FluxStyle
From Fluxbox-wiki
What is fluxStyle
FluxStyle is a graphical style/theme manager for the fluxbox window manager. Its looks and feel come from the gnome theme manager. FluxStyle started out as an idea I had to make installs of styles eaiser, as well as provide a user with a preview of what the style will look like. FluxStyle was coded in python using pygtk as well as glade for the user interface design. The 1.0 release will depend on pygtk 2.4 or newer, and 2.6 or newer is prefered, as well as libglade 2.4.2, older versions may or may not work so its best to have current versions of both deps. This app works out of the box on Fedora (core 3 and 4 for sure) as well as on Ubuntu Horay and Breezy; and possibly others. If you have gnome 2.8 or newer your system should have all needed libs to run the app.
How do I install fluxStyle
fluxStyle has svn access. To check it out and have the most current code; you will need the SVN package installed, and then issue the following command (as a user)
svn checkout svn://svn.berlios.de/fluxstyle/trunk fluxStyle && cd fluxStyle && chmod +x fluxStyle && ./fluxStyle
This will start fluxStyle. There is an install file included with the svn version but it should only be used if you know what youre doing. For fluxStyle to work you need to have fluxbox-svn revision 4129 or newer. If you have gentoo I have written an ebuild for fluxStyle but it depends on fluxbox .9.15 wich currently (Mar 23. 2006) masked but available for Gentoo. You can download the ebuild here Install the ebuild into your portage overlay and you are good to go.
Can I help with fluxStyle
Sure there are several things that still need to be done.
- A config file is needed
- The ability to veiw styles from multiple locations
- The ability to install styles to any location
- A way to render the preview with out using a provided 'preview.jpg'
Packagers are also needed. I would like to have a deb, an rpm, a slackware package, and as many other people who want to make a package for what ever distro.
