Fluxbox is small and quite flexible window manager. One of its great features is the ability to become pseudo-transparent. What pseudo-transparency does is that it produces effects, which are similar to the features offered by more heavier window managers like Gnome and Kde. Fluxbox does not however create any performance impact if its pseudo-transparency features are enabled. Continue reading
Blackdust-burned (a fluxbox theme and a wallpaper)
Blackdust-burned information:
The theme is Gpl. The theme contains the second part of my Blackdust series. The theme comes with a new wallpaper: burned, which you can get also from my Gpl gallery Continue reading
Building mplayer and gmplayer (mplayer gui)
In this entry I am going to go through the steps, which are needed for building the latest mplayer and gmplayer from their source codes. I am also going to show how to easily create .deb packages when using a distribution coming from the Debian family (Debian,Ubuntu, Linux Mint etc.) The steps below are done within a terminal client.
If you are using distributions that is not related to Debian family then compiling and installing follows the simple pattern of ./configure && make && sudo make install
You can pass some options to the configure line, which appear under the section CONFIGURE_FLAGS = \ (see below for a full example). A short example: ./configure – – enable-gui
If you need any help with the configure line execute ./configure – – help for a full options listing.
Important. There should be no space between – – markings (this is a WordPress related problem, which shows the markings incorrectly).
Mapping shortcut keys with xbindkeys
If you are using one of those window-managers, which does not support shortcut keys very well by default (lwm, aewm etc.) then xbindkeys might be just what you are looking for. Continue reading