip_background_id = 5
tooltip_font_color = #dddddd 100
tooltip_font = Noto Sans 11
Executors
mem-perc (Memory usage)
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#!/bin/bash
mem1=$(free -t | grep Speicher | awk '{printf("%.0f%"),$3/$2*100}')
cpu1=$(vmstat 1 2|tail -1|awk '{printf("%.0f%"),100-$15}')
echo M "$mem1"
echo C "$cpu1"
temp-perc (Temperatures)
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#!/bin/sh
TEMPC=$(sensors coretemp-isa-0000 | grep 'Core 0'| tr -d '(),+' | awk '{printf("%.0f"),$3}')
TEMPG=$(sensors nouveau-pci-0100 | grep 'temp1'| tr -d '(),+' | awk '{printf("%.0f"),$2}')
echo "C $TEMPC°C"
echo "G $TEMPG°C"
fans (Fan speeds. As described in post above, only useful if you have a dell with i8kutils installed. You could read the fan speeds from sensors, if they get shown there.)
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#!/bin/sh
FANP=$(i8kctl| awk '{printf("%.0f"),$8}')
FANG=$(i8kctl| awk '{printf("%.0f"),$7}')
echo P "$FANP"rpm
echo V "$FANG"rpm
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:58 pm
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:29 pm
hi @ceeslans , here you go.
tint2
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#---- Generated by tint2conf 49ef ----
# See https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/Configure for
# full documentation of the configuration options.
<snip>
thanks
@Melber for sharing the tint2rc and executors. I still had the 'mem-perc' + 'cpu-perc' executors in working order on my system.
I really like the layout and colors of your tint2 panel (did you already give this baby a name? - for now I've saved this version as 'bottom_melber.tint2rc

)
Tried to maintain the same layout, while replacing the various elements with my own apps and settings). In that process I needed to edit the task_font_color to #707070, in order to get still readable entries in jgmenu's auto-generated application + places/recentfiles menus, i.e. from the two most-left buttons on the toolbar.
Thanks a lot for sharing it with us.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:35 am
by Melber
@ceeslans , no problem, happy to share.
Panel looks really good in your setup.
I'm generally unimaginative in naming panels, usually just give them the same name as the wallpaper I make them for. You can call it whatever you want, although bottom_melber is probably preferable to melber's bottom...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:56 am
by ceeslans
hahaha - that was my initial working title! until I changed it for obvious reasons

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 10:19 pm
by siamhie
No neighbors, Excellent view. I can picture living here.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 5:14 pm
by ceeslans
Installed (and happily running) Connman as replacement for (gnome) network-manager.
Network-configuration and systray-icon-setting is done with 'cmst' --> although mostly only running cmst when needed, since 'connman' service is sufficient to establish internet connection at startup. This reduces memory consumption by roughly 25 Mb.
ps_mem.py command (as shown below in stjerm drop-down terminal) gives a good idea of used memory at startup (private+shared ram)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2022 5:58 pm
by AVLinux
@ceeslans
Agree wrt Connman! Recent experiments with Enlightenment also introduced me to Connman, I am switching over all my builds as well, CMST is a very powerful UI and so nice to strip out all those chubby Gnome dependencies! 188Mb is very impressive!
Another beautiful Desktop, you seem to have no shortage of great ideas!
@siamhie
Very cool screenshot as well! It's giving me a touch of vertigo...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:52 am
by ceeslans
Experimenting with MXFB-Look theme-switcher. Named the theme after the script (and tint2 panel) creator

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:26 am
by Jerry3904
Nice!
(@Melber I will be trying again this weekend on a different laptop.)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:31 am
by Jerry3904
This desktop has been with me for a while -- very Zen IMO, especially since those are likely temple steps. I very much prefer gkrellm these days to conky, especially with this nice transparent skin that I found. Notice that I created a pulse icon in white for mx-updater (attached, in case anyone else is interested) to go with the panel theme--the green was just jarring.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:13 am
by AVLinux
Very nice, great setup!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 10:15 am
by wdscharff
I don't know if it's really worth posting more MX/Fluxbox screenshots for me.
My Conky is 90% finished, but the next changes will be rather subtle, cosmetic surgery, the functionality is as I would like it.
Taskbar, will also hardly change.
Additional elements, like more Tint2 panels (as dock and/or fake icon) are short-lived and only active when I have visitors. So for their convenience, or as a demonstration of the possibilities.
(The screenshots of these also occasionally end up on FB to show that Fluxbox can also look nice ;-} )
What remains are the background images, sometimes with a separate one for each monitor, sometimes one that covers the whole width.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:44 am
by Jerry3904
It's certainly worth posting IMO -- what a colorful pair!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 2:34 pm
by wdscharff
Thank you, they are also some of my favourites.
The bee is my most successful painting, sold over 10 times at a week-long exhibition at a regional bank (promoting regional artists).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 5:41 am
by Jerry3904
Notice that I created a pulse icon in white for mx-updater (attached, in case anyone else is interested) to go with the panel theme--the green was just jarring.
Of course, the update this morning overwrote my bit of cleverness so I had to download my own attachment.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:16 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 8:31 am
This desktop has been with me for a while -- very Zen IMO, especially since those are likely temple steps.
That picture does have a zen-like feel to it.
I very much prefer gkrellm these days to conky
I too have switched back to GKrellM. Shows just the info I need (CPU, RAM, Disc usage along with temp monitoring for my CPU, GPU and NVMe drives) in a nice clean look.
sleek2antiX-Medium style
GKrellM Glass theme (tarball link at top--
http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/)
App Finder and gsimplecal
Wallpaper (
https://www.pexels.com/photo/gray-aspha ... es-531321/)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:36 pm
by ceeslans
monthly screeny of my august desktop.
gtk2/3 + tint2 + fluxbox style: crunchbang
conky: scratch top bar + wttr.in weather info
wallpaper: sandscape #10 fm wallpaperwide.com
showing a personal modification of
Melber's MXFB-Look theme-switcher.
... am I the only MX-fluxbox user to appreciate and play with this wonderful tool? If you missed it, check out the forum post and try it out ...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:27 pm
by Jerry3904
@ceeslans @Melber I tried it when Melber first posted it, and it worked great. I'm in the process of preparing it for a new version of mxfb-goodies to be released with the upcoming point release.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2022 2:44 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone

mxfluxbox, idesk, wmmoonclock

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:03 am
by wdscharff
Displacement can only be replaced by even more displacement ( car driver/biker saying ... that's why my last bike had 1700cc on 2 cylinders ;-} )
Faster than expected I got a 4k UHD monitor as primary monitor, the wqhd as second, the old HD now as second monitor for the laptop.
After dealing with the usual luxury problems (fortunately I don't have any others) which wallpapers are still suitable for 4K (not all of them), then the reworking in detail.
(I'm a self-confessed typing lazy, so I copy&paste from my FB post :-})
I would not have thought that the change from wqhd+HD to 4kUHD+wqhd would require so much work in the small details.
If a 10pt font was still acceptable on wqhd, it's no longer possible on 4k, unless I want to unscrew my eyes after an hour and throw them away ...
Browser is the easiest, you can zoom in and out on the fly, but that's about it. That's the price of using different programmes for different purposes. Theme and style, rofi and tint2, wine (preset hardly readable even with a magnifying glass), the file managers (I use several) also cook their own soup, the funniest solution is XFE, where you can enter the DPI of the monitor...
What didn't work at all was the font adjustment at tint2 for the tooltips and yes, I used the example configuration with the #tooltips section, had zero effect on me.
I have already reduced the content of my Tint2 bar, there were taskbar, systray, calendar/clock and only 4 buttons and no other programme launchers. The tooltips were not absolutely necessary ... nor were the buttons with the corresponding programme calls, so I got rid of them ;-}
Out of pure habit I left the button (double assignment) with rofi and the xfce program launcher in (rofi is also on top in my fluxbox rootmenue) and after some moving back and forth I put the bar back on the "small" monitor, so there is nothing on the UHD anymore, or 100% for the application.
Looks like this, without applications and with wine/jpg-illuminator (drag&drop works!) on the uhd and file manager on the wqhd.
Since the "virtual monitor" is 6400x2160px, the screenshot also shows the part that is not displayed on the wqhd, since it is only 1440 high.
If you use a separate wallpaper for each monitor, this is also obvious, as the virtual part shows the image remnant from the previous wallpaper that uses both monitors.
But at least I have a monitor size on which I can display almost all menu items of the Fluxbox root menu.
Almost= only 1st and 2nd level, I have partly 3 levels (as you can see) and some are currently ONLY accessible via keyboard code.
I don't need icons, xx programm launchers in a dock or bar, I put everything in various menu items.
The more important ones can also be called up individually via keyboard codes and edited on the fly at any time.
So I don't need any free space (which I rarely have where I could use it) for the mouse on the desktop to call up the menu with a right click, I call up the corresponding menu via the keyboard.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:19 am
by Jerry3904
That's an amazing menu!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:55 am
by wdscharff
That has grown over time.
The part between Accessories<->System is what every menu generator can create, what is additionally possible depends on the generator used.
Then came the first push with fbmenugen, at first actually only because of the icons in the rootmenu ;-}
Then came fbmenugen, where you can scan additional directories like ~/.local/share/applications or any other directory for *desktop files, and everything you have written desktop files for can be added to the menu as normal (e.g. my windows programs, which is why they appear in the normal menu entries). Fbmenugen for mx21 also has more extensive configuration options, concerning the "accessories<->system".
The second push was when I saw in the documentation that submenus can be called up individually via the keyboard. They don't have to be connected to the root menu, they work autonomously.
Some entries are duplicated, the "Setups" and "Advanced Settings" have been taken over by me unchanged. It doesn't matter, and since it's only a few lines of text, it doesn't take up any resources ;-}
Some programmes have also remained after testing, simply because I liked them even if I don't necessarily need them.
I don't think I could cope with a "normal" system with icons, programme launchers on the desktop and/or in bars/docks.
Okay, a bit of an exaggeration, but the way I've built it here with Fluxbox is faster and smoother for me,
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:11 am
by Jerry3904
I too use no desktop icons, dock or launchers on the panel--rofi and the static desktop menu give me fast access to programs.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:15 am
by AVLinux
Very nice work! I love the 'craft' in this forum section so many great ways to do things well and make it look nice at the same time..
A bit O.T... As far as 4K, I haven't made the leap personally yet but I've been creating and resizing Desktop wallpapers to 4K in my various projects for a couple of years now, I would suggest MX for future releases should stipulate 'official' wallpapers for the next full release include 4K resolution size as UHD is becoming much more common now.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:43 am
by Jerry3904
I'd like to see what @asqwerth thinks about that.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2022 11:12 pm
by i_ri
helllo wdscharff Good job, exclamation. Do you need a printer?
[exec] (printer) {system-config-printer}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 12:45 am
by wdscharff
hello i_ri, no thanks,
I haven't had my own printer for over 10 years, I don't need a printer ;-}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:06 am
by Melber
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:36 pm
... am I the only MX-fluxbox user to appreciate and play with this wonderful tool? If you missed it, check out the forum post and try it out ...
@ceeslans thanks for the advertisement. Maybe we're the only one's who change setups often enough to find the tool useful...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:10 am
by Melber
@wdscharff
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:19 am
That's an amazing menu!
I can only agree with what Jerry said.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:05 am
by asqwerth
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:43 am
I'd like to see what @asqwerth thinks about that.
How dense/high- definition is 4K exactly?
I have been thinking that we might need to up the default size of the official wallpapers for the next release, but to what size exactly, I don't know. What would be appropriate nowadays ? (I'm still on a relatively smallish screen).
Will appreciate some feedback/suggestions.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:38 am
by Jerry3904
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:06 am
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 4:36 pm
... am I the only MX-fluxbox user to appreciate and play with this wonderful tool? If you missed it, check out the forum post and try it out ...
@ceeslans thanks for the advertisement. Maybe we're the only one's who change setups often enough to find the tool useful...
Doubt that! I'm near the end of preparing mxfb-look and mxrr for the next mxfb-goodies, about to move the strings to be translated.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:40 am
by wdscharff
I have looked at all the official Fluxbox wallpapers, and the picture quality is still viewable on my UHD Monitor.
Scaling from HD (1920x1080) to UHD is technically unproblematic, as it is a simple doubling.
@asqwerth UHD = 3840x2160, 4K is actually the name for media devices such as TVs and is a bit more than UHD, namely 4096*2160.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2022 11:28 am
by AVLinux
There is some confusion indeed when you Google 4K specs..
In the practical example of Desktop wallpapers I've been doing 3840x2160 for monitors with TV-like 16:9 aspect ratio, however 3840x2400 is also valid for the admittedly diminishing number of monitors with 16:10 aspect ratio... In my opinion as someone also Distributing to a User base (albeit a much smaller one than MX) I think 3840x2160 would be a reasonable upper limit for future MX artwork submissions... Just a suggestion of course..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:41 am
by kobaian
My menu-system, that I use a lot is not based on the Fluxbox-custom-menus like that one of @wdscharff, but on Rofi.
First of all I've added to the standard drun-window-run tabs another one with help files, session-logout etc.

Next, I've created a new Rofi menu with categorized tabs: Office-Graphics-Media-Settings

Right click on the quick-launch buttons on the panel opens the menu with a proper category. For example left click on the image button opens XnView, and the right click a menu with some launchers of other applications I use for graphics.
I've added to the categorized menu an entry to open the standard Rofi menu and to the standard Rofi - an entry to open my new custom-categorized-menu.
I've created also an extra Rofi menu for exit-options, because I like to have that menu exactly over the button.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:17 am
by ceeslans
Very very nice! Hope you will share the configuration files with us, please?
I tried to accomplish a correct positioning of a (much simpler) rofi menu, but failed miserably. Just couldn't get it positioned to an exact position.
jgmenu does just that, so that remains to be my preferred app for launching an application-menu and places-browser from tint2 panel...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 9:20 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:17 am
Very very nice! Hope you will share the configuration files with us, please?
I tried to accomplish a correct positioning of a (much simpler) rofi menu, but failed miserably. Just couldn't get it positioned to an exact position.
jgmenu does just that, so that remains to be my preferred app for launching an application-menu and places-browser from tint2 panel...
Pasting the exact content of my config files won't be probably a good idea, because there are some dependencies that won't work for you. For the general construction of the rofi-menu and the exit-options menu you can check the topic:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 79#p689079
The quasi-icons in the menu are characters of the awesome-font you can download using MX-packageinstaller. Not all characters work with Rofi, but some do. So you can just add a character at the beginning of the name of the entry.
For custom-categorized menu I have made a rasi-file, named it "config-cat.rasi":
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configuration {
modi: "Office:~/.config/rofi/office,Graphics:~/.config/rofi/graphics,Media:~/.config/rofi/media,Settings:~/.config/rofi/settings";
width: 24;
show-icons: true;
icon-theme: "papirus";
lines: 20;
fake-transparency: true;
sidebar-mode: true;
kb-cancel: "Escape,Super_L";
me-select-entry: "MouseSecondary";
me-accept-entry: "MousePrimary";
}
In the next line you should copy the "@import" line from your config.rasi file.
As you can see there are paths to some bash scripts for menu tabs. Here's the example of the "Graphics" submenu:
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#!/bin/bash
if [ x"$@" = x" All Apps..." ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -hover-select -me-select-entry '' -location 7 -xoffset 4 -yoffset -50
killall rofi
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" XnView" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
xnview
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" GIMP" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
gimp-2.10
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" Darktable" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
darktable
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" Hugin" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
hugin
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" Color-picker" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
yad --color --gtk-palette --button=gtk-ok
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" Icons" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
yad-icon-browser
fi
if [ x"$@" = x" Pictures" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
exo-open $HOME/Pictures
fi
echo " All Apps..."
echo " EDIT AND BROWSE IMAGES:"
echo " XnView"
echo " GIMP"
echo " Darktable"
echo " Hugin"
echo " OTHER TOOLS:"
echo " Color-picker"
echo " Icons"
echo " FOLDERS:"
echo " Pictures"
And the button entries for Tint2:
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button_lclick_command = bash -c 'QT_PLATFORMTHEME=${QT_PLATFORMTHEME/gtk2/fusion} QT_PLATFORM_PLUGIN=${QT_PLATFORMTHEME/gtk2/fusion} QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=${QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME/gtk2/fusion} exec xnview'
button_rclick_command = rofi -config ~/.config/rofi/config-cat.rasi -show Graphics -location 7 -xoffset 4 -yoffset -50
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:00 pm
by Melber
@kobaian
Wow, that's a seriously cool rofi config. Rofi has been growing on me and now you're giving me ideas for further fiddling...
@ceeslans
Re: rofi window position. I presume you tried adding something like this in the .rasi file
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window {
location: southeast;
anchor: southeast;
y-offset: -48;
width: 480px ;
}
This works to get my rofi window postioned in the lower right corner exactly above my 48 pixel high tint2 panel.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 3:16 pm
by Melber
Decided it was time for a new look, so I made a wallpaper and fiddled a bit...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 5:38 pm
by Jerry3904
Very nice! That looks like a rofi-menu and a rofi-run; something that second one really needs to be in our next release to replace the clunky fluxbox run box.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 6:44 pm
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 3:16 pm
Decided it was time for a new look, so I made a wallpaper and fiddled a bit...
... That looks great. Wonderful wallpaper, and matching with rofi + tint2 panel. Definitely a worthy contender for a default MXFB-22 look.
Would like to see though how well/easy a rofi menu can be configured to match other tint2 panels in respect of positioning, theme matching and so on - considering the sheer-endless variety of tint2 panels, all with different locations, sizes/sizing, colors, transparency settings etc etc.
Not trying to beat a dead horse here, but this is where jgmenu is actually unrivalled. It seamlessly reads such values from the active tint2rc file and apply them instantly in its own appearance.
Of course rofi excells with its 'run' feature, being able to dish up and execute all available system run commands. That's actually rofi's main use on my system...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2022 7:16 pm
by Jerry3904
We have a lot of time, of course, but it's good to start thinking. I'm particularly interested in replacing the run box for now, going to tackle it for my own system.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 10:16 pm
by siamhie
I liked the look of
@Jerry3904's border-less GKrellM so I tweaked my Glass 4 theme and went full on Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet look everywhere.
(I might have to change the red font as it doesn't play well with other background images I have)
That's much easier on the eyes.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:29 pm
by Jerry3904
Celebrating the James Webb with its new composite portrait of Juppiter (tint2 panel using version of addy's minima):

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2022 2:01 pm
by AVLinux
Great stuff! I have the Nebula pics but I haven't wallpaper-ified them yet... I think 'ole JW is going to give us a wealth of Desktop wonder for many years!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2022 4:26 pm
by ceeslans
Screenshot of my fluxbox desktop this morning (approx 1 minute uptime); cold-boot with sysvinit, this MX system purrs at around 175-185 Mb RAM only
In Fluxbox startup, only gnome-polkit, xdg-user-dir, pulseaudio, compton, dunst, stjerm, feh and tint2 are enabled.
Tint2 runs with five executors: battery-status, used-memory-monitor, cpu-temperature, volume-control and audacious-song-info.
The insert in the lower-left corner was added to the image later today, just to show the audacious-trackinfo executor in action. It's a blatantly simple script I created today, taking about 20 lines of code, using the
audtool commands to display song title, artist and/or elapsed time. The executor allows mouseclick actions, like play/pause toggle, stop, move to next/previous track - and kill audacious play alltogether. Only for Audacious control, not for any other media player...
Wallpaper by polish photographer Marek Piwnicki. If you follow release news on Distrowatch, you may have noticed that the same image is the default wallpaper in Mabox 22.08 (openbox) release...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 8:57 pm
by Jerry3904
Continuing my fascination of the Webb Space Telescope, here showing the heart of the Phantom galaxy. Panel is the Vertical-down with the exit options icon removed, monitor using an invisible skin that I really like.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:35 pm
by Outlander
Just using the built-in Fluxbox toolbar for now

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:37 pm
by Melber
Found an old snapshot of mine, decided to make it into a wallpaper and that means it's time for a new look...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:55 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
Hey Melber nice search box.
Yo siamhie , refer comment of Feb 27,
That uptime optimism is now a sign of neglect, after
grub release, kernel release, microcode, ...
This mxfluxbox live session, not persistent, played with Melber's recolour tool; it is full of scripts and Styles; I do not want to turn it off.
It is time for a renewed mxfluxbox usb of MX 21.2.1
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 1:47 pm
by ceeslans
@i_ri : 306 days uptime? Now that is impressive! Respect man, respect...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 5:14 pm
by Melber
The drun tab label was annoying me, so I fiddled the rofi to just be an appfinder, launched from mx logo button in panel
and as MX-comfort version

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:07 am
by Jerry3904
Isn't that fine!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:53 pm
by wdscharff
As I've already mentioned several times, not much changes for me in my Fluxbox. I have included everything (that I need) in the Fluxbox root menu and some sub menus, so it looks very empty, even in the taskbar.
The only major changes were (laziness wins) a changed conky, a lot of typing, many lines of text simply replaced by a halfway fitting INXI call.
The second, more complex, project was the comfortable integration of MOC, a music player for the terminal (or as a service in the background).
For me, comfortable means a Fluxbox submenu with the essential control elements (I know, I could also assign them to keys in the key file, but there are so many, I'm losing track ;-} )
The creation is not really comfortable, because you have to create the text file yourself, fortunately 90% copy and paste... and as a Fluxbox user that doesn't scare you, does it ? ;-}
So the screenshot contains the current root menu and the call of the MOC submenu and a few examples of included directories and music tracks, matching with a second minimal conky showing the current music track.
(attention, the original image is only 700kb heavy, but with 6000x2150px quite big)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 5:51 pm
by AVLinux
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 4:53 pm
As I've already mentioned several times, not much changes for me in my Fluxbox. I have included everything (that I need) in the Fluxbox root menu and some sub menus, so it looks very empty, even in the taskbar.
The only major changes were (laziness wins) a changed conky, a lot of typing, many lines of text simply replaced by a halfway fitting INXI call.
The second, more complex, project was the comfortable integration of MOC, a music player for the terminal (or as a service in the background).
For me, comfortable means a Fluxbox submenu with the essential control elements (I know, I could also assign them to keys in the key file, but there are so many, I'm losing track ;-} )
The creation is not really comfortable, because you have to create the text file yourself, fortunately 90% copy and paste... and as a Fluxbox user that doesn't scare you, does it ? ;-}
So the screenshot contains the current root menu and the call of the MOC submenu and a few examples of included directories and music tracks, matching with a second minimal conky showing the current music track.
(attention, the original image is only 700kb heavy, but with 6000x2150px quite big)
Very nice work as usual!
Care to share the Conky code to print the inxi formatted so nicely?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:42 pm
by wdscharff
Webfund, came across it by chance when I was looking for something else :)
The essential part of the instruction is a Cpoy&paste, I only adapted the INXI call (the parameters), the font and colour instructions.
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${font Open Sans:size=12}${execpi 10 inxi -v2 -p | sed 's@\x03@__COLOR__@g'| sed 's@__COLOR__12@\${color}@g' | sed -r 's@__COLOR__(04)?@\${color5}@g' | sed 's@Battery\s@Battery:@' }
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:20 pm
by AVLinux
Excellent, thanks!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:28 am
by ceeslans
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:42 pm
Webfund, came across it by chance when I was looking for something else :)
The essential part of the instruction is a Cpoy&paste, I only adapted the INXI call (the parameters), the font and colour instructions.
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${font Open Sans:size=12}${execpi 10 inxi -v2 -p | sed 's@\x03@__COLOR__@g'| sed 's@__COLOR__12@\${color}@g' | sed -r 's@__COLOR__(04)?@\${color5}@g' | sed 's@Battery\s@Battery:@' }
Nice find! Thanks for sharing the 'inxi' conky code with us
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 3:23 pm
by AVLinux
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:28 am
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:42 pm
Webfund, came across it by chance when I was looking for something else :)
The essential part of the instruction is a Cpoy&paste, I only adapted the INXI call (the parameters), the font and colour instructions.
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${font Open Sans:size=12}${execpi 10 inxi -v2 -p | sed 's@\x03@__COLOR__@g'| sed 's@__COLOR__12@\${color}@g' | sed -r 's@__COLOR__(04)?@\${color5}@g' | sed 's@Battery\s@Battery:@' }
Nice find! Thanks for sharing the 'inxi' conky code with us
@ceeslans
Very nice and formatted in a way I'd like to use as a template with an existing Conky I'm working on for Enlightenment, care to share your .conkyrc also please?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 4:35 pm
by ceeslans
AVLinux wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 3:23 pm
Very nice and formatted in a way I'd like to use as a template with an existing Conky I'm working on for Enlightenment, care to share your .conkyrc also please?
Sure!
Note that best formatting is achieved when using a (preferrably narrow) mono font. Below conkyrc calls for the
NK-57 Monospace condensed font, but of course any mono-font will do.
The dark rounded transparent background is drawn using a lua script called 'draw_bg.lua' (current path is ~/.conky/LUA/draw_bg.lua). If you have no need for it, then comment out the two respective lines 53+54 in the conkyrc .
system-inxi.conkyrc
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--[[
System-inxi
Web-find @wdscharff <https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=696967#p696967>
mod @ceeslans | Sept 2022
--]]
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1.0,
total_run_times = 0,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
cpu_avg_samples = 1,
net_avg_samples = 1,
text_buffer_size = 4096,
use_spacer = 'none',
uppercase = false,
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'override',
own_window_transparent = true,
--own_window_argb_visual = true,
--own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager', --sticky,
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'SysInxiConky',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
draw_graph_borders = false,
stippled_borders = 0,
border_inner_margin = 15,
border_width = 1,
default_color = '#eeeeee',
default_shade_color = 'black',
default_outline_color = 'black',
use_xft = true,
font = 'Liberation Sans Narrow:size=9',
xftalpha = 1,
override_utf8_locale = true,
minimum_width = 0,
--minimum_height = 200,
gap_x = 160,
gap_y = 160,
alignment = 'bottom_right',
color2 = 'ffe068',
lua_load = '~/.conky/LUA/draw_bg.lua',
lua_draw_hook_pre = 'draw_bg',
};
conky.text = [[
${font nk57 monospace:regular:size=9}${execpi 10 inxi -v2 -p | sed 's@\x03@__COLOR__@g'| sed 's@__COLOR__12@\${color}@g' | sed -r 's@__COLOR__(04)?@\${color2}@g' | sed 's@Battery\s@Battery:@' }
]];
draw_bg.lua
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--[[
Background by londonali1010 (2009)
This script draws a background to the Conky window. It covers the whole of
the Conky window, but you can specify rounded corners, if you wish.
To call this script in Conky, use (if script is saved to ~/.conky/scripts/):
lua_load ~/.conky/scripts/draw_bg.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre draw_bg
Changelog:
+ v1.0 -- Original release (07.10.2009)
]]
-- ==============
-- == Settings ==
-- ==============
-- Change these settings to affect your background. "corner_r" is the radius
-- of rounded corners, in pixels. If you don't want rounded corners, use 0.
-- corner_r=0
-- corner_r=10
corner_r=16
-- Set the colour of your background.
bg_colour=0x000000
-- Set the transparency (alpha) of your background.
-- bg_alpha=0.10
-- bg_alpha=0.20
-- bg_alpha=0.25
bg_alpha=0.15
-- ==================
-- == Start script ==
-- ==================
require 'cairo'
function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha)
return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha
end
function conky_draw_bg()
if conky_window==nil then return end
local w=conky_window.width
local h=conky_window.height
local cs=cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, w, h)
cr=cairo_create(cs)
cairo_move_to(cr,corner_r,0)
cairo_line_to(cr,w-corner_r,0)
cairo_curve_to(cr,w,0,w,0,w,corner_r)
cairo_line_to(cr,w,h-corner_r)
cairo_curve_to(cr,w,h,w,h,w-corner_r,h)
cairo_line_to(cr,corner_r,h)
cairo_curve_to(cr,0,h,0,h,0,h-corner_r)
cairo_line_to(cr,0,corner_r)
cairo_curve_to(cr,0,0,0,0,corner_r,0)
cairo_close_path(cr)
cairo_set_source_rgba(cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(bg_colour,bg_alpha))
cairo_fill(cr)
end
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 4:53 pm
by AVLinux
Bless you! Thanks so much, will post a result when I get one..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:01 pm
by AVLinux
OK success!
*disclaimer: conky configs are from this thread but not being used on Fluxbox *ducks head... I had to do some futzing to get them working on Enlightenment as it handles Desktop layering differently so 'override' windows end up on top of applications so I had to change the window type to 'desktop' and a few other changes...
Here's the results:
http://www.bandshed.net/images/screensh ... -57-43.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 11:43 pm
by i_ri
hello
column width with wrap. Put this sample at the end of the inxi exec command; change the w number to what looks good in your conky,,
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:38 am
by ceeslans
AVLinux wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:01 pm <snip>
I had to do some futzing to get them working on Enlightenment as it handles Desktop layering differently so 'override' windows end up on top of applications so I had to change the window type to 'desktop'
<snip>
Looks great!
Fyi: the 'override' setting allows "us fluxbox users" to open a rootmenu by mouseclick even within such (large) conky desktop estate...
I have no idea how this is (or could be) accomplished on Enlightenment.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:40 am
by AVLinux
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:38 am
AVLinux wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:01 pm <snip>
I had to do some futzing to get them working on Enlightenment as it handles Desktop layering differently so 'override' windows end up on top of applications so I had to change the window type to 'desktop'
<snip>
Looks great!
Fyi: the 'override' setting allows "us fluxbox users" to open a rootmenu by mouseclick even within such (large) conky desktop estate...
I have no idea how this is (or could be) accomplished on Enlightenment.
Hi, and thanks again for your help!
Yes, you are correct that the desktop window type does prevent mouseclick of Enlightenment's root menu on the Conky areas, however I have custom searchable jgmenu that hotkeys wherever the mouse is, even on the Conky areas. For as much as I'm enjoying Enlightenment it is not very Conky friendly in a lot of ways, I'm just getting started with figuring out how to best do it but that's a 'me' problem..
@i_ri
Great tip on the fold command, thanks!
Anyway I'm sure I'm wearing out my welcome in this thread so I will go back to admiring from afar at what you MXFB genii are up to...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:32 am
by ceeslans
October 2022 - time for a monthly screenshot.
tint2 panel running five executors (volume control, cpu/memory/battery monitors & audacious track details
conkys: openweather-conky and random-Tao-verse conky
wallpaper:
'Frost' by kobaian

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:17 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:32 am
October 2022 - time for a monthly screenshot.
tint2 panel running five executors (volume control, cpu/memory/battery monitors & audacious track details
conkys: openweather-conky and random-Tao-verse conky
wallpaper:
'Frost' by kobaian
Wow! I'm glad to see my wallpaper to be a part of such a beautiful desktop design.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:30 pm
by Jerry3904
@ceeslans, that is gorgeous!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:12 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:32 am
October 2022 - time for a monthly screenshot.
Such a clean desktop.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:05 pm
by kobaian
My favorite OS, favorite DE (or quasi-DE), favorite motive and theme, my current favorite wallpaper, favorite audacious skin and favorite music...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:35 pm
by Jerry3904
Very handsome indeed.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:01 pm
by darknetmatrix
new kid on the block

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:05 pm
by Jerry3904
Well, welcome! I love that wallpaper. I use a version without the logo in the lower right corner that I prefer.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:14 pm
by darknetmatrix
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:05 pm
Well, welcome! I love that wallpaper. I use a version without the logo in the lower right corner that I prefer.
without the logo is not there, to bad i should use it too, any chance of sharing?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2022 1:27 pm
by Jerry3904
It's just my fiddling with Gimp to get rid of it--I'll post it a bit later.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:48 pm
by Melber
Revisited comfort

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Like!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:33 pm
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:48 pm
Revisited comfort
Looks great!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 2:42 am
by ceeslans
the comfort colors stand out, as does that stylish MX-concept wallpaper (link please...)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:15 am
by Melber
@ceeslans Wallpaper is not the greatest quality resolution, but here it is anyway
comfort-x.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:20 am
by richb
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:15 am
@ceeslans Wallpaper is not the greatest quality resolution, but here it is anyway
comfort-x.jpg
I like it and resolution as shown not that bad.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:22 pm
by rokytnji.1
Just a little tweaking

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:32 pm
by Jerry3904
Ha! I'd hate to see a lot...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:53 am
by 1-DOT.C0M
Slightly modified mx-debian-blue-rounded theme to replace minimize/resize/close buttons with 3 OSX-style color dots.
https://1-dot.com/tech/xpm
larger size
https://i.imgur.com/p9Fx9FG.png --- wallpaper
https://wallhaven.cc/user/LinuxETC/favorites/1208255
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:26 pm
by 1-DOT.C0M
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:28 pm
by Jerry3904
Striking!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:20 am
by ceeslans
November desktop.
fluxbox-style and gtk-theme ''Simplewaita' with 'buuf-3.34' icons
tint2 panel 'tbar' (+ hidden 'apps' sidebar) and 'flux-logo' conky

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:04 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 4:20 am
November desktop.
fluxbox-style and gtk-theme ''Simplewaita' with 'buuf-3.34' icons
tint2 panel 'tbar' (+ hidden 'apps' sidebar) and 'flux-logo' conky
I like this nice retro-look and feel.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 5:44 am
by Jerry3904
Very fine!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:24 am
by wdscharff
My autumn image for dual monitor operation (6400*2160px) and otherwise, as always, little to see with me :)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:30 am
by Jerry3904
Gorgeous colors.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:42 am
by ceeslans
Font dpi set to 96 for kernel 6 nvidia, right? Am glad it worked out

What beautiful autumn colors ! Could you please share the picture (preferably in 16:9 format, if at all possible)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:30 am
by wdscharff
Once the original for (my) dual monitor operation (6400x2160)
and once as UHD 16x9 (3840*2160)
can then be resized, reduced, cut, and the MX logo can be added to the wallpapers.
Font dpi set to 96 for kernel 6 nvidia, right?
yes

