Fluxbox
Fluxbox is a lightweight and highly configurable window manager with pwm-like tabs.
| Tags | Desktop Environment Window Manager |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux BSD BSD/OS FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD Solaris |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 23 Feb 2013 01:11
Release Notes: This release adds 'LHalf' / 'RHalf' titlebar buttons. It adds a 'ClientPatternTest' command for testing clientpatterns via fluxbox-remote. It adds 'he_IL' translations. The 'If', 'Or', and 'And' actions have been re-enabled again. All timer-based problems are fixed. Integer overflows for some gradient textures are fixed. A compile issue on Mac OS is fixed. There are texture rendering improvements. This release can move windows without the lagging-behind-effect on slower machines. Build system issues have been fixed.
- 31 Dec 2012 22:04
Release Notes: Minor bugfixes and features: percentage values for resize methods, an 'OnTab' modifier, simpler FbTk::TextureRenderer code, and use of a monotonic clock for leap seconds immunity.
- 31 Oct 2011 00:09
Release Notes: This is mostly a bugfix release. Various crashes and some other minor issues have been fixed. Support has been added for ARGB32 visuals, and there are updated translations.
- 27 Feb 2011 23:52
Release Notes: This release has a fix for not hiding submenus if menuDelay is set. It fixes a crash when moving transient windows (Dialogs) between Workspaces, It fixes a crash when SystemTray was rotated 90/270 degrees. It fixes a potential crash when getting an UnmapEvent before a FocusEvent. It fixes a potential crash on accessing a null pointer.
- 19 Feb 2011 20:07
Release Notes: Support was added for bidirectional text. New actions were added. The documentation was updated. Lots more was done.
Recent comments
Flux!
Recently switched over to this WM and have found it to be quite nice. I can definately say that I've been impressed with it so far. Keep up the great work!
Simply the best
I've been using fluxbox for 3.5 of the 4 years that I've been free of Windows. I am continually searching for the best window manager, and I am continually returning to flux. Thanks for an excellent piece of software, and keep up the good work.
Problems with resizing
I enjoy fluxbox too for its fast startup, easy menuconfiguration, and the missing of unused features.
But I sometimes have problems when resizing a window from the lower right corner
The window moves and resizes in an uncontrollable way, getting taller and taller - mainly when nearly maximized in the beginning, and most often it is mozilla which is behaving like that.
Re: nice, but flaky
D'oh! I'm a moron. Everybody please ignore the negative part of the above post, and just read the positive part. Of the two really horrible bugs that were driving me crazy, I eventually realized that one was a hardware problem with my mouse (sticky right button), and one was a problem with my terminal emulator (aterm), not with fluxbox.
Fluxbox rocks. I'm back to using it, and am not exeperiencing any problems.
nice, but flaky
I used Fluxbox for about 6 months, and liked it in many ways. The tabbed windows were a great way to organize things, and I liked the way it conserved screen space. Coming from KDE, it was nice to have a window manager that wasn't in my face all the time.
BUT...
I've switched to fvwm2 now, because there were just too many bugs in Fluxbox 0.1.14. I tried posting on the Fluxbox forum, and also used the bug reporting page, but never got any response. It seems a little strange to me that the version number is 0.1.x, and yet it's listed here on Freshmeat as production/stable. My experience has been that the 0.1.x is accurate, and it's not at all production quality. Maybe in a couple of years I'll try it again, and see if it's more solid. I do miss the features I'd grown to know and love, but I just can't spend all my time working around bugs.
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