Fluxbox 9 to "Fluxbox 10"?

[lKingjr]

morning, I'm running various flavors of Mint in VirtualBox including Mint 10 rc. my question is, can I upgrade Fluxbox 9 to Fluxbox 10 rc (so to speak)?

thanks

[lKingjr]

okay, now that the release of Linux Mint 10 is out. can I upgrade Fluxbox 9 to a Fluxbox 10??

[richyrich]

No, you will have to wait for Mint Fluxbox 10 to be released.

[lKingjr]

No, you will have to wait for Mint Fluxbox 10 to be released.

ok thanks

[daquirm]

Strange I haven't evene noticed that Mint Fluxbox 10 RC is out, where is it possible to get it?

[viking777]

No, you will have to wait for Mint Fluxbox 10 to be released.

ok thanks

You don't have to wait at all. I am running Fluxbox on Mint 10 and it works very well (better than gnome in fact). All you have to do is install the packages 'fluxbox' and 'fluxconf' to Mint 10 then copy the files '.fluxbox' and '.mint-fm2' from Mint9 to you home folder on Mint 10 (note they are 'dot' files ie hidden unless you press Ctl/h in Nautilus) then log out and change the DE to Fluxbox. It all works perfectly for me.

Of course it won't be exactly the same as Mint10 Fluxbox CE, but then you won't have to wait for all that Flux goodness either and you will also have access to all the gnome tools as well as the flux ones (they won't all work, but a lot of them will). As an example if you type 'mintmenu' into a run dialog you will get the entire mintmenu on your desktop which you wont get on the Fluxbox CE alone, that gives you a lot more flexibility although heavier overheads if you have a very low powered system.

[lKingjr]

No, you will have to wait for Mint Fluxbox 10 to be released.

ok thanks

You don't have to wait at all. I am running Fluxbox on Mint 10 and it works very well (better than gnome in fact). All you have to do is install the packages 'fluxbox' and 'fluxconf' to Mint 10 then copy the files '.fluxbox' and '.mint-fm2' from Mint9 to you home folder on Mint 10 (note they are 'dot' files ie hidden unless you press Ctl/h in Nautilus) then log out and change the DE to Fluxbox. It all works perfectly for me.

Of course it won't be exactly the same as Mint10 Fluxbox CE, but then you won't have to wait for all that Flux goodness either and you will also have access to all the gnome tools as well as the flux ones (they won't all work, but a lot of them will). As an example if you type 'mintmenu' into a run dialog you will get the entire mintmenu on your desktop which you wont get on the Fluxbox CE alone, that gives you a lot more flexibility although heavier overheads if you have a very low powered system.

thanks, sorry to take so long to get back. I installed a fresh LM10 then added XFCE and Fluxbox. they all work but when you do something like this, isn't some of gnome, fluxbox, xfce running underneath the others? doesn't that take away from some of the advantages of each?

thanks

[viking777]

thanks, sorry to take so long to get back. I installed a fresh LM10 then added XFCE and Fluxbox. they all work but when you do something like this, isn't some of gnome, fluxbox, xfce running underneath the others? doesn't that take away from some of the advantages of each?

thanks

If you have to ask "are there any disadvantages" then my interpretation of that is you can't actually see any (neither can I) in which case you stick with what you have got.

If you do see any disadvantages then use your present system until fluxbox CE comes out and then run that instead.

The only disadvantages that I can think of are those I mentioned in my first post ie. If you have a low powered system you will probably be using more resources. On my machine it would be impossible to notice any difference.

[lKingjr]

thanks, sorry to take so long to get back. I installed a fresh LM10 then added XFCE and Fluxbox. they all work but when you do something like this, isn't some of gnome, fluxbox, xfce running underneath the others? doesn't that take away from some of the advantages of each?

thanks

If you have to ask "are there any disadvantages" then my interpretation of that is you can't actually see any (neither can I) in which case you stick with what you have got.

If you do see any disadvantages then use your present system until fluxbox CE comes out and then run that instead.

The only disadvantages that I can think of are those I mentioned in my first post ie. If you have a low powered system you will probably be using more resources. On my machine it would be impossible to notice any difference.

thanks. I just wonder about people who say they prefer something like Fluxbox then load it up with everything and the "kitchen sink". I actually run any Linux as guests in VirtualBox but even then isn't much of a difference resource-wise for me. I have enough "omph" to run whatever I choose.