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:19 pm
by ceeslans
Thank you Sir!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:46 pm
by siamhie
Quickly threw together a green themed desktop based on this cool house tree image I found.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:15 pm
by AVLinux
@siamhie
Very nice, your best one yet! It's been a good week for MX-FB screenshots!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:32 am
by kobaian
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:46 pm
Quickly threw together a green themed desktop based on this cool house tree image I found.
The theme looks very nice together with the wallpaper.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:44 am
by siamhie
@AVLinux @kobaian Thanks guys. I haven't themed for awhile, so I was dusting off the cobwebs. I plan on creating an even better Xmas theme this year compared to last years.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:29 pm
by ceeslans
Simple pink/blue desktop layout. Using @addy's stylish 'herb' tint2 panel, adapted to my personal taste and executors.
Neofetch v6 and v7 are showing different memory usage levels - (latter no longer using the 'old'
free -h command calculation method)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2022 4:41 am
by i_ri
Hello siamhie
First annual report
live session MX21_fluxbox64
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2022 5:38 am
by Jerry3904
Man, @ceeslans, that is simply gorgeous!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 6:54 am
by Jerry3904
What with 5ft of snow fallen just west of us, I decided it was time for a very wintry theme set. I don't have the skills or patience of some of the posters here, so more or less cobble things together: gkrellm Egan, style FT10dark, rofi MX-storm, background perforated-leather-Glass-Blue, fbrun up top.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:04 am
by ceeslans
frosty look, giving me the shivers... nice color combo Jerry
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:55 am
by kobaian
I was playing a little bit with Rofi, borrowing some concepts from Melber's Comfort-themes and from layouts presented on this github-site:
https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi


Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:01 am
by Jerry3904
Very fine @kobaian ! I hope we will be able to put out a small collection when the rofi manager is released in a couple of weeks so I hope you will consider being part of that.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:15 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 6:55 am
I was playing a little bit with Rofi, borrowing some concepts from Melber's Comfort-themes and from layouts presented on this github-site:
https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi
Wow... that's great, both in options and aesthetics !!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:16 am
by Melber
@kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:01 am
Very fine @kobaian ! I hope we will be able to put out a small collection when the rofi manager is released in a couple of weeks so I hope you will consider being part of that.
What Jerry said. They are excellent. Care to share the rasi files / fiddle to them work with rofi-manager (hint hint)?
Am I right in recalling you are using awesome-font for the "icons which aren't actually icons"? What happens if that's not installed? Do the tabs display no text or does the symbol get substituted with gobbledegook in some other default fallback font?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:50 pm
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:16 am
@kobaian
What Jerry said. They are excellent. Care to share the rasi files / fiddle to them work with rofi-manager (hint hint)?
Thank you!
I'll will share the rasi.files , but I have to do some changes to let them work outside my system. I'll manage it soon, maybe even this weekend.
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:16 am
Am I right in recalling you are using awesome-font for the "icons which aren't actually icons"?
Yes, that's right. I think the FontAwesome really expands the possibilities of theming Rofi. I couldn't find any available symbol font that does the job.
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:16 amWhat happens if that's not installed? Do the tabs display no text or does the symbol get substituted with gobbledegook in some other default fallback font?
It depends...
The symbols for the mode-switcher are defined by lines like that:
If you don't have the FontAwesome Rofi will replace them with a characters from another font style, that don't make any sense.
If you remove the definitions you'll get "drun, run, window, etc." that is not a very good option, if you want to have that thin, stylish sidebar on the left from my first example.
You can also change the symbol using some characters from the available fonts, if you find anything interesting there.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:30 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:50 pm
...
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:16 am
Am I right in recalling you are using awesome-font for the "icons which aren't actually icons"?
Yes, that's right. I think the FontAwesome really expands the possibilities of theming Rofi. I couldn't find any available symbol font that does the job.
...
Fully agree and share your appreciation of this awesome iconfont (no pun intended).
It is commonly used in openbox, fluxbox, i3 and many other window managers. Not only useful in rofi, but also in tint2 panel buttons/executors, conky widgets, notification messages etc etc.
Installation takes up 1500 kb of disk space only. Guess it wouldn't harm to add the fonts-font-awesome package to the default MX Fluxbox installation...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 6:03 am
by Jerry3904
Good idea, we'll certainly consider that possibility. Took a quick look just now, and don't see ATM how that could be done.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:59 am
by jeffreyC
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 3:30 am
kobaian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:50 pm
...
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:16 am
Am I right in recalling you are using awesome-font for the "icons which aren't actually icons"?
Yes, that's right. I think the FontAwesome really expands the possibilities of theming Rofi. I couldn't find any available symbol font that does the job.
...
Fully agree and share your appreciation of this awesome iconfont (no pun intended).
It is commonly used in openbox, fluxbox, i3 and many other window managers. Not only useful in rofi, but also in tint2 panel buttons/executors, conky widgets, notification messages etc etc.
Installation takes up 1500 kb of disk space only. Guess it wouldn't harm to add the fonts-font-awesome package to the default MX Fluxbox installation...
I would suggest using the fonts-fork-awesome package instead as it is the larger and more complete set of symbols, the current fonts-font-awesome package is intended for use with Twitter bootstrap.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:36 pm
by siamhie
Here is my Christmas themed desktop for the year. I've imported a transparent blue bobble into my wallpaper and then wrote a cocky around them. I then color coordinated my root menu, tint2 toolbar and rofi to match each other. Rounded the corners of the root menu and toolbar. I then added a halo font effect to my root menu titles and window titles to give it a candy cane look.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:21 pm
by AVLinux
Haha, Fun!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:40 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:21 pmHaha, Fun!!
Thanks. I've been playing around with the halo and shadow effects lately.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:32 am
by kobaian
After getting rid of anything in the code that won't work for anyone else than me and rewriting it to match the Melber's MX-Rofi color templates as much as possible. (I hope I have understood the coloring-rules properly.)

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/** Iconic-Start-Menu -
the rofi theme with vertical iconbar by Kobaian.
It is based on sidetab-adapta (a fork of sidetab theme by deadguy)
and MX-comfort theme by Melber & MX-Devs.
This theme has been dedicated to the public domain.
To display the theme properly, you should install FontAwesome (fonts-font-awesome package)
and define icons for rofi modi adding to the 'configuration {}' section
in your config.rasi file the following lines:
display-drun: "";
display-run: "";
display-window: "";
display-help: "";
display-filebrowser: "";
display-ssh: "";
display-calc: "";
*/
* {
background-color: transparent;
// Title background
color01: #2C2C2CF6;
// Title text
color02: #CACDD0;
// Searchbar background
color03: #1D2324;
// Searchbar text
color04: #ffffff;
// Inctive tab background
color05: #2C2C2CF6;
// Inctive tab text
color06: #CACDD0;
// Active tab background
color07: #1D2324F9;
// Active tab text
color08: #F0B24C;
// Active tab highlight
color09: #F0B24C;
// Selection background
color10: #2C2C2C;
// Selection text
color11: #ffffff;
font: "Noto Sans 11";
}
window {
margin: 0px 0px 0px;
anchor: south west;
location: south west;
width: 25%;
height: 60%;
x-offset: 0px;
y-offset: -45px;
}
mainbox {
children: [ inputbar, listbox ];
spacing: 0;
}
inputbar {
children: [ textbox, entry ];
orientation: horizontal;
expand: false;
background-color: @color01;
border: 3px 3px 0px 3px;
border-color: @color07;
}
textbox {
margin: 16px 14px 12px 14px;
width: 42px;
height: 40px;
background-color: transparent;
str: "";
font: "FontAwesome 14";
expand: false;
text-color: @color02;
}
entry {
border-radius: 0;
border: 1px;
border-color: @color09;
background-color: @color03;
text-color: @color04;
padding: 5px;
margin: 8px 6px;
expand: true;
}
listbox {
orientation: horizontal;
children: [ leftbar, listview ];
border: 0;
border-color: @color05;
spacing: 0;
background-color: transparent;
}
leftbar {
orientation: vertical;
children: [ custombox, mode-switcher ];
expand: false;
spacing: 0;
background-color: transparent;
}
custombox {
background-color: @color05;
border: 0px 3px 0px 3px;
border-color: @color07;
expand: true;
}
listview {
margin: 0;
scrollbar: false;
border: 0 0 0 0;
padding: 6px 0 0 6px;
border-color: inherit;
spacing: 0;
background-color: @color07;
}
element {
background-color: transparent;
padding: 6;
text-color: @color06;
}
element selected {
background-color: @color10;
text-color: @color11;
border: 0px 4px 0px 0px;
border-color: @color09;
}
element-text {
background-color: inherit;
text-color: inherit;
vertical-align: 0.5;
}
element-icon {
size: 32;
background-color: inherit;
padding: 0 6px 0 0;
}
mode-switcher {
padding: 0 0 0 0;
spacing: 0px;
expand: false;
orientation: vertical;
border: 0;
border-color: @color07;
background-color: transparent;
}
button {
font: "FontAwesome 12";
padding: 14px 12px;
spacing: 0px;
background-color: @color05;
text-color: @color06;
border: 0px 3px 0px 3px;
border-color: @color07;
expand: false;
}
button selected {
background-color: @color07;
text-color: @color08;
border: 0px 0px 0px 3px;
border-color: @color09;
border-radius: 0;
}
Note, that you need to install FontAwesome from the
fonts-font-awesome package to achieve the desired look and feel.
You need also add to the
configuration {} section in your config.rasi file the following lines:
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display-drun: "";
display-run: "";
display-window: "";
display-help: "";
display-filebrowser: "";
display-ssh: "";
display-calc: "";
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:35 am
by Melber
@kobaian
Excellent, will take a look...special thanks for taking the trouble to incorporate the color codes.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:32 am
by ceeslans
Mx-comfort_themed mxFlux

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:51 am
by Jerry3904
My oh my!
That's a fine-looking rofi--any chance we could add it to the special group of "extra themes" being collected and curated for Rofi Manager?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:15 am
by AVLinux
Wow! Love those rounded corners!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:41 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:32 am
Mx-comfort_themed mxFlux
It looks great!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:45 am
by Jerry3904
@kobaian @Melber It looks like we could include those "display-" settings in the default config.rasi without disturbing any other theme. Could we? Should we? Here's my draft--which comments out the sidebar mode or else those new settings show up in other themes:
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configuration {
modi: "drun,help:/usr/share/rofi/rofi-help";
//width: 20;
show-icons: true;
icon-theme: "papirus";
//lines: 20;
//fake-transparency: true;
//sidebar-mode: true;
//the following settings are used with kobaian.rasi;
display-drun: "";
display-run: "";
display-window: "";
display-help: "";
display-filebrowser: "";
display-ssh: "";
display-calc: "";
}
BTW: do we need to keep the 3 entries that we are not using (lines, fake, sidebar) in the config.rasi?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:58 am
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:51 am
My oh my!
That's a fine-looking rofi--any chance we could add it to the special group of "extra themes" being collected and curated for Rofi Manager?
It's one of the many-colored 'rounded-" rofi themes I found at
https://github.com/newmanls/rofi-themes ... ter/themes.
The original theme is by LR-Tech (as specified in the rasi file header). All version colors are great; and the blue variant simply matches melber's mx-comfort blue.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:32 am
by Jerry3904
Well damn, I thought I'd found all the rofi theme sites out there! We'll take a careful look for includsion.
Thanks.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:47 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:45 am
@kobaian @Melber It looks like we could include those "display-" settings in the default config.rasi without disturbing any other theme. Could we? Should we?
I have solved the problem for myself putting in my config.rasi the two following lines:
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@import "display0.rasi"
//@import "display1.rasi"
That are links to separate files in my
~/.config/rofi folder.
display0.rasi stands for the replacement of the default tab-names with icons:
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configuration {
display-drun: "";
display-run: "";
display-window: "";
display-filebrowser: "";
display-keys: "";
display-help: "";
display-ssh: "";
display-calc: "";
}
display1.rasi stands for the replacement of the default tab-names with icons + newbie-friendly tab-names:
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configuration {
display-drun: " Apps";
display-run: " Run";
display-window: " Windows";
display-filebrowser: " Files";
display-keys: " Keys";
display-help: " Help";
display-ssh: " SSH";
display-calc: " Calculator";
}
The last one should look ok with the horizontal-switcher themes.
If both commented, you have just default tab-names.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:05 am
by Jerry3904
That's a good idea. We would be putting them into ~/.config/rofi/themes/ and adjusting your import code to match
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:24 pm
by Jerry3904
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:58 am
It's one of the many-colored 'rounded-" rofi themes I found at
https://github.com/newmanls/rofi-themes ... ter/themes.
The original theme is by LR-Tech (as specified in the rasi file header). All version colors are great; and the blue variant simply matches melber's mx-comfort blue.
I tried one of them and get a small black triangle at each corner even though the rounded-common.rasi has this:
I don't see that on your capture so am wondering if it's just my system.
BTW: I did like the nord-twoline.rasi and modified it for our collection.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:52 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:24 pm
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 8:58 am
It's one of the many-colored 'rounded-" rofi themes I found at
https://github.com/newmanls/rofi-themes ... ter/themes.
The original theme is by LR-Tech (as specified in the rasi file header). All version colors are great; and the blue variant simply matches melber's mx-comfort blue.
I tried one of them and get a small black triangle at each corner even though the rounded-common.rasi has this:
I don't see that on your capture so am wondering if it's just my system.
BTW: I did like the nord-twoline.rasi and modified it for our collection.
@Jerry3904: I have following line in ~/.config/rofi/config.rasi
This setting enables transparency for rofi on my system, thus the round corners.
Note however, that I'm still running rofi v/1.5 --> and I kinda understand from earlier posts here, that this setting is now defunct in rofi v/1.7 ???
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 1:17 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:52 pm
This setting enables transparency for rofi on my system, thus the round corners.
Note however, that I'm still running rofi v/1.5 --> and I kinda understand from earlier posts here, that this setting is now defunct in rofi v/1.7 ???
That's right. If you don't use a compositor like compton, you should probably uncomment the
fake-transparency line.
That's why I recommend to preserve that line in default
config.rasi, even if it will be switched off by default.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 1:34 pm
by Jerry3904
I tried uncommenting the line but it made no difference
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:54 am
by Jerry3904
Working on
@kobaian's tricky theme. Including the changes above, such a default config.rasi seems like it might work
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configuration {
modi: "drun,help:/usr/share/rofi/rofi-help";
show-icons: true;
icon-theme: "papirus";
//fake-transparency: true; << in rofi 1.7 may require a compositor
//sidebar-mode: true;
}
////
//for use with kobaian-menu.rasi
//@import "/themes/display0.rasi"
//@import "/themes/display1.rasi"
////
@theme "/home/jb/.config/rofi/themes/MX-comfort.rasi"
//@import "/mxrm-settings/mxrm-settings.rasi";
Notice that I changed the name of the theme so the user would have a clue. I may add an entry to the help tab with an explanation of those two options--not sure it's necessary since the user can choose one and see the effect.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 11:27 am
by Melber
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:31 pm
by Jerry3904
@Melber I created those "display" docs and have them ATM going to /usr/share/mxrr/ . If that's OK with you, then please remember to have them installed to ~/.config/rofi/themes/ with your script.
BTW: I would think users would be quite confused since those docs now show up when the user clicks in MXRM to change themes, so maybe we could just exclude them somehow?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:41 pm
by Melber
@Jerry3904
How exactly are the files named? I would copy them into the themes/mxrm-settings subfolder, where they get hidden them from the theme list.
PS. Think I've got the script working to automatically comment/uncomment the @import display0 line. Not sure how to tackle the second display1 option atm.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:51 pm
by Jerry3904
display0.rasi
display1.rasi
Then, of course, we will need to modify the @import codes in the default config.rasi.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 3:11 am
by Amiga-MX
Good morning MX'ers.
This is the second edition of
Conkymania for my new
" dev punk" desktop theme which I'm building without any methodology, just by overriding everything I could.
Enjoy the paradox
Thank you.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 8:56 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone

fluxbox, fbpanel, idesk, MX 21,
WMtheme: mx-comfort-m, theme: Matcha-light-aliz, icons: nuoveXT2
The Welcome icon is mxfb-settings.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:37 am
by ceeslans
@i_ri : thanks for sharing your desktop and configuration info
which application are you using as dropdown-menu from fbpanel? is that jgmenu?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2022 10:18 am
by i_ri
fbpanel feature menu. Can build edit.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:59 am
by kobaian
Winter has come to Poland (snowing, -12*C) bringing a solution for sorting rofi drun by categories.



Wanna try it with your rofi?
Just create a
categories file in your
~/.config/rofi folder. Here's the content:
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#! /bin/bash
if [ x"$@" = x"Accessories" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Utility,Accessories" -display-drun Accessories
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Office" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Office,TextEditor" -display-drun Office
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Graphics" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Graphics,Image,Photo" -display-drun Graphics
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Games" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Game" -display-drun Games
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Internet" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Network,WebBrowser" -display-drun Internet
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Multimedia" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Music,Sound,Video,Audio,AudioVideo,Multimedia" -display-drun Multimedia
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"MX-Tools" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "MX-Setup,MX-Maintenance,MX-Software,MX-Utilities,MX-Live" -display-drun MX-Tools
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Settings" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Settings" -display-drun Settings
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"Development" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "Development,TerminalEmulator" -display-drun Development
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"System" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "System" -display-drun System
fi
if [ x"$@" = x"ALL APPS" ];
then
killall rofi
sleep 0.25
rofi -show drun -drun-categories "" -display-drun drun
fi
echo "ALL APPS"
echo "Accessories"
echo "Development"
echo "Graphics"
echo "Games"
echo "Internet"
echo "Multimedia"
echo "MX-Tools"
echo "Office"
echo "Settings"
echo "System"
Edit the
modi line your
config.rasi file like that:
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modi: "drun,categories:~/.config/rofi/categories"
You can of course edit this code, translate the category-names to your native language or add the Awesome icons to it, change the
display-drun names etc for the better effect.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 4:51 am
by ceeslans
Cool. Very cool...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:23 am
by Jerry3904
Truly awesome.
If it's such serious winter in Poland, I don't even want to think about your poor neighbors to the East.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:47 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:23 am
Truly awesome.
If it's such serious winter in Poland, I don't even want to think about your poor neighbors to the East.
A typical day in December in the lowland in Poland is about +2* or 0*C with only a little bit snow. But sometimes we've got a couple of winter days. The photo was taken last year in mountains (there is always a little bit colder), there were 3 or 5 days in December of a real winter with -15*C but January and February was rather warm without any snow at all. I think after a couple of days the winter and snow will be over.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 6:00 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM

hello ceeslans, the fbpanel menu is flexible; it takes commands. six of the example entries are not .desktop files.
Application systemmenu is menu. With xfce panel on, the mx menu editor add entry+, turn off xfce panel, turn on fbpanel, there is the added+entry in fbpanel application systmmenu and in Applications Finder menu.
sample: featherpad as a launcher is not on the launchbar, so add to menu. moving apps to a submenu. custom toolbox is the most.list example of favorites, load yours. There is talk of rofi, so it is on the example menu. End session is exit-options.
Modified window menu with right-click on taskbar tab.
On fluxbox i use right-click and middle-click for everything. fbrun too. everything starts with rootmenu.
Just showing things of interest, variety, because my fluxbox desktop is just too empty to be interesting.
i run system tray and notifications in a xfce panel that there is not need to turn on in fluxbox. no tint2. i must watch that [single]systray situation with tint2 and fbpanel tray and xfcepanel and fluxbox systemtray.
MX has a lot of tools and choices.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:45 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:59 am
...
Wanna try it with your rofi?
Just create a
categories file in your
~/.config/rofi folder.
...
You can of course edit this code, translate the category-names to your native language or add the Awesome icons to it, change the
display-drun names etc for the better effect.
@kobaian Thanks for the script and code in earlier post #806.
I finally managed to activate the categories in an (early) iconic rofi window. I love what you did with it using the Awesome iconfont.
Here is a screenshot-composition of my display0 workspace, showing the various selection states of the category and category-items.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:56 am
by Jerry3904
Nice. After the New Year, I would like to start a separate thread on this topic with an eye toward default deployment with MX-23.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:59 am
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Dec 10, 2022 3:11 am
Good morning MX'ers.
This is the second edition of
Conkymania for my new
" dev punk" desktop theme which I'm building without any methodology, just by overriding everything I could.
Enjoy the paradox
Thank you.
I like the conky in it's own window idea (middle picture). That way you don't have to have your your stats overlayed on top of the background image all the time.
I'm more impressed with the conky on the left.

Is that coded into App Finder?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 6:18 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:45 am
@kobaian Thanks for the script and code in earlier post #806.
I finally managed to activate the categories in an (early) iconic rofi window. I love what you did with it using the Awesome iconfont.
Here is a screenshot-composition of my display0 workspace, showing the various selection states of the category and category-items.
I'm glad you have enjoyed and improved the script for yourself.
The script I'm using now for myself offers a similar workflow, but I have turned from the Awesome font but to Iosevka font, that is a combination of a monospaced font with a couple of symbolic fonts and incorporates all the Awesome icons. The main advantage of Iosevka is that you can use one font for a theme and you don't have to be worry about the conflicts between the characters, when you build a dmenu list, where symbols and names stand one next to the other. The conflict forces you to test every time, if the icon, you have chosen, will work together with the text or not.
But the main problem of Iosevka is that the letters look a little bit too small for the nominal font size, and it won't be friendly for people with eye diseases. A monospaced font isn't also so universal for projects like a sans serif font. So I think it is good for me, but it won't be the best option for everyone.

https://github.com/adi1090x/rofi/blob/m ... mplete.ttf
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:30 pm
by Amiga-MX
@ceeslans
I like it, that's pretty solid and consistent style. Good job guys.
@siamhie
I like the conky in it's own window idea (middle picture). That way you don't have to have your your stats overlayed on top of the background image all the time.
I'm more impressed with the conky on the left.

Is that coded into App Finder?
Thank you for understanding the idea which in general is to investigate many possibilities around MX-FB.
Although I have congratulated the developers before, I recognize that I could not abandon the App finder as an independent window, this seems great to me and I feel that it is a rule of MXFB identity without which I could not live.
For such reason I have been doing some static tests, which provide nothing more than a simple visual reference of my work in the laboratory of ideas. I think there may be room for growth and development in the field of visual experience on Glinux. Before others do. (MS).
Now and answering your first statement, I think it is essential to be able to visualize the conky in its own window.
Answer your second question, I'm sorry to tell you that it is not coded within app finder. Actually you will be disappointed to know that I use the functionality, until before unknown to me to use the layers of windows, that
@Jerry3904 told me in another thread. Although similar composition was going to be done with inkscape, this solution saved me a lot of time in composition. It is therefore just a mockup using the functionality of layers in windows, to show the dev punk concept.
Thanks you
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 6:28 am
by ceeslans
densily populated
MacOS-like launchpad theme for rofi; slightly modified.
Admittedly, a bit (or: wayyyy) over the top...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:02 am
by wdscharff
i like it
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:05 am
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 8:30 pm
@siamhie
I like the conky in it's own window idea (middle picture). That way you don't have to have your your stats overlayed on top of the background image all the time.
I'm more impressed with the conky on the left.

Is that coded into App Finder?
Thank you for understanding the idea which in general is to investigate many possibilities around MX-FB.
Although I have congratulated the developers before, I recognize that I could not abandon the App finder as an independent window, this seems great to me and I feel that it is a rule of MXFB identity without which I could not live.
For such reason I have been doing some static tests, which provide nothing more than a simple visual reference of my work in the laboratory of ideas. I think there may be room for growth and development in the field of visual experience on Glinux. Before others do. (MS).
Now and answering your first statement, I think it is essential to be able to visualize the conky in its own window.
Answer your second question, I'm sorry to tell you that it is not coded within app finder. Actually you will be disappointed to know that I use the functionality, until before unknown to me to use the layers of windows, that @Jerry3904 told me in another thread. Although similar composition was going to be done with inkscape, this solution saved me a lot of time in composition. It is therefore just a mockup using the functionality of layers in windows, to show the dev punk concept.
Thanks you
Understandable. Could you point me to that thread? I have an idea with a Fluxbox logo I have laying around that would be cool to incorporate into app finder.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:12 am
by siamhie
You can never be way over the top when designing a Fluxbox desktop.

That looks really good.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:38 pm
by Amiga-MX
@siamhie
Of course, the thread is:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=72618
Just in post number 2 where
@Jerry3904 said: "For many windows, you can right-click the titlebar > Layer > and choose the level of "topness" you want."
That is the trick I used to place conky over the top of the active windows.
Cheers
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 7:34 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:38 pm
@siamhie
Of course, the thread is:
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=72618
Just in post number 2 where @Jerry3904 said: "For many windows, you can right-click the titlebar > Layer > and choose the level of "topness" you want."
That is the trick I used to place conky over the top of the active windows.
Cheers
So basically, that's a running conky that sits on top of app finder because of the layer selected?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:03 pm
by Amiga-MX
Right, as you can see there is nothing fancy.
Cheers
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:38 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:03 pm
Right, as you can see there is nothing fancy.
Cheers
It's still interesting. +1
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:46 am
by kobaian
The work on the whisker-like-rofi-menu in progress...


Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 8:52 am
by AVLinux
Hi,
As an observer the recent Rofi work has been fascinating! Excellent work and deployment by all!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:52 pm
by Jerry3904
OK, this is a bit different. Tim fixed the xkcd in mxfb-goodies.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:02 pm
by Melber
Just in case Fifa decides to allow Linux distros to compete in the next World Cup...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2022 8:15 pm
by Jerry3904
Ha! I see multiple offsides already ...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:00 pm
by ceeslans
Yet another rofi-related screenshot - and then it'll stop, I promise...
Three rofis running simultanuously (but of course not showing at the same time, don't let this composed screenshot fool you), each initiated from an alternative configuration file. The specific rofi-theme and settings are likewise set in such designated config files :
--> iconic menu : started from a 'mx-comfort-dark' tint2 button (rofi exec command pointing to
~/.config/rofi/config-iconic.rasi file)
--> run box : started from keybind e.g. [shift]+F1 (rofi exec command pointing to
~/.config/rofi/config-run.rasi file)
Any other rofi theme can be started from the default keybind, and using the standard
~/.config/rofi/config.rasi settings. None shown in this screenshot, obviously.
Needless to say that mx-rofi-manager doesn't access the alternative config-iconic and/or config-run files. These need to be set manually.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:31 pm
by Jerry3904
I like it, and I like seeing people play with this tool!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:35 pm
by AVLinux
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:00 pm
Yet another rofi-related screenshot - and then it'll stop, I promise...
Please don't!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:13 am
by Melber
Played around a bit with conky today and made three variants on a theme...
MX-Comfort-Minimal, MX-Comfort-Basic and MX-Comfort-Sysinfo
conky.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:25 am
by Jerry3904
That's interesting!
Design idea: on -Sysinfo, do you know way to have two short columns instead of one long one in order to make the conky more compact? Ideally, the two columns would fit inside the width of the top clock line
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 5:34 pm
by Melber
Now with MX-Comfort-Minimal, MX-Comfort-Basic, MX-Comfort-Sysinfo2 and MX-Comfort-Sysinfo
conky2.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 7:57 am
by Jerry3904
Shortest day of the year led me to this: a b/w version of an antony wallpaper with a moon that shows actual phase for my location. Got the moon by deleting everything from a gkrellm invisible theme except the plugin.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:56 am
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 7:57 am
Shortest day of the year led me to this: a b/w version of an antony wallpaper with a moon that shows actual phase for my location. Got the moon by deleting everything from a gkrellm invisible theme except the plugin.

That's really cool. It's sort of like a live wallpaper with the current moon phase.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:05 am
by ceeslans
Late to the party, but : Happy New Year to You All !
Inspite of local weather conditions - both current and forecasted , the
(AI-generated) snowman seems happy... Probably leaving my desktop any time soon

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:13 am
by Jerry3904
A great New Year image that makes me smile!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:32 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:05 am
Late to the party, but : Happy New Year to You All !
Inspite of local weather conditions - both current and forecasted , the
(AI-generated) snowman seems happy... Probably leaving my desktop any time soon
Nice wallpaper!

As an amateur photographer and wallpaper-contributor I feel really endangered.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:13 pm
by Amiga-MX
Conkymania
Dev Punk Dream
Starring AppFinder+Conky+window layer
Dev Punk Dream picture previous released at MX-rofi-manager released topic
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 15#p707815 check the link if you want to read mode about rofi.
Have you tried MX confort with active cherry ? It is a only one icon add-on to improve your experience in MX-21-FB
https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 94#p706094
MXMLGO
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:27 pm
by Jerry3904
What exactly is the object in the upper right corner?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2023 6:38 pm
by Amiga-MX
In the very very right top, there is an artefact caused by 2nd monitor when screenshot near conky, if is that what you mean.
The panel below that artefact is a conky instance.
MXMLGO
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:26 pm
by kobaian
I hope this solution will end the eternal war between the House of Rofi and the House of Appfinder.



How does it work?
I have created three files in the
~/.config/tint2/scripts directory:
tint2launcher,
defaultlauncher and
switchlauncher.
The first one -
tint2launcher is a short bash script that replaces the command under the MX-Logo on the Tint2 panel:
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#!/bin/bash
tint2launch=$(cat ~/.config/tint2/scripts/defaultlauncher)
if [[ $tint2launch -eq 1 ]] ; then
rofi -show drun && exit 0
else
xfce4-appfinder & exit 0
fi
The second one -
defaultlauncher - stores the variable that indicates the preferred application-launcher:
The third one -
switchlauncher - is the bash script that allows to switch between the two launchers:
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#!/bin/bash
tint2launch=$(cat ~/.config/tint2/scripts/defaultlauncher)
TITLE=$"Change your app-launcher"
MESSAGE1=$"Your current application-launcher is <b>Rofi</b>.
Do you want to switch to <b>XFCE4-Appfinder</b>?"
MESSAGE2=$"Your current application-launcher is <b>XFCE4-Appfinder</b>.
Do you want to switch to <b>Rofi?</b>"
BUTTON1=$"Yes"
BUTTON2=$"No"
if [[ $tint2launch -eq 1 ]] ; then
yad --title="$TITLE" --borders=18 --center --on-top --image=dialog-question-symbolic --skip-taskbar --window-icon=dialog-question \
--text=" $MESSAGE1" \
--button="$BUTTON1!dialog-yes!:1" \
--button="$BUTTON2!dialog-no!:0" \
else
yad --title="$TITLE" --borders=18 --center --on-top --image=dialog-question-symbolic --skip-taskbar --window-icon=dialog-question \
--text=" $MESSAGE2" \
--button="$BUTTON1!dialog-yes!:2" \
--button="$BUTTON2!dialog-no!:0" \
fi
ret=$?
[[ $ret -eq 0 ]] && exit 0
if [[ $ret -eq 1 ]]; then
sed -i 's/1/0/' ~/.config/tint2/scripts/defaultlauncher && exit 0
elif [[ $ret -eq 2 ]]; then
sed -i 's/0/1/' ~/.config/tint2/scripts/defaultlauncher && exit 0
fi
And the last thing is to create the button that contains the following lines to execute the new commands:
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button_lclick_command = bash ~/.config/tint2/scripts/tint2launcher
button_rclick_command = bash ~/.config/tint2/scripts/switchlauncher
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:31 pm
by Amiga-MX
That's fantastic.
Just hope all the ecosystem to have some king of telestransporting module like the bridge you have extended. The utility is highly spicy. The environment is flavored.
I've heard good things about rofi at codely.tv. It seems rofi is making few mac developer returning to linux, just because the launch utility, among others.
I personally appreciate, what you made.
Just one last question. What about to have both, is there any inter-dependency between appfinder and rofi ?
Nowadays, and depending to my anime state y use both in several manner at a time. Usually appfinder at a time almost always opened on the bottom left column and rofi at the bottom right modulus. I wish to have a picture but rofi jumps off as soon I pressed print screen.
MX-FB is even more acrobatic now.
Thanks for your help.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:13 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 8:26 pm
I hope this solution will end the eternal war between the House of Rofi and the House of Appfinder.

...
How does it work?
I have created three files in the
~/.config/tint2/scripts directory:
tint2launcher,
defaultlauncher and
switchlauncher.
The first one -
tint2launcher is a short bash script that replaces the command under the MX-Logo on the Tint2 panel
The second one -
defaultlauncher - stores the variable that indicates the preferred application-launcher
The third one -
switchlauncher - is the bash script that allows to switch between the two launchers
...
And the last thing is to create the button that contains the following lines to execute the new commands:
Code: Select all
button_lclick_command = bash ~/.config/tint2/scripts/tint2launcher
button_rclick_command = bash ~/.config/tint2/scripts/switchlauncher
@kobaian that is absolutely lovely. Tried it out (of course adapting the necessary code to call
'jgmenu' instead of absent
'xfce4-appfinder' ) and it works a treat.
The nice thing is that the switch can be applied in any tint2rc theme. Will have to look how to accomodate calls for different rofi themes/config.rasi files (like e.g your iconic theme, which I guess is different for bottom- or top position?)
In any case: thanks for this clever solution!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:05 am
by Jerry3904
Wow, that looks great! Clever concept and coding. Haven't tried it yet b/c it's still early in the morning over here, but will later.
The larger question IMO is whether we need to supply both in the first place. I was sort of thinking, once we have tested the rofi-as-applauncher, that we would just have one. Appfinder could then always be installed via Package Installer (not currently possible), and the Debian menu is installed anyway by default with mxfb-accessories and would just need to be activated.
Have to think about that some more...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:13 am
by Melber
@kobaian very nicely done
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:09 am
by wdscharff
I know that many roads lead to Rome and having a choice is also a good thing.
I can't even remember the last time I used fbrun or xfce4-appfinder.
Even my guests use either rofi or the root menu.
I probably wouldn't even notice if the appfinder and fbrun were gone.
When I switched from xfce to fluxbox, it was different for the first few months, but then it disappeared from my focus:)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:53 am
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:31 pm
Nowadays, and depending to my anime state y use both in several manner at a time. Usually appfinder at a time almost always opened on the bottom left column and rofi at the bottom right modulus. I wish to have a picture but rofi jumps off as soon I pressed print screen.
I use gimp for that specific purpose. It has a screenshot utility built-in with a timed delay. (File>Create>Screenshot)
gimp.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:05 am
by Jerry3904
I use Screenshot (xfce4-screenshoter) which is much faster and easier than going through Gimp for a delayed shot.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 11:20 am
by wdscharff
Ey, as a fluxbox user i use scrot of course
without delay
none Print :Exec scrot ~/screenshots/'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S_$wx$h.jpg'
with delay
alt Print :Exec scrot ~/screenshots/'%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S_$wx$h.jpg' --delay 5
and installed but rarely in use the swiss knife of screenshooters : shutter
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:39 pm
by Amiga-MX
Thank for sharing, FBox'ers.
@siamhie Copy that. Didn't know even exists. Thank you.
@Jerry3904 Where could I find Screenshot (xfce4-screenshoter) ? I looked at repos but no presence. Also I see you have provided help solution in other thread. Nice idea.
@wdscharff Right I found it, and already installed in MX21FB. I'm just figuring out how to.....

