This article is aimed at those who are new to Fluxbox, curious, or who are wanting to get more out of the Gentoo/Fluxbox experience. This is often ideal in situations where hardware resources are limited, or as a matter of personal taste. Note, however, that with this setup there are some issues caused by overlapping feature sets.įluxbox can also be expanded by third party software.
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Thus, a person could use Fluxbox to manage the windows and GNOME for the rest. For example, some people find that Metacity, GNOME's window manager, simply does not have the flexibility they need, but that Fluxbox does not have all the built-in applications and integration they desire from a complete desktop environment. To make things even more confusing, however, Fluxbox can replace the default WM for GNOME or KDE. However, since Fluxbox includes everything necessary for a basic desktop, many people use it in place of larger desktop suites like GNOME or KDE. Thus, one cannot truly say that Fluxbox is a lightweight WM. GNOME's default WM, Metacity, does not include these things, but they are available through other GNOME programs. Fluxbox also provides a platform for launching applications, configuring keyboard shortcuts and background images, as well as displaying information with the slit. Some WMs, however, take on more functionality than just window management. This can be done automatically via a set of user-defined rules, or can be done at runtime with the mouse and possibly keyboard shortcuts, depending on the specific WM. WMs control where each window is placed, its size, and which desktop(s) have access to it. 3.11 Enabling privileged operations through polkitįor those who are unfamiliar with Linux's desktop model, window managers (WMs) are the applications which are run by X11 to manage other graphical programs.3.10 Setting a theme, background, and a startup script.