openbox v fluxbox

allucid · 2006-08-15 02:23:33

dedhart wrote:

Ok I've been trying openbox for a few days now and even got a good looking pypanel at the bottom of the screen, but I'm beating my head trying to configure the menu, everytime I tried to add submenus, it just resorts to the crappy default menu. I tried menumaker, so I know putting menus within menus is possible but even when trying to copy the configuration in the menu made by menumaker, It still doesn't work for me. Is there anywhere I can get help with making an openbox menu?

check out obmenu in the AUR.

quetzyg · 2006-08-15 19:45:57

Besides being light, I like Fluxbox because of the desktop switching feature using the mouse scroll.
The last time I used OpenBox it didn't had that feature (or was it disabled?).

phrakture · 2006-08-15 20:07:42

Old thread revival FTW!

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject: openbox v fluxbox

stonecrest · 2006-08-15 20:40:06

phrakture, do you need help with your hacked box?

allucid · 2006-08-15 21:01:11

quetzyg wrote:

Besides being light, I like Fluxbox because of the desktop switching feature using the mouse scroll.
The last time I used OpenBox it didn't had that feature (or was it disabled?).

You can do this in openbox. Not sure if it's enabled by default.

fk · 2006-08-15 21:03:05

allucid wrote:

quetzyg wrote:
Besides being light, I like Fluxbox because of the desktop switching feature using the mouse scroll.
The last time I used OpenBox it didn't had that feature (or was it disabled?).
You can do this in openbox. Not sure if it's enabled by default.

Its enabled by default

rab · 2006-08-15 21:24:51

I always liked fluxbox, I used it for a week or so and found that it was light weight and fast. I barely tried openbox so i cant tell you my opinions on that.

But what i found is I kept coming back to gnome because of the themes. None of the fluxbox themes looked good ( IMO ) than the ones on gnome ( Cimi's themes, Lokheed's themes ).

idjut · 2006-08-16 14:41:21

Openbox lost my interest with it's "hard" editable menus. Fluxbox has what I need anyway. I would like to use the mouse more like in DR16 if possible tho.

rezza · 2006-08-16 17:54:01

Fluxbox has unnecessary crap like transparency, rounded corners, a toolbar, and (unholy of unholies) transparency. Openbox has none of that nonsense, just fast rendering, good themes, standards compliance, and a really good, intelligent community (the guys in #openbox are great, and it's only mwilson who gets angry at people on the mailing list, but he's a big softie really). Also openbox has some fun stuff in cvs at the moment, like per-app settings (similar to fluxbox's apps file), and new types of gradient to use in your funky fresh themes.

I used to love flux, but tbh openbox blows it out of the water as far as I'm concerned. YMMV.

Oh, and the menus issue? XML files are easy to understand, and you can quickly pick up on how to write them if you start from an established file.

1c3d0g · 2006-08-16 19:04:24

Agreed. Openbox FTW. :-)

jaboua · 2006-08-16 19:29:59

rezza wrote:

Oh, and the menus issue? XML files are easy to understand, and you can quickly pick up on how to write them if you start from an established file.

But I agree that fluxbox' menus are easier though...

But if menus are an issue, just use obmenu - it's great, the only thing it's missing IMO is the ability to drag menu items from one submenu to another.

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