Thanks.
The crown is vivid and the tuna is maguro.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:34 pm
by Amiga-MX

MX-21 Dev punk.
This is my second video clip made entirely with MX Fluxbox.
Again, a new way to make your own entertainment content for personal use.
Link to the video clip that will be available for 15 days on mediafire.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/45080r60 ... MX-21/file
Hope you liked and take a dance.
Last month I met the IA.
Think we are all doomed.
MXMLGO
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:32 pm
by kobaian
Does it look familiar to you?

Theme:
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/** Familiar-Start-Menu -
//rofi theme with vertical iconbar by Kobaian.
//It is based on sidetab-adapta (a fork of sidetab theme by deadguy)
//and MX-comfort theme by Melber & MX-Devs.
//This theme has been dedicated to the public domain.
*/
* {
// MX-familiar
// uses flag-for-font-awesome
// mxrr template-familiar.rasi
//font: "Noto Sans 12";
}
* {
background-color: transparent;
// Title background
color01: #1D2324;
// Title text
color02: #CACDD0;
// Searchbar background
color03: #29353B;
// Searchbar text
color04: #ffffff;
// Inctive tab background
color05: #29353B;
// Inctive tab text
color06: #CACDD0;
// Active tab background
color07: #29353B;
// Active tab text
color08: #ffffff;
// Active tab highlight
color09: #0f56d9;
// Selection background
color10: #0f56d9;
// Selection text
color11: #ffffff;
font: "Noto Sans 11";
}
window {
margin: 0px 0px 0px;
anchor: south west;
location: south west;
width: 25%;
height: 60%;
x-offset: 0px;
y-offset: -45px;
background-color: @color01;
}
mainbox {
children: [ inputbar, listbox ];
spacing: 0px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 12px;
}
inputbar {
children: [ entry ];
orientation: horizontal;
expand: false;
background-color: @color01;
border: 3px 3px 0px 3px;
border-color: @color01;
}
entry {
border-radius: 0;
border: 1px;
border-color: @color09;
border-radius: 4px;
background-color: @color03;
text-color: @color04;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0px 0px 12px 0px;
expand: true;
}
listbox {
orientation: horizontal;
children: [ listview, rightbar ];
border: 0;
border-radius: 0;
border-color: @color05;
spacing: 0;
background-color: @color01;
}
rightbar {
orientation: vertical;
children: [ mode-switcher, custombox ];
expand: false;
spacing: 0;
background-color: @color01;
border: 0px;
border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
custombox {
background-color: @color01;
border-color: @color01;
expand: true;
border: 0px 0px 0px 2px;
border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
border-color: @color09;
spacing: 0;
}
listview {
enabled: true;
columns: 1;
lines: 10;
cycle: true;
dynamic: true;
scrollbar: false;
padding: 6px 0 0 6px;
background-color: @color07;
spacing: 3px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px;
border: 2px 0px 2px 2px;
border-radius: 4px 0px 0px 4px;
border-color: @color09;
}
element {
background-color: transparent;
padding: 6;
text-color: @color06;
}
element selected {
background-color: @color10;
text-color: @color11;
border: 0px 4px 0px 0px;
border-color: @color09;
}
element-text {
background-color: inherit;
text-color: inherit;
vertical-align: 0.5;
}
element-icon {
size: 22;
background-color: inherit;
padding: 0 6px 0 0;
}
mode-switcher {
padding: 0 0 0 0;
spacing: 0px;
expand: false;
orientation: vertical;
border: 0px solid;
border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-color: @color01;
}
button {
font: "FontAwesome 11";
padding: 12px 20px 15px 20px;
border: 0px 0px 0px 2px;
border-radius: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
background-color: transparent;
text-color: @color06;
vertical-align: 0.5;
horizontal-align: 0.0;
cursor: pointer;
expand: false;
border-color: @color09;
}
button selected {
background-color: @color07;
text-color: @color08;
border: 3px 0px 0px 0px;
border-color: @color09;
border-radius: 0;
padding: 15px 20px 15px 20px;
border: 2px 2px 2px 0px;
border-radius: 0px 4px 4px 0px;
}
Display:
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configuration {
display-drun: " Apps";
display-run: " Run";
display-window: " Window";
display-filebrowser: " Files";
display-keys: " Keys";
display-help: " Help";
display-ssh: " SSH";
display-calc: " Calc";
display-categories: " Categories";
}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:40 pm
by Jerry3904
Very fine!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:40 pm
by siamhie
@Amiga-MX Cool conky you have there. I've always liked using the MX-Mowgli-writes conky in my display also.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 7:08 pm
by Amiga-MX
@siamhie
I don't use it to much, just for the recording that I choose it, as is very elegant and because the squared shape and color matched. With some tweaks I believe that can be a nice playground for visual research.
Cheers
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 8:12 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 5:32 pm
Does it look familiar to you?

Ohhh it does - it has that distinct iconic whisker touch... very very nice.
Thanks for sharing the theme- and display configs. In combination with your 'categories' and 'tint2launcher' scripts, it's running ever so smooth from a tint2 button here

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 12:49 pm
by Melber
Gone a bit MX-tangram pink crazy for some reason...
have been playing with the dock colour configs
tangram-dock.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:30 pm
by Jerry3904
Fun! And gives some ideas for MX-23.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:24 pm
by kobaian
Working on the new MX-Fluxbox design for my old single-core 32-bit EEEPC 1000H.
The screenshot was taken on my main machine, because creating rofi themes is still more comfortable on a newer and faster machine.


The size of the launcher fits exactly the 1024x600 resolution screen of the netbook and is designed for using it in the fullscreen mode.
The theme is a variation of the "Familiar" theme I have presented before.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:25 pm
by AVLinux
That looks phenomenal!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:38 am
by kobaian
The final design for my EEEPC (1024x600px resolution).

The empty desktop with an auto-hiding tint2-panel with program-launchers

PcManFM-qt Window with an auto-hiding tint2-panel with taskbar and window-buttons

Rofi start-menu

Active- and inactive- window-frames comparison
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:05 am
by Jerry3904
Nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:11 am
by ceeslans
Wow... That looks awesome!
I wouldn't mind if such layout, configuration and choice of applications could be considered as basic concept for MX-23 Fluxbox
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:32 am
by Jerry3904
Seems like a good place to start to me!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:29 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:11 am
Wow... That looks awesome!
I wouldn't mind if such layout, configuration and choice of applications could be considered as basic concept for MX-23 Fluxbox
Thanks!
When it comes to tint2 it is worth noticing, that it looks well on a low resolution screen, where you don't have enough place for everything. On my main PC with a 1080p monitor I use the standard mx-comfort based panel on the bottom. The most annoying thing about having a non-auto-hiding tint2-panel on the top is that Fluxbox seems to ignore the fact, that the panel exists and opens the windows placing them very often underneath the panel.
The application choice is good particular for that PC. PCManFM-qt instead of Thunar, GPicView instead of gThumb. Thunar is for me too heavy and becomes with every new version less compatible with old good window-managers like Fluxbox, Openbox etc. But PCManFM-qt has its own problems like poor localization and it doesn't remember well default apps, so you have to edit the mimeapps.list file manually. So it is good for me, but I doubt it will be a good choice for default MXFB file-manager.
gThumb has its own very non-intuitive keybindings (e.g. going to next picture requires page-down instead of right-arrow) and its interface doesn't fit to the old wm's workflow well. I like GPicView for it's speed and simplicity.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:55 am
by Jerry3904
When it comes to tint2 it is worth noticing, that it looks well on a low resolution screen, where you don't have enough place for everything. On my main PC with a 1080p monitor I use the standard mx-comfort based panel on the bottom. The most annoying thing about having a non-auto-hiding tint2-panel on the top is that Fluxbox seems to ignore the fact, that the panel exists and opens the windows placing them very often underneath the panel.
Have you tried changing the "panel_layer =" setting? I've read that the default value "normal" may be understood as "top." I use "panel_layer = bottom" which works for me.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:53 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:55 am
When it comes to tint2 it is worth noticing, that it looks well on a low resolution screen, where you don't have enough place for everything. On my main PC with a 1080p monitor I use the standard mx-comfort based panel on the bottom. The most annoying thing about having a non-auto-hiding tint2-panel on the top is that Fluxbox seems to ignore the fact, that the panel exists and opens the windows placing them very often underneath the panel.
Have you tried changing the "panel_layer =" setting? I've read that the default value "normal" may be understood as "top." I use "panel_layer = bottom" which works for me.
That's a kind of solution. But does FB respect the bottom-layered panel while maximizing windows?
The best solution will be to force the wm to treat the panel-area as "non-existent" but I don't know if it is possible. It is not only Tint2 problem, because I've got the same situation with LXQT-panel under my LXQT/Fluxbox environment. And, as far as I remember, FB ignores sometimes even its own FB-panel too.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:52 am
by Jerry3904
Right, and "bottom" doesn't always work either...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:16 pm
by siamhie
Playing around with tint2's toolbar. I've set it up with the desktop's toolbar I'm on changes to yellow. Font coloring is as follows.
Active programs are in orange with programs that are in the forefront in black and iconified programs in green.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:32 pm
by Jerry3904
That tint2 panel is a blast!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:52 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:32 pm
That tint2 panel is a blast!
Yes it is. I discovered (by accident) that I can have the toolbar highlight the desktop I'm on when I was color coordinating the toolbar with my Sunflower style I have installed. Next on my list is to figure out how to set up gradients with tint2.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:05 pm
by Amiga-MX
Is it here the place which is famous because... ?
The sauce is spicy and fast
I'll take two tint2, fast and spicy, thanks

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:10 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:05 pm
Is it here the place which is famous because... ?
The sauce is spicy and fast
I'll take two tint2, fast and spicy, thanks

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 8:13 pm
by siamhie
I think I've got it. I had to add the gradient variable to my tint2rc file. Now my taskbar looks like a tequila sunrise.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:06 pm
by Amiga-MX
@siamhie
As a newbie on mX-21-FB I appreciate that:
1. You are using postimage instead of imgur, so we can get better zoom detail.
2. You are sharing your console code. I'll take such gradient_id =1 as a starting point to test my self how many thinks I break up
Just a cascade question:

Is that a property code or is just a language command set, is it LUA, can we use it in conkies ?
I was searching for gradient ability for the dev Punk desktop V4 now using conky masking. With gradients could be set to another level to the concept

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:49 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 9:06 pm
@siamhie
As a newbie on mX-21-FB I appreciate that:
1. You are using postimage instead of imgur, so we can get better zoom detail.
2. You are sharing your console code. I'll take such gradient_id =1 as a starting point to test my self how many thinks I break up
Just a cascade question:
Is that a property code or is just a language command set, is it LUA, can we use it in conkies ?
I was searching for gradient ability for the dev Punk desktop V4 now using conky masking. With gradients could be set to another level to the concept
@Amiga-MX
I found this tutorial to get me started. Tint2 Gradients (
https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/blob/mas ... #gradients).
I have built gradients into my custom FB styles but I'm not sure how to implement gradients into conky's as I always run them as transparent.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:00 pm
by Amiga-MX
@siamhie Thanks for sharing
I have built gradients into my custom FB styles but I'm not sure how to implement gradients into conky's as I always run them as transparent.
Uhmm, good point

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 7:17 am
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sat Jan 21, 2023 11:00 pm
@siamhie Thanks for sharing
I have built gradients into my custom FB styles but I'm not sure how to implement gradients into conky's as I always run them as transparent.
Uhmm, good point
Are you referring to the conky background or individual stat?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 7:48 am
by i_ri
i am looking at bbpager does gradient.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:57 pm
by Amiga-MX
@siamhie
Referring to the conky background, however for individual stat could be also usefull.
Thanks
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 3:05 pm
by Amiga-MX
@i_ri
Thanks for sharing
Now I'm looking at bbpager reading about Sunken Gradient Vertical

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:17 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Sun Jan 22, 2023 2:57 pm
@siamhie
Referring to the conky background, however for individual stat could be also usefull.
Thanks
There are some variables that will allow gradient setup. (cpugraph, diskiograph, downspeedgraph, etc)
These reside in the conky.text section.
http://ifxgroup.net/conky.htm#p2
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:57 pm
by Amiga-MX
conky.config.background = true
conky.config.image = "gradient.png"
-alpha set -channel RGBA -define gradient:auto-crop=false -fx "gradient(gradient_type=linear, start_color='555555', end_color='AAAAAA', angle=90)" output.png
I'm getting closer, TBH IDK. Tomorrow I'll try to generate a custom gradient.png and disambiguate if I create an output or just use gradient file.
convert -size 10x120 -gravity center -alpha set -channel RGBA -define gradient:auto-crop=false -fx "gradient(gradient_type=linear, start_color='555555', end_color='AAAAAA', angle=90)" output.png
This code looks like Image magic stuff
After getting toasty with code I was creating some collage backgrounds for devpunk desktop V4, with rofi sized for the model -Amazing rofi manager- and your tips shooting screen with gimp, I'm getting closer, next step will be video [ sized] with conky masks, no gradients at this moment

DevPunk BG with rofi

DevPunk BG with Conky. Still needs some font tweaks
Thanks you.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:50 am
by Jerry3904
Now in full winter, I'm changing over my background with a picture I took at the top of the lake on which I live (though not at this location). The old willow, ice and Canada geese provide texture.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:27 am
by wdscharff
Enviable location, good motive, successful realisation!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:55 am
by ceeslans
Currently using a slightly modified version of jmattheis'
gruvbox-dark gtk-theme
I created the matching fluxbox-style and tint2 panel configuration.
The MX ascii logo was (sort of) copied from this
forum post by
@8bit --> thanks al !
Showing geany with the 'zenburn' color-scheme.
The 'places' menu is displayed in jgmenu using a bunsenlabs pipemenu.
The exit menu is an old crunchbang script, upgraded to python3 (not by me, waayyy over my head - I only edited the commands to work in mxfb).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:58 am
by Jerry3904
Another good exit-options alternative!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 7:56 pm
by kobaian
It looks great!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:27 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM
Just last week we were remarking that windows eleven is minus the Desktop Toolbar, so
so it is a great time for ceeslans to feature the Places pipemenu which is similar. Thanks ceeslans.

MX21, mxfluxbox Comfort, idesk, tint2, spotlight by melber
shown in tint2 Panelsize 32X;
hicolor 48X tablet.png,
48X mxhc.png tried to have transparent outside the circle, but it turned black; okay; sample.
48X gtk-index.png.
Comfort menu size roboto12.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:43 pm
by Melber
@Amigo hope you don't mind me appropiating your contempo icon for a little bit of fluxbox crazy...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 9:01 pm
by Jerry3904
Neat!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:15 am
by Amigo
@Melber
Melber wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 5:43 pm
hope you don't mind me appropiating your contempo icon for a little bit of fluxbox crazy...
It was made for that! so no problem at all
feel free to use or modify it however you like.
Saludos
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:27 pm
by i_ri
Hello Amigo and Melber
At the time I first saw that icon I really liked it, fascinated that it appeared rather 3D, it looks like it is stamped into a butter-mint or such. Can it be made to look pillowy? liked it is stamped into a marshmallow? 3D? stand on its own as a chunky Mx?
Nice work you two..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Can it be made to look pillowy? liked it is stamped into a marshmallow?
I love that suggestion: like it was floating in hot chocoloate or being roasted over a campfire...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:30 pm
by i_ri
somewhat the same vein, idea; variant; embossed, 3D, with the x cut as a tunnel?
The mx Store can sell Mx gummies.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:26 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM
tuxedo; MX is in the bowtie.
in stitches studying string theory
top left
Five attached squares make four Ms and three Xes;
in five squares do you see five or six Ms(?)
one person here says, there are eight Ms in the five squares.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 4:17 am
by i_ri
MX21 mxfluxbox Comfort, tint2
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2023 4:57 am
by wdscharff
For me, there is only "micro evolution" in terms of workflow, with little to nothing happening in terms of design:
Note/reminder regarding some Fluxbox keybindings
Date and time big enough that I don't have to strain my eyes
updated Conky for system hints (GPU info)
Tint2 back on main monitor on "autohide".

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 3:36 am
by wdscharff
Evolution in the course of a week ... what comes to mind when you have insomnia
I have my unmissable watch for short-sighted people
An overview of some Fluxbox keybindings, due to my forgetfulness
PCManFM in 2 window mode
Conky tinkering with disk I/O for the mounted partitions
a little fine tuning in the root menu

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:58 am
by ceeslans
Very nice!
The buuf icons look really sweet
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 2:21 pm
by ceeslans
Trying out "radiotray-ng" v/0.28 - which is available in MX-21 test repo.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 2:52 pm
by Jerry3904
That looks interesting--I wondered about it when it was announced.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:47 am
by ceeslans
It's April now. New month - new screenshot.
Same ol' grey tones for me... Eventhough I do like dark themes and mx-comfort in particular, I always fall back quickly to my beloved #! colors
gtk2/3 theme: crunchbang
fluxbox style: crunchbang
tint2 panel: crunchbang
conky: accuweather_5d-ico and fuzzy-clock
wallpaper:
After-the-rain by Grant Gailbraith

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 7:57 am
by Paul..
Loving the background
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 1:43 am
by i_ri
hello
wofi run
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:12 am
by ceeslans
Todays fluxbox desktop, 2 minutes after bootup. Quite pleased with the low ram consumption.
Showing @easysid's "Fade Clock" conky, now upsized to 1920x1080 - glued to the desktop in override mode.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:17 am
by Jerry3904
Nice!
BTW: does the sun ever shine in BE?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:29 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:17 am
Nice!
BTW: does the sun ever shine in BE?
@Jerry3904 Oh, I'm sure it does. Just as it shines in Rotterdam (NL) where I live...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:43 pm
by Jerry3904
Damn, sorry about that. Glad to hear about the sun, though.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 2:47 am
by Eadwine Rose
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 5:29 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 11:17 am
Nice!
BTW: does the sun ever shine in BE?
@Jerry3904 Oh, I'm sure it does. Just as it shines in Rotterdam (NL) where I live...
*chuckles*
We are being confused so often for Belgians, or even Germans

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 6:43 am
by Jerry3904
My error was simple ignorance.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 08, 2023 6:25 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
traverse
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 12:54 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM
What browsers can have tabs on the side? to match a vertical Panel. (?)
Would you like that? with a vertical Panel or not. (?)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 3:25 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM
Choir.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 7:28 am
by Jerry3904
Every once in a while I play around with the lost little options to override border and titlebar. Since I'm redoing the rootMenu ATM I decided to set it up for a while with tabs. Just have to remember to use Alt+F4 to close, and temporarily restore full titlebar if there's something in the right-click menu that needs changing .

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 10:01 am
by siamhie
Playing around with a lesser known feature of Fluxbox. Window Grouping. Fluxbox enables you to group windows of any program together into a single window.
Here I have my browser window open
I then added my terminal window to the browser window.
and finally my file manager window to the browser window.
Three programs One window.
https://discoverfoss.com/posts/mxfb-window-grouping/
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 10:05 am
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 7:28 am
Every once in a while I play around with the lost little options to override border and titlebar.
@Jerry3904 You reminded me of Window Grouping with this post. I remember back in the day when my best resolution might have been a 720p monitor that grouping windows was the way to go.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 4:03 pm
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 7:28 am
Every once in a while I play around with the lost little options to override border and titlebar. Since I'm redoing the rootMenu ATM I decided to set it up for a while with tabs. Just have to remember to use Alt+F4 to close, and temporarily restore full titlebar if there's something in the right-click menu that needs changing .
Yes Sir, very cool !!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 10:57 am
by siamhie
Here's a preview of a new feature available in the upcoming MX-23 fluxbox. Struts
Code: Select all
*session.screen0.struts*: 'integer', 'integer', 'integer', 'integer'::
Shrink the workspace by left, right, top, bottom pixels (positive integers)
This allows you to add some padding to the workspace eg. to keep a fraction
of the desktop visible against maximized windows.
session.screen0.struts.<n> allows to control this for individual heads
(<n> starts counting at 1)
+
Default: *0,0,0,0*
Here is my default maximized window.
Now here is the same maximized window with a 50 pixel border. (bottom variable 85 is to account for my tint2 panel height)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 11:26 am
by Jerry3904
Knew the word but not what it actually was supposed to do. Thanks for the images--gonna have to try that sometime.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu May 25, 2023 4:00 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 11:26 am
Knew the word but not what it actually was supposed to do. Thanks for the images--gonna have to try that sometime.
@Jerry3904 I honestly don't remember which patches were applied since alpha two was released
but I think this variable could be beneficial to those with lower resolution monitors (1024x768) or maybe the odd sizing (1280x960).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun May 28, 2023 4:03 pm
by Jerry3904
How nice to see the Papirus icons (including Melber's new MXPI one) on the desktop instead of the old Moka ones!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed May 31, 2023 6:28 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
The small piece of desktop reserved for right-click rootmenu also like a hot corner, when it has hiding full launcher dock with push mouse to edge.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2023 5:10 am
by i_ri
mx dock hiding does work on a margin set [to 76] on the same edge. hide, unhide. strut [76. The Places menu edge.] ok.
and idesk
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:01 am
by ceeslans
It's been 10 years or so, since Linus Torvalds' hilarious flipping-off nvidia. Found a nice vector background, hidden somewhere in my wallpaper archive.
In anticipation of MX32 beta2/rc/final, started to customize mxflux, mainly to check compatibility of some tint2 executors and favorite applications (like FSearch; I managed to install this okay, but hope it will reach the official repos soon).
Debian bookworm seems more memory-hungry than bullseye. Even after trimming down the number of startup entries, it consumes ~100Mb more than its predecessor. Admittedly, picom uses more memory than compton, but it's version 9 now offers visually-pleasing rounding of corners - I like that very much. Also, pipewire and its co-apps seem to increase the memory-level. Some volume-related tint2 executors needed a few changes, to correct the obsolete 'pacmd' commands.
Also I'm using an alternative update-notifier script, that runs 5 minutes after login, then shows a dunst notification about (non)available upgrades.
'Date-time' conky made by me, obviously inspired by the Cowon conky.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:15 am
by Jerry3904
I like it...would even if I didn't know who that was or what it was about...
1) are you changing the executors we have from you?
2) a square simple conky might make a good add to the MX collection if you were interested.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:10 pm
by i_ri
hello
idesk
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:38 pm
by Freja
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:01 am
'Date-time' conky made by me, obviously inspired by the Cowon conky.
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:15 am
I like it...would even if I didn't know who that was or what it was about...
1) are you changing the executors we have from you?
2) a square simple conky might make a good add to the MX collection if you were interested.
I agree with Jerry3904.
Your made Conky is attractive new Conky.
Maybe everyone will like it.
By all means I want to see your made Conky's "Gilroy font free" version.
Its maybe more cool one.
Gilroy font free Download page (New MX logo splash boot animation's font)
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/gilroy
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:08 pm
by ceeslans
@Freja hmmm... the '
Gilroy-ExtraBold' font is nice, but I prefer to use the (default) available '
DejaVu Sans Bold' font.
DejaVuSans Bold seems more robust/compact than Gilroy ExtraBold
below is the conky theme file, as well as the lua-script for transparent background (if you want to use the script, then uncomment line 60+61 in conky conf, making sure that the mentioned path is pointing to the actual location where you saved the executable script ).
DateTime.confCode: Select all
----------------------
-- conky_datetime --
-- @ceeslans feb 22 --
----------------------
conky.config = {
no_buffers = true,
double_buffer = true,
update_interval = 1,
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
--own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky',
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'DatetimeConky',
draw_borders = false,
stippled_borders = 5,
border_inner_margin = 5,
border_outer_margin = 5,
border_width = 2,
draw_graph_borders = yes,
draw_shades = false,
default_shade_color = '333333',
imlib_cache_size = 0,
draw_outline = false,
default_outline_color = '000000',
use_xft = true,
font = 'DejaVu Sans:size=9.5:bold',
xftalpha = 1,
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
text_buffer_size = 6144,
short_units = true,
pad_percents = 2,
default_color = 'd8dee9', --clear
color1 = 'bbbbbb', --very light grey
color2 = 'ebcb8b', --yellow
color3 = 'a3be8c', --green
color4 = 'd08770', --orange
color5 = 'bf616a', --red
color6 = '6B94BC', --blue
minimum_width = 150,
minimum_height = 0,
gap_x = 50,
gap_y = 50,
alignment = 'top_right',
-- uncomment below two lines for transparent background layer
--lua_load = '$HOME/.conky/LUA/transbg.lua',
--lua_draw_hook_pre = 'draw_bg 12 0 0 0 0 0x000000 0.15',
};
conky.text = [[
###### SET 12H/24H ###
# ${color1}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Sans:size=81:bold}${alignc}${time %I}${font}
${color1}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Sans:size=81:bold}${alignc}${time %H}${font}
###### DAY+DATE ###
${color2}${voffset 5}${alignc}${time %A} ${color3}${time %d %b}${font}
###### MINUTE ###
${color6}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Sans:size=81:bold}${alignc}${time %M}${color}${font}
###### MEM/CPU ###
${color3}${voffset 5}${alignc}mem ${color1}${memperc}% ${color4}cpu ${color1}${cpu cpu0}%
###### BATTERY ###
${color2}${voffset 5}${alignc}bat \
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status}${voffset 1}${color6}${battery_bar 6,50 BAT0} ${voffset -1}${color3}${battery_percent BAT0}%${endif}\
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/status}${voffset 1}${color6}${battery_bar 6,50 BAT1} ${voffset -1}${color3}${battery_percent BAT1}%${endif}
###### CORRECTION WIDGET HEIGHT ###
${voffset -90}
]];
transbg.luaCode: Select all
--[[Background originally by londonali1010 (2009)
ability to set any size for background mrpeachy 2011
ability to set variables for bg in conkyrc dk75
the change is that if you set width and/or height to 0
then it assumes the width and/or height of the conky window
so:
Above and After TEXT (requires a composite manager or it blinks!)
lua_load ~/wea_conky/draw_bg.lua
TEXT
${lua conky_draw_bg 10 0 0 0 0 0x000000 0.2}
OR Both above TEXT (no composite manager required - no blinking!)
lua_load ~/wea_conky/draw_bg.lua
lua_draw_hook_pre draw_bg 10 0 0 0 0 0x000000 0.2
TEXT
Note
${lua conky_draw_bg 20 0 0 0 0 0x000000 0.2}
See below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
${lua conky_draw_bg corner_radius x_position y_position width height color alpha}
covers the whole window and will change if you change the minimum_size setting
1 = 20 corner_radius
2 = 0 x_position l|r
3 = 0 y_position u|d
4 = 0 width
5 = 0 height
6 = 0x000000 color
7 = 0.4 alpha
######### calendar function ##################################################
then to use it, you activate the calendar function BELOW TEXT like this
${lua luacal {settings}}
#${lua luacal {x=,y=,tf="",tfs=,tc=,ta=,bf="",bfs=,bc=,ba=,hf="",hfs=,hc=,ha=,sp="",gh=,gt=,gv=,sd=}}
# x=x position top left
# y=y position top left
# tf=title font, eg "mono" must be in quotes
# tfs=title font size
# tc=title color
# ta=title alpha
# bf=body font, eg "mono" must be in quotes
# bfs=body font size
# bc=body color
# ba=body alpha
# hf=highlight font, eg "mono" must be in quotes
# hfs=highlight font size
# hc=highlight color
# ha=highlight alpha
# sp=spacer, eg " " or sp="0"... 0,1 or 2 spaces can help with positioning of non-monospaced fonts
# gt=gap from title to body
# gh=gap horizontal between columns
# gv=gap vertical between rows
# sd=start day, 0=Sun, 1=Mon
# hstyle = heading style, 0=just days, 1=date insert
# tdf=title date font, eg "mono" must be in quotes
# tdfs=title date font size
# tdc=title date color
# tda=title date alpha
# test line
-- ${lua luacal {x=40,y=40,tf="Monofur",tfs=24,tc=0xFFDEAD,ta=1,bf="Monofur",bfs=24,bc=0xFFDEAD,ba=1,hf="Monofur",hfs=24,hc=0x00BFFF,ha=1,sp=" ",gh=40,gt=25,gv=20,sd=0,hstyle=1,tdf="Monofur",tdfs=24,tdc=0x00BFFF,tda=1}}
]]
require 'cairo'
local cs, cr = nil
function rgb_to_r_g_b(colour,alpha)
return ((colour / 0x10000) % 0x100) / 255., ((colour / 0x100) % 0x100) / 255., (colour % 0x100) / 255., alpha
end
function conky_draw_bg(r,x,y,w,h,color,alpha)
if conky_window == nil then return end
if cs == nil then cairo_surface_destroy(cs) end
if cr == nil then cairo_destroy(cr) end
local cs = cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, conky_window.width, conky_window.height)
local cr = cairo_create(cs)
w=w
h=h
if w=="0" then w=tonumber(conky_window.width) end
if h=="0" then h=tonumber(conky_window.height) end
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,rgb_to_r_g_b(color,alpha))
--top left mid circle
local xtl=x+r
local ytl=y+r
--top right mid circle
local xtr=(x+r)+((w)-(2*r))
local ytr=y+r
--bottom right mid circle
local xbr=(x+r)+((w)-(2*r))
local ybr=(y+r)+((h)-(2*r))
--bottom right mid circle
local xbl=(x+r)
local ybl=(y+r)+((h)-(2*r))
-----------------------------
cairo_move_to (cr,xtl,ytl-r)
cairo_line_to (cr,xtr,ytr-r)
cairo_arc(cr,xtr,ytr,r,((2*math.pi/4)*3),((2*math.pi/4)*4))
cairo_line_to (cr,xbr+r,ybr)
cairo_arc(cr,xbr,ybr,r,((2*math.pi/4)*4),((2*math.pi/4)*1))
cairo_line_to (cr,xbl,ybl+r)
cairo_arc(cr,xbl,ybl,r,((2*math.pi/4)*1),((2*math.pi/4)*2))
cairo_line_to (cr,xtl-r,ytl)
cairo_arc(cr,xtl,ytl,r,((2*math.pi/4)*2),((2*math.pi/4)*3))
cairo_close_path(cr)
cairo_fill (cr)
------------------------------------------------------------
cairo_surface_destroy(cs)
cairo_destroy(cr)
return ""
end
-- ###### calendar function ##################################################
function conky_luacal(caltab) -- {x=,y=,tf="",tfs=,tc=,ta=,bf="",bfs=,bc=,ba=,hf="",hfs=,hc=,ha=,sp="",gt=,gh=,gv=,sd=,hstyle=,tdf=,tdfs=,tdc=,tda=}
if conky_window == nil then return end
local cs = cairo_xlib_surface_create(conky_window.display, conky_window.drawable, conky_window.visual, conky_window.width, conky_window.height)
local cr = cairo_create(cs)
--############################################################################
if caltab.x==nil then
caltab=loadstring("return" .. caltab)()
end
local cal_x=caltab.x
local cal_y=caltab.y
local tfont=caltab.tf or "mono"
local tfontsize=caltab.tfs or 12
local tc=caltab.tc or 0xffffff
local ta=caltab.ta or 1
local bfont=caltab.bf or "mono"
local bfontsize=caltab.bfs or 12
local bc=caltab.bc or 0xffffff
local ba=caltab.ba or 1
local hfont=caltab.hf or "mono"
local hfontsize=caltab.hfs or 12
local hc=caltab.hc or 0xff0000
local ha=caltab.ha or 1
local spacer=caltab.sp or " "
local gaph=caltab.gh or 20
local gapt=caltab.gt or 15
local gapl=caltab.gv or 15
local sday=caltab.sd or 0
local hstyle=caltab.hstyle or 0
--convert colors
--local font=string.gsub(font,"_"," ")
local tred,tgreen,tblue,talpha=rgb_to_r_g_b(tc,ta)
--main body text color
local bred,bgreen,bblue,balpha=rgb_to_r_g_b(bc,ba)
--highlight text color
local hred,hgreen,hblue,halpha=rgb_to_r_g_b(hc,ha)
--############################################################################
--calendar calcs
local year=os.date("%G")
local today=tonumber(os.date("%d"))
local t1 = os.time( { year=year,month=03,day=01,hour=00,min=0,sec=0} );
local t2 = os.time( { year=year,month=02,day=01,hour=00,min=0,sec=0} );
local feb=(os.difftime(t1,t2))/(24*60*60)
local monthdays={ 31, feb, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 }
local day=tonumber(os.date("%w"))+1-sday
local day_num = today
local remainder=day_num % 7
local start_day=day-(day_num % 7)
if start_day<0 then start_day=7+start_day end
local month=os.date("%m")
local mdays=monthdays[tonumber(month)]
local x=mdays+start_day
local dnum={}
local dnumh={}
if mdays+start_day<36 then
dlen=35
plen=29
else
dlen=42
plen=36
end
for i=1,dlen do
if i<=start_day then
dnum[i]=" "
else
dn=i-start_day
if dn=="nil" then dn=0 end
if dn<=9 then dn=(spacer .. dn) end
if i>x then dn="" end
dnum[i]=dn
dnumh[i]=dn
if dn==(spacer .. today) or dn==today then
dnum[i]=""
end
if dn==(spacer .. today) or dn==today then
dnumh[i]=dn
place=i
else dnumh[i]=" "
end
end
end--for
cairo_select_font_face (cr, tfont, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size (cr, tfontsize);
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,tred,tgreen,tblue,talpha)
local extents=cairo_text_extents_t:create()
tolua.takeownership(extents)
if hstyle==0 then
if tonumber(sday)==0 then
dys={"SU","MO","TU","WE","TH","FR","SA"}
else
dys={"MO","TU","WE","TH","FR","SA","SU"}
end
--draw calendar titles
elseif hstyle==1 then
if tonumber(sday)==0 then
dys={"SU","MO"," "," "," ","FR","SA"}
cairo_text_extents(cr,"MO",extents)
local s=extents.x_advance+gaph
local f=gaph*5
local tdfont=caltab.tdf or "mono"
local tdfontsize=caltab.tdfs or 12
local tdc=caltab.tdc or 0xffffff
local tda=caltab.tda or 1
cairo_select_font_face (cr, tdfont, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size (cr, tdfontsize);
local tdred,tdgreen,tdblue,tdalpha=rgb_to_r_g_b(tdc,tda)
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,tdred,tdgreen,tdblue,tdalpha)
local insert=os.date("%b %y")
cairo_text_extents(cr,insert,extents)
local w=extents.x_advance
cairo_move_to (cr, cal_x+((s+f)/2)-(w/2), cal_y)
cairo_show_text (cr,insert)
cairo_stroke (cr)
else
dys={"MO","TU"," "," "," ","SA","SU"}
cairo_text_extents(cr,"TU",extents)
local s=extents.x_advance+gaph
local f=gaph*5
local tdfont=caltab.tdf or "mono"
local tdfontsize=caltab.tdfs or 12
local tdc=caltab.tdc or 0xffffff
local tda=caltab.tda or 1
cairo_select_font_face (cr, tdfont, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size (cr, tdfontsize);
local tdred,tdgreen,tdblue,tdalpha=rgb_to_r_g_b(tdc,tda)
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,tdred,tdgreen,tdblue,tdalpha)
local insert=os.date("%b %y")
cairo_text_extents(cr,insert,extents)
local w=extents.x_advance
cairo_move_to (cr, cal_x+((s+f)/2)-(w/2), cal_y)
cairo_show_text (cr,insert)
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
end
--draw calendar titles
for i=1,7 do
cairo_select_font_face (cr, tfont, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size (cr, tfontsize);
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,tred,tgreen,tblue,talpha)
cairo_move_to (cr, cal_x+(gaph*(i-1)), cal_y)
cairo_show_text (cr, dys[i])
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
--draw calendar body
cairo_select_font_face (cr, bfont, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size (cr, bfontsize);
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,bred,bgreen,bblue,balpha)
for i=1,plen,7 do
local fn=i
for i=fn,fn+6 do
cairo_move_to (cr, cal_x+(gaph*(i-fn)),cal_y+gapt+(gapl*((fn-1)/7)))
cairo_show_text (cr, dnum[i])
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
end
--highlight
cairo_select_font_face (cr, hfont, CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cairo_set_font_size (cr, hfontsize);
cairo_set_source_rgba (cr,hred,hgreen,hblue,halpha)
for i=1,plen,7 do
local fn=i
for i=fn,fn+6 do
cairo_move_to (cr, cal_x+(gaph*(i-fn)),cal_y+gapt+(gapl*((fn-1)/7)))
cairo_show_text (cr, dnumh[i])
cairo_stroke (cr)
end
end
--############################################################################
caltab=nil
dlen=nil
plen=nil
cairo_destroy(cr)
cairo_surface_destroy(cs)
cr=nil
return ""
end
-- end main function #########################################################
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 7:29 pm
by Freja
2023-06-11_08-23-49.jpg
Simply font changed to Gilroy ExtraBold Sample, Like this.
(Added battery bar)
(Sample simply changed to Gilroy ExtraBold.
This is just one suggestion...
Your original is tasteful and cool.)
Conclusion:
It's a subtle difference, but I think the ceeslans original is best.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:01 pm
by Jerry3904
I like this a lot, and will look into adding it to the MX collection-- thanks to both.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:36 pm
by Freja
wait a minute
I replaced gray and blue with "Cowon MildBlue" based custom color. (test)
Background used THE Darkmetal(final).
Code: Select all
default_color = 'aabbcc', --clear
color1 = 'aabbcc', --very light grey
color2 = 'ebcb8b', --yellow
color3 = 'a3be8c', --green
color4 = 'd08770', --orange
color5 = 'bf616a', --red
color6 = '44aacc', --blue
(transbg.lua enabled by disabling 2-lines comment out.)
A transparent background is realized only by code
without using transparent .png like Cowon Universal. (And it's dark-color!)
ceeslans's transbg.lua is Great idea.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 1:11 pm
by ceeslans
Running mxfb23 beta here. Implemented a simple (yet clever) script by @kobaian to switch between rofi-appfinder / xfce4-appfinder - and visa versa.
In this case, I altered the script to call 'jgmenu' instead of xfce4-appfinder. Oh I really do like such options.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2023 2:02 pm
by kobaian
Your desktop looks great!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:01 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
idesk
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:39 am
by Jerry3904
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 6:08 pm
@Freja hmmm... the '
Gilroy-ExtraBold' font is nice, but I prefer to use the (default) available '
DejaVu Sans Bold' font.
DejaVuSans Bold seems more robust/compact than Gilroy ExtraBold
below is the conky theme file, as well as the lua-script for transparent background (if you want to use the script, then uncomment line 60+61 in conky conf, making sure that the mentioned path is pointing to the actual location where you saved the executable script ).
<snip>
I've created a folder for use with MX and would appreciate it if somebody could paste it into ~/.conky and give it a quick check. Works fine here on MX-21.3, though I had to change to pseudo-transparent to get rid of the black background--that may be just me so pls confirm.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:36 am
by ceeslans
It works fine here in mxfb23 beta2.
And yes, if you haven't enabled a real-transparency compositor (like compton or picom) in 'startup' file, then you need to set the 'pseudo-transparency' option in conky-manager.
Did you try the transparent widget background, that can be set with 'transbg.lua' script (compton/picom is not needed for this)?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:41 am
by Freja
@Jerry3904
uncomment 2 lines,
ceeslans's code put into empty transbg.lua,
and the transbg.lua put into $HOME/LUA/ ,
like this.
023-06-16_22-37-23.jpg
strange. not works transparency, MX21.3 XFCE, glx with xfwm.
(The garbled characters are caused by the Japanese environment.)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:53 am
by i_ri
hello everyone
fluxbox Toolbar with two buttons for fluxbox rootmenu
one menu button at each end.
right end is rootmenu; left end is button.menu: :ToggleCmd {RootMenu}{HideMenus}
pixmap
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:26 am
by ceeslans
@freya: you need to select 'Transparent' from the alignment dropdown list in conky-manager2 'Edit Widget'
or you manually edit the conkyrc file to change line own_window_argb_visual = to 'true'
as for transbg.lua script, please check the correct path. You mentioned $HOME/LUA/transbg.lua , whereas it is $HOME/.conky/LUA/transbg.lua.
EDIT: And make sure that lua file is executable (lua script does not need to be made executable)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:30 am
by ceeslans
@i_ri thanks for above. Nice to see this works well with fluxbox-toolbar
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:41 am
by Jerry3904
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:36 am
It works fine here in mxfb23 beta2.
And yes, if you haven't enabled a real-transparency compositor (like compton or picom) in 'startup' file, then you need to set the 'pseudo-transparency' option in conky-manager.
Did you try the transparent widget background, that can be set with 'transbg.lua' script (compton/picom is
not needed for this)?
I did not--should something be changed/added to the README file?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 11:45 am
by Freja
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:26 am
@freya: you need to select 'Transparent' from the alignment dropdown list in conky-manager2 'Edit Widget'
It worked. thanks.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:28 am
by Jerry3904
A shot of MX-23 Fluxbox b2 using torre-di-libretti background with the new conky by
@ceeslans that will be available in the rc. Pretty elegant in my view.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 11:50 am
by wdscharff
I think this will be my last screenshot of a mx 21 version, the next one will be the mx 23 ... and probably you will not be able to see any difference :)
Tint2 as dock (autohide), conky adapted to the Acer laptop with Core i5, everything else is hidden, fluxbox typical in the root menu and the various submenus and the links with keyboard shortcuts.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:23 pm
by Jerry3904
That looks great!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 4:03 pm
by ceeslans
@wdscharff The blue-eyed dog seems to patiently pose for this shot, right? Excellent photo of (your?) dog; great lighting and depth of field.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 10:49 pm
by wdscharff
Yes, my black german shepherd (old GDR breeding line).
The original doesn't look quite as interesting, he's not posing on purpose either, he's waiting for his food :-)
Sony A7III and an old Tamron 28-105/2.8 (Canon Bayonet, so via adapter). At 105mm and aperture 2.8 you already have a nice depth of field.
The "rest" is image processing
DSC01642_jiw.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:56 am
by i_ri
hello JayM and everyone
On xfce we show "square" mugshot in WhiskerMenu.
Where mugshot in fluxbox?
About Me, which, just changed the org.bluesabre.Mugshot.desktop file icon path to the full path to /user/.face so that the icon for mugshot is the current home/heretto/.face selection instead of the mugshot icon. does that make sense? Uses the chosen icon for itself.
Now the fluxbox settings-manager-toolbox About Me button using the .desktop file shows the current mugshot .face;
and in rofi;
wherever About Me is used.
On rootmenu mugshot.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2023 10:33 am
by ceeslans
Started cleaning up my MX21 install, updating tint2 and conky configs, finetuning keybinds, removing debris + orphaned packages.
Probably last screenshot of my mx21-fluxbox desktop before archiving the snapshot; After that, moving on to install & customize MX23 fluxbox on bare metal.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2023 10:41 am
by Jerry3904
Handsome goodbye message.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 2:23 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Jun 30, 2023 10:33 am
Started cleaning up my MX21 install, updating tint2 and conky configs, finetuning keybinds, removing debris + orphaned packages.
Probably last screenshot of my mx21-fluxbox desktop before archiving the snapshot; After that, moving on to install & customize MX23 fluxbox on bare metal.
That's a pretty one!
And here's my screenshot of MX-21 desktop, perhaps the last one before moving to MX-23.

