I'm not sure if this should go here maybe there should be a "Fluxbox Tips" or something thread. Psyco (from Crunchbang Forum) gave me the ok to post this tip of his here. It's a really good one so here it is:

Along these same lines ^ . . . my selected App. for handling the background in Fluxbox is: Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a light and simple GUI for handling and changing the wallpaper/background.
For me, much easier to use and configure than - Feh.

Nitrogen is available through the Package Manager, then I simply add this line to the fluxbox start-up script:

Path > ~/.fluxbox/startup
nitrogen --restore &

Greetings fellow Fluxboxers!
I've been playing around with combination ToggleCmd and MacroCmd keybindings. This is to tile & remove decorations from your most used applications, eg:



I also just use

to tile and remove decorations of any open applications.

Any Fluxboxers with similar attempts, results?

Hello Fluxboxers one & all. I'm in the middle of trying to accomplish two (major IMHO!) things with this WM. Though I'm hopeful they're possible, I'm not quite sure they are after spending a couple of days configuring, tweaking & troubleshooting.

1) Configure the toolbar to be universal (i.e. only display the active window with focus and no other app)

2) Dynamically change the Decor mode between windows when they are in Tab Groups with other windows. I use the Border mode as my defaultDeco as I like this 'headless' style for windows, but would like to change it to TAB mode if & only if windows are grouped together. When I detach a window It should be back in Border mode. Despite my efforts I haven't been to accomplish this.

I've tried many things, in both the apps and keys file but to no avail. The closest thing I got to get the toolbar working I wanted (partially) is a rudimentary line in the apps file like this:



If anyone is interested I can provide other examples of how I tried to get both things to work, or even just to check out a custom style I dubbed 'ostrich2000'. Any help, advice, or comments are greatly appreciated.

Just wanted to update:

Solved the problem with Dynamically adjusting the windows Decor mode when Tab-grouping and detaching as well. I must reiterate this is primarily aimed at Border mode users though the results may come in handy for others too.

Code:

# control-click a window and drag to attach windows while preserving the session.screen0.defaultDeco: string in the init file
OnWindow Mod1 Mod4 Mouse1 :MacroCmd {StartTabbing} {SetDecor TAB}
Mod1 Mod4 space :MacroCmd {DetachClient} {SetDecor Border}

Only thing to note is for this to work properly one should click each window once while holding down the modifier keys prior to 'mating' them.
Ergonomically sound eh? ...

Now about that universal toolbar thing..

Tiling tip
Fluxbox 1.3 I put this in the keys file and tried it - it works
Mod4 a :ArrangeWindowsVertical
Mod4 v :ArrangeWindowsHorizontal

I hope it will work