Fluxbox 0.9.5 out

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Vache · Post by **Vache** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 11:42 pm

This is another dev release, but you can see how far it is coming along... Just wanted to share my happiness with everyone else...

Naturally, right when I finished compiling the newest breakmygentoo ebuilds for gnome, I have ANOTHER thing to compile... I hope I can get outside today to see "the sun" :p

El_Presidente_Pufferfish · Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:36 am

Thanks for the heads up!

yak8998 · Post by **yak8998** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 1:46 am

sweet¡ ...fluxbox is the only one i know how to use (besides KDE...but yeah)

hi puffer

kniteshade · Post by **kniteshade** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:04 am

Nothing super new:
improved iconbar, search path for theme pixmaps, configurable toolbar height, more theme items.

Tho they fixed some things like removing rounded corners from xmms and a few other things.

Doesn't mean i wont grab it right after i press this submit button!!

Tho it does feel more like christmas when you skip a whole tonne of releases then suddenly realise your behind - then when you emerge it theres like 50 new cool features.

chefakito · Post by **chefakito** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 2:09 am

installed it -- I'm back to 0.9.4 -- had 0.9.5 had some major issues on my machine..

-styles wouldn't get implemented properly (ie: influx)
-popups were more difficult to close once invoked
-crashed twice in five min -- needed to reboot
-restart crashes flux and X

Anacific · Post by **Anacific** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 4:21 am

Hmm... it does seem like a very minor update. I'll give this a try once I get the time though, yay!

squiddy · Post by **squiddy** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 5:59 am

I'm having a lot of the same problems chefakito was. I have been using it all evening and it crashed once. That is when I pressed the "restart" button in the menu... which has now become the "crash X now" button. My theme is also having problems. I am going to stick with it for a while and give it a good testing. Definitely still usable. And some of the new features are nice. Just be watchful of the Reboot, er, I mean Restart button.

darge0flex · Post by **darge0flex** » Thu Aug 28, 2003 10:23 pm

they have updated the tarball: fluxbox-0.9.6pre1.tar.gz

Would be nice to have an ebuild for that...

meowsqueak · Post by **meowsqueak** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:18 am

The last time I tried the development branch of fluxbox (0.9.4 I think) it nuked all my lovely customised 0.1.14 configuration files in ~/.fluxbox.

I'm not sure if this behaviour still occurs, but never underestimate the power of backups...

kniteshade · Post by **kniteshade** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 3:51 am

Anacific wrote:Hmm... it does seem like a very minor update. I'll give this a try once I get the time though, yay!

Im pretty sure it wasn't in 0.9.4 but the iconbar thingo down the bottom now looks different and has the actal small icons of each of the program displayed... which is kinda neat - tho reminding me waaay to much of windoze.

Kniteshade

meowsqueak · Post by **meowsqueak** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:08 am

Just received this email from Henrik Kinnunen (fluxgen) on the fluxbox development list:

Because 0.9.5 had a few serious bugs, I'll release 0.9.6 in a few days.
Until then there's a 0.9.6pre1 package out, with the bug fixed and a new
feature.

Hopefully we'll see an ebuild for this very soon.

Daeluin · Post by **Daeluin** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:10 am

whoa, I see a 'taskbar' and I'm loving it. did I somehow miss this in 9.4, or does it fall under 'improved iconbar'....

this makes multitasking without losing windows possible!

major ownage

TenPin · Post by **TenPin** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 12:08 pm

I've been using 0.14 with the remember patch for about 6 months now and its never crashed once. I don't think I could put up with a development version crashing or being buggy.

The new features look fantastic though. To make 0.14 perfect for me I would add:

all windows available on the icon bar
window snapping
always on top / layers
keyboard menu navigation

All of which I believe are now in the development version. Something that would be nice is dynamic menus and action files like waimea has.

phunni · Post by **phunni** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:16 pm

0.9.6pre1 is out - I've downloaded it but I'd like to use portage to install - to make it easy to go back to the other version if I have to

How do I do this - can I just edit the ebuild?

Is it possible to have both 0.1.14 and 0.9.6 installed at the same time? If so, how do I switch between them?

Headhunter123 · Post by **Headhunter123** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:29 pm

Hi !