New wallpaper for summer taken while testing the new lens.
Theme - Matcha-Dark-Pueril
One of the reasons I prefer PCManFM-qt over Thunar is the feature that allows creating desktop-shortcuts for files and folders (not symlinks but just .desktop files with shortcuts), and here are my shortcuts to the hidden folders, where the most important settings for configuration MXFB desktop are stored (.fluxbox, .config, tint2, rofi, .themes etc).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:22 am
by ceeslans
Take it you created a 'settings' folder in your home directory, bookmarked the folder in pcmanfm-qt - and populated it with the configuration .desktop files?
A great looking desktop - and a beautiful background... would you care to share the wallpaper please?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:52 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:22 am
Take it you created a 'settings' folder in your home directory, bookmarked the folder in pcmanfm-qt - and populated it with the configuration .desktop files?
Yes. Precisely, I've created "Settings" folder in the unused by MXFB Desktop directory and the rest, as you have just said.
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:22 am
A great looking desktop - and a beautiful background... would you care to share the wallpaper please?
Of course
https://www.deviantart.com/am1g0/art/To ... -969725988
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:54 am
by i_ri
hello JayM and everyone
fluxbox toolbar
Taken from Style myDEFCON_5 its iconbar focused
in Style MX-comfort iconbar unfocused holds the highlight color.
image. Run is the focused window.
Learned from PackRat to reflect halo the window to the iconbar.
thanks asqwerth, Melber, tenner, PackRat
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2023 5:50 pm
by ceeslans
Copied a slightly modified version of kobaian's
rofi-based powermenu over from my MX21 install to a current mxfb23-beta2 setup.
Of course I realize that 'exit-options' is the default powermenu application for mxfb23; but damn, this kde-styled semitransparent fullscreen display does look pretty...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 5:26 pm
by ceeslans
Customized MX23 fluxbox RC2 setup, with htop & neofetch6 running on urxvt terminals, mousepad editor, jgmenu app-launcher.
And 'minimo' themed fluxbox style and tint2 panel.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:40 pm
by Jerry3904
Fabulous.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:59 pm
by AVLinux
@ceeslans
As usual, it looks tremendous! Is that your own jgmenu config? Unfortunately the latest jgmenu update broke the custom menu I had done for MXDE (Enlightenment-based) and I haven't come up with a new design I'm happy with, I would be interested in your config for my next Bookworm version if that would be possible?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:22 pm
by siamhie
I learned something new in fluxbox. I can swap out the solid line separator with keyboard symbols using the [nop] code.
Code: Select all
*[nop]* ('label') <'icon'>;;
Insert a non-operational item into the current menu. This is much like
*[separator]*, but instead of a line, it inserts a 'label'. This can be used
to help format the menu into blocks or sections if so desired. The 'label' is
optional, and if omitted a blank item will be inserted.
This is my main menu config now.
Code: Select all
#the default versions of the submenus are located in /usr/share/mxflux/menu
[begin] (MX Fluxbox)
[submenu] (All Apps)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/full_menu)
[separator]
[exec] (Update) {/usr/bin/mxfb-menu-generator}
[exec] (Disable) {mx-tweak --other}
[end]
[submenu] (Recent files)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/recent_files_menu)
[separator]
[exec] (Update) {~/.fluxbox/scripts/recentfiles-fbmenu}
[end]
[nop] (**********)
[nop] (**********)
[exec] (Librewolf) {librewolf}
[exec] (Thunar) {exo-open $HOME}
[exec] (Terminal) {xfce4-terminal}
[exec] (Run) {mxfb-rofirun}
[submenu] (Emby)
[exec] (Start) {systemctl start emby-server.service}
[exec] (Stop) {systemctl stop emby-server.service}
[end]
[submenu] (VPN)
[exec] (Start) {systemctl start nordvpnd.service}
[exec] (Stop) {systemctl stop nordvpnd.service}
[end]
[exec] (UMS) {sh /home/siamhie/ums-10.17.1/UMS.sh}
[exec] (XMMS) {xmms}
[exec] (Weather) {mxfb-simple-weather}
[nop] (**********)
[nop] (**********)
[submenu] (Appearance)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/appearance)
[end]
[submenu] (Settings)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/settings)
[end]
[submenu] (Out of sight)
[include] (~/.fluxbox/submenus/out-of-sight)
[end]
[submenu] (Leave)
[exec] (Refresh) {fluxbox-remote restart; idesktoggle idesk refresh }
[exec] (Suspend) {sudo 'pm-suspend'}
[exit] (Logout)
[exec] (Reboot) {sudo /sbin/reboot}
[exec] (Shutdown) {sudo /sbin/halt}
[end]
[end]

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:00 pm
by Jerry3904
Nice flexibility.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 3:21 am
by ceeslans
AVLinux wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 7:59 pm@ceeslans
As usual, it looks tremendous! Is that your own jgmenu config? Unfortunately the latest jgmenu update broke the custom menu I had done for MXDE (Enlightenment-based) and I haven't come up with a new design I'm happy with, I would be interested in your config for my next Bookworm version if that would be possible?
Sure! Attached is the archive with my jgmenu config files; these need to be placed in ~/.config/jgmenu folder. And below also a small script called 'exitcmd' , that the append.csv file calls for. (I use this script systemwide for init-agnostic logout/exit commands).
Please note that I'm basically only using jgmenu for application launching from a tint2 button, and is configured to apply the color- and font settings of the running tint2 panel. If running as standalone rightclick desktop menu, you will need to set independent colors yourself.
Default iconsize is set at 16px , but you can override this in the tint2 exec command e.g.
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jgmenu --icon-size=20 or:
jgmenu --icon-size=24
## or if you want to disable icons altogether:
jgmenu --icon-size=0
(note that this
--icon-size= option does not work in combination with the
'jgmenu_run' command ...).
exitcmd (make it executable and place it in your $path)
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#!/bin/bash
### simple script to set correct exit-option commands
### for MX-21 Fluxbox --> booting 'sysvinit' or 'systemd'
### options
# -f : reFresh fluxbox
# -l : Logout user
# -k : locK screen
# -s : Suspend
# -h : Hibernate
# -r : Reboot
# -p : Poweroff
# no option selected: --> will invoke notify-send
###=========================================================
cmd_rfresh="fluxbox-remote restart"
cmd_lgout="pkill -KILL -u $USER "
cmd_lck="dm-tool switch-to-greeter"
if [[ ! -x /run/systemd/system ]];then
cmd_sspend="sudo pm-suspend"
cmd_hibern="sudo pm-hibernate"
cmd_rboot="sudo reboot"
cmd_pdown="sudo poweroff"
else
cmd_sspend="systemctl suspend"
cmd_hibern="systemctl hibernate"
cmd_rboot="systemctl reboot"
cmd_pdown="systemctl poweroff"
fi
case "$1" in
-f) $cmd_rfresh
;;
-l) $cmd_lgout
;;
-k) $cmd_lck
;;
-s) $cmd_sspend
;;
-h) $cmd_hibern
;;
-r) $cmd_rboot
;;
-p) $cmd_pdown
;;
*) notify-send -t 5000 "no exit-option specified" -i "/usr/share/icons/Papirus-Dark/24x24/actions/gtk-cancel.svg"
;;
esac
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:09 am
by i_ri
[nop] (hello )
everyone and siamhie
With the font DejaVu Sans
nop found a bookworm bowtie, mrowkoob bowtie.
Bracket {text} and [nop] in submenu extend message.
An empty submenu text compare to nop.
[nop] (↓⇊ ➴➶ ♪♩♫♬ ⧓ bookworm )
[nop] (№②③➁➂)
[submenu] (trial∷∷∷∷∷∷∷∷♩) {empty}
[end]
[nop] (∺∷)
my system rolls with UTF8 encoding, so it works at UTF8 without any tags.
If ever You need to change from what you run , to a different temporary encoding, tags look like
this sample
[encoding] {UTF-8}
[nop] (↓⇊ ➴➶ ♪♩♫♬ ⧓ bookworm )
[endencoding]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:16 am
by AVLinux
@ceeslans
Thanks so much, will experiment with it this weekend!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:24 am
by ceeslans
Current MX23 based fluxbox desktop.
Running picom-9.1-1 as compositor. This version is rock-stable on my (rather old) hardware, no more flashing of cli-apps during open/close actions.
It offers smooth fading, beautiful shadowing and really nice rounding of menu+application windows. Yes, it does consume a good 30Mb more ram than compton (see the 'ps_mem' command output of startup items in stjerm dropdown terminal at rightside of the screen) - but it's definitely worth it.
gtk-theme, fluxbox-style and tint2 panel are all 'crunchbang' styled.
The calendar shown is a yad script by PPC that allows to enter and view events (thanks
@PPC)
Also showing the jgmenu-based auto-updated recent-files popup menu, initiated by rightclicking the tint2 button.
Background image is a Void wallpaper (with text removed).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:29 am
by Jerry3904
Really smooth! I don't remember that PPC script (though I have a lot of his): do you have a link?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:02 am
by ceeslans
Jerry, I know I found it on the antiX forum; however, unable to trace the relevant forum post. If I'm not mistaken, it ultimately received upgrades for added notifications and/or alarms.
If you're interested: below is the "EventCalendar" script (no alarms or notitications), slightly modified and englishified

by me.
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#!/bin/bash
################################
# Yad calendar that allows to enter and view events, created for use with antiX Linux
#Version 2- 14/01/2022, by PPC, GPL license, use as you wish, but please keep this atribution lines
Add_event(){
# Day without event, add one...
event=$(yad --window-icon="/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/apps/calendar.svg" --width=400 --form --center --title="Add event for $day " --field="") && event=${event%|*}
space=" "
text=$day$space$event
echo $text >> $HOME/yad-calendar.txt
exit
}
Edit_event(){
# Day with existing event, edit it...
entrada=$(grep -h $day $HOME/yad-calendar.txt)
line=($(grep -n $day $HOME/yad-calendar.txt | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f1))
altered_entry=$(yad --window-icon="/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/apps/calendar.svg" --width=400 --center --title="Edit event for $day " --button="OK" --form --field="" "$entrada")
#remove last unecessary character
entry=${altered_entry%|*}
#save text into the original line
awk -v line=$line -v texto="$entry" 'NR=='line' {$0='texto'} { print }' $HOME/yad-calendar.txt > $HOME/yad-calendar.txt.TEMP
cp $HOME/yad-calendar.txt.TEMP $HOME/yad-calendar.txt
exit
}
Search_event(){
###future entry to search for events:
event_to_search=$( yad --window-icon="/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/apps/calendar.svg" --title="Search Events..." --center --width=350 --entry --entry-label="" --button="Find")
rm /tmp/agenda_search_results.txt
#Display results, only if something was searched
if [ -z ${event_to_search} ]; then exit; else grep -i $event_to_search $HOME/yad-calendar.txt > /tmp/agenda_search_results-desorganized.txt
grep -i $event_to_search $HOME/yad-calendar.txt > /tmp/agenda_search_results-desorganized.txt
sort -n -t"/" -k3 -k2 -k1 /tmp/agenda_search_results-desorganized.txt > /tmp/agenda_search_results.txt
yad --window-icon="/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/apps/calendar.svg" --title="Event(s) found" --no-buttons --width=420 --height=280 --center --separator=" " --list --column="" < /tmp/agenda_search_results.txt
#pkill yad
exit 1
fi
}
#import functions and make sure that the default config file exists
export -f Add_event Edit_event Search_event
touch ~/yad-calendar.txt && [ -s ~/yad-calendar.txt ] || echo "28/06/2020 This is how yad-calendar entries work! Add ONLY ONE line per day, starting with the date. If nothing shows up in the calendar, try another date format like dd-mm-yyyy" > $HOME/yad-calendar.txt
#Main part of the script:
#New section: on the top of the month view, display todays event's if any;
today=$(date +%x)
todays_events=$(grep $today $HOME/yad-calendar.txt)
#Draw main window
day=$(yad --class=EventCalendar --calendar --center --width=280 --borders=7 --window-icon="/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/apps/calendar.svg" --title="Calendar" --details=$HOME/yad-calendar.txt --buttons-layout=spread --button="Search":"bash -c Search_event" --button="Close":1)
if [[ $foo -eq 1 ]]; then
exit 1
fi
#If no date selected, just exit
[ -z "$day" ] && exit
#If a date was selected, see if has an event and run the corresponding function
if grep -q $day $HOME/yad-calendar.txt; then
Edit_event
else
Add_event
fi
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 7:11 am
by kobaian
First MXFB-23 Final desktop

Theme: Yaru-olive-dark
Appfinder: Southern-dark
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:15 am
by wdscharff
First screenshot after everything is installed.
There were losses:
skippy-xd no longer runs for me.
sct is also not in any bookworm repo, but the *.deb from Bullseye can be installed with gdebi without any problems and works as it should.
I only used the list from user-installed-packages as a reminder, because there were a few programmes I didn't want to install anymore, too many programmes I only tested. The current list is more "compact
Otherwise, everything easy, no problems
With the appropriate configuration and the fairly recent liquorix kernel from the mxpi, the ram requirement after boot is around 300gb. this is only a few MB more than what the liquorix kernel required under Bullsey, for me no indication that the new version requires more ram.
This may be true for the mainstream lts kernel, which is not interesting for fans of wild optimisation ;-}

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:41 am
by ceeslans
wdscharff wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:15 am>snip<
With the appropriate configuration and the fairly recent liquorix kernel from the mxpi, the ram requirement after boot is around 300gb. this is only a few MB more than what the liquorix kernel required under Bullsey, for me no indication that the new version requires more ram.
This may be true for the mainstream lts kernel, which is not interesting for fans of wild optimisation ;-}
That, Sir, is pretty impressive !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 12:06 pm
by Jerry3904
First on MX-23 after total clean install on main laptop--as always, in the daoist mode ("simpleclean") as interpreted by JWST:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:48 am
by 1-DOT.C0M
MX 23 Fluxbox with modified MX-Debian OSX "3-dots style" WM theme, modified date/time conky, and "text-only" compact neofetch.
WALLPAPER: https://wallhaven.cc/user/LinuxETC/favorites/1208255
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 7:53 am
by 1-DOT.C0M
For Las Vegas fans:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:31 am
by wdscharff
My first mx23 fluxbox screenshot from the desktop computer with 2 monitors.
The only modifications to the Thmes: font size and rounded corners for the menu.
Wallpaper, as always from my own stock

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 1:37 pm
by ceeslans
@wdscharff Your screen resolution 6400x2160 ... so jealous now.
Great looking desktop, I like your background picture and colors too. Are you using picom compositor for the rounded corners and shading?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 2:17 pm
by wdscharff
rounded corners in the fluxbox menu via setting in the Bluenight.cfg, everything else, i.e. rounded shadows, different brightness depending on whether the window has the focus via Compton...
I had tried Picom, but it didn't bring me any added value except for a significantly higher resource consumption, so I stayed with compton.
they are just little gimmicks to make the desktop look a bit more modern :-)
adendum: no reason for envy. the screen resolution is a virtual one. in reality, it is only 1440px high on the right side, where conky starts, i.e. the height of the conky approximately. below that, the monitor stops, but the graphics card needs a rectangle for its virtual screen.
if i take a separate image for each monitor, you can clearly see that this area is either filled from the image buffer with the rest of the previous wallpaper, or just pixel mud, pink noise in jpg.
ps:
2023-08-08-20-26-49_6400x2160_jiw.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:40 pm
by 1-DOT.C0M
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:45 pm
by 1-DOT.C0M
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:38 pm
by 1-DOT.C0M
I decided to use this background included in the MX 23 release. It seems the most balanced and calming for night owls.
~/.conky/ -- (
https://1-DOT.com/tech/conky.1-DOT.timedate.zip ) -- simple Fluxbox time-and-date-only conky folder
~/.fluxbox/styles/ -- (
https://1-DOT.com/tech/3dots-wm-theme.zip ) -- MX-Debian "OSX 3-dots style" window manager theme
~/.config/neofetch/ -- (
https://1-DOT.com/tech/neofetch/config.conf ) -- "text-only" compact neofetch display option

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:50 pm
by Jerry3904
Very nice! I think there are some really great wallpapers in the default set this release.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:19 am
by kobaian
Perhaps this will be my final desktop for this summer.

I really like the Matcha dark themes and I think it is a pity, there are no official repositiories for the themes, as it was in MX21.
I've also finally fixed the problem of translucent borders of Thunar, Firefox and terminal apps, that appears after lauching compton.
I've just added a line:
to the overlay file.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:56 am
by Freja
@asqwerth @Jerry3904
I have a minor concern.
I am the person who directed the new MX logo.
Only the Fluxbox logo appears to lose its aspect ratio. (It's slightly squashed vertically.)
I couldn't believe my eyes at first. However, when I tried to verify it, it is certainly vertically squashed like this.
This problem can probably be solved by updating the logo data for fluxbox with MX Updater.
Screenshot_2023-08-13_00-50-42.png
On FluxBox
Screenshot_2023-08-13_00-50-12.png
On XFCE
Am I neurotic?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 12:10 pm
by Jerry3904
Those two images are obviously different sizes. Is the Fluxbox screenshot coming from the panel? If yes, max icon size is set by the panel settings. If no, I have no idea ATM but will look.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 12:20 pm
by Freja
@Jerry3904
Difference.png
Left: from
https://imgur.com/CYOZKy6
Right: My Desktop (XFCE, 40px)
There is no doubt.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 2:25 pm
by siamhie
When you want to run a conky but don't want it the center of attention on your desktop.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 2:40 pm
by Melber
Freja wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:56 am
@asqwerth @Jerry3904
I have a minor concern.
I am the person who directed the new MX logo.
Only the Fluxbox logo appears to lose its aspect ratio. (It's slightly squashed vertically.)
I couldn't believe my eyes at first. However, when I tried to verify it, it is certainly vertically squashed like this.
This problem can probably be solved by updating the logo data for fluxbox with MX Updater.
Screenshot_2023-08-13_00-50-42.png On FluxBox
Screenshot_2023-08-13_00-50-12.png On XFCE
Am I neurotic?
The tint2 button linkls to the file /
usr/local/share/icons/mxfcelogo-rounded.png, however this file is a symlink to
usr/local/share/icons/MXLogoStart-THE.png
MXLogoStart-THE.png is sized 80x74 pixels, so I suspect tint2 is squashing the image into a square.
Resizing MXLogoStart-THE.png to 80x80px seems to fix the issue.
80x74px logo on left, 80x80px image on right. All other tint2 settings identical.
tint2-mx-logos.png
which btw is why I think icon files should always be square...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 3:05 pm
by Freja
@Melber
OK, I understand and agree.
For the time being,
pass to you modified MXLogoStart-THE (80x80).(Added a little transparent margin.)
MXLogoStart-THE(80x80).png
Note: MXLogoStart-THE.png is other developer’s file
remade by me, that’s not square at first.
In other words, Icon file is probably not square for a long time.
We fixed this problem at this time…
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:07 pm
by 1-DOT.C0M
For night owls ...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:36 pm
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 11:19 am
Perhaps this will be my final desktop for this summer.

I really like the Matcha dark themes and I think it is a pity, there are no official repositiories for the themes, as it was in MX21.
I've also finally fixed the problem of translucent borders of Thunar, Firefox and terminal apps, that appears after lauching compton.
I've just added a line:
to the overlay file.
As always, an impressive and beautifully balanced desktop.
As to the translucent borders for terminal and firefox, I wonder what's causing this in fluxbox; it doesn't happen in other window managers, eg openbox.
And yes, eliminating the window borders is a clever workaround, but they look kinda naked without it --> and I really need a 2-3px border, for picom to display rounded corners in an acceptable way.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:36 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:36 pm
As always, an impressive and beautifully balanced desktop.
Thanks!
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:36 pm
As to the translucent borders for terminal and firefox, I wonder what's causing this in fluxbox; it doesn't happen in other window managers, eg openbox.
And yes, eliminating the window borders is a clever workaround, but they look kinda naked without it --> and I really need a 2-3px border, for picom to display rounded corners in an acceptable way.
For some styles and themes this solution could work:
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window.borderWidth: 0
window.bevelWidth: 1
or
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window.borderWidth: 0
window.bevelWidth: 2
etc.
It doesn't work for that particular themes and styles I've just shown on my screenshot, but for some light themes I've tested it replaces the hidden borders successfully.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 am
by ceeslans
@kobaian thanks for feedback.
To get rid of those translucent borders on my system, I need to set
window.borderWidth: 0.
But after changing
shadow-radius/opacity/offset values in picom.conf, the compositor now creates a quasi-borderlike shadow around the windows.
Also, by increasing the
window.bevelWidth value, the 'close' button is still in harmony with the rounded corner.
Will play a bit with these settings, trying them out on a number of suitable styles, but I think this will do nicely.
ps: if you want to add some padding to terminal output (so it won't show up at pixel 1.1 of the terminal window), you can add this in
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VteTerminal,
TerminalScreen,
vte-terminal {
padding: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
-VteTerminal-inner-border: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
}
Change the padding/border values to your own preferences
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:27 pm
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 am
ps: if you want to add some padding to terminal output (so it won't show up at pixel 1.1 of the terminal window), you can add this in
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css Code: Select all
VteTerminal,
TerminalScreen,
vte-terminal {
padding: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
-VteTerminal-inner-border: 8px 8px 8px 8px;
}
Change the padding/border values to your own preferences
Thank you! It works well to me.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:57 am
by kobaian
@ceeslans
More investigations from me about the window borders:
If the window bevel looks bad with the current fluxbox-style,
e.g. like that:

you need to add also these two parameters:
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window.title.focus.color: <desired color-value>
window.title.unfocus.color: <desired color-value>
---
I like your tint2 panel configuration. Can you share the scripts you use for memory and temperature executors, please?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:07 am
by ceeslans
More investigations from me about the window borders:
If the window bevel looks bad with the current fluxbox-style, >...< you need to add also these two parameters:
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window.title.focus.color: <desired color-value>
window.title.unfocus.color: <desired color-value>
Yeah, already at that... I don't maintain many styles anymore, only using neutral styles - none of which use window pixmaps (only fluxbox generic buttons).
>...<
I like your tint2 panel configuration. Can you share the scripts you use for memory and temperature executors, please?
Sure! attached an archive with battery & cpu & memory executors. The ones that have a
-txt extension, all use the iconfont.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:30 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:07 am
Sure! attached an archive with battery & cpu & memory executors. The ones that have a
-txt extension, all use the iconfont.
Thank you very much! Really nice executors!
Here's my current "meter-bar" after some modifications, with my rofi-weather-widget:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:44 am
by ceeslans
[searching for the like button] where's the like button... [ain't there]
@kobaian: looks great!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:48 am
by richb
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 10:44 am
[searching for the
like button] where's the like button... [ain't there]
@kobaian: looks great!
This is not Facebook. Just post you like it. Which you already did.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:49 pm
by Melber
First fiddlings with mxfb 23.
I am really liking the Materia gtk theme at the moment, so took that as inspiration for a flat look.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:51 pm
by AVLinux
@Melber
That's a great cohesive look!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:34 pm
by Melber
@AVLinux thanks, glad you like it.
Pretty much just based on stuff from the default install; style is just recolored MX-Comfort, panel is a reworking of the mx-workspaces tint2. Only new things are the close-active button and the wallpaper.
In case someone's interested, the Materia theme can be installed directly from MXPI,
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:19 pm
by AVLinux
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:34 pm
@AVLinux thanks, glad you like it.
Pretty much just based on stuff from the default install; style is just recolored MX-Comfort, panel is a reworking of the mx-workspaces tint2. Only new things are the close-active button and the wallpaper.
In case someone's interested, the Materia theme can be installed directly from MXPI,
Materia is a very nice theme, sadly discontinued and as I recall it behaves badly with certain apps on occasion (I think I had menu issues with Ardour a while back) I'm sure something that could be fixed in CSS but I didn't dig that deep. Materia and Arc are two 'greatest hits' GTK themes, maybe somebody will fork and continue them if they haven't already...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:48 am
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:49 pm
First fiddlings with mxfb 23.
I am really liking the Materia gtk theme at the moment, so took that as inspiration for a flat look.
It looks nice, fresh and modern.

