Introduction

DebianFluxbox is a Debian Pure Blend which aims to provide a fully configured installation of Fluxbox, a light weight windows manager, out of the box. This is to provide an alternative to the standard Debian desktop of Gnome and KDE.

Fluxbox is a stacking windows manager which provides excellent handling of open application windows in the X Windows System. It is very light on system resources while still allowing a high level of configuration. Being fast with a low memory and CPU profile, it is ideally suited for thin clients in client-server environments, older computers and live CDs.

This blend will be a fully working system at install. Hardware detection is provided, the installation of Xorg and a display manager in addition to standard system and desktop configuration such as networking, sound and system notifications. Additional thought will be given to user interface and clean aesthetics.

Debian Pure Blend

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Main Components of DebianFluxbox

Hardware detection: discover is used as a hardware identification system in addition to mdetect for autoconfiguring mice and read-edid to retrieve information from the monitor. NOTE: possibly substitute hwinfo for hardware detection.

X Windows: xorg provides the base X windows system and lightdm is the simple display manager.

Fluxbox: fluxbox is the X11 windows manager. bbpager is a virtual windows pager and wmctrl is needed to place bbpager at startup.

System Plumbing: wicd handles networking. Sound is configured using alsa-utils.

Desktop Plumbing: lxappearance is a GTK+ theme switcher. dunst is a highly configurable and lightweight notification-daemon.

Command Line Tools: tree, mc, htop

This is a page holder for the Fluxbox - Debian Pure Blends project. Information will be moved from that page to here over the next few days.

Date: 1/6/16