Fluxbox Remote

There is only one program you can use in your console to invoke certain actions in fluxbox. Man-Page:
:~/$ man fluxbox-remote

Available Commands

Display available fluxbox commands. Many of these commands are ment to deal with focussed windows, and can only be used from the window-menu, but the list also has some items useful for fluxbox-remote.

$ fluxbox --list-commands
activate
activatetab
addworkspace
...
workspace
workspacemenu

Usage Examples

Logout from Session

$ fluxbox-remote exit
# or
$ fluxbox-remote quit

Minimize all Applications

$ fluxbox-remote showdesktop

Reload Configuration

use this after editing the keys file

$ fluxbox-remote reconfigure

Reload Style

$ fluxbox-remote reloadstyle

Fluxbox Restart

This might help when fluxbox starts to behave weird.

$ fluxbox-remote restart
last modified: sillyslux Wednesday, May 10, 2017 10:35 AM