In spite of that I still prefer dark themes or a little bit darker grey themes for my everyday work. I think it will be great having the accent color alternatives for MX-Comfort and MX-Comfort dark in the MX-repo in the future.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:01 am
by Melber
kobaian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:48 am
In spite of that I still prefer dark themes or a little bit darker grey themes for my everyday work.
I'm the opposite. While dark themes can look great I find them too visually oppressive to use for any length of time.
kobaian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:48 am
I think it will be great having the accent color alternatives for MX-Comfort and MX-Comfort dark in the MX-repo in the future.
MX-Comfort tool...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:17 am
by Freja
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:49 pm
First fiddlings with mxfb 23.
I am really liking the Materia gtk theme at the moment, so took that as inspiration for a flat look.
So Great.
If story.
This is MX LINUX 23 "Libretto" Final.
I think the world was excited, saying, "This is epoch-making!"
But MX-23 UI-theme is also similar with MX-21 or MX-19 style.
I Think MX-25 needs refresh to modern UI-theme...
That's my(our) next goal.
MX forums have all kinds of cool UI-themes.
We need to consider which is the most 'elegant and efficient'.
It's also important to unify wallpaper and UI-themes, like Melber's flavor.
PS. If Dev team held
"UI-theme competition for MX-25" in long term,
Submission and selection will be heated.
(I want to see the strongest UI theme that survived at the end.)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:01 am
by wdscharff
I think I'm really boringly conservative.
I do try out new themes, but like a boomerang I always end up with similar, dark ones. I find it impressive how some themes are pimped here, for me it's mostly round corners, if not already there, and resizing the fonts to fit my monitors/eyes. I also can't really distinguish between "modern" and "old-fashioned", these are subjective terms of personal perception, without relevance for me.
neofetch output
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OS: MX x86_64
Kernel: 6.4.11-x64v3-xanmod1
Locale: de_DE.UTF-8
WM: Fluxbox
WM Theme: BlueNight
Theme: mx-comfort-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: gnome [GTK2/3]
Packages: 2163 (dpkg), 6 (flatpak)
Host: B550M S2H
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (12) @ 3.8GHz [54.7°C]
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
GPU Driver: nouveau
Resolution: 3840x2160 @ 60.00Hz, 2560x1440 @ 120.00Hz
Memory: 2208MiB / 31991MiB (6%)
Song: Dougie Maclean - The Origin - The Search
Music Player: mocp
Disk (/): 28G / 243G (12%)
Disk (/media/evo850): 464G / 916G (54%)
Disk (/media/crux2tb): 934G / 1.8T (54%)
Disk (/media/qvo): 337G / 916G (39%)
Disk (/media/evo500): 343G / 458G (79%)
Most of my "pimp me up" is under the bonnet, keys, submenus, scripts, it's all about my comfort and 80% of what you can see are my attempts to create attractive wallpapers for dual monitor operationSometimes the Tint2 panel is on suto hide, sometimes not, sometimes a second panel is visible as a fake icon bar, sometimes not ...etc..
Executors, funny, makes no sense to my eyes, I prefer conky when I want to look at workloads and technical values.
And usually the result is fluxbox images like this one, which always resemble each other over the years.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:36 am
by kobaian
wdscharff wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:01 am
Executors, funny, makes no sense to my eyes, I prefer conky when I want to look at workloads and technical values.
For me conky is only a nice looking toy and executors are useful tools in a large variety of situations. When I commit some problems, I'd like to solve, for example I'd like to decrease the resources-consumption while playing YouTube videos by changing the browser settings, I need to have executors on the panel that don't hide under maximized windows. I don't have any idea, how conky could replace the executors.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:44 am
by wdscharff
Different hardware: Konky is on my secondary monitor, examinations of any kind take place on the primary monitor. Conky is therefore not covered up on my monitor.
Everything that fits into a bar, I still know from xfce, is too small for my eyesight! I have over 6 diopters and my astigmatism is also in the uncorrectable range (in other words, I live in a world of ellipses, because there are no circles) So everyone has what they need... and for me, exacutors are not one of the things that I could need.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:10 am
by Melber
wdscharff wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:01 am
I think I'm really boringly conservative.
Not really, just a different approach. Your focus is taking and presenting great photos, I'm more into fiddling config files to complement an abstracted graphic image. Both are valid ways of doing a desktop.
wdscharff wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:44 am
I live in a world of ellipses, because there are no circles
Circles are just ellipses with no imagination...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:12 am
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:01 am
MX-Comfort tool...
As far as I remember MX-Comfort tool does not change the accent color in the gtk-theme (e.g. gtk menu higlights), you can change only panel and fluxbox styles.
But maybe it was an interesting idea to change the color with a similar script that creates a proper
gtk.css file in the
~/.config/gtk-3.0 directory.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:23 am
by Melber
kobaian wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:12 am
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 6:01 am
MX-Comfort tool...
As far as I remember MX-Comfort tool does not change the accent color in the gtk-theme (e.g. gtk menu higlights), you can change only panel and fluxbox styles.
But maybe it was an interesting idea to change the color with a similar script that creates a proper
gtk.css file in the
~/.config/gtk-3.0 directory.
Ah, that's what you meant.
Yep, MX-Comfort tool doesn't touch gtk themes. I did play around a while ago with globally editing the highlight colour in the mx-comfort gtk-theme, hope I still have the sed script somewhere. Anyway, I got stuck with Thunar, because that needed additional css settings for drop down menus, side panel etc. and I never got checkboxes or radio buttons to change colour and then got distracted with MX23 stuff. Something to dig out again one rainy day...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:52 am
by Jerry3904
<this doesn't really belong here, will move later)
Speaking of rainy day items: I think we need a small yad named "MXFB-screensaver" that will make it easier and more obvious for the user to control:
1) adjust the delay before the screen blanks
--> sed on the startup entry to change number of seconds
2) temporarily turn off blanking (for watching a video/movie, conference, etc.)
--> xset s off -dpms
--> log out/in to restore
3) permanently turn off blanking
--> sed to comment out the startup entry
I suspect it would eventually (next point release?) go to Settings > Display > Screensaver
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 9:40 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
strawberry playback tap on the menu Music button, the big notification comes up.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:12 am
by Melber
Am also liking Adwaita icons for exit-options.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:31 am
by Jerry3904
That is nice--do a PR of you want to add it.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:53 pm
by Melber
@Jerry3904 Will do.
If anyone wants to try it out now, you just need to save the following config under
~/.config/MX-Linux/exit-options/adwaita_exit-options.conf
and then select the theme with exit-options-manager (right click on logout icon in panel to open manager)
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ConfName=adwaita_exit-options.conf
Margin=24
Spacing=0
IconSize=48
RestartFluxbox=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/actions/view-refresh-symbolic.symbolic.png
LockIcon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/actions/action-unavailable-symbolic.symbolic.png
LogoutIcon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/actions/system-switch-user-symbolic.symbolic.png
SuspendIcon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/actions/document-open-recent-symbolic.symbolic.png
RebootIcon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/actions/system-reboot-symbolic.symbolic.png
ShutdownIcon=/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/64x64/actions/system-shutdown-symbolic.symbolic.png
timeout=5
layout=vertical
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:37 pm
by siamhie
New release. New desktop.
Created a horizontal conky and moved the tint2 toolbar below it. Changed the MX logo for the rofi app finder to a fluxbox logo I found here (
http://www.fluxbox.org/files/propaganda/).
Added icons to my menus this time around using the <'icon'> variable (except for the System sub menu which gets over written after updates).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:41 pm
by Jerry3904
Looks great!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:18 pm
by AVLinux
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:37 pm
New release. New desktop.
Created a horizontal conky and moved the tint2 toolbar below it. Changed the MX logo for the rofi app finder to a fluxbox logo I found here (
http://www.fluxbox.org/files/propaganda/).
Added icons to my menus this time around using the <'icon'> variable (except for the System sub menu which gets over written after updates).
Nice, lots of TLC! Haha looks like we have the same Video card (or close anyway)...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:44 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 1:18 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:37 pm
New release. New desktop.
Created a horizontal conky and moved the tint2 toolbar below it. Changed the MX logo for the rofi app finder to a fluxbox logo I found here (
http://www.fluxbox.org/files/propaganda/).
Added icons to my menus this time around using the <'icon'> variable (except for the System sub menu which gets over written after updates).
Nice, lots of TLC! Haha looks like we have the same Video card (or close anyway)...
Thanks. We do have similar cards. I recall your thread for GPU recommendations and I believe you settled on the RX 6750 XT card.
I looked at Powercolor's 6750 XT cards and they were $100 more than their 6700 XT cards for a minimal increase in performance.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:46 pm
by kobaian
Let's make MX-Comfort a little bit more comfortable for my eyes.
First step: fixing the colors of the sidebar in Thunar:

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.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #DEDFE3;
}
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC;
}
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9;
}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:49 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:41 pmLooks great!
Thanks
@Jerry3904. I copied all the icons needed from /usr/share/icons and converted them from svg to png and backed them up to my spare drive for future use.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:20 pm
by Melber
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:46 pm
Let's make MX-Comfort a little bit more comfortable for my eyes.
First step: fixing the colors of the sidebar in Thunar:
Code: Select all
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #DEDFE3;
}
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC;
}
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9;
}
@kobaian
You can also change the dropdown menu highlight colour with
Code: Select all
.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #B5BABC;}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:06 pm
by ceeslans
Finally transferred some of my MX21 conkys to MX23. Rather dark desktop, likely preparing for autumn.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:29 pm
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:20 pm
@kobaian
You can also change the dropdown menu highlight colour with
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.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #B5BABC;}
That's a useful trick! Thanks!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:53 pm
by AVLinux
Haha!
How do you MX-FB guys get anything done? Either the Desktop is so beautiful you don't want to cover it up with applications or you're too busy tweaking the DE configs to get any work done!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:18 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:53 pm
Haha!
How do you MX-FB guys get anything done? Either the Desktop is so beautiful you don't want to cover it up with applications or you're too busy tweaking the DE configs to get any work done!
@AVLinux When you start poking around under the hood and see what you can do with the desktop, it gets addicting and you can't leave it well alone.
There's been times I've been out and about and I'll think of something new I want to try out.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:27 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:20 pm
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:46 pm
Let's make MX-Comfort a little bit more comfortable for my eyes.
First step: fixing the colors of the sidebar in Thunar:
Code: Select all
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #DEDFE3;
}
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC;
}
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9;
}
@kobaian
You can also change the dropdown menu highlight colour with
Code: Select all
.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #B5BABC;}
@kobaian @Melber Which file is being edited?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
by Melber
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:27 pm
@kobaian @Melber Which file is being edited?
I use
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
File needs to be created.
Works like the fluxbox overlay file in that it overrides theme settings.
Entries can be commented out with a forward slash.
Or are you editing the theme directly
@kobaian ?
(and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:28 am
by Melber
AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 6:53 pm
Haha!
How do you MX-FB guys get anything done? Either the Desktop is so beautiful you don't want to cover it up with applications or you're too busy tweaking the DE configs to get any work done!
All work and no play makes fluxbox a dull WM.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:42 am
by tequila
I use ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
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.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
/*would like to reduce the line spacing of my context menu*/
.thunar menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
/* sidebar */
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #66ccff; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
/* main view */
.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #adad85; }
/* status bar */
.thunar grid paned grid { background-color: #a1a8aa;}
/* toolbar */
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry { background-color: #a1a8aa; }
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:46 am
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:27 pm
@kobaian @Melber Which file is being edited?
I use
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
File needs to be created.
Works like the fluxbox overlay file in that it overrides theme settings.
Entries can be commented out with a forward slash.
Or are you editing the theme directly @kobaian ?
(and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.)
Thanks
@Melber
After some searching I found out the code I needed to change the main window is
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.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: red; }
resulting in this effect. Now thunar matches my conky and tint2 and gives the files and folders the effect of sitting in water.
blue.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 10:55 am
by siamhie
tequila wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:42 am
I use ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
Code: Select all
.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
/* sidebar */
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #66ccff; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
/* main view */
.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #adad85; }
/* status bar */
.thunar grid paned grid { background-color: #a1a8aa;}
/* toolbar */
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry { background-color: #a1a8aa; }
Thanks
@tequila. I'll use this as a reference to tweak thunar further.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:13 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
(and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.)
@Melber I've gotten as far as blacking everything out so far. Still more to learn.
thunar.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:24 pm
by tequila
siamhie wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:13 pm
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
(and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.)
@Melber I've gotten as far as blacking everything out so far. Still more to learn.
thunar.png
I found something, is that what you mean?
Code: Select all
menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
.thunar menuitem { background-color: #ff66ff; }
menuitem { background-color: #ff66ff; }
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:34 pm
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
Or are you editing the theme directly @kobaian ?
I've made a copy of the theme in
~/.themes directory, then I've created a file:
thunar.css in
gtk-3.0 subdirectory in the theme folder where I've written the code, then I've added to
gtk.css the following line:
Of course the way you presented above is much simpler, but I use ~/.config/gtk-3.0 only to make changes for all my present and future themes. The changes that rely on the color-scheme of the particular theme I want to have in the theme-directory.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:41 am
by kobaian
Configuring MX23 on my old Macbook.
Here's the rofi power-menu with my new MX-Fluxbox-on-Mac logo:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:52 am
by Jerry3904
Very cool. I especially like the logo and the "see you later" exit message.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:51 am
by AVLinux
Haha! Great logo! I've never had a Mac but that look takes me back to that KDE theme from years ago that emulated that brushed metal Mac look with the progress and scroll bars that looked like Blue toothpaste..
It's a funny thing that back when computers were so limited for CPU (and GPU) power the GUI's were so rich and image heavy with depth, now we all have blazing fast CPU/GPU/memory and the UX world is flat as a pancake..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:02 am
by Melber
Oh man @kobaian,
I managed to convince Jerry to banish those brushed metal icons from exit-options and then you come along with a brushed metal desktop...All hail pancake UI's.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:35 am
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:02 am
Oh man @kobaian,
I managed to convince Jerry to banish those brushed metal icons from exit-options and then you come along with a brushed metal desktop...All hail pancake UI's.
This retro-theme match the aluminum case of my machine very well. I didn't like the icons together with MX-Comfort, but I like them together with some retro styles like this one:
https://www.pling.com/p/1016687 . It is a pity, that it is rather easy to find a good retro gtk2-theme, but it is so hard to find a matching retro gtk3-theme... That's why I prefer mostly modern themes, but for that particular macbook I make an exemption.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:48 am
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Fri Aug 25, 2023 9:51 am
It's a funny thing that back when computers were so limited for CPU (and GPU) power the GUI's were so rich and image heavy with depth, now we all have blazing fast CPU/GPU/memory and the UX world is flat as a pancake..
I sure miss the icons from yesteryear.
kde1.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:06 am
by siamhie
tequila wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:24 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:13 pm
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
(and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.)
@Melber I've gotten as far as blacking everything out so far. Still more to learn.
thunar.png
I found something, is that what you mean?
Code: Select all
menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
.thunar menuitem { background-color: #ff66ff; }
menuitem { background-color: #ff66ff; }
@tequila That seems to work for me.
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.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar .standard-view .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar menubar, .thunar menubar entry { background-color: #000000; }
.thunar menuitem { background-color: #0F56D9; }
blacknblue.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:46 am
by AVLinux
It's funny I don't really have a preference, I love a good simple flat theme like @Melber when all of the attributes pull together cohesively, but I also love the Enlightenment 'Dark' theme on some of my installs where it is very textured and skeumorphic but all fits togther so well with so much attention to detail. I agree with @kobaian that sometime the machine and it's purpose kind of dictate what the theme should look like.
It is sad that GTK3/4 themes don't have some variety of choice and that there are virtually no icon sets that are remotely 3D looking (as @siamhie said) For me it's not so much the old style of the icons, just that they are more dimensional. I would say of modern themes, Faenza and Evolvere are the best options but they are also 90% flat..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 6:20 pm
by Melber
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:26 am
...and if anyone knows how to change the menu radio and check buttons in thunar, please share. Just editing the colours in the svg files doesn't work.
@tequila thanks for the suggestions, not quite what I was looking for.
What I meant were the little tick and circle icons in the drop down menus.
I think I've got it now
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.thunar radio:checked {-gtk-icon-source: -gtk-scaled(url("assets/radio-checked.svg")) }
.thunar check:checked {-gtk-icon-source: -gtk-scaled(url("assets/checkbox-checked.svg")) }
The colours in the referenced svg's have been edited.
Non MX-Comfort themes sometimes use different file names or png instead of svg.
230825-thunar.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 11:35 am
by tequila
I had some fun, the result:~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
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.thunar menuitem:hover {background: #5c5a57;}
.thunar menuitem { background-color: #00e6ac; }
.thunar menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
/*would like to reduce the line spacing of my context menu*/
menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
menuitem:hover {background: #6d7578;}
menuitem { background-color: #00ccff; }
/* sidebar */
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #66ccff; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:hover { background-color: #B5BABC; }
.thunar .sidebar .view:selected { background-color: #0F56D9; }
/* main view */
.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #b8b894; }
/* status bar */
.thunar grid paned grid { background-color: #a1a8aa;}
/* toolbar */
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry { background-color: #a1a8aa; }
.thunar :focus, :drop(active) { border: 2px solid #ADFF08; }
/*.thunar {font-size:18pt } /*set size font */
.thunar .view:selected { background-color: #997300; }
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 1:01 pm
by siamhie
I was able to find some 3D icons on gnome-look that I like.
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/2039492
3D-icons.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:04 pm
by AVLinux
I often find those kinds of themes (also the Steampunk ones) often are lacking so many Icons for current apps and mimetypes that they are kind of unusable because if your fallback is Papirus or Breeze the mismatched look is pretty hideous.. Of course all just opinion.. Have you found anything that does a reasonable job as as fallback with those?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:44 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:04 pm
I often find those kinds of themes (also the Steampunk ones) often are lacking so many Icons for current apps and mimetypes that they are kind of unusable because if your fallback is Papirus or Breeze the mismatched look is pretty hideous.. Of course all just opinion.. Have you found anything that does a reasonable job as as fallback with those?
@AVLinux I looked at the total count of 32x32 icons in LTF and it is just over 3600 files compared to the Papirus count of 8300 files. It seems there are a ton of sym linked icons in Papirus tho.
What I was not expecting to see in this icon set were these MX specific icons.
mx-icons.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:50 pm
by AVLinux
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:44 pm
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:04 pm
I often find those kinds of themes (also the Steampunk ones) often are lacking so many Icons for current apps and mimetypes that they are kind of unusable because if your fallback is Papirus or Breeze the mismatched look is pretty hideous.. Of course all just opinion.. Have you found anything that does a reasonable job as as fallback with those?
@AVLinux I looked at the total count of 32x32 icons in LTF and it is just over 3600 files compared to the Papirus count of 8300 files. It seems there are a ton of sym linked icons in Papirus tho.
What I was not expecting to see in this icon set were these MX specific icons.
mx-icons.jpg
Looks like I spoke too soon...

Seems like these are pretty well maintained then. It appears they might make a good companion to the Enlightenment classic Dark theme, thanks for the heads up!
Some developers are nice enough to put some of their building blocks in their themes, as an example I have probably created about 30 specialty Evolvere2 Icons because from the github sources you get all of the source SVG's to work from so it is pretty easy to fake up some missing ones. I'll take a closer look at these as an alternate..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 10:16 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 9:50 pm
Looks like I spoke too soon...

Seems like these are pretty well maintained then. It appears they might make a good companion to the Enlightenment classic Dark theme, thanks for the heads up!
Some developers are nice enough to put some of their building blocks in their themes, as an example I have probably created about 30 specialty Evolvere2 Icons because from the github sources you get all of the source SVG's to work from so it is pretty easy to fake up some missing ones. I'll take a closer look at these as an alternate..
Take a look at this icon set for E.
EFDark-IconsCream
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1420499
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 6:20 am
by kobaian
@siamhie @AVLinux
For good looking retro/old-fashioned GTK-themes I would strongly recommend this guy:
https://www.xfce-look.org/u/nestort
When it comes to the iconset I like the Obsidian-iconset from MXPI, because it has a wide color-palette and it looks as good together with retro as with modern gkt-themes.
The problem is, I still cannot find a proper gtk3-theme for my old fashioned aqua-brushed-metal desktop theme for my old Macbook. There are tons of good looking aqua-gtk2-themes but without working gtk3 version. I'm looking for a light theme with a similar palette to Greybird, or even a bit darker, with aqua-style buttons and the characteristic "traffic-light" minimize/maximize/close. Something that is grey like this one
https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1929393 but with a buttons similar to this dark theme:
https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1720387. Or maybe I will try to mix both somehow?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:41 am
by Jerry3904
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Aug 20, 2023 5:53 pm
@Jerry3904 Will do.
If anyone wants to try it out now, you just need to save the following config under
~/.config/MX-Linux/exit-options/adwaita_exit-options.conf
and then select the theme with exit-options-manager (right click on logout icon in panel to open manager)
...
This did not work for me. File is named and located correctly, but is not being picked up in exit-options even with a log out/in. Has anyone else tried it?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:34 pm
by Melber
@Jerry3904
Should be no need to log out/in, app looks for .conf files in $HOME/.config/MX-Linux/exit-options/ on each start, so simply launching manager should be enough.
Are you sure you created a new "exit-options" folder in .config/MX-Linux? User .conf files need to go in there. Just checked on a new user and it worked for me.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:56 pm
by Jerry3904
Did not create a new folder, missed that step completely.
They look nice, though not on a dark background.. Did you make a PR?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 5:56 pm
by Melber
Done, made PR to your fork. I adjusted the paths to /usr/share/exit-options/adwaita and made copies of the adwaita icons to be installed there so that config will still work if a user uninstalls the adwaita icon theme.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:27 pm
by AVLinux
Thanks kobaian I appreciate it!
Actually I just downloaded his updated E17-GTK-revolved theme from somewhere else a couple of weeks ago but I'm grateful for your link because there are lots of interesting goodies there!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:42 am
by kobaian
Brushed Metal attacks again! Rumor has it that they are already building fortifications on the Australian flatland.

I have combined the good old Brushed Metal gtk2-theme (on the left) together with the slightly modified ClassicLooks Greybird gtk3-theme (on the right). Not perfect yet, but looks ok for my old Macbook.
https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1015059/
https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1326363/
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:13 am
by Melber
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:42 am
Brushed Metal attacks again! Rumor has it that they are already building fortifications on the Australian flatland.

...
Aaaarrrrgggghh!!!!
If you really can't resist
https://512pixels.net/2013/03/make-brushed-metal/
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:27 am
by kobaian
Ha! That's a funny trick!
What is better than a little bit brushed metal? More brushed metal!
The Rofi theme:

And the clean desktop with two tin2-panels and hand-writing-idesk icons:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2023 5:28 pm
by AVLinux
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 10:27 am
What is better than a little bit brushed metal? More brushed metal!
The Rofi theme:

And the clean desktop with two tin2-panels and hand-writing-idesk icons:

Haha, that turned out really well, you have a great eye for detail! I love that you designed a theme for just one machine! (I would do something similar...

)
You must smile every time you boot that machine up...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:12 am
by kobaian
AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Aug 30, 2023 5:28 pm
You must smile every time you boot that machine up...
That's right!
I've got now four computers. On all of them I have installed MX-Fluxbox. On the main desktop-pc I've got a little bit modificated
@Melber 's panel and Fluxbox-style with rather modern "Matcha-dark" gtk themes. I like it's simplicity and elegance. Because on this machine I do a lot of work with my photos, that's why I change my wallpaper frequently. On that computer I need styles and themes where I can quickly match the accent colors to the new wallpaper without rebuilding it permanently. Melber's MX-Comfort style with all the customization scripts and tools is the best solution for me.
Another one is this old Macbook, that is my basic mobile laptop. Even though it is a very old core2duo machine I is still usable with MX. I take it with me every time I visit my parents. Its modest resources are enough to upload photos from the camera to computer afer mountain-hiking for browsing them and selecting the good photos from the poor ones. Darktable and Hugin-Panorama-Creator run ok on that machine, but there is a problem that it's old display screen has rather poor color reproduction compared to the modern machines. It is also very helpful to me while planning trips and buying tickets online. On this machine I've been using one the same wallpaper for a couple of years and I don't change the general concept for the look and feel of its desktop. The update to MX23 was only a good oportunity to make some further improvements.
The third one is an old 32-bit EEEPC netbook. Because it's wifi and blotooth interface I use it sometimes to play Internet radio or watching some diy-tips from youtube in the low resolution while working in the kitchen or while doing some reparation and renovation work at home . This one has also a special interface design to fit it's 1024x600px screen, auto hiding panels, no window title-bar - for saving as much space as possible for the applications.
And the last one is another desktop-pc, that has been build from the previous components (cpu, ram, sdd and hdd) that are left to me after upgrading my main computer. This one should have a similar look and feel as the first one and will probably go to my parent's house.
So I've got 4 computers with one and the same MX-Fluxbox, but three of them differ permanently in the UI design and workflow.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 9:07 am
by ceeslans
Running urxvt terminal(s) decor- and/or borderless.
Picom is responsible for the nice corner-rounding - and excellent shadowing to quasi mimic the absent borders

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:11 am
by AVLinux
Very nice!
It's fun to hang out here and see what the cool kids are doing...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 12:42 pm
by ceeslans
AVLinux wrote: ↑Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:11 am> ... < and see what the cool kids are doing...

Owww... can't wait to tell my grandkids I'm kewl !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:31 pm
by rokytnji.1
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:59 pm
by Jerry3904
Wowza!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:49 am
by kobaian
How to convince your mother, father, grandpa, cousin etc. to use MX-Linux on their decent computers? Maybe the best way is just don't tell them the truth...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 6:54 am
by Melber
ha, windows fb !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:14 am
by AVLinux
Haha, great job!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:12 pm
by siamhie
2010 called and they wanted their desktop back.
On my second hard drive I have MX-23 XFCE installed. So I decided to install fluxbox 1.3.5 (non MX) along side with it.
fluxbox toolbar instead of tint2, gkrellm instead of conky, slit instead of mx dockmaker, feh instead of nitrogen. Kept the menu as is but added some entries
to every day programs including the ability to either reboot or shutdown the computer. GkrellM has a plugin that allows you to take screenshots right from the
monitor. Installed wmalauncher so I could set up my slit. Now I have the best of both worlds. Default boot is to MX-23 fluxbox or select MX-23 XFCE that logs
into fluxbox 1.3.5.
Found a tip from an arch post on how to setup feh to select my backgrounds from the menu. I wasn't even aware fluxbox has a wallpaper command.
Code: Select all
[submenu] (Backgrounds)
[wallpapers] (~/.fluxbox/backgrounds) {feh --bg-scale}
[end]

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:59 am
by i_ri
hello siamhie
gkrellm shooter is open to reprogram the command of the lock button to your choice.
another with launcher control is
the uptime button can launch your choice.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:06 am
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:59 am
hello siamhie
gkrellm shooter is open to reprogram the command of the lock button to your choice.
I removed that option because I don't lock my screen. So it now only shows shoot at the bottom.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:15 am
by i_ri
"I removed that option because I don't lock my screen. So it now only shows shoot at the bottom."
me too. Lock label is available for custom command as is uptime.
you go for exit-options? or Lock for an alternate screenshot setting? mail? playlist? market? weather?
you can plug in two favorites to these.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:40 am
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:15 am
you go for exit-options?
I'm only using what would be available to users of 1.3.5 when it came out. I did add reboot and shutdown to my root menu.
Code: Select all
[restart] (Restart)
[exit] (Logout)
[exec] (Reboot) {sudo /sbin/reboot}
[exec] (Shutdown) {sudo /sbin/shutdown}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:51 am
by i_ri
very nice. i meant launch exit-options from gkrellm (uptime or Lock for example.)
oh. now i get the idea that you did not mxfluxbox yet, you just fluxbox.
and install custom-toolbox and preview-mx
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:53 am
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:12 pm[...]
Found a tip from an arch post on how to setup feh to select my backgrounds from the menu. I wasn't even aware fluxbox has a wallpaper command.
Code: Select all
[submenu] (Backgrounds)
[wallpapers] (~/.fluxbox/backgrounds) {feh --bg-scale}
[end]
That [wallpaper] fluxbox-command is new to me too, thanks for sharing this.
It's easy to include multiple image-sources in the submenu, fluxbox handles it beautifully. Regretfully though, it doesn't show any previews or thumbnails...
But it's not that difficult to have 'feh' create a preview window with thumbnails from enabled (multiple) image folder(s), and set the selected image as desktop wallpaper with a single left-click.
I'll gladly share my script and config file if you're interested.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:14 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:53 am
But it's not that difficult to have 'feh' create a preview window with thumbnails from enabled (multiple) image folder(s), and set the selected image as desktop wallpaper with a single left-click.
I'll gladly share my script and config file if you're interested.
Sure, that would be great
@ceeslans.
Currently I've got my menu opacity set to 100 so that when I open my backgrounds submenu I can see the current wallpaper displayed underneath it.
When I select a different background, it changes to that automatically and updates my .fehbg file.
The background submenu doesn't close until I right click on it's title bar, so I can randomly select images until I find one that suits my mood for the day.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:18 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2023 1:51 am
oh. now i get the idea that you did not mxfluxbox yet, you just fluxbox.
@i_ri That's correct. My main hard drive has MX-23 fluxbox installed and my third hard drive has MX-23 XFCE installed along with fluxbox 1.3.5 from the enabled repos tab.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:52 am
by ceeslans
Lately I noticed there were some typos/errors in ~/.conky/MX-Cees/datetime-conkyrc. Have meanwhile corrected this (a.o mixing BAT0/BAT1 code).
Have also added a check in the battery code, i.e to exclude a battery monitor showing up on desktop devices.
Additionally added code for a red-color warning when battery power level falls below 20% ( it actually blinks on/off every second).
Below is the updated conky config file
~/.conky/MX-Cees/datetime-conkyrc
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----------------------
-- conky_datetime --
-- @ceeslans feb 22 --
-- updated sep 23 --
----------------------
conky.config = {
no_buffers = true,
double_buffer = true,
update_interval = 1,
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = false,
--own_window_argb_value = 0,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,skip_taskbar,skip_pager,sticky',
own_window_colour = '000000',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'DatetimeConky',
draw_borders = false,
stippled_borders = 5,
border_inner_margin = 5,
border_outer_margin = 5,
border_width = 2,
draw_graph_borders = yes,
draw_shades = false,
default_shade_color = '333333',
imlib_cache_size = 0,
draw_outline = false,
default_outline_color = '000000',
use_xft = true,
font = 'DejaVu Sans:size=9.5:bold',
xftalpha = 1,
override_utf8_locale = true,
uppercase = false,
use_spacer = 'none',
text_buffer_size = 6144,
short_units = true,
pad_percents = 2,
default_color = 'd8dee9', --clear
color1 = 'bbbbbb', -- very light grey
color2 = 'ebcb8b', -- yellow
color3 = 'a3be8c', -- green
color4 = 'd08770', -- orange
color5 = 'bf616a', -- red
color6 = '6b94bc', -- blue
color7 = 'ff0000', -- alarm red
minimum_width = 150,
minimum_height = 0,
gap_x = 50,
gap_y = 50,
alignment = 'top_right',
-- ### uncomment below two lines for transparent background layer
--lua_load = '$HOME/.conky/LUA/transbg.lua',
--lua_draw_hook_pre = 'draw_bg 10 0 0 0 0 0x000000 0.15',
};
conky.text = [[
###### SET 12H/24H ###
# ${color1}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Sans:size=81:bold}${alignc}${time %I}${font}
${color1}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Sans:size=81:bold}${alignc}${time %H}${font}
###### DAY+DATE ###
${color2}${voffset 5}${alignc}${time %A} ${color3}${time %d %b}${font}
###### MINUTE ###
${color6}${voffset -15}${font DejaVu Sans:size=81:bold}${alignc}${time %M}${color}${font}
###### MEM/CPU ###
${color3}${voffset 5}${alignc}mem ${color1}${memperc}% ${color4}cpu ${color1}${cpu cpu0}%
###### BATTERY ###
### uncomment below three lines if you don't want to monitor your laptop battery status
${if_existing /sys/module/battery}${color2}${voffset 5}${goto 26}bat \
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status}${voffset 1}${color6}${battery_bar 8,50 BAT0} ${voffset -1}${if_match ${battery_percent BAT0}<=19}${color7}${blink ${battery_percent BAT0}%}${else}${color3}${if_match ${battery_percent BAT0}>19}${battery_percent BAT0}%${endif}${endif}\
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/status}${voffset 1}${color6}${battery_bar 8,50 BAT1} ${voffset -1}${if_match ${battery_percent BAT1}<=19}${color7}${blink ${battery_percent BAT1}%}${else}${color3}${if_match ${battery_percent BAT1}>19}${battery_percent BAT1}%${endif}${endif}${endif}
###### CORRECTION WIDGET HEIGHT ###
${voffset -90}
]];
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:33 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks for the update. I'm in the UK ATM but will take care of this when I get back next week.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2023 5:40 pm
by Melber
Played around with neofetch to make an mxfb-comfort version
231003_neofetch.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 3:55 am
by Melber
Alternative mxfb logo
231007_neofetch.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:27 am
by Jerry3904
That alternative is gorgeous, and I like the reduced text. How/Where would you see us being able to use it?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 4:07 pm
by ceeslans
new tint2 theme and matching fb style; also new *fetch in a borderless roxterminal

