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- Getting Started
- Ultimate Guide to fluxbox Tabs
- Keybindings
- Setting Backgrounds
- The Slit
- Editing Your Menu
- The Basics of themes (styles) in Fluxbox
The Slit
One of the most Frequently asked questions is "What is the slit?" In fact,
at the time this document was written, I also moved it to the top of the
FAQ page to point to this document, to try to stop it from being asked in
#fluxbox 10 times a day, and to try to end the myth that the Slit is another
name for the Toolbar. :)
- What is the Slit?
The slit is one of the many parts of Fluxbox that has been inherited
from Blackbox. It is designed to hold WindowMaker Dockapps, or even
anything that runs in that mode. Applications that do generally have
a '-w' option.
- How do I use it?
Well, the first thing is to make sure that it's compiled into your
copy of fluxbox. It's generally safe to assume it is; All packages
for different distributions ship with it, and you have to manually
turn off support for it.
Other than that, You can run any 'dockable' application. (This is
also known as running in 'withdrawn' mode). As an example, xmms ships
with the 'wmxmms' application. Simply run 'wmxmms -w &', and it
will appear in the slit.
The popular gkrellm program also
supports a -w option to allow it to run in the slit.
- Where can I get dockapps?
The best place to start is
http://www.bensinclair.com/dockapp.
There is a very large repository of different dockapps available there. Apart from
that, you could Search Freshmeat, or
check with your distribution.
http://bbtools.windsofstorm.net/
Holds a bunch of Blackbox/Fluxbox utils, most of which can run in the slit.
Also, if you have kde support enabled, kde dockets will appear in the slit.
A new website exclusively dedicated to dockapps is here.
- Can I change the slit's behavior?
Of course. Simply right-click on the visible portion of the slit, and select
options from there. Most of these options are the exact same as on the Taskbar.
The only thing that isn't is "Direction". Your slit can go either right-to-left
(Horizontal) or up-to-down (Vertical)..
There's also a 'maximize over slit' option in the configure menu; this allows
maximized windows to cover the slit up.
- I want my slit apps to remember order!
As of fluxbox 0.1.10, this is possible, using a 'slitlist' file. Here are some
instructions on using it:
This patch addresses the unpredictability of slit
dockapp ordering. It stores the current order of
dockapps in a file, default=~/.fluxbox/slitlist. When
loading dockapps into the slit it attempts to maintain
the previous ordering, matching with previously-run
dockapps by name.
A simple procedure for getting the slit sequences the
way you like is:
1) Run fluxbox with no pre-loaded dockapps.
2) Run dockapps individually in the order you want them.
3) Re-add dockapps to your auto-run script, e.g.
.xinitrc or .xsession. Order doesn't matter here!
This sequence will be saved by default to
~/.fluxbox/slitlist should be maintained in future
fluxbox sessions.
Users are free to manually edit the slitlist file. It
is a simple list of window names, one line per dockapp.
Similar to the init file it should be edited while not
running fluxbox. Otherwise changes may get overwritten.
The user also has the option of choosing a different
path for the slit list file. The following example init
file entry changes the path:
session.slitlistFile: /home/me/etc/slitsort
Note that there is no option to disable the sorting.
The patch author could not think of any benefit to
arbitrary ordering
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