topic title: [Fluxbox] - Too many styles.
Posts: 316
DJiNN
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
#1
Not sure where to put this so i hope that it's the right place.... __{{emoticon}}__

If you find yourself collecting Fluxbox styles (as i do) and putting them all in one place, you'll find that whenever you're either looking for styles to choose, or just anywhere near the fluxbox settings menu, you'll get a huge box of all the styles, often covering the whole screen and making it difficult to navigate both the styles and/or your computer.

So, this is what i did, it works for me and i thought i'd share it here in the hope that someone else may find some use for it.

1: I'm assuming that you're using your local fluxbox folder -
"/home/username/.fluxbox/styles" for the user styles. Inside this folder you should create the following folders and name them as i have here (And it's also case sensitive so type exactly the same......)

A-D
E-H
I-L
M-P
Q-T
U-Z

2: The next part is to copy whatever styles you have, alphabetically, into the corresponding folders that you have just created (A-D, E-H etc etc).

3: Then all you have to do is copy & paste the following code into your fluxbox menu, underneath the part where it says....

[submenu] (Styles)
[stylesdir] (/usr/share/fluxbox/styles)
[end]

Code: Select all

[submenu] (User Styles) {Choose a style...}
              [submenu] (USER A-D)
        [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles/A-D)
        [end]
        [submenu] (USER E-H)
        [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles/E-H)
        [end]
        [submenu] (USER I-L)
        [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles/I-L)
        [end] 
        [submenu] (USER M-P)
        [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles/M-P)
        [end]
        [submenu] (USER Q-T)
        [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles/Q-T)
        [end]
        [submenu] (USER U-Z)
        [stylesdir] (~/.fluxbox/styles/U-Z)
        [end]
    [end]
4: Save the file, then have a look and select whatever style you want, WITHOUT having the whole screen covered. __{{emoticon}}__

For those that feel so inclined, please feel free to edit and change to whatever suits you, and if you improve on it in any way (Which probably isn't that difficult) then please post here so that we can all see. __{{emoticon}}__