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:02 pm
by Melber
@ceeslans
thumbs up, elegant as ever.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:03 pm
by Jerry3904
Agreed
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2023 6:29 pm
by Melber
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:27 am
That alternative is gorgeous, and I like the reduced text. How/Where would you see us being able to use it?
Wasn't really thinking about how to incorporate anything into mxfb, was just playing around.
Neofetch creates the folder and config file
~/.config/neofetch/config.conf if they don't already exist.
I guess we could put the mxfb config file there so the default version doesn't get created.
The ascii image could also be put there (that's the path I'm currently using anyway).
Text and image colours are governed by the terminal settings as far as I can tell, so not sure how or if we could/should change those without user input.
Here are the files if you want to try it out...
In xfce4-terminal change the text colour to #cacdd0 and the bold turquoise colour (bottom row, 2nd from right) to #0F56D9.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:31 pm
by siamhie
Sometimes plain and simple just works.
Created a vertical black and white gradient with rounded corners for tint2 and a custom neofetch theme.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:46 pm
by Jerry3904
Very wintry!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:18 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:46 pmVery wintry!
It does have that wintry look. Can't remember where I found this image with the ground fog but it works great with black and white themed desktops.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:05 pm
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:18 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:46 pmVery wintry!
It does have that wintry look. Can't remember where I found this image with the ground fog but it works great with black and white themed desktops.
Image is called "a foggy winter day" by @kobaian - and a contender for MX23 default wallpaper (if I'm not mistaken, it is part of the MX23 wallpaper pack? )
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:33 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:05 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:18 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:46 pmVery wintry!
It does have that wintry look. Can't remember where I found this image with the ground fog but it works great with black and white themed desktops.
Image is called "a foggy winter day" by @kobaian - and a contender for MX23 default wallpaper (if I'm not mistaken, it is part of the MX23 wallpaper pack? )
Thanks
@ceeslans. When I mouse over the image (in nitrogen) that name came up.
I figured it was in /usr/share/backgrounds because I couldn't find it in my ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds folder.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 3:50 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:05 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 2:18 pm
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 1:46 pmVery wintry!
It does have that wintry look. Can't remember where I found this image with the ground fog but it works great with black and white themed desktops.
Image is called "a foggy winter day" by @kobaian - and a contender for MX23 default wallpaper (if I'm not mistaken, it is part of the MX23 wallpaper pack? )
Yes. Because I've seen some opinions on the FB group, that the place looks like a "prison" or a "concentration camp", I'd like to explain, that it is a touristic watchtower in a small village - Suszyna, taken with an ultra-zoom camera from another touristic watchtower on the All Saints Moutain (Góra Wszystkich Świętych) in Sudetes, Poland.
And here's my current desktop for Autumn:

A woodbine leaf seen through the old good Helios 44m-4 lens, Matcha-dark-aliz GTK-theme and Obsidian-Red icons.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:21 am
by wdscharff
my autumn wallpaper (one of a bundle)
and as usual with me, very tidy desktop
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:47 am
by Jerry3904
I like the contrast in lighting, it makes me think of a cosmic struggle between Good and Evil (something I think about a lot these days...).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:17 pm
by Amiga-MX
DevPunk@6

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2023 11:01 pm
by siamhie
One of the local Oregon photographers took this shot out at Cape Meares Oregon. Reminds me of the movie The Birds.
What I really like about it is the various positions the birds wings are in. Some are in a downward motion, some in an upward, while others in a glide-like flight.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:11 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:47 am
I like the contrast in lighting, it makes me think of a cosmic struggle between Good and Evil (something I think about a lot these days...).
Amen to that, such times...
Some nice stuff as always folks, I'm kind of over Conkys these days but that is a cool one
@Amiga-MX
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:13 pm
by Amiga-MX
@AVLinux
Personally, with a core duo IMac 4GRam, Conky is a must for monitoring. What I found, in order to avoid some boring, is that I can create/modified a class of them, for every favorite Wallpaper I have a dedicated Conky set.
FBX'ers I wonder is there a way to change wallpaper and Conky simultaneously. For example using a little fav shortcut menu. See my conky Hat button ready at right-bottom of the bar.
We can do good things matching Conky with wallpapers. I'm still investigating with the use of MX-FB.
The thematic Devpunk that I'm prospecting has a long scope, my personal MX-FB dream is to create a entire set of ambiance related experiences under Devpunk category using wallpapers, Conky, Rofi, MX tour and loader. With a classic linux usable interface
Here a video to ambient you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYwCy-a0WI
Thanks and good evening.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 2:23 pm
by Jerry3904
FBX'ers I wonder is there a way to change wallpaper and Conky simultaneously.
Maybe with the FB tool "Look"?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:32 pm
by Amiga-MX
Good catch @Jerry3904
Thank you
Tested FB-Look it seems not all information is correctly saved, like wallpaper dimensions , desktops 1-2 , Conky selection also is missing, the rest seems to be OK.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 3:47 pm
by Jerry3904
@Melber Can you confirm what Amiga-MX has observed?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:11 pm
by Amiga-MX
@Jerry3904 Thank you for your attemption. Can you also try it? Remember first to save your current look.
I'm gonna try moving my Conkies to the desktop #1 to check if happens.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:51 pm
by Amiga-MX
#1 FB Look and wallpapers for two screens with different dimensions.
It seems that fittings 2 screens with different dimensions with wallpapers and save it in FB-Look works okay, once you save your look with both screens active. Then, in order to restore the look You'll have to do it with only main screen on, if both screen are on, the size of the wallpaper will vary, not fitting.
#2 Conky
I've tested to save only one Conky as seen on the FB-Look tips, but Conky still not restored neither saved as selected.
I have tested for the reason above with both cases, 1 screen only active and with 2 screens on.
Thanks
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 6:01 pm
by Melber
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:51 pm
#1 FB Look and wallpapers for two screens with different dimensions.
It seems that fittings 2 screens with different dimensions with wallpapers and save it in FB-Look works okay, once you save your look with both screens active. Then, in order to restore the look You'll have to do it with only main screen on, if both screen are on, the size of the wallpaper will vary, not fitting.
#2 Conky
I've tested to save only one Conky as seen on the FB-Look tips, but Conky still not restored neither saved as selected.
I have tested for the reason above with both cases, 1 screen only active and with 2 screens on.
Thanks
@Amiga-MX
#Wallpapers
The script just restores the wallpaper with the command nitrogen --set-zoom-fill.
Is nitrogen maybe using the same wallpaper size on the differently sized screens?
#conky
Presume you are using mx-fluxbox 23.
The conky startup script made by look has a DE check in it, if DESKTOP_SESSION != fluxbox the script doesn't run.
Can you post the contents of your saved .look file in ~/.config/MX-Linux/mxfb-look and the contents of ~/.conky/conky-startup.sh
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2023 7:54 pm
by Amiga-MX
I'm on MX21-FB
#Wallpapers
Is nitrogen maybe using the same wallpaper size on the differently sized screens?
Yes that's correct. Same wallpaper(1920x1080) on screen1 (1920x1080) automatic mode, and on screen 2 (1680x1050) Zoom fill
These are the outputs I got for the pair .look files DevPunk6 and devpunk6 as I tested both.
DevPunk6.look
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gtk-theme-name=mx-comfort
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes
gtk-font-name=Sans 11
gtk-theme-name="mx-comfort"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes"
gtk-font-name="Sans 11"
session.styleFile: /home/Amiga/.fluxbox/styles/MX-comfort
1
/home/Amiga/.config/tint2/tint2rc
None
@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/extra-themes/cappuccin-mocha-mx.rasi"
file=/home/Amiga/Imágenes/backgrounds/wallhaven-e75x28.png
cd "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar" &
Hidden=false
and
devpunk6.look
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gtk-theme-name=mx-comfort
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes
gtk-font-name=Sans 11
gtk-theme-name="mx-comfort"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes"
gtk-font-name="Sans 11"
session.styleFile: /home/Amiga/.fluxbox/styles/MX-comfort
1
/home/Amiga/.config/tint2/tint2rc
None
@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/extra-themes/cappuccin-mocha-mx.rasi"
file=/home/Amiga/Imágenes/backgrounds/wallhaven-e75x28.png
cd "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager/voyager_No10-Time-MX_colors_mod-LibSans" &
Hidden=false
In addition I'll say that after reboot it seems that the wallpaper on second screen loose the dimensions, so could be something related with the aspect ratio/dimensions of my second monitor that usually windows do not fit the entire vertical space...
@Melber do you have several screens to try by your own ?
Also try the #conky with FB-Looks if you can.
conky-startup.sh
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#!/bin/sh
sleep 20s
killall -u $(id -nu) conky 2>/dev/null
cd "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar/Amiga-MX-CPU-Bar" &
cd "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde/CPU-TEMP-verde" &
cd "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/MX-Voyager/voyager_No10-Time-MX_colors_mod-LibSans" &
exit 0
I see this file saves my actual election (3 conkies) while the instruction said a conky (single one?)
However I tested before with just only one conky if happened to be saved by FB-Look but it wasn't.
Thank you in advance.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 4:42 am
by Melber
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 7:54 pm
@Melber do you have several screens to try by your own ?
No. I don't even have access to my laptop at the moment.
Look only saves and restores one conky.
The look files seem to be okay.
Is that the contents of conky-startup.sh directly after running restore look? If so, look is not overwriting the file with the new setting for some reason. If not, what are the contents directly after running restore look?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:48 am
by Amiga-MX
This is the content of my saved .look with one Conky.
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gtk-theme-name=mx-comfort
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes
gtk-font-name=Sans 11
gtk-theme-name="mx-comfort"
gtk-icon-theme-name="Papirus-mxblue-darkpanes"
gtk-font-name="Sans 11"
session.styleFile: /home/Amiga/.fluxbox/styles/MX-comfort
1
/home/Amiga/.config/tint2/tint2rc
None
@theme "/usr/share/rofi/themes/extra-themes/cappuccin-mocha-mx.rasi"
file=/home/Amiga/Imágenes/backgrounds/wallhaven-e75x28.png
cd "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde/CPU-TEMP-verde" &
Hidden=false
This is the content of conky-startup.sh using one Conky alone.
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#!/bin/sh
if [ x"${DESKTOP_SESSION##*/}" = x"lightdm-xsession" ]; then
sleep 10s
killall conky
cd "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde"
conky -c "$HOME/.conky/CPUtemp-verde/CPU-TEMP-verde" &
exit 0
fi
These are the content after restore withFB-Look, the Conky saved is not active, as I see is even not selected as active in the Conky manager.
Thanks
Addendum
#Wallpapers with FB-Looks
Confirm that in order to get wallpaper on two screens properly restored with the right dimensions with -FB-Look, the restoration must be done with only the main screen on, second screen must be off. After restore, the second screen can be turn on.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:30 am
by Melber
@Amiga-MX
I started a new thread to avoid filling up this one with non screenshot related stuff.
viewtopic.php?p=750150#p750150
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2023 11:17 am
by Amiga-MX
Hope de admin can move all mine non related posts to this new thread.
Thank you.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2023 10:15 pm
by Amiga-MX
DevPunk@7 MX-21 FB
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Maximizing the audience.
Notifier Mock-up
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Does anyone knows how to change the boring notification icon ?
EDIT: Last Minute Note
Maximizing the audience with some humour dedicated

to our dear YT'bers. PLeaseSuBsCribe
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
ExplainingComputer channel https://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers
Jack Keifer's channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVbU1KgAjUA
STÆMPUNK TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7yd5yWN7c
MXLMLGA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2023 1:40 pm
by ceeslans
Nov 23 scrot (wink to
@Melber )

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:38 am
by Melber
How did you hack my webcam to get a photo of me trying to get some of those yads to work?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:45 am
by Amiga-MX
Melber wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:38 am
How did you hack my webcam to get a photo of me trying to get some of those yads to work?
+1 folks
Good design
@ceeslans
Here My DevPunk8 desktop
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MXMLGA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2023 3:33 pm
by ceeslans
Currently running a (personalized) 'Beardog Bookworm' setup - which is a minimal version of
"Lilidog", an excellent Debian-based distro featuring the openbox wm. Highly customizable, full of exclusive options and tools, with an extremely active, friendly and helpful forum. Definitely worth checking out

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:27 pm
by Melber
On the whateverth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
Holiday season themed papirus folders
231222_thunar.png
Disclaimer: this may just be an unsubtle attempt to draw attention to the papirus-folder-colors tool available for testing now...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:31 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 2:27 pm
On the whateverth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
Holiday season themed papirus folders
231222_thunar.png
Disclaimer: this may just be an unsubtle attempt to draw attention to the papirus-folder-colors tool available for testing now...
I love it. There's so much going on in the Land of Fluxbox (the new and improved mxfb-separate-backgrounds) it's hard to keep up.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:15 am
by ceeslans
Busy screenshot of my fluxbox desktop - booted in systemd today (really fast boot process, took only 8 seconds...)
Running
feh-setbg script to set/change single wallpaper, using feh's thumbnail and background-setting capabilities.
Also running
man2txt script, to extract requested manpage and instantly save in *.txt file format.
Small
*fetch-like script to display system details - and
htop in urxvt terminal
Tint2 panel with colors+layout freely based on '
Soil' gtk-theme
Wallpaper: simplified color-inverted MasterCard layout

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:16 pm
by ceeslans
Flying mx-comfort theme/colors for my first screenshot in 2024.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:22 pm
by AVLinux
That's not a Desktop... it's art!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 7:19 pm
by Freja
@ceeslans
Thank you for using my Whisker icon!
(Yes, this is the image close to I was thinking of!)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:17 am
by siamhie
Thanks to a post from
@PPC on the antiX forum I found out that you can create button launchers on fluxbox's toolbar.
Now when I click on the mx23 button (Symbola font), it launches the root menu.
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic ... available/

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:26 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone

Rick Belden Photography; mx23_bgn Auro Kumar Sahoo
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:22 pm
by ceeslans
10px offset vertical tint2-panel with jgmenu app-launcher, three conkies (5-day accuweather, fuzzy time, inxi sysinfo)
filemanager: pcmanfm-qt with white-colored papirus-folder-icons. gtk-theme: Dark-Olympic

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 5:58 pm
by Melber
hmmn, white colored papirus folder-icons...
dark and classy desktop as always
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 6:34 pm
by Jerry3904
Very wintry, matches my mental state these frozen days.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 6:42 pm
by kobaian
My desktop for this winter.
Not many changes, just some colors and the wallpaper.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:05 pm
by Jerry3904
Terrific.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:44 am
by ceeslans
Classic 'kobaian' desktop.
Harmonious color palette - and a beautiful background... (link pleaze ?)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:17 pm
by ceeslans
Have been working on an autosizing tint2 theme and fluxbox style - for now, using 'concept' as working title.
start | launchers | places menu | workspace switcher | tasks | systray | executors (volume/cputemp/memory/battery/network) | clock | exit
Showing here the light version; the dark variant is depicted as insert in the left bottom corner.
Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:37 pm
by Melber
Very stylish.
I'm not quite sure what you mean with autosizing.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:39 pm
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:37 pmVery stylish.
I'm not quite sure what you mean with autosizing.
Using the
panel_shrink = 1 setting, makes the panel size to grow (or shrink) when adding (or removing) tasks and/or systray icons.
Edit 2024-01-17 : added screenshot

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:55 pm
by siamhie
I really like the MX-Ko0 conky but I wanted to trim it up a bit. So I got rid of all the top variables, removed the uptime section
and re-arranged the CPU section. Added a border and changed out the colors using MX-Conky.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:51 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:44 am
Classic 'kobaian' desktop.
Harmonious color palette - and a beautiful background... (link pleaze ?)
Thanks!
Here's the link to the gallery:
https://www.deviantart.com/am1g0/galler ... ur-seasons
I will probably add more wallpapers in a couple of days and publish it on the forum in my "Four seasons with MX" thread.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:57 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
Libretto, fluxbox Style arch (inactive pixmaps blank arches,) wallpaper MX Linux Desert Landscape by Freja. Bigger than in this shot, just increased the Style font size by one point on every font, menu is bigger now , feels like mx comfort now.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:17 am
by Jerry3904
Nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:21 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone
Libretto. make install Pinta; made a wallpaper,
Freja' Faith logo; Style Twice
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:11 am
by i_ri

Hello JayM and Everyone
Libretto. Style MX-Comfort
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:23 am
by ceeslans
Today's fluxbox desktop --> themed with Bunsenlabs' Lithium colors.
Conkies = Google-weather / BBQ-digital2 / damo's digital-clock & week-calendar
Gtk theme = BL-Lithium-light
Tint2 = BL-Lithium leftbar, with jgmenu app launcher drawing colors+font from tint2rc
Wallpaper = OffTheRecord (origin?)
Weather forecast: rainy days ahead (blehhh)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:14 am
by Jerry3904
Very handsome, indeed.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:59 pm
by Jerry3904
Trying out
@Freja's most recent background, with a modified
@Melber conky and a short panel

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:15 pm
by Melber
try putting the conky in top left corner
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:28 pm
by richb
My KDE version. I moved the conky so the text was more visible.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 4:42 pm
by Jerry3904

I kind of liked it in that little space...
But I will keep an open mind...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 6:46 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone
notme is moving here[clue.]
inactive window M^X pixmaps,
close pressed is a red X pixmap,
itemstart rootmenu
menu item slightly zooms text from font sans, hover to Verdana,
fluxbox Style Twice.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:50 pm
by Amiga-MX
Sweet contributions.
This is my favorite thread of the entire MX-forum by far.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:24 am
by i_ri
notifications, strawberry, notify-send, Preview.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:53 am
by AVLinux
@i_ri
Very cool stuff! Seems with MX-Flux the only limit is your imagination (although config file editing skills don't hurt!)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:01 pm
by i_ri
image link

Hello JayM and everyone
fluxbox removed white, image link

lookxfce side, image.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:37 pm
by purplemoon
Hello Everyone.
Just for the fun of it a minimalist Mac Os layout, featuring fluxbox and fbpanel...
- GTK theme: Matcha Sea (light & dark)
- Icon theme: Simply Circle (white & black) + some custom icons
- Wallpaper: "minimalist_water-green_strawberry"
sc_dark.jpg
sc_light.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:43 pm
by Jerry3904
That is a lot of fun, thanks for posting.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:03 am
by ceeslans
@purplemoon That looks great.
Are both toolbars (top- and bottom) fbpanel bars? Does fbpanel allow executors, like in tint2?
Would appreciate if you could kindly share its configuration file(s) - thanks a lot
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:20 am
by purplemoon
@ceeslans
Yes, both panels are fbpanel. To save space, the bottom bar is set to hide, as there are no options for autohide.
As for executors, the output of a command / script can be displayed via the "genmon" plugin. I use it to display the name of the current focused window and the title of the songs played in Clementine.
Requirements:
- I use Simply Circle icons. If you use another theme, some icons might be missing and the items using these might not be visible/work or break the configuration.
- You also need "xdotool" to display the focused window name in the panel...
- and "gxmessage" for the session scripts to work as intended.
Folders & Files:
- "my_scripts" folder goes into ~/.fluxbox/ (logout scripts)
- "mediaplayer.py"goes into the "home" folder (music player script -- clementine (& audacious, vlc...)
- fbpanel config files go into ~/.config/fbpanel/
- "fbp_icons_dark/light" folders go into ~/.config/fbpanel/
Fluxbox-remote actions should be set to "true" in Fluxbox init file.
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session.screen0.allowRemoteActions: true
If you are interested, I can also share my main setup (Unity inspired).
Bellow are fbpanel config files and the required scripts and extra (required) icons.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 2:50 am
by i_ri
hello purplemoon and everyone
love the fbpanel.
mediaplayer.py is in
$HOME/.conky/MX-Bridouz/mediaplayer.py
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:05 am
by ceeslans
@purplemoon thanks for the config+script files - and your clear instructions re paths, requirements and icons.
Gonna have some fun playing with fbpanel...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:27 am
by Jerry3904
I used it at the beginning a lot, but switched to tint2 for wider audience appeal when fb became an official MX product especially for older machines.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 6:47 pm
by purplemoon
@i_ri Thank you, I forgot to mention that.
Same for the session scripts that are inspired by this topic
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... ox-864919/
@ceeslans You are welcome. Hope you'll enjoy it!
@Jerry3904 I also have used fbpanel for years with Fluxbox. Came back to it, a few years ago, because it is lighweight and easy to configure. It probably is less powerful than Tint2, but really does the job: you can get much out of it. My work set up is inspired by Unity DE.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:44 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:04 am
by ceeslans
Current fluxbox desktop
gtk theme: "Crunchbang-dark"
icon theme: Papirus-green-dark (recolored)
fluxbox style: "launchy"
tint2 panel: vertical "launchy" - autosizing (panel_shrink = 1)
conky bar: "scratch"
terminal: urxvt ('tango' colors)
wallpaper: "MasterCard-inv"

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:10 am
by Jerry3904
First time I've seen that terminal and had to look it up. Looks pretty interesting.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:53 pm
by ceeslans
[testing the new image upload feature...]
Made a memory-consumption comparison of three text editors currently on my fluxbox setup.
The medit v/1.2.92 fork actually isn't too shabby; it is rather low on resources, has syntax-coloring - and some nice dark/light styles.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:57 am
by Amiga-MX
#DevPunk9
Julia The Last System Monitor
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This will be the last GUI Monitor System.
Beyond 2030, the human have adopted the next gen GUII. Graphic User Implanted Interface. Aka wee2.
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The story has a bad but romantic end. Ubuntu will be exposed at the computer museum
Linux Kernel and MX will be a matter of software archeologists.
udo will be a/the token

$udo
.....
Starrings:
- Julia System monitor
- btop
- firefox
- conky (New addition)
- visual organic representation analysis video
- Sound Equinox by Jean Michel Jarre. Not available on this mock-up.
Sorry not to have a good pc to show you the video, the result is spectacular with all indicators moving organically with the music. Only have 512 VRAM.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:51 am
by ceeslans
@Amiga-MX I have no idea what I'm looking at - but it sure looks great. Impressive customization !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:32 pm
by rokytnji.1
Pretty much stock

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 5:28 pm
by Jerry3904
Daughter and family are at the Escalante National Monument, Utah, and I thought this picture of hers made a nice sort of "Western Dao" (b/c the power is in the empty center) for my MXFB.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:21 pm
by AVLinux
Great pic!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:21 pm
by richb
@Jerry3904
Very nice!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:18 am
by wdscharff
once again a new screenshot, it doesn't change that much for me
WM: Fluxbox
WM Theme: FT10dark
Theme: mx-comfort-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: buuf-nestort [GTK2/3]
Wallpaper optimized for dual monitor
Conkys tidied up

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:19 am
by Jerry3904
What a monster!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:58 am
by wdscharff
The Conky has become very fat and no longer fits on a Full HD monitor, the network part takes up too much space for me in relation to its relevance. I'll have to write my "own" one day, but it's been removed again in the meantime.
But I will soon integrate fluxkeys again, I have too many fluxbox submenus that I only call up via keyboard, so I easily lose the overview (visitors anyway) :-)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:37 am
by ceeslans
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 1:08 pm
by wdscharff
Thank you! I didn't know that you could also use the keypad.
You can never have enough assignable keys :-)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 5:00 pm
by i_ri
wdscharff , liked the canine seated on the top step; as if the dog is in its "parking space."
Hello JayM and Everyone
(To tile, include change of window size and placement, use arrangewindows[placement]... in place of unclutter.(?) )
A type of
present all windows (sample.)
DeIconify all and show windows, unclutter not changing window size.
Shaded remain shaded.
Mod1 l :MacroCmd {ShowDesktop}{ShowDesktop}{Unclutter (workspace=[current]) (iconhidden=no)}{ClientMenu}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:17 pm
by siamhie
It's been awhile since I wrote a style and now I remember why I took a break. Too many options
Came across this artist rendition of a rocky exoplanet circling a red star on the
James Webb Space Telescope web site.
Tweaked tint2 to match my menu colors and even found a cool XMMS skin called Divorce that matches my red theme. Icons are called MB-Cherry-Sulu-GLOW.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:54 pm
by Jerry3904
I love the JWST gallery, so appreciate your screenshot all the more!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:02 am
by kobaian
Not many changes, just spring has come...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:40 am
by Jerry3904
I love that image. Spring is coming on very well here--and it is very welcome!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:07 am
by Jerry3904
Inspired by
@kobaian I've used a pic I took yesterday of my nectarine tree just coming into bloom (before the cherries) to set a new theme for April.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:01 am
by ceeslans
kobaian wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:02 amNot many changes, just spring has come...
... where's the 'like' button?...
Great looking desktop - and the background image is superb; is this your own photography? Can you please provide a link?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:25 pm
by Melber
Something different to spring is sprung...how about a modernist architecture classic?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:27 pm
by Jerry3904
Not sure what that is but I like the angles and colors
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:10 pm
by Melber
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:27 pm
Not sure what that is but I like the angles and colors
You don't recognise the Barcelona Pavilion?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:22 pm
by Jerry3904
Nope. Can we talk instead about Bauhaus...?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:23 pm
by Melber
been there, done that...see "ceiling" in the MX21 wallpapers...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:20 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:01 am
kobaian wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:02 amNot many changes, just spring has come...
... where's the 'like' button?...
Great looking desktop - and the background image is superb; is this your own photography? Can you please provide a link?
Thank You!
Yes, of course:
https://www.deviantart.com/am1g0/art/Bl ... 1042642202
Check out also the whole gallery for more wallpapers for spring:
https://www.deviantart.com/am1g0/galler ... ur-seasons
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:38 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM
The workspacemenu can have links to create and switch-to and name workspaces.
and if you do this often? the workspace-rename dialog is
Mod1 j :setworkspacenamedialog
To the sample bindkey :or button :macrocmd add at the end the {setworkspacenamedialog} command comes with responsibility of Escape or Enter Return for the "fluxbox-dialog-text" for "current workspace" rename.
"fluxbox-dialog-text" possibility of multiple instance stacking centered, can be clumsy; switch workspace without closing "fluxbox-dialog-text" can become clumsy. Any save is "current" workspace.
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Mod1 k :MacroCmd {addworkspace}{workspace 1}{prevworkspace}
This is a fluxbox command
to create a new workspace and go there,
take me there, to the new workspace.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 12:40 pm
by siamhie
Simple green themed desktop
GKrellM with a borderless Glass theme. Clicking on the date launches gsimplecal.
Tweaked fluxbox's toolbar by removing the border color and increasing the bevel width so that each section is easily defined.
Running a customized fastfetch in xfce's terminal without a menubar, border, toolbar or scrollbar.
Created a button in the toolbar named flux23 that launches app finder.
Just need to find a proper green skin for XMMS out of the 50,000 I have backed up.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 1:23 pm
by siamhie
Blue is the night

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 2:09 pm
by Jerry3904
Dark blue, for sure. Nice.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 7:54 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Mon May 27, 2024 2:09 pm
Dark blue, for sure. Nice.
Thanks
@Jerry3904. The simple and minimalistic desktop is starting to grow on me.
I forgot to include my root menu which is the tron-blue style (
http://tenr.de/styles/?i=1) with the alpha set to 50 to really give it that transparent look against the desktop.
tron-blue.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon May 27, 2024 8:26 pm
by siamhie
@Freja has submitted a new wallpaper and I love it. (
viewtopic.php?p=777144#p777144)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2024 12:39 pm
by siamhie
Trying a new layout. Moved my fluxbox toolbar to the right (first time in 20+ years).
Shrank the icon size to 35 so that only the pixmap shows. Added my weather conky.
Style is called tron blue. (
http://tenr.de/styles/?i=1) XMMS skin is called Coplandos grey mod.
Image is Mount Whanganui in New Zealand I found on pexels.com.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2024 1:34 am
by siamhie
Blue Sea

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2024 8:49 am
by ceeslans
Here's another nice lightweight fluxbox distro.
This
Fluxuan build is based on Devuan-daedalus, the systemd-free twin of Debian-bookworm.
Their
latest release installs a solid and extremely snappy base system of ~2gb and around 600 packages, with pcmanfm (file-manager), connman (network-manager) and alsa (sound-server) as well as qutebrowser. All previous xfce apps+dependencies are gone now; Oh, and did I mention 'systemd-free'?
Meanwhile I've updated fluxbox to version 1.3.8, installed tint2 as alternative/non-default toolbar, added various system-tools (like fsearch, pipewire-audio, qdirstat, urxvt terminal), applications like firefox, geany, yad, gimp, audacious, mpv) - and many small tools & scripts. Memory-hungry apps like volumeicon and cmst are disabled at startup, calling these with keybindings when needed. No office-suite installed yet (unsure whether I will do so). As you can see in below screenshot, package count is still well below 1000 pkgs...
Fluxuan also comes with a basic CLI-driven snapshot utility, which creates a perfect clone of my running system, saving all personal configurations and network settings - for immediate reinstall in case of system failure.
Gonna have lots of fun with this tiny distro...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 8:52 am
by ceeslans
Lighter colors than usual.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2024 9:31 am
by Jerry3904
Nice change!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2024 5:35 am
by kobaian
No significant changes, except the new wallpaper for summer.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2024 6:46 am
by Jerry3904
Nice shot, great color and impressive depth of field.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2024 9:28 am
by kobaian
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 6:46 am
Nice shot, great color and impressive depth of field.
Thanks! It was shot with a retro, manual lens Raynox 135/2.8. It was really hard to focus.

Here's the link to the wallpaper:
https://www.deviantart.com/am1g0/art/Be ... 1068958988
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 2:28 pm
by siamhie
Little fluxbox bling-bling
Created a light blue-green shadow effect to windows, menus and conky borders that matches my root menu.
Blur programs that sit behind my terminal.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:13 pm
by siamhie
Here kitty kitty kitty

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2024 2:26 pm
by ceeslans
Latest scrot of my customized fluxuan (devuan-based) desktop. Fast and snappy, even when running from usb.
System uses under 3,6gb disk space; and pkg count a little over 1050 only. Did I mention it's systemd-free ?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 2:18 pm
by siamhie
Nothing special. Tweaked tint2 so that the colors match my fluxbox style
tron blue.
Changed icons to text. flux23 brings up XFCE App Finder and Evacuate brings up exit-options.
Font for those two are Rock Salt and the clock's font is LCD. Here is the
background image

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2024 2:30 pm
by Jerry3904
Both these are really fine examples of how flexible and elegant our mxfb has become.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2024 8:51 am
by ceeslans
Debian point-release 12.7 just hit the devuan repos too. Upgraded my fluxuan-daedalus install accordingly.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 4:45 am
by i_ri
hello JayM and everyone
mxfluxbox, Style Twice,

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:12 am
by i_ri
hello JayM and everyone
fluxbox ShowDesktop (toolbar uppercase D button is ShowDesktop)
shows iDesk Launchers covered by conky.
Delayed Quickshot icon.
do get rootmenu on conky. normal window conky with icon in iconbar is used on larger resolution, but this small display skip text taskbar.
xfce4-panel plug-in Window Menu is a rival in a small space. (add to fluxbox a panel the size of a down-arrow, hide intelligently, alike middle-click having wm controls.
Speaking of hide intelligently, part of the beauty of [Delay]Quickshot is silence; or send a notify success. maybe your conky is showing quickshot process.)
enjoy text fluxbox iconbar window management for every window, conky too.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:17 am
by ceeslans
fluxbox native toolbar with toolbar.buttons i.e rofiLauncher, volumeCtrl and show/hideDesktop),
using fluxbox'
spacers for precise spacing of toolbar.tools elements :
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session.screen0.toolbar.tools: spacer_8, button.homenu, prevworkspace, workspacename, nextworkspace, spacer_4, iconbar, spacer_12, button.volume, systemtray, prevwindow, nextwindow, clock, button.dsktop, spacer_8
fluxbox style: minimo
gtk theme: gruvbox-dark

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:46 am
by siamhie
with Fall right around the corner, it's time to dress up the desktop with some Pumpkin Spice.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:48 am
by Jerry3904
@ceeslans Very good looking, clever use of spacers
@siamhie great color
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 12:01 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone
Dock do Swipe /keys :
OnSlit Mouse4 :PrevWorkspace
OnSlit Mouse5 :ShowDesktop
mouse corner fluxbox ShowDesktop :
xdotool behave_screen_edge --delay 1006 top-left key alt+d
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2024 1:19 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:48 am
@siamhie great color
Thanks
@Jerry3904. The theme was based off of another wallpaper I was using (at the time) and saw the my Universe image worked better.
The hard part is finding skins/themes that XMMS/GKrellM/GTK has around to make it all come together.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:38 am
by i_ri
Hello JayM and everyone

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 7:46 am
by kobaian
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 10:17 am
fluxbox native toolbar with toolbar.buttons i.e rofiLauncher, volumeCtrl and show/hideDesktop),
using fluxbox'
spacers for precise spacing of toolbar.tools elements :
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session.screen0.toolbar.tools: spacer_8, button.homenu, prevworkspace, workspacename, nextworkspace, spacer_4, iconbar, spacer_12, button.volume, systemtray, prevwindow, nextwindow, clock, button.dsktop, spacer_8
fluxbox style: minimo
gtk theme: gruvbox-dark
That's brilliant!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:38 pm
by siamhie
Having fun with fractals in Gimp

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:50 am
by ceeslans
AVLinux'
Diehard + Worldclock conkies revisited --> running on Devuan 5 (daedalus).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2024 12:17 pm
by Jerry3904
Man, you guys are out of control!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2024 6:46 pm
by AVLinux
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 11:50 am
AVLinux'
Diehard + Worldclock conkies revisited --> running on Devuan 5 (daedalus).
Haha, funny world, I just appropriated and modified MX Cees as default for future AVL version... we've traded!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2024 11:09 am
by Jerry3904
Decided that with cold rain, politics, local issues and the Forum problems, it was time for me to lighten up.
I'm using addy's "liness" tint2 theme, the traditioinal LemonSpace for window manager, the Greybird-mx for applications,
@ceeslans conky and a friend's incredible image of a blue heron.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2024 11:20 am
by ceeslans
Beautiful light desktop - and a great! wallpaper. Any chance you can share the image?
Also curious about addy's "liness" tint2 theme; I guess it was in 'autohide' state when quickshooting....
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2024 11:23 am
by Jerry3904
I tried to get permission to share the image, but finally was unsuccessful. The theme is not hidden, it's just nearly invisible (what I was looking for) Your conky matches it up beautifully!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:28 am
by siamhie
Usually I create my themes based on background images I'm using but this time I did it based on the colors of my icon set (MB-Mango-Suru-GLOW).
quickshot_241014_044643.png
I changed the font colors of the fluxbox style (tron-blue) to match the icon colors.
Then I edited my conky's background to match the icon color and added a tron-blue border to match.
I kept the colors of my tint2 toolbar I was using from a previous theme but changed it's font colors to match the new theme.
I found an image that is included with MX-23 (by accident) called School_cardboard_project and it was like putting in the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle.
I've edited my init file to have all programs open with no titlebars.
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session.screen0.defaultDeco: BORDER
I then edited my apps file to have my terminal window open with no decorations.
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[app] (name=xfce4-terminal) (class=Xfce4-terminal)
[Position] (UPPERLEFT) {68% 11%}
[Deco] {NONE}
[Close] {yes}
[end]
This has to be my second favorite theme I've created after my N-Log theme from awhile ago.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2024 8:56 am
by Jerry3904
That's very handsome.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 8:45 am
by Jerry3904
Light desktop, Round 2: I'm liking this more and more...
--switched to addy's "neon" theme, adapted to use icons and darken line color
--changed appfinder to "ultra-light," changed highlight color
--changed to "mx-comfort" for windows << still need to figure out how to change top bar to LemonSpace color
--added transparent systray and clock (colored it so I could easily spot it) that I had created for a Pi OpenBox respin

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 8:53 am
by Melber
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 8:45 am
...
--changed to "mx-comfort" for windows << still need to figure out how to change top bar to LemonSpace color
...
mx-comfort tool not working for you?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 9:02 am
by Jerry3904
Just haven't tried yet, thanks
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 10:11 am
by ceeslans
Back on MX ... whilst enjoying dutch NPO's radio broadcast of this year's classical top 400
- gtk2/3 theme and fluxbox-style: crunchbang
- conky: topline (nakedeb) and weather (@Loutch)
- screengrab: scrot-options
- wallpaper: Egyptian-pyramids (found on 4chan wallpaper board)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 5:30 pm
by AVLinux
Gorgeous!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:09 am
by Amiga-MX
This is DevPunk 2.0 Experimental fusion environment over MX21 FB.

