Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X.
Fluxbox is based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Fluxbox looks like blackbox and handles styles, colors, window placement and similar thing exactly like blackbox (100% theme/style compability).
Here are some key features of "Fluxbox":
ˇ Configurable window tabs. | [See screenshot: Window tabs]
ˇ Iconbar (for minimized/iconified windows) | [See screenshot: Minimized/iconified icons]
ˇ Wheel scroll changes workspace
ˇ Configurable titlebar (placement of buttons, new buttons etc) | [See screenshot: Titlebar]
ˇ KDE support | [See screenshot: KDE Support]
ˇ New native integrated keygrabber (supports emacs like keychains)
ˇ Maximize over slit option
ˇ Partial GNOME support
ˇ Extended Window Manager Hints support
ˇ Slit dockap ordering
ˇ Other minor features
What's New in This Release:
ˇ New default style: bloe
ˇ New styles:
ˇ ostrich zimek_darkblue, zimek_green, zimek_bisque, carp, arch, bora_black, bora_blue, bora_green, green_tea, bloe
ˇ Fixed shape handling, now shaped corners have border.
ˇ Allow negative numbers in command "Workspace"
ˇ Added utility fluxbox-remote
ˇ Allows script access to most fluxbox commands;
ˇ Support must be turned on in the init file with session.screen.allowRemoteActions; the syntax is, e.g., fluxbox-remote "CustomMenu ~/.fluxbox/custommenu"
ˇ Added keycommands :AddWorkspace and :RemoveLastWorkspace
ˇ Added some missing Open Office entries and window managers, plus some other minor changes in fluxbox-generate_menu
ˇ Updated languages:
sv_SE, zh_CN, de_*, es_ES, es_AR, en_US, en_GB, pt_* fi_FI, fr_FR, ru_RU
Bug fixes:
ˇ #1694959 Rotate toolbar background texture along with toolbar
ˇ #1712583 Non-latin characters displayed incorrectly in menu title
ˇ #1708859 Fix error passing --with-locale path in ./configure
ˇ #1524098 #1633718, System tray restart issue ( gaim/pidgin crash on restart )
ˇ #1748967 Save workspace names when changing through menu
ˇ #1745678 Fixed resource usage due to Skype 1.4
ˇ #1736252 Strip off additional bits in event state set by Xorg
ˇ #1716899 Deiconify when automatically tabbing to a minimized window with focus new windows on
ˇ #1479517 Fix submenu placement with xinerama after moving the menu between heads
ˇ #1716900 Also send transient windows when sending a window to another workspace
ˇ #1717782 Bad fullscreen in ooimpress2
ˇ #1718112 memory leak in FbWindow::textProperty
ˇ #1545066 Only replace numbers with zeros when calculating clock width
ˇ #1652185 Fix window menu context when opened by clicking on tab
ˇ Workspace Menu wasn't updating when windows changed titles
ˇ HideMenus didn't work on CustomMenus, and also fixed a memleak with CustomMenu
ˇ Fix to avoid rogue instances of /bin/sh after forking away programs
ˇ Fixed some rendering problems when toolbar item borderwidth is too large and toolbar bevelwidth is set
ˇ Right clicking on a submenu didn't revert focus to its parent
ˇ Pressing escape in a torn menu didn't work
ˇ Updates for compiling with gcc 4.3
ˇ Fixed compile error with --disable-remember
ˇ Fix transient windows getting tabbed from apps file and not changing layers when main window is in a lowered tab
ˇ Fixed some window placement issues
ˇ Fixed bug with fluxbox-generate_menu -is
ˇ Fixed infinite loop caused by deiconify command
ˇ Fixed a bug in parsing cli
ˇ Fix slit.onhead with BOTTOMLEFT placement
ˇ Fixed crash when CustomMenu command doesn't point to a file
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