fbctrl is a very lightweight utility to switch the windows or desktops on top of any compatible window manager like fluxbox, blackbox or openbox. fbctrl's main goal behind is to recover the old focus behaviour of fluxbox 0.1.14 for the newer versions, if no tabs are used.
Why did you start this project?
Well i was using fluxbox 0.1.14 for more than five years and in august 2007 i replaced my ThinkPad X40 with a ThinkPad X61 Tablet. Due to the fact that i can rotate the display on a tablet pc i need to migrate to a newer fluxbox version which was 1.0rc3 to use the xrandr extension.
Now the pain begins. All things were working fine except one holy requirement - the new focus model of fluxbox. Who the hell implemented such thing? I am a people who is not using the tabs from fluxbox (i like the old layermodel of windows and terminals) and thats why i was not able to understand that focus model. It has some new cool features like skipping stuck and shaded windows but i don't need that.
What exactly is fbctrl?
It is a utility which executes commands from at least any compatible window manager on top of the X layer.
Requirements:
· libX11 >= 1.0.0
How do i install it?
Installation is simple, just follow the steps below. fbctrl uses autoconf and automake to detect and setup a working built environment.
1. Download fbctrl-0.1.0.tar.gz from above.
2. tar xzf fbctrl-0.1.0.tar.gz && cd fbctrl-0.1.0
3. ./configure && make && make install
What's New in This Release:
· This release adds support for the x86-64 architecture, and has some minor code cleanups.
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