Getting Started Installing fluxbox for newbies First Run Ultimate Guide to fluxbox Tabs Introduction to Tabs Basics of Tabbing Sloppy Window Grouping Tabbing only some windows Turning Tabs off Tab placement Tabs Autogrouping Autogrouping From Tabs Tabs in themes Keybindings The fluxbox keygrabber Special Keys The list of keygrabber actions Setting Backgrounds Setting a background bsetroot bsetbg Overriding theme backgrounds The Slit What is the Slit? How do I use it? Where do I get Dockapps? How do I change the slit's behavior? I want my slit apps to remember order! Editing Your Menu Setting the menu file location Valid Commands within your Menu file The Basics of themes (styles) in Fluxbox What is a style and how does it work? How do I make my own? Structure of a style: Can I set a background image/color? Can I add note/comments in my styles? I still have more questions... Fluxbox Theme Basics contributed by: Justin Rebelo {rebelo@shaw.ca} What is a style and how does it work? A style is basicaly a theme for fluxbox. It is a simple ascii text file that tells fluxbox how to generate the appearance of the different components of the window manager. They are located in ~/.fluxbox/styles and in the global fluxbox share directory, which will vary depending on the method of installation used. How do I make my own? Start off by opening a style in your favorite text editor (I recommend vim). Look at the style, how it is structured and organized. Just looking at it will explain most of the questions you may have. Structure of a style: The style is made up of a few major components which then have their own sub-directives. The toolbar, menu and window are the major components. The window.* directives control the appearance of your window frames, window.tab.* controls the appearance of the window tabs. menu.* controls the appearance of the popup menu that you see when you right click on the desktop. toolbar.* is the bar you will see at the top or bottom of your screen. The slit (also called a dock, wharf, etc in other WMs) is controlled by the toolbar settings. Can I set a background image/color? Somewhere in the style file you will see a line with "rootCommand:" at the beginning and it will be followed by a command (preferably bsetbg) to set the background color or image of the style. You CAN use other rootCommands than bsetbg, but I don't advise it. bsetbg is actually a wrapper for other root commands for setting the root window. This way, a user specifies which of the rootCommands they prefer and it will be used in all themes that use bsetbg. Can I add note/comments in my styles? Sure, just start a line with a hash (#), a bang(!), or use C style comments (//). I still have more questions... Take a look at the styles provided with fluxbox, you should be able to find the answer there or by trying different settings. If you still can't get it, stop by #fluxbox on openprojects. My nick is demerol.
Got comments about the page? Send them to webmaster. If you have general Fluxbox related questions ask them on our irc channel or mailing lists. Show Source Designed by aLEczapKA