Conky Girl is the start menu.

The best menu in the world is open.

Size matter (Big in Japan)

Conky girl launches rofi
Her name is Julia
MXMLGA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 5:48 am
by Jerry3904
Now that is something totally different, and fun!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:25 am
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 8:45 am
--changed to "mx-comfort" for windows << still need to figure out how to change top bar to LemonSpace color
Try this. I converted the rbg colors to hex in the LemonSpace style.
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menu.title.color: rgb:f6/df/93 (#f6df93 Color Hex)
menu.title.colorTo: rgb:ee/b9/6b (#eeb96b Color Hex)
Example of what they both look like.
rgb:f6/df/93 (#f6df93 Color Hex)
https://www.color-hex.com/color/f6df93
rgb:ee/b9/6b (#eeb96b Color Hex)
https://www.color-hex.com/color/eeb96b
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2024 9:52 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks. I did make changes already but only by the "seat of my pants" so this will improve things.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 10:57 pm
by i_ri

Echo Lake, Maine, USA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 4:50 am
by ceeslans
... aaaaaand back again on fluxuan ....
Devuan 5 daedalus based, systemd-free. Light on resources, small memory footprint.
Disk usage currently still within 4gb, even with a great number of added tools, libraries and applications (package count <1100 pkgs)
Conky widget is an update of my MX-SideDiag conky. Wallpaper is a noisy version of the
'TelecasterNeck' image (thanks
@AVLinux for sharing); goes well with both light and dark theme/style.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 7:23 am
by Jerry3904
I like the "play in the gray" vibe of it all, it sort of fits well with things near the end of October here.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:21 am
by siamhie
When you take color coordination to a new level.
Tweaked tron-blue's style and used MB-Cherry-Suru-GLOW icons.
(a little CSS trickery was used in Thunar's color choices)
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/* sidebar */
.thunar .sidebar .view { background-color: #000000; }
/* main view */
.thunar .standard-view .view { background-color: #6E586F; }
/* status bar */
.thunar grid paned grid { background-color: #000000;}
/* toolbar */
.thunar toolbar, .thunar toolbar entry { background-color: #000000; }
/* menubar */
.thunar menubar, .thunar menubar entry { background-color: #000000;}
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:32 am
by Jerry3904
Out of my league, looks good
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:34 am
by AVLinux
@ceeslans Very cool! An honor to have my telecaster on your Desktop... Love that Conky too!
@siamhie Whoa! Now THAT is customization to the max!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:35 am
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:32 am
Out of my league, looks good
Thanks
@Jerry3904
AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:34 am
@siamhie Whoa! Now THAT is customization to the max!
I have only yet to begin
@AVLinux 
I need to figure out how to tweak either FeatherPad or Mousepad to use the purple-grey background color now.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:26 pm
by ceeslans
@siamhie : tweaking Featherpad's colors is probably difficult; at least I always failed :(
But mousepad is a different story. The default styles (classic/cobalt/kate/oblivion/tango etc) are located in
/usr/share/gtksourceview-4/styles folder. Check out the xml files, most likely you need to edit the color value for
style name="background-pattern"
Of course it would best to not tamper with these default xml files. Instead, you could create a new style in ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/styles --> mousepad will automatically read and include this new style.
here's one style that may serve as a base xml for halloween:
dracula
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2018 Dracula Theme
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
-->
<style-scheme id="dracula" _name="Dracula" version="1.0">
<author>Alvin Septiano</author>
<_description>Dracula color scheme</_description>
<!-- Dracula Color Palette -->
<color name="background" value="#282a36"/>
<color name="current-line" value="#44475a"/>
<color name="selection" value="#bd93f9"/>
<color name="foreground" value="#f8f8f2"/>
<color name="comment" value="#6272a4"/>
<color name="cyan" value="#8be9fd"/>
<color name="green" value="#50fa7b"/>
<color name="orange" value="#ffb86c"/>
<color name="pink" value="#ff79c6"/>
<color name="purple" value="#bd93f9"/>
<color name="red" value="#ff5555"/>
<color name="yellow" value="#f1fa8c"/>
<color name="white" value="#ffffff"/>
<color name="bone-white" value="#f8f8f0"/>
<color name="weird-gray" value="#909194"/>
<!-- Global Settings -->
<style name="text" foreground="white" background="background"/>
<style name="selection" foreground="bone-white" background="current-line"/>
<style name="cursor" foreground="bone-white"/>
<style name="secondary-cursor" foreground="white"/>
<style name="selection-unfocused" foreground="background" background="white"/>
<style name="current-line" background="current-line"/>
<style name="line-numbers" foreground="current-line" background="background"/>
<style name="background-pattern" background="background"/>
<style name="bracket-match" foreground="yellow" background="white"/>
<style name="bracket-mismatch" foreground="red" background="white"/>
<style name="search-match" foreground="white" background="white"/>
<style name="def:keyword" foreground="pink" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:statement" foreground="pink"/>
<style name="def:function" foreground="green"/>
<style name="def:decimal" foreground="purple"/>
<style name="def:preprocessor" foreground="white"/>
<style name="def:type" foreground="pink"/>
<style name="def:character" foreground="yellow"/>
<style name="def:comment" foreground="comment"/>
<style name="def:number" foreground="purple"/>
<style name="def:string" foreground="yellow"/>
<style name="def:net-address-in-comment" foreground="cyan" italic="true" underline="true"/>
<style name="def:underlined" italic="true" underline="true"/>
<style name="def:note" foreground="white" background="background" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:error" foreground="red" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:escape" foreground="purple"/>
<style name="def:shebang" foreground="pink" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:doc-comment-element" italic="true"/>
<style name="def:identifier" foreground="green" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:specials" foreground="white" background="purple"/>
<style name="def:variable" foreground="orange"/>
<style name="def:boolean" foreground="pink" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:constant" foreground="pink"/>
<style name="def:special-constant" foreground="pink" bold="true"/>
<style name="diff:added-line" foreground="bone-white"/>
<style name="diff:removed-line" foreground="cyan"/>
<style name="diff:changed-line" foreground="red"/>
<style name="diff:diff-file" foreground="green" bold="true"/>
<style name="diff:location" foreground="yellow"/>
<style name="diff:special-case" foreground="white" bold="true"/>
<style name="latex:command" foreground="orange" bold="true"/>
<style name="latex:include" use-style="def:preprocessor"/>
<style name="def:emphasis" italic="true"/>
<style name="def:strong-emphasis" foreground="white" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:inline-code" foreground="background"/>
<style name="def:insertion" underline="single"/>
<style name="def:deletion" strikethrough="true"/>
<style name="def:link-text" foreground="cyan"/>
<style name="def:link-symbol" foreground="cyan" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:link-destination" italic="true" underline="single"/>
<style name="def:heading" foreground="green" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:thematic-break" foreground="orange" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:preformatted-section" foreground="cyan"/>
<style name="def:list-marker" foreground="white" bold="true"/>
<style name="def:heading0" scale="5.0"/>
<style name="def:heading1" scale="2.5"/>
<style name="def:heading2" scale="2.0"/>
<style name="def:heading3" scale="1.7"/>
<style name="def:heading4" scale="1.5"/>
<style name="def:heading5" scale="1.3"/>
<style name="def:heading6" scale="1.2"/>
</style-scheme>
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 6:01 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2024 3:26 pm
@siamhie : tweaking Featherpad's colors is probably difficult; at least I always failed :(
But mousepad is a different story. The default styles (classic/cobalt/kate/oblivion/tango etc) are located in
/usr/share/gtksourceview-4/styles folder. Check out the xml files, most likely you need to edit the color value for
style name="background-pattern"
Of course it would best to not tamper with these default xml files. Instead, you could create a new style in ~/.local/share/gtksourceview-4/styles --> mousepad will automatically read and include this new style.
+1
@ceeslans
Worked like a charm. First I created the folders gtksourceview-4/styles in my ~/.local/share/ directory and copied the cobalt file over.
Then I edited it as such.
Set a name of the file so that it shows up in the preferences.
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<style-scheme id="volcano" _name="Volcano" version="1.0">
<author>siamhie</author>
<_description>grey purple color scheme</_description>
Then I edited the style name background to the hex value needed.
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<style name="text" foreground="white" background="#6E586F"/>
Saved the file as volcano.xml and now I have a background in Mousepad that matches the rest of my theme.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:51 pm
by siamhie
Was going through the various tint2 toolbars and saw there was a dock type toolbar available.
I edited it to have my most used programs listed and I like the addition of weather report at the end.
From left to right I have LibreWolf, Thunar, Mousepad, Xfce Terminal, GIMP, XMMS, nitrogen, MXPI and VirtualBox.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:59 pm
by Jerry3904
Glad to see that being used! I created that for MX-23 (I think) to provide another option in the MXFB dock world
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:05 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:59 pm
Glad to see that being used! I created that for MX-23 (I think) to provide another option in the MXFB dock world
Thanks for that. Running those two tint toolbars is only 49MB of RAM usage. Not bad.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:21 pm
by i_ri
Yo siamhie
you like windowmaker. wmbutton is less than one MiB for twenty-seven Launchers. program nine buttons alike turns it into one big button (of three launchers. )
top row, bottom row. six launchers.
corners. twelve launchers.
use 27?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:45 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 2:21 pm
Yo siamhie
you like windowmaker. wmbutton is less than one MiB for twenty-seven Launchers. program nine buttons alike turns it into one big button (of three launchers. )
Tried that in the past and didn't like the look of it with fluxbox. It is better suited for Window Maker.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 2:49 am
by ceeslans
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 1:59 pm
Glad to see that being used! I created that for MX-23 (I think) to provide another option in the MXFB dock world
As far as i know, a number of us mxfb users were running such tint2 dock panels already on MX19....
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 3:08 am
by wdscharff
Years ago I had shown screenshots on FB with 4 Tint2 instances, i.e. as normal toolbar on top, fake Plank Dock below and desktop fake.icons 2 rows side by side on the left side. Simulating classic icons on the desktop is easier and more resource-saving with Tint2 than with Idesk (imho)
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2024 3:34 am
by Jerry3904
Yup, surely didn't invent it, just added a standard simple one to the default install.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 8:57 am
by siamhie
My current clean and simple desktop.
T2 toolbar with weather. Simplified conky. T2 dock with action buttons to suspend, reboot and shutdown.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:11 am
by ceeslans
Nice setup!
fb-toolbar + conky + tint2-dock in a great combo
EDIT: sorry, now noticed that toolbar is not fluxbox native, but tint2
still a great setup...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:28 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 10:11 am
Nice setup!
fb-toolbar + conky + tint2-dock in a great combo
EDIT: sorry, now noticed that toolbar is not fluxbox native, but tint2
still a great setup...
That's why I typed T2 toolbar and T2 dock.
The flux23 text launches app finder. When you click on the clock it launches gsimplecal.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:59 pm
by Melber
Stuff I've been working on...
New gtk theme, fluxbox style and tint2 panel together with a wallpaper I threw together.
light theme
and dark theme

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 6:08 pm
by Jerry3904
Wowza! Nice work.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 7:21 pm
by AVLinux
Melber wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:59 pm
Stuff I've been working on...
New gtk theme, fluxbox style and tint2 panel together with a wallpaper I threw together.
"Threw together"

Looks like many many hours of very hard work to me, it looks quite unified and checks off a lot of items for people who may think Fluxbox is still a bit cobbled together, kudos!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2024 7:44 pm
by Melber
@AVLinux
ok, I meant I threw the wallpaper together. The gtk theming has been a work in progress for a while now.
Panel is just a slight reworking of the existing workspaces tint2 and the fluxbox style is an updated comfort with new window decorations.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2024 2:17 am
by kobaian
Melber wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:59 pm
Stuff I've been working on...
New gtk theme, fluxbox style and tint2 panel together with a wallpaper I threw together.
It looks great!
A minor note: The thick titlebar looks good, but for me it means unnecessary loss of space. I know that it fits well with the titlebar from modern gtk3/4 themes, but the gtk-titlebar contains more functions, menus etc. that justify the size. In my opinion, for the fluxbox-titlebar it is not the case.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:09 am
by Melber
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 2:17 am
A minor note: The thick titlebar looks good, but for me it means unnecessary loss of space. I know that it fits well with the titlebar from modern gtk3/4 themes, but the gtk-titlebar contains more functions, menus etc. that justify the size. In my opinion, for the fluxbox-titlebar it is not the case.
and I have always found the "standard" fluxbox titlebars way too thin. There's a reason I made a comfort-plus fb-style.
Will likely make an alternative thin titlebar version at some point in the future...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:46 am
by siamhie
kobaian wrote: ↑Wed Nov 06, 2024 2:17 am
The thick titlebar looks good, but for me it means unnecessary loss of space.
I've noticed when bouncing between various styles, the titlebar sometimes changes in size so I've decided to make them all the same size using the overlay file.
Code: Select all
# titlebar height
window.title.height: 25
I've done the same with the small grips
Code: Select all
# set grip size
window.handleWidth: 5
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 12:02 pm
by Melber
siamhie wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:46 am
I've noticed when bouncing between various styles, the titlebar sometimes changes in size so I've decided to make them all the same size using the overlay file.
Works OK if the style uses the fb built-in window decorations.
Can look weird if the style uses pixmaps of a significantly different size for the window decorations.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 4:04 pm
by ThemetresAtrometos
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:09 am
This is DevPunk 2.0 Experimental fusion environment over MX21 FB.

Conky Girl is the start menu.
Her name is Julia
MXMLGA
Amiga-MX where can I download this wallpaper?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 6:51 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 12:02 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:46 am
I've noticed when bouncing between various styles, the titlebar sometimes changes in size so I've decided to make them all the same size using the overlay file.
Works OK if the style uses the fb built-in window decorations.
Can look weird if the style uses pixmaps of a significantly different size for the window decorations.
All the styles I have downloaded from tenr.de have the xpm file sizes at 23x23 or less. I did notice that the MX-comfort pixmaps are slightly bigger.
For example
Doty 13x13
Squared_for_Debian 16x15
arch 19x19
BlueFlux 22x22
bloe 23x23
MX-comfort 24x26
MX-comfort-dark 24x26
MX-comfort-plus 32x32
MX-comfort-plus-dark 32x32
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 9:41 pm
by Amiga-MX
ThemetresAtrometos wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 4:04 pm
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:09 am
This is DevPunk 2.0 Experimental fusion environment over MX21 FB.

Conky Girl is the start menu.
Her name is Julia
MXMLGA
Amiga-MX where can I download this wallpaper?
Take it from here, I don't remember where I got it.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2024 8:59 am
by ThemetresAtrometos
Ok, Thanks Amiga-MX.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:56 pm
by ceeslans
Today's upgrade pulled in debian 12.8 point release. For me this means a kernel upgrade to 6.1.0-27 ( --> I like stable... )

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:15 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 4:56 pm
For me this means a kernel upgrade to 6.1.0-27 ( --> I like stable... )
Me too.
I have Debian's stock kernel installed (6.1.0-27 = 6.1.115) but prefer to run Xanmod's latest 6.6 LTS kernel (6.6.60).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:18 pm
by AVLinux
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:15 pm
but prefer to run Xanmod's latest 6.6 LTS kernel (6.6.60).
Is that the Devil's kernel!?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:38 pm
by Melber
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 6:51 pm
All the styles I have downloaded from tenr.de have the xpm file sizes at 23x23 or less. I did notice that the MX-comfort pixmaps are slightly bigger.
with window.title.height: 25
doty
241110_doty.png
comfort-plus
241110_comfortplus.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:31 am
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:18 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:15 pm
but prefer to run Xanmod's latest 6.6 LTS kernel (6.6.60).
Is that the Devil's kernel!?
It's getting there. I waiting for the 6.6.66 to come out.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:32 am
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 6:38 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 6:51 pm
All the styles I have downloaded from tenr.de have the xpm file sizes at 23x23 or less. I did notice that the MX-comfort pixmaps are slightly bigger.
with window.title.height: 25
doty
241110_doty.png
comfort-plus
241110_comfortplus.png
What program is that?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 12:03 pm
by Melber
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:32 am
What program is that?
thunar
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 1:55 pm
by ceeslans
Melber wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 12:02 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:46 am
I've noticed when bouncing between various styles, the titlebar sometimes changes in size so I've decided to make them all the same size using the overlay file.
Works OK if the style uses the fb built-in window decorations.
Can look weird if the style uses pixmaps of a significantly different size for the window decorations.
For this very reason, I refrain from using windowbar pixmaps - and using fluxbox-native
window.buttons only.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 4:11 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 12:03 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:32 am
What program is that?
thunar
@Melber I can get it working but it looks very pixelated at 25.
doty.png
The xpm images are all 13x13 pixels in size. The authors theme has everything set to 14 in the cfg file.
Code: Select all
toolbar.height: 14
menu.itemHeight: 14
menu.titleHeight: 14
window.title.height: 14
*addendum
Here it is at it's 14 size.
That is way too small for my liking.
toolbar.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:03 pm
by Melber
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 4:11 pm
@Melber I can get it working but it looks very pixelated at 25.
Scalng a raster image 200% is seldom a good idea.
Here it is at it's 14 size.
That is way too small for my liking.
Perhaps designed for a 640x480 screen?
Or doty means masochist in some language none of us speak...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:35 pm
by Amiga-MX
MX21FB
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:38 pm
by Amiga-MX
MX21FB with comfort theme, is accepting (visually) my Active cherry 35x35 add-on. The trick was to decorate it on the top likes other examples, just the top part which overlaps with the same color of the top bar active blue.
Want to try ActiveCherry for MX Comfort ?
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rvp226st ... e.xpm/file could surprise you.
MXLMLGA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:55 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 5:03 pm
Perhaps designed for a 640x480 screen?
Probably. I am on a 2560x1440 109 dpi monitor.
Or doty means masochist in some language none of us speak...
I think the name Doty refers to all the action buttons are dots, at least that is what I think.
Code: Select all
! Style Name: Doty
! Style version last ;)
! Style Author: endel (endel@tlen.pl)
! Style Date: 12.02.2008
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 1:46 am
by i_ri
hello JayM and everyone
fluxbox menu on MXlogo icon in systemtray, using kdocker.
one of the apt-notifier icons is lxtask in kdocker.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 5:23 am
by Jerry3904
Nice. I like lxtask because it's quickly understandable by regular users.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 6:52 am
by Jerry3904
This is a low-res actual late November afternoon image taken by a friend of mine that I just wanted to take a look before I do anything with it--and I love it so far! Am going to try to get him to let me propose including it in the MX-25 pool so am interested in what others think of it.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 6:54 am
by richb
My reaction is positive. I like the play on light.
EDIT: In full disclosure I am not a Fluxbox user. This is my general reaction to the image.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:00 pm
by AVLinux
I think it would look good with a strong blur on it to diffuse it a bit, might download it later and have a play with it..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:24 pm
by Jerry3904
It's very small b/c the original shot was very bright and I believe Mac software stepped in to make the user happy. I have the original if anyone wants to play with that.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:52 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:24 pm
It's very small b/c the original shot was very bright and I believe Mac software stepped in to make the user happy. I have the original if anyone wants to play with that.
I'm game if you have it handy.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 10:07 pm
by siamhie
Theming my desktop with the Kvantum Qt theme manager. Installed PCManFM-Qt file manager and it looks so much better than Thunar.
It's like my desktop got a complete new make over. So sleek and modern looking now.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2024 10:52 pm
by artytux
deleted didn't work on wont work on large image.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:53 am
by siamhie
artytux wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 10:52 pm
deleted didn't work on wont work on large image.
Upload the image here (
https://postimages.org/) then click on Share and select Thumbnail for forums.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 1:43 am
by artytux
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:53 am
artytux wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 10:52 pm
deleted didn't work on wont work on large image.
Upload the image here (
https://postimages.org/) then click on Share and select Thumbnail for forums.
Ken-Sunset - Late November Afternoon - 5 layers @ slight darker into center
Ken-Sunset - Late November Afternoon - 5 layers @ chroma +5 , lightness -5 , @ into center
Ken-Sunset - Late November Afternoon - 3 layers @
The first two slighly darker different method each and 3rd 3 layers changed opacity add layer colour etc , do have the 3 images .xcf 's if anybody wants to
play umm work on these.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 1:49 am
by artytux
If I was doing these on canvas heh it'd work but altering the white center to a less eye searing in Gimp over the years never conquered that feathering the edges.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 2:48 am
by ceeslans
upscaled this beautiful image to 1920x1280 to maintain its ratio; ultimately cut height to 1200 px
no layers added, toned down contrast - and blurred the image to kingdom come

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:17 am
by Freja
I made Ken Sunset into a single feather, Thanks for
@Jerry3904 so beautiful image!
viewtopic.php?p=798769#p798769
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:57 am
by Jerry3904
Hey people, nice work there and fun results.
Here's the original straight from the camera:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:43 am
by kobaian
As usual, my wallpaper matches the current season - the gloomy mood of November and the last autumn leaves:

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:09 am
by Jerry3904
It also matches other kinds of gloomy moods ...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:46 pm
by AVLinux
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:57 am
Hey people, nice work there and fun results.
Here's the original straight from the camera:
Hi,
Not suggesting this is a marked improvement but here is a variation with gradients, blur and resized to 4K:
http://bandshed.net/images/wallpapers/4K/SkyBlur-4K.jpg
@kobaian
Excellent as always! And yes, much gloom worldwide for sure..
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2024 1:07 pm
by Jerry3904
Thanks, looks pretty nice!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:24 pm
by ceeslans
I've made a comparison of memory consumption between compositors running on my fluxbox setup, i.e
compton vs
picom - and fluxbox' own
pseudo-transparency setting.
Checks were done immediately after system startup, calling the
ps_mem command in a terminal (in this case in a stjerm drop-down terminal).
Lowest memory usage is obviously obtained with pseudo-transparency, but compton comes close.
Using picom causes an increase of some 12-13 Mb -->which I find very acceptable, considering the nice effects it adds to fluxbox' appearance (both shadowing and corner-rounding).

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:04 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:24 pm
I've made a comparison of memory consumption between compositors running on my fluxbox setup, i.e
compton vs
picom - and fluxbox' own
pseudo-transparency setting.
Checks were done immediately after system startup, calling the
ps_mem command in a terminal (in this case in a stjerm drop-down terminal).
Lowest memory usage is obviously obtained with pseudo-transparency, but compton comes close.
Using picom causes an increase of some 12-13 Mb -->which I find very acceptable, considering the nice effects it adds to fluxbox' appearance (both shadowing and corner-rounding).
I think for MX-25 we should switch to picom since it is still being developed.
Compton hasn't been updated for 7 years and will soon be removed.
compton.png
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:58 pm
by Jerry3904
Can you add that to the development ideas thread please? Also, flag DO for inclusion in Tweak at least for the pi people.
Thanks.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:58 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:58 pm
Can you add that to the development ideas thread please? Also, flag DO for inclusion in Tweak at least for the pi people.
Thanks.
@Jerry3904 If you are referring to my picom post, I will first make a package request to have it updated
from 9.1 (Feb 2022) to the latest 12.5 and add it to the MX-25 thread and tag dolphin.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:12 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2024 5:24 pm
I've made a comparison of memory consumption between compositors running on my fluxbox setup, i.e compton vs picom - and fluxbox' own pseudo-transparency setting.
I've setup my boot to using pseudo-transparency and when I want some fancy desktop dressing, I enable picom (with a customized conf file) and logout and log in.
Current boot is 600MB but if I disable the Emby server and NordVPN, it drops to 318MB. Not bad for a systemd init.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2024 11:29 pm
by Amiga-MX
Good evening FB'ers.
One of the features of mx-21FB is that it doesn't let you save anything on your desktop, and it's fantastic. With a clean desktop and the pointer over it, I thought it might be useful to take advantage of the fact that we have free controls on the mouse. Through the following photos, I show you the concept of use.

Click on desktop and the menu will open, close to you. This function will save light years of universal pointer displacements.

Mouse wheel makes windows cycle, if any.
NOTE: If you preferred, this wheel function could also be used to control de volume up and down, or mute with wheel mouse center click, over the desktop.

Click and drag left open thunar.

Click and drag right open terminal.
Personally, I use sloppy mode mouse over=activate window, and a single click to open files. My concepts are based on the economy of effort, trying to eliminate in light years the distance traveled over 2-D space by the pointer of the millions of users on the planet. Increasing productivity and relieving pain for so many hands. Therefore, these advances can be quantifiable both in astronomical distance traveled and in direct benefit for the health of users, with its corresponding economic impact.
Thank you for reading.
MXLMLGA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2024 4:04 am
by i_ri
Hello Amiga-MX
Thank you for sharing personal choices with five mouse OnDesktop maneuvers.
Double up.
Go for more desktop clicking with mouse OnSlit five choices; a hiding slit offers mouse actions to double the number of Actions.
alternate approach?=one idesk icon that covers the screen, or mostly, be particular as you like setting the icon image boundaries. any size. using any image. Julia's co-workers and
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 5:51 pm
by siamhie
Gone Green

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 6:25 pm
by Jerry3904
Nice--though there's not much green in my world ATM...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:02 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 6:25 pm
Nice--though there's not much green in my world ATM...
Same here. If the trees haven't dropped their leaves, they are turning to a yellow/red color, which is nice but I prefer the green leaves.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:50 pm
by Amiga-MX
Very difficult color to deal with.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:18 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 7:50 pm
Very difficult color to deal with.
I didn't have too much trouble. This time around I started with the Grass GTK theme (
https://www.pling.com/p/1726175/),
used the plain_green style (
http://tenr.de/styles/?i=10) from tenre.de web site and found this cool looking background image (
https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-gras ... s-1287089/).
Then I used gpick to fine tune the colors for the conky's and tint2.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:58 pm
by Amiga-MX
i_ri wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 4:04 am
Hello Amiga-MX
Thank you for sharing personal choices with five mouse OnDesktop maneuvers.
Double up.
Go for more desktop clicking with mouse OnSlit five choices; a hiding slit offers mouse actions to double the number of Actions.
alternate approach?=one idesk icon that covers the screen, or mostly, be particular as you like setting the icon image boundaries. any size. using any image. Julia's co-workers and
Thank you for your info, about the last case, I did consider the use of idesk and I remember to use big icons on desktop years ago with the free operating system. It didn't work. In fact, with clean desktop on MX-21FB, I did the opposite, you can see MX-21 on my desktop, that's my integrated idesk to repository using 1x1 transparent pixel as icon, what you see is only idesk text.
Do you know if there is a way to click over a conky, expecifically a picture element, in order to open a program like for example the terminal ?
I'm thinking to use left top corner to place Julia co-worker area, but I'll try also top right corner, depending on comfort.
Thank you.
MXLMLG
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:03 pm
by Amiga-MX
Sounds easy, but

is not.
MXLMLG
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:40 pm
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Tue Nov 26, 2024 9:03 pm
Sounds easy, but

is not.
MXLMLG
Do you have a .themes folder in your home folder?
Themes I download go into my .themes folder.
Fluxbox styles I download go into the .fluxbox/styles folder.
Icons I download go into the .icons folder.
Cursors I download go into the .icons folder.
All can be changed with MX Tweak (Appearance>Theme).
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2024 4:44 pm
by Amiga-MX
Oh, thank you. That's make more sense on how you are able to change theme design every week.
MXLMLG
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2024 10:42 am
by siamhie
Amiga-MX wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 4:44 pm
Oh, thank you. That's make more sense on how you are able to change theme design every week.
@Amiga-MX Oops!...I Did It Again - Britney Spears
I changed my wallpaper to this black and white image I have of the Neuschwanstein Castle located in foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany.
So naturally I had to create a nice black and white theme to compliment it.
Started with customizing the tron_yellow style and renamed it tron_white.
Customized the colors of the conky's and tint2 to match.
Found (yet another) Suru-GLOW icon set that fits in nicely called MB-Gray-Suru-GLOW. (I also grabbed the MB-Black-Suru-GLOW set which also works with this new theme)
Changed my XMMS skin to Titanium and created a new fastfetch .jsonc file with just enough info needed.
I have to say, this is my favorite theme I've created so far...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2024 4:30 pm
by siamhie
This is what the other Suru-GLOW icon set I found looks like.
MB-Black-Suru-GLOW

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2024 6:01 pm
by siamhie
‘tis the season for decoration
(I have found 7 new Xmas wallpapers to play with)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:17 pm
by AVLinux
siamhie wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 6:01 pm
‘tis the season for decoration
(I have found 7 new Xmas wallpapers to play with)
Oh my! That's quite a look! Haha, I admire your attention to detail!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:30 am
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 7:17 pm
Oh my! That's quite a look! Haha, I admire your attention to detail!
Thanks
@AVLinux . I do like using images that aren't super busy.
The simpler they are, the easier it is to come up with a theme.
This is my next image for theming. It will be dominated with green/white colors and something like a blueish/grey highlight thrown in.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:50 pm
by ceeslans
All I
want get for Christmas is... green?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2024 2:26 pm
by Jerry3904
Ha! I'll mail some of ours.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:15 am
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Tue Dec 24, 2024 1:50 pm
All I
want get for Christmas is... green?
Me too.
Ringing in the New Year playing
"The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet" that was finally tracked down last month after a 17-year-long search.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:28 am
by Jerry3904
Very green--nice action background!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 10:15 am
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2024 8:28 am
Very green--nice action background!
Thanks. I was being lazy and carried my green Xmas theme over and found this wallpaper depicting green fireworks.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 3:51 am
by operadude
"And...Loving It"
Subways of Your Mind and the longer
Subways of Your Mind, Demo Extended do transport me back to that 80s-groove-feel.
BTW, the dude on the cover: is that Michael Jackson's Jacket?
Thanks For the Blast From The Past
Happy Holidays, and Rock-On...

&

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 6:23 am
by siamhie
operadude wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 3:51 am
"And...Loving It"
BTW, the dude on the cover: is that Michael Jackson's Jacket?
Thanks For the Blast From The Past
Happy Holidays, and Rock-On...

&
It looks like the dude is wearing some sort of satin shirt. It has that sheen look about it, plus I don't think you tuck in jackets.
FEX released their own YouTube channel last month.
https://www.youtube.com/@FEXband-official
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 12:16 pm
by operadude
@siamhie
It looks like the dude is wearing some sort of satin shirt. It has that sheen look about it, plus I don't think you tuck in jackets.
You couldn't just let me have my fantasy, eh?
Thanks for the link:
https://www.youtube.com/@FEXband-official
Yeah, I purchased their songs:
Support the Old Timers

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:11 am
by ceeslans
First (compiled) screenshot in 2025 of my mxflux desktop.
Running the
xwwall wallpaper setter as being developed by @micko01 for use under wayland or X11 for bunsenlabs. When using X11, it only targets
feh to actually set (and --restore) the image as background. Wallpaper directory selection, thumbnail size, mode-setting and monitor selection can be done in preferences -- and actual wallpaper setting is done by pressing the image in the 'selection window' (see insert).
Requires
gtk3dialog to be installed. Not particularly low on resources, but a really nice wallpaper setter!

