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Blackbox, Fluxbox

X Window System has more alternatives than KDE and Gnome.

OSDir.com has a very short note on Blackbox window manager. I used to use KDE 3, but within a week, I started missing the lightweight nature of Blackbox.

After some looking around, I settled for Fluxbox, which is a variant of Blackbox with some nice features. Set it up with keyboard shortcuts and I’m very happy with it.

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Screenshot taken this day shows Mozilla, gkrellm on the dock, rxvt, scite ans xawtv with image from my webcam - ok, it is sunday morning, drizzling outside and I’m half asleep :-)

Quick note to setup keyboard shortcuts. Define these in the file ~/.fluxbox/keys and restart FluxBox. The modifier keys can be defined easily as Mod1, Mod2 etc. Mod1 is Alt. Here's my sample definition. 

Mod1 F6 ExecCommand rxvt -sr
Mod1 F7 ExecCommand mozilla
Mod1 F8 ExecCommand pan
Mod1 F9 ExecCommand gvim

Posted: September 15, 2002 08:08 AM
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