ceeslans

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From: NL

Registered: 28-03-2024

Autostarting applications in Fluxuan v5

Today I installed Fluxuan v5 (amd64) on a removable drive. No problems whatsoever with the installation, all in all a really smooth proces.
I'm quite happy with the overall lite setup, looks and performance. The conky is helpful to explore the current keybindings (which in time I probably will adjust to me own preferences).

Meanhile I did replace a few applications and routines. ROXTerm is now default terminal, medit was added as texteditor and firefox-ESR replaced qutebrowser. I've also installed picom compositor to add real transparency to apps like conky and terminal.
I will probably be looking at possible replacement of some memory-hungry services/apps, like connman+cmst for network-manager. This all in good time.

I noticed that none of the running apps were started from ~/.fluxbox/startup (eventhough I could add add startup commands for e.g picom). I guess that a number of services and applications are autostarted from /etc/xdg or directly by fluxbox; but for the life of me I can't figure out how (for example) conky is auto started - or how it can be disabled/enabled at login...
Can you please guide me where/how the process is initiated ?

Last edited by ceeslans (03-05-2024 14:50:26)

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Re: Autostarting applications in Fluxuan v5

Btw, nice changes , I do love simple .... good looking WM`s ,

You probably did not see all off the fluxbox startup

Right click on your desktop go to Configuration Fluxbox startup -> scroll down and you will see conky & + the rest you can remove change what you want

look in the attached image

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ceeslans

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From: NL

Registered: 28-03-2024

Re: Autostarting applications in Fluxuan v5

<snip>
You probably did not see all off the fluxbox startup
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oh man... do I feel stupid! 
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Editing the startup file now....

Last edited by ceeslans (14-04-2024 11:58:03)

ceeslans

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From: NL

Registered: 28-03-2024

Re: Autostarting applications in Fluxuan v5

My current Fluxuan desktop.
Upgraded fluxbox v/1.3.5  to v/1.3.7
Replaced connman (over network-manager) / firefox (over qutebrowser) / pcmanfm (over Thunar) and removed orphaned dependencies (a.o. xfce4 related)
Added picom compositor and various gui applications like rofi, yad, gimp, mirage, audacious, mpv etc - and many related tools/scripts/configs.
Overall still a rather skinny setup; filesystem on disk size ~3.4Gb ; Memory consumption at startup ~175Mb (with conky and volumeicon disabled).
I do notice some slight white flashing when opening/closing a terminal window, but cannot find the cause for this odd behaviour. Any ideas?

Last edited by ceeslans (12-04-2024 15:21:53)