[nzlug] fluxbox goodness

[Peter]

Yeah im a fluxbox fan myself.  Have you looked at AntiX, the mepis offshoot? Debian + fluxbox, rox etc. Its great if i need a quick and nasty desktop on an old machine. It does the menus the way you want, maybe you could pick it apart and see how they did it.

Peter




Nevyn wrote:

> Found something. It appears aptitude search doesn't search through
> descriptions. apt-cache search found fluxconf which includes a menu
> editor. My initial reaction to it is that it's primitive, lacks any
> sort of usability, and worse yet, made the menu unusable as it removed
> the "begin" statement from the ~/fluxbox/menu.list file.
> 
> Still haven't found whatever it is that's supposed to generate a menu.
> I.e. I typed in `aptitude install abiword` and found no mention of
> abiword in the menu.