Fluxbox Menus That Stick!

July 24th, 2008 Pekk Posted in Computers, Linux |

I found this post saved here and since I thought it was kind of relevant to Fluxbox and the customizations I’ve been working on, I figured I’d finally post it ;D

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While at work I was using a Vector Linux machine that loaded with Fluxbox, I’ve used BBLean for windows for a while so I’m someone used to the menu driven system. The fluxbox, however worked different than the bblean I had at home. Whenever I right clicked on fluxbox at work I had to hold down the right click button to select items from a list, this was different from at home where I could just click once and the right click menu would stay.

A colleague helped me fix this problem. By doing some web searching he found that to change the fluxbox menu to stay when it is right-clicked all that’s required is to change one line in the init file.

in ~/.fluxbox/init change the menuMode from:

session.screen0.autoRaise: false
session.screen0.resizeMode: Bottom
session.screen0.menuMode: Delay
session.screen0.colPlacementDirection: TopToBottom
session.screen0.sloppywindowgrouping: true

to:

While at work I was using a Vector Linux machine that loaded with Fluxbox, I’ve used BBLean for windows for a while so I’m someone used to the menu driven system. The fluxbox, however worked different than the bblean I had at home. Whenever I right clicked on fluxbox at work I had to hold down the right click button to select items from a list, this was different from at home where I could just click once and the right click menu would stay.

A colleague helped me fix this problem. By doing some web searching he found that to change the fluxbox menu to stay when it is right-clicked all that’s required is to change one line in the init file.

in ~/.fluxbox/init change the menuMode from:

session.screen0.autoRaise: false
session.screen0.resizeMode: Bottom
session.screen0.menuMode: Delay
session.screen0.colPlacementDirection: TopToBottom
session.screen0.sloppywindowgrouping: true

to:

session.screen0.autoRaise:  false
session.screen0.resizeMode:  Bottom
session.screen0.menuMode:  Click
session.screen0.colPlacementDirection:  TopToBottom
session.screen0.sloppywindowgrouping:  true