Projects / Fluxbox
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
- 04 Sep 2008 20:18
Changes: Updated translations, new commands, and many bugfixes.
- 08 Oct 2007 13:52
Changes: This release includes a lot of bugfixes, new styles, updated language support, better shaped corners, and much more.
- 21 Mar 2007 02:33
Changes: Lots of bugs were fixed. Some new features were added, such as mouse bindings and per-window alpha settings. The language files were updated.
- 13 Jun 2006 13:46
Changes: A huge list of new features since the 0.1.14 version. Some of the major new features are ewmh, UTF-8 support, and either internal ("embedded") or external tabs.
- 15 Sep 2005 01:20
Changes: Major changes to font handling, code cleanups, and bugfixes.
- All comments
Recent commentsFlux!
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.