An updated “plank!”

The plank version in Debian Jessie/Sid is a bit old, it being version 0.6.1-1~experimental1 and the plank project has moved on since then. The current version is 0.7.1 which was released on 23 September 2014, and there’s talk of 0.8.0 too ...

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mengen’ and ‘fluxmenu’

I’ve recently been working on two new fluxbox scripts and both are concerned with menu generation. First up is mengen -

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#!/bin/bash
#: Title            : mengen
#: Date             : November 2013
#: Author           : Sharon Kimble, James Morris
#: Version ...
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Fluxwant v3.0

I’ve just updated fluxwant to ask you if you want to quit at any time, so now you can answer ‘yes’ or ‘y’ and it will continue, you can answer ‘no’ or ‘n’ and it can continue without installing something, and ‘quit’ or ‘q’ and you exit cleanly. So ...

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GreatLittleRadioPlayer - streaming radio!

I’ve just discovered GreatLittleRadioPlayer which has quite probably got the longest programme name I’ve ever seen! But its a streaming radio player for ubuntu and fedora, but I’ve got the 32-bit version working on Debian testing, with only one easily fulfillable dependency too. It can be found ...

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Fluxbox part 5 - semi-dynamic menus

If you want to have a system menu that is generated by the system rather than you, it is possible like this -

You need to move the current fluxbox menu out-of-the-way so that you don’t overwrite it, and you can save it with today’s date so it’s ...

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cairo-dock + fluxbox.

I have long had the problem with running cairo-dock under fluxbox in that it locks up the workspace [think ‘desktop’] so you are effectually useless! I’ve reported it to the cairo-dock community and developers, and was told that it was a fluxbox problem, which I denied as it only ...

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Fluxbox, part 4 - usermenu

I now think that I have the perfect usermenu! Its got absolutely loads of styles, and also backgrounds, and they’re all available from the menu. And here it is -

[begin] (FluxBox)
         [exec] (Claws-Mail)    {claws-mail} 
         [exec] (google-chrome) {google-chrome} 
        [exec] (TEA Text Editor) {tea}
        [exec] (Pogo music ...
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I’m sorry Fluxbox….

Like I said, I’m sorry Fluxbox for doubting you, you do still work well. I’ve enabled xcompmgr - which is an ‘X composition manager’ or ‘xcompmgr is the standard composition manager for the X Composite extension, which allows clients to modify what is drawn to the screen before it ...

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Bye Bye Fluxbox!

I’ve encountered several problems with fluxbox today

  • When using urxvt the title-bar would always be underneath the top panel, with no way of changing it. I was able to get round it using xterm but that meant that I couldn’t use the tabs that was programmed into ‘urxvt ...
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Fluxbox menus - part 2

Date Series Part 2 of Fluxbox Tags fluxbox / menus

As this is such a large subject I’ve split it into three, and this part just deals with the menus, the ones you get if you ‘Right+Click’ with your mouse on the desktop.

## menu generated by 'menumaker 0.99.7' on 15/06/13
[begin] (FluxBox)
    [submenu] (Development ...
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Fluxbox - part 3

Date Series Part 1 of Fluxbox Tags fluxbox / git

In my usermenu in Part 2 you’ll see that I have these two lines in the Quit submenu.

      [exec] (Reboot) {gksudo /sbin/reboot}
      [exec] (Shutdown) {gksudo /sbin/shutdown -h now}

which are quite special ones. This requires the following two lines to be put into /etc/sudoers very near ...

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