Talk:Fluxbox
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[edit] Slow on some distros?
- Fluxbox can be very slow on some Linux distributions such as RH 9 and Ubuntu. One possible reason is that the Xfree server cannot handle UTF-8 font request very well.
Is this outdated? I believe Ubuntu runs X.Org, and it runs Fluxbox fine. Twinxor t 02:57, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
It is not outdated! On a default install of Ubuntu, it takes a ridiculously long time to start up, 55 seconds to start session, with xorg hogging 98% of cpu. No such problem on plain debian, or slackware for that instance. Someone posted about this on Ubuntu forums in March; one suggestion that might work is to do a "export LC_ALL=C" before starting fluxbox. Try adding this line at the top of /etc/gdm/Xsession.
Yeah, it's work! I'm using ubuntu feisty 7.04. And the starting time now 2 sec, until now it was 12 sec on sempron 3000+. Thanks a lot!
- I run Fluxbox on a 350MHz/128MB machine, with Debian Sarge and XFree86, and it just takes about 2 seconds to start. 213.94.246.2 17:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
- You're wrong though. Fluxbox SPECIFICALLY had a bug in ALL previous versions(earlier than 0.9.14) where fluxbox would take up to an ENTIRE minute to startup if the system was set to use UTF-8(Most modern distros, including Ubuntu/Fedora/SuSe, or ANY non-western european distro that uses utf8). It was fixed in 0.9.14 though. The bug specifically caused long startup times, very slow operation, and cpu usage of 100%, and is 100% reproducable on any system running on utf8. It was fast for you because you did not use utf8, but a standard locale. Liquidtenmillion 21:55, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fluxbox is an X window manager based on Blackbox 0.61.1.
The obvious followup question is: so what exactly differentiates Fluxbox from Blackbox? ⇔ ChristTrekker 18:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
- I just did a bit of a cleanup, feel free to do some editing of your own. —— Eagle101Need help? 15:39, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] which toolkit libs?
GTK+, Qt (toolkit), or wxWidgets? The Blackbox article doesn't say either.
--Jerome Potts 18:13, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Panel for window switching
What does this mean? I use Fluxbox, and I'm not sure what feature this refers to... A Google search for '+"Panel for window switching" fluxbox' points exclusively to this article (and copies of it). Is there a less confusing way to express this idea? 24.250.100.241 (talk) 06:06, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
- The "panel" is called the "Toolbar" and it usually has a set of arrows that allows you to navigate through the virutal desktops. 70.186.172.75 (talk) 13:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
