Firebox wm

harii · posted: 2008-04-15 05:28

Has anyone else seen this window manager?

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looks real nice and lite and has a good review at:

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I was trying to use it but when i downloaded it-- it was missing the ~/.firebox files.
maybe i'll wait to try again when LXAppearance and the latest pcmanfm gose to testing.

fixed it: i miss tagged it or something __{{emoticon}}__

DJiNN · posted: 2008-04-15 09:31

Firebox looks interesting. Haven't tried it yet, but i've just downloaded the tarballs so i'll give it a go soon. It's certainly very light. __{{emoticon}}__

harii · posted: 2008-04-20 22:55

the root menu sucks but i really like it.
To get it workable for me i'll need to add icons or a launcher bar---or both?
I even tried deskmenu but it didn't work with firebox.
I'm a menu person but my family likes icons--so it might workout.
what i like is that for a small wm , it's has alot on eye candy.

DJiNN · posted: 2008-04-21 17:17

harii wrote:the root menu sucks but i really like it.
To get it workable for me i'll need to add icons or a launcher bar---or both?
I even tried deskmenu but it didn't work with firebox.
I'm a menu person but my family likes icons--so it might workout.
what i like is that for a small wm , it's has alot on eye candy.

I haven't tried it yet. Searched around for a .deb but haven't been able to find one yet. I downloaded the source but couldn't get it to compile, and because i was busy doing other stuff i didn't get to find out why it wouldn't... __{{emoticon}}__

But it looks pretty good, and i love trying out different WM's, DE's etc so i'll definitely give it a try sometime soon. I'm busy trying out
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at the moment.... It's a good little system using OpenBox as the WM. Still needs quite a bit of work, but for those that love a DE that's akin to XFCE, it's spot on, and it's incredibly fast lightweight.

I still prefer fluxbox though __{{emoticon}}__

If you have any screenshots of Firebox then please post them here if you can..... i'd love to see what it looks like. The screens on the Firebox site are a bit lacking, and there are not that many of them.

anticapitalista · posted: 2008-04-21 18:53

Thanks for the post harii.

like DJINN I love testing out wm's.
Here is one to try. It is called awesome.

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TLeeNorris · posted: 2008-04-21 19:43

Weird, but I see no original post? I wonder why. Check it out...

DJiNN · posted: 2008-04-21 19:44

Just installing Awesome now - i'll give it a try, although generally i'm not a huge fan of tiled WM's, at least up til now that is. __{{emoticon}}__

I like the website though..... very minimalistic and the screenshots look interesting.

I also like jwm for its lightness. It's a bit too sparse for me to use on a daily basis {that's why i use fluxbox} but it's still nice and fast.

anticapitalista · posted: 2008-04-21 20:47

xToeCutter wrote:Weird, but I see no original post? I wonder why. Check it out...

It is in the title of the thread.

TLeeNorris · posted: 2008-04-21 21:10

harii wrote:Has anyone else seen this window manager?

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looks real nice and lite and has a good review at:

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I was trying to use it but when i downloaded it-- it was missing the ~/.firebox files.
maybe i'll wait to try again when LXAppearance and the latest pcmanfm gose to testing.

No.. there is text there.. see the quoted text above. But I can't see any text in the original post.

I had to edit out some [url] he had not closed?

harii · posted: 2008-04-21 21:18

firebox-wm web site

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it has (testing/lenney).debs for firebox firebox-tools firebox-themes.
add to apt sources:
deb
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testing/
it has three menus to find out:
a root menu and two dmenus
one you can add your own icons/menu

I really don't know what i did with the first post--sorry?
I love try different/new things--other wise , you don't learn

anticapitalista · posted: 2008-04-21 21:21

WTF?

The CIA/FBI/KGB/ are around!

Was that first post covered in wax?

and xToeCutter squeezed lemon on it to reveal all.

DJiNN · posted: 2008-04-21 21:29

LOL!! I think it was.... and the strange thing is - i answered it anyway even though i couldn't see it! __{{emoticon}}__

Thanks for the info on firebox harii - i'll add it to my sources list & give it a go.

harii · posted: 2008-04-21 21:50

ohh
forget about the missing xml files.
i purge the first download and re-apt-get install over.
then they showed up--maybe i'm on the FBI list?
--person of interest--

harii · posted: 2008-05-09 02:51

A little update:
i asked on the firebox mailing list about the deskmenu and was shocked how fast they responded.

Hello,

About one week ago, I had a look at DeskMenu [1] in order to allow
such a program to work fine with Firebox.

It appeared that DeskMenu needed to be modified to run with an
improved version of Firebox. Indeed, it uses an obsolete Gnome hint
called _WIN_DESKTOP_BUTTON_PROXY [2]. If the current WM doesn't
support this hint, then the program exits.

So I asked the maintainer of DeskMenu, Stefan Pfetzing, if he would be
interested in a patch allowing not Gnome compliant WMs to use
DeskMenu. He said yes. Unfortunately, I learned a few days ago that
he's quite busy at the moment, so he doesn't plan to work on this
soon.

So you can find enclosed the patch I sent. If you try it, feel free to
give feedback !

The patch works with the SVN r242 and the new command line flag
--no-root-menu (for Firebox).

Regards,
Cyrille Bagard

PS: the subversion version currently generates lots of warnings ; the
situation is going to be fixed.

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It maybe some time before i can, but it's nice to know a developer cares about the users.

So far, its over my skill level.
I'm building a test box for firebox-wm to test things out. (waiting for m7.2)
Anyone would like to share any How-To's about firebox--I'm game

the alt-s dmenu is really cool

harii · posted: 2008-05-18 03:59

__{{emoticon}}__ i'm posting screenshot of early working desktop at"The screenshot" area.
Wbar is a very powerful tool that really makes firebox shine.
I might have to get on the mailing list to make sure --wbar & conky is tune right with desktop.

NOTE: some of the themes are not stable--missing parts or something?

ALT+S Dmenu is a great menu.