What is Fluxbox?

Fluxbox is a lightweight window manager for X, that uses ["GTK"]. Etch includes version 0.9.14.

How to install Fluxbox?

If you do not have X installed, you need to install X first, using ["Aptitude"] or ["apt-get"]:

apt-get install x-window-system-core

After you can install fluxbox.

apt-get install fluxbox

You can use fluxbox with xdm now.

Changing GTK themes

You can change GTK and GTK2 themes with gtk-theme-switch in fluxbox. Install gtk-theme-switch package first and move your GTK themes to ~/.themes, run gtk-theme-switch or gtk-theme-switch2 and change theme.


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