Yes, you can install both versions, you just have to maintain two /usr/bin/fluxbox executables (so be careful with install or emerge fluxbox)

dob · Post by **dob** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 2:36 pm

Ebuild for 0.9.6-pre1 (just a quick and dirty hack, but WFM)

fluxbox-0.9.5-r1.ebuild

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# Copyright 1993-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-wm/fluxbox/fluxbox-0.9.5.ebuild,v 1.1 2003/08/28 15:28:12 tseng Exp $
 
IUSE="gnome kde nls xinerama truetype"
 
#inherit flag-o-matic eutils
 
#S=${WORKDIR}/${P}
S=${WORKDIR}/fluxbox-0.9.6pre1
DESCRIPTION="Fluxbox is yet another windowmanager for X. It's 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). So what's the difference between fluxbox and blackbox then? The answer is: LOTS! *This is a development release and should not be considered stable.* *This release includes the Blueflux style.*"
SRC_URI="http://fluxbox.org/download/fluxbox-0.9.6pre1.tar.bz2
        http://koti.mbnet.fi/bionik/blueflux/blueflux_0.1.0.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/"
 
SLOT="0"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc"
 
DEPEND="virtual/x11
                >=sys-devel/autoconf-2.52"
RDEPEND="x11-misc/commonbox-utils
                x11-themes/commonbox-styles"
PROVIDE="virtual/blackbox"
 
mydoc="ChangeLog COPYING NEWS"
 
src_unpack() {
 
        unpack ${A}
        cd ${S}
 
        use nls && ( \
                einfo "Redirecting NLS"
                for i in `find ${S} -name 'Makefile.am'`
                do
                        sed -i -e 's:$(pkgdatadir)/nls:/usr/share/locale:' ${i}
                done
        )
 
        sed -i -e 's:bsetroot.1::' ${S}/doc/Makefile.am
        sed -i -e 's:bsetroot::' ${S}/util/Makefile.*
}
 
 
src_compile() {
 
        econf \
                `use_enable nls` \
                `use_enable kde` \
                `use_enable gnome` \
                `use_enable xinerama` \
                `use_enable truetype xft` \
                --sysconfdir=/etc/X11/${PN} \
                --datadir=/usr/share/commonbox \
                ${myconf} || die
 
        sed -i -e 's:\$(datadir)/fluxbox:/usr/share/commonbox:' ${S}/Makefile
        sed -i -e 's:\$(datadir)/fluxbox:/usr/share/commonbox:' ${S}/data/Makefile
 
        emake \
                pkgdatadir=/usr/share/commonbox || die
 
        cd data make \
                pkgdatadir=/usr/share/commonbox init
}
 
src_install() {
 
        dodir /usr/share/commonbox/${PN}
        dodir /usr/share/commonbox/styles
        make DESTDIR=${D} install || die
        dodoc README* AUTHORS TODO* ${mydoc}
        rmdir ${D}/usr/share/${PN}
        dodir /etc/X11/Sessions
        echo "/usr/bin/${PN}" > ${D}/etc/X11/Sessions/${PN}
        fperms a+x /etc/X11/Sessions/${PN}
 
        cd data
        insinto /usr/share/commonbox
        doins init keys
        insinto /usr/share/commonbox/styles
        doins ${D}/usr/share/commonbox/fluxbox/styles/Meta
        rm -rf ${D}/usr/share/commonbox/fluxbox
 
        # blueflux style
        insinto /usr/share/commonbox/pixmaps
        doins ${WORKDIR}/pixmaps/*
        # fix some paths and change b->B at the same time
        sed -e 's:\.fluxbox:/usr/share/commonbox:' ${WORKDIR}/styles/blueflux \
                > ${WORKDIR}/styles/Blueflux
        insinto /usr/share/commonbox/styles
        doins ${WORKDIR}/styles/Blueflux
}

Daeluin · Post by **Daeluin** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 4:05 pm

TenPin wrote:all windows available on the icon bar

it's there, and it's amazing.

dob · Post by **dob** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:53 pm

Daeluin wrote:
TenPin wrote:all windows available on the icon bar
it's there, and it's amazing.

Well, it doesn't work for me

Even when I set the toolbar to 'All windows' mode it only shows the windows for the current workspace

It used to worked in 0.9.4

phunni · Post by **phunni** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:03 pm

OK - the default style in 0.9.6 is horrible, but I don't have anything in the menu to change it with.

How do I specify where fluxbox picks the styles up from?

eee · Post by **eee** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:03 am

phunni wrote:OK - the default style in 0.9.6 is horrible, but I don't have anything in the menu to change it with.

How do I specify where fluxbox picks the styles up from?

Styles are specified by the session.styleFile property in ~/.fluxbox/init.

If you haven't done so already, run

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fluxbox-generate_menu

to generate a 0.9x menu listing, which should include both system styles and users styles in the menu.

shiftzero · Post by **shiftzero** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 6:34 am

mplayer in fullscreen does not run in fullscreen.

s3ntient · Post by **s3ntient** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:09 am

I have invisible fonts everywhere...
In the menu for instance, the entries are there but I can't see the text. I tried changing themes, but no luck.... Any ideas?

dr_strange · Post by **dr_strange** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 10:33 am

maybe if you delete your ~/.fluxbox directory and start again?

dob · Post by **dob** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:00 pm

frostshade wrote:mplayer in fullscreen does not run in fullscreen.

It works for me (I use -vo sdl)

phunni · Post by **phunni** » Mon Sep 01, 2003 2:52 pm

In 0.9.6pre1 it runs the startup script twice for me - not so good

I guess it is development though...

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