Fluxbox Essentials

man Pages

Available fluxbox man pages are:

• fluxbox
• fluxbox-apps
• fluxbox-keys
• fluxbox-menu
• fluxbox-remote
• fluxbox-style
• fluxbox-update_configs To read these locally installed documents, you have to use the man command in a console:

$ man fluxbox-style
... documentation for fluxbox styling shows up ...

Configuration Files

All relevant files are located in ~/.fluxbox/.

$ ls ~/.fluxbox
apps
fbrun_history
init
keys
lastwallpaper
menu
overlay
slitlist
startup
styles/
windowmenu
workspace

Starting Fluxbox

Usually Fluxbox is started from a script in your home directory. You can invoke it manually from the terminal with /usr/bin/startfluxbox, but normally this is done by your Login-Manager. The last line in ~/.fluxbox/startup is self-explaining:

#!/bin/sh
...
exec fluxbox

Use this file to automatically start applications when you log in to a new session.

Initialization Process

First thing Fluxbox does, is to look for it’s configuration file in ~/.fluxbox/init and to load it if this file exists. If the init-file, the startup-file or any of the files listed in the init-file don’t exist, they will be created with default values. Therefore, to undo possibly breaking changes you’ve made, it is ok to just delete the file in question and restart fluxbox.

Configuring Fluxbox