Fluxbox

Fluxbox is an X window manager based on Blackbox. Aiming to be lightweight and customizable, Fluxbox has minimal support for graphical icons. The Fluxbox interface has only a taskbar and a menu that is accessible by right-clicking on the desktop. All basic configurations of Fluxbox are controlled by text files.

Fluxbox does have the ablility to show some eye candy. Colors, gradients, borders, and several other basic appearance attributes can be specified. Recent versions of Fluxbox support rounded corners and graphical elements. Furthermore, effects managers such as Xcompmgr and transset-df can be used to add true transparency to desktop elements and windows. Fluxbox also has several features Blackbox lacks, including tabbed windows, and a configurable titlebar.

Fluxbox is the default window manager used in Damn Small Linux. Because of its small memory footprint and quick loading time, Fluxbox is popular in many LiveCDs such as Knoppix STD and Gparted.

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