New Fluxbox available

[Member PPC]

I was pleased to see that Fluxbox was updated in antiX.
The change I wanted to see implemented is now available: users can add a real start menu, show desktop button, and even quicklaunchers to the toolbar! The down side? Only “text quick launchers”. That, however, can be mitigated by force the use to show toolbar entries with a Font that has glyphs that can be used as “generic icons”. We have on in anti that includes, out of the box icons for File Manager, Web Browser, E-mail, Text Document, Audio Player, Movie Player, etc…

Adding launchers to fluxbox toolbar is not easy and can be seen on a very old post of mine, about changing fluxbox look and feel, that I have to dig up…

Basicly: edit Fluxbox’s “init” config file and add 2 lines, at it’s start, for each “button” you want to add to the toolbar. Examples for adding a “Menu” button and a “Show Taskbar” button:

session.screen0.toolbar.button.togshowdesk.commands: ToggleCmd {ShowDesktop Matches (Title!=conky)} {DeIconify all}
session.screen0.toolbar.button.togshowdesk.label: _
session.screen0.toolbar.button.homenu.label: Menu
session.screen0.toolbar.button.homenu.commands: RootMenu

Then, add the buttons where you want them (the names are shown in bold, on the above lines), in the line that starts with
session.screen0.toolbar.tools

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