MX Fluxbox Screenshots

[Jerry3904]

It's certainly worth posting IMO -- what a colorful pair!

[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).

[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.

[siamhie]

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/)

[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 ...

[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.

[i_ri]

Hello JayM and Everyone

mxfluxbox, idesk, wmmoonclock

[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.

[Jerry3904]

That's an amazing menu!

[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,