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

TODO

Base Components of DebianFluxbox

Hardware detection:

discover - hardware identification system
mdetect - autoconfigures mice
read-edid - retrieves information from the monitor

NOTE: possibly substitute hwinfo for hardware detection

X Windows:

xorg - X windows system
lightdm - simple display manager

Fluxbox:

fluxbox - fast and light windows manager
bbpager - virtual windows pager
wmctrl - needed to place bbpager at startup

System Plumbing:

wicd - networking
alsa-utils - configuration of sound
udevil - mounts and unmounts removable devices

Desktop Plumbing:

lxappearance - GTK+ theme switcher
dunst - 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