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 8:57 am
by siamhie
They say there's more than one way to skin a cat.
xwwall is brand new? (0.1.1
https://github.com/01micko/xwwall) I might have to check it out.
What is that bar at the top?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:02 am
by siamhie
Putting a new theme together for the new year and it dawned on me that it reminds me of a soda I use to drink decades ago called
Crush.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:33 am
by AVLinux
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:11 am
First (compiled) screenshot in 2025 of my mxflux desktop.
Running the
xwwall wallpaper setter as being developed by @micko01 for use under wayland or X11 for bunsenlabs. When using X11, it only targets
feh to actually set (and --restore) the image as background. Wallpaper directory selection, thumbnail size, mode-setting and monitor selection can be done in preferences -- and actual wallpaper setting is done by pressing the image in the 'selection window' (see insert).
Requires
gtk3dialog to be installed. Not particularly low on resources, but a really nice wallpaper setter!
Nice, a great additional tool for WM-based systems and future-proofed for Wayland!
gtk3dialog sounds interesting too, I used to use gtkdialog a lot but YAD kind of picked up the slack, might be nice to have in the Repos...?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:28 pm
by ceeslans
Yep, still in early stages, expect that @micko may still add further features and finetune layout and buttons.
What is that bar at the top?
That's my topline conky. I've blatantly copied the original from the fantastic fluxbox distro
nakedeb , and over time heavily modified and extended the topline entries.
It uses mostly conky's general config settings (no scripts); I added song/track-info settings from audacious, once this is active (sorry, I don't know code for alternative players).
nakedeb-topline.conkyrc Code: Select all
-----------------------------
----- nakedeb_topline -----
-- original from nakedeb --
-- extended @ceeslans 2022 --
-----------------------------
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1.0,
total_run_times = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
uppercase = false,
text_buffer_size = 1024,
top_name_width = 10,
imlib_cache_size = 0,
short_units = true,
use_spacer = 'right',
if_up_strictness = 'address',
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
--own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 192,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'ConkyTopLine',
--own_window_colour = '2e3440',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
border_inner_margin = 4,
border_width = 1,
draw_graph_borders = false,
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false,
default_color = 'd8dee9',
default_shade_color = 'black',
default_outline_color = 'white',
use_xft = true,
font = 'Dejavu Sans Condensed:size=9',
xftalpha = 1,
override_utf8_locale = true,
minimum_width = 1920,
maximum_width = 1920,
minimum_height = 16,
gap_x = 0,
gap_y = 0,
alignment = 'top_middle',
color1 = 'd08770', --orange
color2 = 'eeeeee', --white
color3 = 'a3be8c', --green
color4 = '81a1c1', --blue
color5 = 'bf616a', --red
color6 = '97AABC', --greyblue
color7 = 'b48ead', --purple
color8 = 'd19393', --red
color9 = 'ebcb8b', --yellow
color0 = 'bbbbbb', --lightgrey
}
conky.text = [[
${voffset 5}\
${color5}${goto 20}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${battery_percent}%${color}\
${color7}${goto 95}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${uptime_short}${color}\
${color4}${goto 190}${fs_used_perc /}% ${voffset 1}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14:bold}${font}${voffset -1} ${fs_used /}${color}\
${color3}${goto 300}${fs_used_perc /home}% ${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${fs_used /home}${color}\
${color9}${goto 410}${memperc}% ${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${mem}${color}\
${color1}${goto 520}${cpu}% ${voffset 1}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset -1} ${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C${color1}${color}\
${alignc -245}${color0}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} \
${if_running audacious}\
${exec audtool --current-song-tuple-data artist |cut -c1-75} - ${exec audtool --current-song-tuple-data title |cut -c1-120}${offset 10}[ ${exec audtool --current-song-output-length}/${exec audtool --current-song-length} ]\
${else} -- ${endif}\
${if_gw}${if_up eth0}${color5}${goto 1520}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${downspeed eth0} / ${totaldown eth0}\
${color8}${goto 1640}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${upspeed eth0} / ${totalup eth0}\
${else}${if_up wlan0}${color5}${goto 1520}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${downspeed wlan0} / ${totaldown wlan0}\
${color8}${goto 1640}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${upspeed wlan0} / ${totalup wlan0}\
${endif}${endif}${else}${color8}${goto 1640}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}no net... ${color}${endif}${color}\
${alignr 5}${color6}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${time %a %d %b}\
${color}${color2}${offset 10}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${time %H:%M}\
${voffset 0}
]]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:02 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 2:28 pm
Yep, still in early stages, expect that @micko may still add further features and finetune layout and buttons.
I've grabbed both xwwall and gtk3dialog from his git page and will put it together this weekend.
What is that bar at the top?
That's my topline conky. I've blatantly copied the original from the fantastic fluxbox distro
nakedeb , and over time heavily modified and extended the topline entries.
It uses mostly conky's general config settings (no scripts); I added song/track-info settings from audacious, once this is active (sorry, I don't know code for alternative players).
nakedeb-topline.conkyrc Code: Select all
-----------------------------
----- nakedeb_topline -----
-- original from nakedeb --
-- extended @ceeslans 2022 --
-----------------------------
conky.config = {
update_interval = 1.0,
total_run_times = 0,
cpu_avg_samples = 2,
double_buffer = true,
no_buffers = true,
uppercase = false,
text_buffer_size = 1024,
top_name_width = 10,
imlib_cache_size = 0,
short_units = true,
use_spacer = 'right',
if_up_strictness = 'address',
background = true,
own_window = true,
own_window_type = 'normal',
--own_window_transparent = true,
own_window_argb_visual = true,
own_window_argb_value = 192,
own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager',
own_window_class = 'Conky',
own_window_title = 'ConkyTopLine',
--own_window_colour = '2e3440',
draw_shades = false,
draw_outline = false,
draw_borders = false,
border_inner_margin = 4,
border_width = 1,
draw_graph_borders = false,
show_graph_scale = false,
show_graph_range = false,
default_color = 'd8dee9',
default_shade_color = 'black',
default_outline_color = 'white',
use_xft = true,
font = 'Dejavu Sans Condensed:size=9',
xftalpha = 1,
override_utf8_locale = true,
minimum_width = 1920,
maximum_width = 1920,
minimum_height = 16,
gap_x = 0,
gap_y = 0,
alignment = 'top_middle',
color1 = 'd08770', --orange
color2 = 'eeeeee', --white
color3 = 'a3be8c', --green
color4 = '81a1c1', --blue
color5 = 'bf616a', --red
color6 = '97AABC', --greyblue
color7 = 'b48ead', --purple
color8 = 'd19393', --red
color9 = 'ebcb8b', --yellow
color0 = 'bbbbbb', --lightgrey
}
conky.text = [[
${voffset 5}\
${color5}${goto 20}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${battery_percent}%${color}\
${color7}${goto 95}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${uptime_short}${color}\
${color4}${goto 190}${fs_used_perc /}% ${voffset 1}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14:bold}${font}${voffset -1} ${fs_used /}${color}\
${color3}${goto 300}${fs_used_perc /home}% ${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${fs_used /home}${color}\
${color9}${goto 410}${memperc}% ${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset 0} ${mem}${color}\
${color1}${goto 520}${cpu}% ${voffset 1}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14}${font}${voffset -1} ${hwmon 0 temp 1}°C${color1}${color}\
${alignc -245}${color0}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} \
${if_running audacious}\
${exec audtool --current-song-tuple-data artist |cut -c1-75} - ${exec audtool --current-song-tuple-data title |cut -c1-120}${offset 10}[ ${exec audtool --current-song-output-length}/${exec audtool --current-song-length} ]\
${else} -- ${endif}\
${if_gw}${if_up eth0}${color5}${goto 1520}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${downspeed eth0} / ${totaldown eth0}\
${color8}${goto 1640}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${upspeed eth0} / ${totalup eth0}\
${else}${if_up wlan0}${color5}${goto 1520}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${downspeed wlan0} / ${totaldown wlan0}\
${color8}${goto 1640}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${upspeed wlan0} / ${totalup wlan0}\
${endif}${endif}${else}${color8}${goto 1640}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}no net... ${color}${endif}${color}\
${alignr 5}${color6}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${time %a %d %b}\
${color}${color2}${offset 10}${font fontawesome:pixelsize=14} ${font}${voffset 0} ${time %H:%M}\
${voffset 0}
]]
Thanks. I have a top conky myself but not this nice looking. I use xmms but I probably can tweak the code to look for it.
xmms.jpg
to
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 4:48 pm
by siamhie
@ceeslans Couldn't get it to work with xmms, so I installed audacious. I thinks it's time to retire using xmms.
I'll tweak the 6 spots on the left hand side. Battery:Uptime:Root:Home:RAM:CPU to Root:Media (second hdd):Data (third hdd):RAM:CPU:GPU with fan speed
top-conky.jpg
*Addendum
Got it setup with the three hard drives and GPU with fan speed reporting. I also tweaked the audacious display and have audacious added to my startup file. :)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:08 pm
by davidy
Beautiful siamhie.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 10:57 am
by siamhie
davidy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:08 pm
Beautiful siamhie.
Thanks
@davidy
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:03 am
by siamhie
Who says fluxbox can't look as pretty as their DE counterparts?
Custom tint2 toolbar
Custom conky (thanks
@ceeslans)
Custom iDesk desktop icons

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:14 pm
by ceeslans

Nice !! Love the desktop icons; which icon-theme is that?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:47 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:14 pm

Nice !! Love the desktop icons; which icon-theme is that?
@ceeslans It's the learning to fly set I found on pling. It's a 3D set that also includes a lot of the MX Tools icons.
To get them to work with iDesk, they need to be converted from svg to png (I used gimp) and resized to 48x48.
L.T.F.2
https://www.pling.com/p/2039492/
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:07 pm
by siamhie
Decided to move the icons to the top center (less mouse travel) and editing the lnk files directly was easier.
Code: Select all
LibreWolf:
table Icon
Caption: LibreWolf
Icon: /usr/share/mxflux/idesk-icons/LibreWolf.png
X: 1000
Y: 70
Command[0]: ideskrun librewolf
Command[1]: mx-idesktool LibreWolf.lnk
Command[2]: ideskmenu
end
Thunar:
table Icon
Caption: Thunar
Icon: /usr/share/mxflux/idesk-icons/file-manager.png
X: 1100
Y: 70
Command[0]: ideskrun thunar $HOME
Command[1]: mx-idesktool Thunar.lnk
Command[2]: ideskmenu
end
Featherpad:
table Icon
Caption: FeatherPad
Icon: /usr/share/mxflux/idesk-icons/featherpad.png
X: 1200
Y: 70
Command[0]: ideskrun featherpad
Command[1]: mx-idesktool FeatherPad.lnk
Command[2]: ideskmenu
end
MXPI:
table Icon
Caption: MXPI
Icon: /usr/share/mxflux/idesk-icons/mx-packageinstaller2.png
X: 1300
Y: 70
Command[0]: ideskrun mxpi-launcher
Command[1]: mx-idesktool MXPI.lnk
Command[2]: ideskmenu
end
Terminal:
table Icon
Caption: Terminal
Icon: /usr/share/mxflux/idesk-icons/xfce4-terminal.png
X: 1400
Y: 70
Command[0]: ideskrun xfce4-terminal
Command[1]: mx-idesktool Terminal.lnk
Command[2]: ideskmenu
end
I then added a menu entry to reload iDesk. I know there was one already but I wanted to keep the fluxbox reconfig/restart commands separate from iDesk.
Code: Select all
[separator]
[workspaces] (Workspaces)
[reconfig] (Reconfigure)
[restart] (Restart)
[exec] (Reload iDesk) {idesktoggle idesk refresh}
[separator]
Now the desktop looks much cleaner with everything grouped together in one area.
centered-icons.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:38 pm
by AVLinux
Oooh look whose screen name is in green text now...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:08 pm
by Melber
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:47 pm
...It's a 3D set that also includes a lot of the MX Tools icons.
To get them to work with iDesk, they need to be converted from svg to png (I used gimp) and resized to 48x48.
Creating new icons with mx-idesktool should convert svg to png automatically. Did this not work for you?
Given your green status and in order to maintain forum decorum I'll keep my opinion of the icons to myself...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:00 pm
by siamhie
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 6:38 pm
Oooh look whose screen name is in green text now...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:07 pm
by siamhie
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 7:08 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 05, 2025 1:47 pm
...It's a 3D set that also includes a lot of the MX Tools icons.
To get them to work with iDesk, they need to be converted from svg to png (I used gimp) and resized to 48x48.
Creating new icons with mx-idesktool should convert svg to png automatically. Did this not work for you?
I just tried this and it does work. Looks like it creates the png and places it in the ~/.icons/idesk/ folder. That's good to know.
I'm unfamiliar with iDesk and just copied one of the lnk files and edited in featherpad. I read somewhere that iDesk doesn't support svg images which is why I initially used gimp for the conversion.
Given your green status and in order to maintain forum decorum I'll keep my opinion of the icons to myself...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:28 pm
by ceeslans
My today's devuan-based
fluxuan setup; I'm seriously considering to make this the daily driver on my production machine.
Blazing fast, even when running on usb. It's really sweet on resources, using (give or take) 200Mb only at bootup. In the last 6 months it has become pretty feature-rich, whilst package count is still relatively low.
I ditched tint2 panel, running fluxbox' native toolbar, with 7 added toolbar buttons : rofi-apps / filemgr / terminal / browser / volume / logout / skippy-xd : each button has different left- and rightclick exec commands.
Currently running the same topline-conky as displayed in a screenshot of my MXFlux desktop a few days ago in this forum.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:31 pm
by CharlesV
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:28 pm
My today's devuan-based
fluxuan setup; I'm seriously considering to make this the daily driver on my production machine.
Blazing fast, even when running on usb. It's really sweet on resources, using (give or take) 200Mb only at bootup. In the last 6 months it has become pretty feature-rich, whilst package count is still relatively low.
I ditched tint2 panel, running fluxbox' native toolbar, with 7 added toolbar buttons : rofi-apps / filemgr / terminal / browser / volume / logout / skippy-xd : each button has different left- and rightclick exec commands.
Currently running the same topline-conky as displayed in a screenshot of my MXFlux desktop a few days ago in this forum.
I am not really a dark mode fan.. but THAT is clean and VERY tight!! Great job on that !!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:52 pm
by Jerry3904
I agree @ceeslans, that is a fine piece of work.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm
by rokytnji.1
out with a fractured wrist

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:30 pm
by Jerry3904
Ouch, get better.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:34 pm
by CharlesV
rokytnji.1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:27 pm
out with a fractured wrist
No fun!! Heal !
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:37 pm
by AVLinux
@ceeslans
That is just a beautiful OS, you must just walk by and enjoy looking at it as you go about your day even if you're not using the computer! lol
@rokytnji.1
Get well soon!!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:37 am
by Jerry3904
My current desktop, b/c the world looks dark and small to me ATM (mostly politics).
I never see people using the MX-SideDiag conky but I like it very much here, ditto with the window manager style "bora_black." I keep my conkies on a key Ctrl+Alt+C so I can easily toggle them from the keyboard.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:13 pm
by AVLinux
Hi Jerry,
Don't despair, obviously I want to tread lightly but understand what you're feeling, I was in a similar funk a few years back but managed to get out of it by slowly remembering my most accurate newsfeed is the one looking outside my own window and inside my home and the one experienced with valued family and friends. We're not made to process algorithmically processed information from every corner of the world all at once and it's completely overwhelming and tainted no matter what the source sadly..
Great composition work on the Desktop, your eye for detail makes you a great project leader, don't lose sight of that fact!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 12:51 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:37 am
My current desktop, b/c the world looks dark and small to me ATM (mostly politics).
I never see people using the MX-SideDiag conky but I like it very much here, ditto with the window manager style "bora_black." I keep my conkies on a key Ctrl+Alt+C so I can easily toggle them from the keyboard.
That's a nice looking conky. I use bora_black from time to time along with bora_blue, bora_green and bora_olive. Just depends on the theme I'm going with.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:10 am
by ceeslans
@Jerry3904 @siamhie Pleased to see you both like my
SideDiag conky
Made me run this widget again after a loooong time, and in the process did some minor bug fixing.
Also checked out whether it was possible to run it in an autohiding semi-transparent right-sided slit --> lo and behold: it
does...
Can't figure out though how to create a 1-2 pixel visible border whilst in hidden state. Anyone knows whether possible at all?

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 11:47 am
by Jerry3904
Pls post updated code when ready and we'll send it up.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:06 pm
by Melber
Am very much enjoying
@Freja's latest masterpieces.
Made a v simple conky to go with my theme.

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:23 pm
by AVLinux
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:06 pm
Am very much enjoying @Freja's latest masterpieces.
Made a v simple conky to go with my theme.
Nice composition! Is your custom theme going to be ready for MX-25?
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:36 pm
by Melber
AVLinux wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:23 pm
Melber wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 6:06 pm
Am very much enjoying @Freja's latest masterpieces.
Made a v simple conky to go with my theme.
Nice composition! Is your custom theme going to be ready for MX-25?
time will tell...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:58 am
by wdscharff
An updated screenshot after a long time
Optically nothing has changed, all in the background; Kernel, NVidia driver, Wine, PCmanFM-QT, etc, etc, nothing you can see :-)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 4:46 am
by Amiga-MX
DevPunk Cinema Desktop
MXLMLGA
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 6:09 pm
by Jerry3904
I was in St Augustine FL last week and became fascinated with the local building materia called "coquina" (mixture of sand, seashells and limestone). I took a picture of it with lots of moss growing on the wall of the early 18th century fort "El Castillo." I like it as a background b/c it is simultaneously non-distracting and yet full of visual interest. I coupled it with a shorter and fatter version of
@kobaian's panel, and with
@Melber's new theme MX Ease.
1. I recognize that most people here like a very different approach.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:35 pm
by AVLinux
Looks great, always nice to have a unique BG that you took yourself. MX Ease is looking great too, very clean theme!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:31 pm
by ceeslans
My current MX23 fluxbox desktop, showing off @AVLinux' modular conkies (in laptop mode)
fluxbox style + tint2 theme: Minimo
Gtk theme: gruvbox-dark
Background image:
Arizona Landscape

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:42 pm
by AVLinux
Hi!
That looks so cool! Love the colors and theming! What is that update app? Is that nala? (I've never used it).. Pffft, get those conkii out of the way so we can see more of that Desktop!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:59 pm
by ceeslans
AVLinux wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 3:42 pm... What is that update app? Is that nala? (I've never used it)..
Yes, that is nala's output. Well, it's actually a small script to select
nala (if installed) or
apt to upgrade the system:
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#!/bin/bash
if : >/dev/tcp/8.8.8.8/53; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/nala ]; then
x-terminal-emulator --hide-menubar --title "Run update" --class=run-update --geometry 108x36 -e /bin/bash -c "sudo nala upgrade ; echo ""; bash "
else
x-terminal-emulator --hide-menubar --title "Run update" --class=run-update --geometry 108x36 -e /bin/bash -c "sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade ; echo ""; bash "
fi
else echo "Internet appears to be offline...";
notify-send -t 15000 "Internet appears to be offline" -i "/usr/share/icons/Papirus/24x24/panel/network-offline.svg"
fi
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:28 pm
by Amiga-MX
DevPunk Cinema Star
MXLMLGO
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 1:49 pm
by ceeslans
Last screenshot in February. Actually no real changes, more same old same old
Fluxbox toolbar-style and gtk-theme: crunchbang
Conky-manager: conkyzen (bunsen), running conkii: wttr-weather and nakedeb-systeminfo
And sifting through fluxbox init file, checking current resource settings.Counting total 105 resources; probably due to added toolbar buttons and actions...

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2025 2:03 pm
by AVLinux
Great shot, I'm loving the new Avatar...lol!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:28 pm
by ceeslans
fluxbox style+toolbar : Minimo
gtk2/3 theme: Shades-of-gray
conky: Sidebar Diagnostics v/2.0 with awesome icon glyphs
rofi-drun: archcraft-launcher
screenshooter: scrot-options (yad)
fetch: minimal ufetch

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:54 pm
by Jerry3904
That's gorgeous.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2025 10:17 pm
by i_ri
Hello JayM and Everyone
It is a Redbud day. In the pink, Cercis canadensis surrounds us.

Pointer hover gumby idesk ToolTip
is printed from $HOME/.fluxbox/init session.screen0.toolbar.tools:
click on this idesk icon runs a command to update its own ToolTip
textual reminder map of the $HOME/.fluxbox/init toolbar Layout.
sample data idesk icon
$HOME/.ideskrc
set true, ToolTip.CaptionOnHover: true
$HOME/.fluxbox/scripts/toolbarIdregion
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#!/bin/bash
joe="$(grep toolbar.tools ~/.fluxbox/init |cut -d: -f2)"
sed -i "s/.*ToolTip.Caption:.*/ ToolTip.Caption: $joe/" ~/.idesktop/tool_id.lnk
idesktoggle idesk refresh
xmessage -timeout 11 -nearmouse "$joe"
$HOME/.idesktop/tool_id.lnk
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table Icon
Caption: tool id
ToolTip.Caption: Layout
Icon: /usr/share/icons/mxflux.png
Width: 148
Height: 8
X: 12
Y: 1015
Command[0]: ideskrun $HOME/.fluxbox/scripts/toolbarIdregion
Command[1]: mx-idesktool tool_id.lnk
Command[2]: ideskmenu
end
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 4:02 am
by ceeslans
Taken shortly after systemboot; viewing Lake Tahoe's sundown in nightly sissy-pink.
fluxbox menu/toolbar style is 'rugosa' by @packrat (slightly modified)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 5:47 am
by Jerry3904
Both terrific looks!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2025 11:13 am
by AVLinux
Another winner!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:14 am
by ceeslans

... yad galore!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:45 am
by Jerry3904
Nice! The scrot one particularly interests me...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 12:42 pm
by AVLinux
YAD is awesome! Cool stuff in the Screenshot! Even people with rudimentary scripting abilities (ie me) can manage to make useful utils and convenience features. Fortunately for us @Melber here is also a black belt YADmaster and when you see some of the BunsenLabs and LiliDog stuff it's pretty inspiring!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:15 am
by orcrist
ceeslans wrote: ↑Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:28 pm
fluxbox style+toolbar : Minimo
gtk2/3 theme: Shades-of-gray
conky: Sidebar Diagnostics v/2.0 with awesome icon glyphs
rofi-drun: archcraft-launcher
screenshooter: scrot-options (yad)
fetch: minimal ufetch
Hello, gorgeous theme. Would you mind sharing the Minimo fluxbox theme? It doesn't seem to be anywhere in the Internet.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:22 am
by ceeslans
orcrist wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:15 am>snip<
Would you mind sharing the Minimo fluxbox theme? It doesn't seem to be anywhere in the Internet.
@orcrist It's not found on the internet no, 'cos I never published the style :)
Attached zip contains the ~/.fluxbox/styles/Minimo folder, with the theme.cfg and the required pixmaps for the rootmenu (the style basically uses Fluxbox' default min/max/close buttons). Of course, the toolbar is configured using colors matching the rootmenu and window decorations.
Two further observations:
- the style obviously only configures the
native fluxbox toolbar - and NOT the (MXFB default) tint2 panel --> latter needs its own tint2rc .
- when applied on a more-or-less-vanilla MXFB fluxbox install, the toolbar will likely only show tasks, systray and time/date (see below screenshot).
All additional elements as shown in my March10 (Devuan) screenshot, will need to be added/configured in your ~/.fluxbox/init and ~/.fluxbox/overlay files.
I'm referring to items like:
- application menu button
- launcher buttons (file mgr | terminal | browser)
- workspace switcher
- logout|reboot|shutdown button
- hide|show desktop button
- toolbar spacers etc
Let me know if you need some further information or suggestions for such additional configuration.
EDIT: Sorry.... the '
theme.cfg' file in the zip is an older version - and
not displaying the correct style colors in rootmenu.
Attached please find the updated zip
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:45 am
by Jerry3904
Thanks for the generous post.
I used the traditional FB toolbar a lot during the earlier part of MX-25 Fluxbox version development when much was not yet available, and it got me thinking that we might want our own unique toolbar config for the new version. Would you be interested in starting a thread on the topic and overseeing its development? I myself would look for application menu logout etc. buttons at the very least, FWIW.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:59 am
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:45 am
I myself would look for application menu logout etc. buttons at the very least, FWIW.
I created a button to launch appfinder. Pretty simple to setup in the init file.
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session.screen0.toolbar.button.homenu.label: _flux23_
session.screen0.toolbar.button.homenu.commands: exec xfce4-appfinder
session.screen0.toolbar.tools: button.homenu, prevworkspace, workspacename, nextworkspace, iconbar, systemtray
fb-button.jpg
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pm
by Jerry3904
I did that too, but the question here is rather about the group's creating an MXFB toolbar config that goes through a standard review process before becoming default for MX-25.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:42 pm
by siamhie
Jerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pm
I did that too, but the question here is rather about the group's creating an MXFB toolbar config that goes through a standard review process before becoming default for MX-25.
OK, I'll wait for the thread on this to add input.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:08 pm
by ceeslans
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:42 pmJerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pmI did that too, but the question here is rather about the group's creating an MXFB toolbar config that goes through a standard review process before becoming default for MX-25.
OK, I'll wait for the thread on this to add input.
Don't want to burst anybody's bubble, but it seems that
only fluxbox1.3.7+git20220731 (as installed currently running in MX-23) was patched to allow toolbar-button entries which are capable to execute left|right|middle|mousewheel action commands. The fluxbox version 1.3.7-1+b1 in trixie (and as such in MX-25) does NOT add such actions and capabilities....
Perhaps MXFB devs could consider to continue offering the patched fluxbox-1.3.7+git20220731 version in MX-25 ??
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:02 pm
by siamhie
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:08 pm
siamhie wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:42 pmJerry3904 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:33 pmI did that too, but the question here is rather about the group's creating an MXFB toolbar config that goes through a standard review process before becoming default for MX-25.
OK, I'll wait for the thread on this to add input.
Don't want to burst anybody's bubble, but it seems that
only fluxbox1.3.7+git20220731 (as installed currently running in MX-23) was patched to allow toolbar-button entries which are capable to execute left|right|middle|mousewheel action commands. The fluxbox version 1.3.7-1+b1 in trixie (and as such in MX-25) does NOT add such actions and capabilities....
Perhaps MXFB devs could consider to continue offering the patched fluxbox-1.3.7+git20220731 version in MX-25 ??
@ceeslans That's very strange of Debian to not include the button patch Mathias submitted back in 2016.
https://github.com/fluxbox/fluxbox/comm ... 51b7ff6a03
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:23 pm
by ceeslans
Well, it didn't work when I ran Jerry's MX25fb-alpha iso... But please feel free to check it out yourself.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:32 pm
by Jerry3904
Didn't work on the 64bit.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:44 pm
by i_ri
Hello
Will end up with the fluxbox mx version is higher number (?)
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apt policy fluxbox
fluxbox:
Installed: 1.3.7+git20220731-0antix23
Candidate: 1.3.7+git20220731-0antix23
Version table:
*** 1.3.7+git20220731-0antix23 500
500 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/sid sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.3.7-1+b1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 12:47 pm
by siamhie
i_ri wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 5:44 pm
Hello
Will end up with the fluxbox mx version is higher number (?)
Code: Select all
apt policy fluxbox
fluxbox:
Installed: 1.3.7+git20220731-0antix23
Candidate: 1.3.7+git20220731-0antix23
Version table:
*** 1.3.7+git20220731-0antix23 500
500 http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/sid sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.3.7-1+b1 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
@i_ri The "+git20220731" reference is all the patches applied up to July 2022 since the final release of 1.3.7 in 2015.
For some reason, I can't get the git page to load anymore,
https://git.fluxbox.org/fluxbox.git/, which is where I was keeping track of new developments.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:45 am
by orcrist
ceeslans wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:22 am
orcrist wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 2:15 am>snip<
Would you mind sharing the Minimo fluxbox theme? It doesn't seem to be anywhere in the Internet.
@orcrist It's not found on the internet no, 'cos I never published the style :)
Attached zip contains the ~/.fluxbox/styles/Minimo folder, with the theme.cfg and the required pixmaps for the rootmenu (the style basically uses Fluxbox' default min/max/close buttons). Of course, the toolbar is configured using colors matching the rootmenu and window decorations.
Two further observations:
- the style obviously only configures the
native fluxbox toolbar - and NOT the (MXFB default) tint2 panel --> latter needs its own tint2rc .
- when applied on a more-or-less-vanilla MXFB fluxbox install, the toolbar will likely only show tasks, systray and time/date (see below screenshot).
All additional elements as shown in my March10 (Devuan) screenshot, will need to be added/configured in your ~/.fluxbox/init and ~/.fluxbox/overlay files.
I'm referring to items like:
- application menu button
- launcher buttons (file mgr | terminal | browser)
- workspace switcher
- logout|reboot|shutdown button
- hide|show desktop button
- toolbar spacers etc
Let me know if you need some further information or suggestions for such additional configuration.
EDIT: Sorry.... the '
theme.cfg' file in the zip is an older version - and
not displaying the correct style colors in rootmenu.
Attached please find the updated zip
Thanks a lot for sharing, very polite of you.
Your Minimo theme looks great on my setup. I use also the minimo tint2 theme.
Concerning the fluxbox toolbar tweaks, thanks for your offer to further help, I don't want to put you in further trouble as I am not sure that I will use it.
Sharing the way you have managed to use the Archcraft rofi would be very very interesting though...
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:26 am
by ceeslans
orcrist wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:45 am>snip<
Sharing the way you have managed to use the Archcraft rofi would be very very interesting though...
Here's how:
- I created
'launcher' + 'runner' folders in
~/.config/rofi/themes/archcraft/ directory and copied Adi's
launcher.rasi + runner.rasi files there accordingly
- After modifying the settings to personal preferences, I created separate
dark+light.config files in each folder
The dark or light color mode is read by the scripts from
~/.config/rofi-mode.conf textfile. The current mode can be set manually - or by script (see below)
- Launcher scripts for '
archcraft-launcher' and for '
archcraft-runner' should be executed from your
~/.local/bin/ directory.
Make sure this directory is in your $PATH - and reboot (or at least log out/in) before using the scripts.
Likewise, the
rofi-mode toggle script must be located in that very same directory. Execute that script whenever you want to toggle the dark/light color mode;
perhaps best to create a keybinding for this (I use [ctrl+alt + M] for this, but feel free to use whatever you consider best).
EDIT:
ps: don't try to set or select above archcraft rofi's through rofi-theme-selector, because the main rasi files were
alteredmutilated by me when setting up the light/dark-modes.
fwiw, I'm running my favorite rofi's mostly from individual launch scripts anyway...
Good luck!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 3:35 pm
by i_ri

Hello JayM and everyone
A favorite window tiling command?
Add menu items to /windowmenu.
sample
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[begin]
[shade]
[clientmenu]
[Exec] (screenshot) { mxfb-quickshot focused jpg }
[Exec] (pad) { featherpad }
[showdesktop] (showdesktop)
[rootmenu] (rootmenu)
[stick]
[maximize]
[iconify]
[raise]
[lower]
[toggledecor] (ToggleDecor)
[settitledialog]
[sendto]
[layer]
[alpha]
[extramenus]
[submenu](hello){everyone}
[nop] (mx)
[end]
[separator] (- - - - )
[close]
[end]
sample
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[begin]
[shade]
[clientmenu]
[submenu] (window)
[maximize]
[iconify]
[raise]
[lower]
[stick]
[sendto]
[layer]
[end]
[toggledecor] (border )
[Exec] (screenshot) { mxfb-quickshot focused jpg }
[Exec] (pad) { featherpad }
[showdesktop] (showdesktop)
[rootmenu] (rootmenu)
[settitledialog]
[alpha]
[extramenus]
[submenu](hello){everyone}
[nop] (mx)
[end]
[separator] (- - - - )
[close]
[end]
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 6:01 pm
by orcrist
ceeslans wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:26 am
orcrist wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:45 am>snip<
Sharing the way you have managed to use the Archcraft rofi would be very very interesting though...
Here's how:
- I created
'launcher' + 'runner' folders in
~/.config/rofi/themes/archcraft/ directory and copied Adi's
launcher.rasi + runner.rasi files there accordingly
- After modifying the settings to personal preferences, I created separate
dark+light.config files in each folder
The dark or light color mode is read by the scripts from
~/.config/rofi-mode.conf textfile. The current mode can be set manually - or by script (see below)
- Launcher scripts for '
archcraft-launcher' and for '
archcraft-runner' should be executed from your
~/.local/bin/ directory.
Make sure this directory is in your $PATH - and reboot (or at least log out/in) before using the scripts.
Likewise, the
rofi-mode toggle script must be located in that very same directory. Execute that script whenever you want to toggle the dark/light color mode;
perhaps best to create a keybinding for this (I use [ctrl+alt + M] for this, but feel free to use whatever you consider best).
EDIT:
ps: don't try to set or select above archcraft rofi's through rofi-theme-selector, because the main rasi files were
alteredmutilated by me when setting up the light/dark-modes.
fwiw, I'm running my favorite rofi's mostly from individual launch scripts anyway...
Good luck!
Thank you, it worked just as you said. Much appreciated.
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:22 am
by ceeslans
Here's another fluxbox style that I really like: NakedNord
Got the original style theme from an early version of the terrific
nakedeb fluxbox distro.
Reworked it a bit and added a few settings, mainly related to toolbar.buttons and bevel+border values.
The style files are attached.
Currently running on fluxuan [ devuan 5 daedalus ]
gtk2/3 theme: Olympic-Dark
conky: Date&Time | ScratchMusic
wallpaper setter: modified|miniaturized early-version XwWall (using gtk3dialog)

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:18 am
by AVLinux
Great Easter-y Vibe!
Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:29 am
by wdscharff
For a change, a barely modified Fluxbox, both monitors active
Style FT10Dark (from the Tenr style collection, if I remember correctly), only slightly adapted to my system.
Tint2, the button icons are from different icon sets :-)
My default Conkys (system and music display)
XFE file manager
wallpaper : waiting for summer ;-}

Re: MX Fluxbox Screenshots
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 3:23 pm
by ceeslans
Started up MX-Fluxbox today for an (overdue) update. Ran through the tint2 and fluxbox-styles, of which many seemed long forgotten...
Below two screenies showing some of my fb-styles + tint2 sidebar panels, conky widget and wallpaper creations :

-> fb-style + tint2 panel = "launchy"

-> fb-style + tint2 panel = "concept-dark"