{"id":118,"date":"2006-02-06T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-05-13T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:36:29","slug":"gnome-or-fluxbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/gnome-or-fluxbox\/","title":{"rendered":"GNOME or Fluxbox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I currently have two window managers installed on my computer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/\">GNOME<\/a> (which is the default with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntulinux.org\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluxbox.org\/\">Fluxbox<\/a>. I installed Fluxbox because I found GNOME to be just a little bit too heavy on the features, and I quite fancied the idea of starting with something really lightweight and then just finding ways to add the particular features which I needed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using Fluxbox as my default window manager for about a week, with some success. I&#8217;ve managed to resolve a good number of my gripes, but a few things still are outstanding.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Samba<\/b> &#8211; I haven&#8217;t yet tried connecting to one of the shared folders on the other computers in the house, but GNOME makes this insanely easy. We shall see.<\/li>\n<li><b>Delete<\/b> &#8211; The graphical file manager for Fluxbox is called <a href=\"http:\/\/rox.sourceforge.net\/phpwiki\/index.php\/ROX-Filer\">Rox<\/a>, and is quite sleek. However, I&#8217;m having difficulty getting used to it for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is that if you highlight a file and hit the &#8220;Delete&#8221; key on the keyboard, it does nothing. Ctrl+X is the shortcut for deletion, and I can&#8217;t figure out how to change this. Yet.<\/li>\n<li><b>Trash<\/b> &#8211; On a related note, Rox doesn&#8217;t have a Trash folder. There is, I believe, a plugin available to do this, but I consider this to be something that can reasonably be expected to be in the base package.<\/li>\n<li><b>Toolbar<\/b> &#8211; My GNOME toolbar contains a nifty little workspace pager, and a system monitor that shows small histograms of recent CPU usage, memory usage and network usage. Again, I haven&#8217;t found equivalents in Fluxbox yet.<\/li>\n<li><b>GAIM<\/b> &#8211; Minor one: I&#8217;m not receiving sounds from <a href=\"http:\/\/gaim.sourceforge.net\/\">GAIM<\/a> in Fluxbox, which means I can&#8217;t tell when someone has IMed me, unless I keep the conversation window in view. Which defeats the whole virtual desktop idea.<\/li>\n<li><b>Shutdown<\/b> &#8211; the main menu doesn&#8217;t have a shutdown option &#8211; just an &#8220;Exit&#8221; option, which takes you back to the login screen, where you can shutdown. I think that this is reasonably easy to add (<a href=\"http:\/\/nslug.ns.ca\/pipermail\/nslug\/2002-October\/003965.html\">something along these lines<\/a> with a little bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/gentoo-wiki.com\/HOWTO_Let_a_common_user_shutdown\/reboot\">this<\/a>), but again, it&#8217;s surprising how much you take these kinds of things for granted in more polished window managers.<\/li>\n<li><b>Bluetooth<\/b> &#8211; GNOME is pretty slick when it comes to transferring photos from my phone to the computer. Haven&#8217;t looked into this on Fluxbox much, but it isn&#8217;t leaping out at me.<\/li>\n<li><b>XMMS<\/b> &#8211; A very scratchy itch, this one. When I right click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmms.org\/\">XMMS<\/a> in the taskbar and move it to another workspace, the playlist window stays behind, and there&#8217;s no way to send it along without closing XMMS, switching to the destination workspace, and opening XMMS from there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s the entire contents of my list.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got config fatigue now, and so I&#8217;ve set GNOME as my default again for a little while. When the time feels right, I shall go back and see if I can strike some of these items off the list. Rest assured that as and when I nail them, I&#8217;ll leave an update here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently have two window managers installed on my computer: GNOME (which is the default with Ubuntu) and Fluxbox. I installed Fluxbox because I found GNOME to be just a little bit too heavy on the features, and I quite fancied the idea of starting with something really lightweight and then just finding ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[101,103,100,92,102,91,241,104],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-linux","tag-fluxbox","tag-gaim","tag-gnome","tag-linux","tag-samba","tag-ubuntu","tag-ubuntu-linux","tag-xmms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}