Fluxbox 1.3.6 Released

jones_supa writes: After nearly two years since the previous release, the Fluxbox team has released version 1.3.6 to start off the new year. Like most Linux geeks already know, Fluxbox is the long-standing X window manager derived from Blackbox. The new version (announcement) puts emphasis on quality assurance and takes care of fixing a bunch of critical bugs: clocktool problems, rendering long text, race condition on shutdown, lost keypresses after workspace switch, corruption of fbrun-history, and resize and move problems. The two new features are an ArrangeWindowsStack action and treating Windows with a WM_CLASS as DockApp as DockApps. Translations for Bulgarian, Hebrew and Japanese also got updates. The Fluxbox project sends many thanks to all the contributors.

Comments

Congrats

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Fluxbox on an old Slackware laptop got me through college. Good stuff, though I have since moved on to i3wm.

Re:Wayland / serious question

[Billly Gates]

Wayland is just like X. A framework to build gui stuff on. It is X compatible too and supports the protocol.

What is the big deal?

Infact I remember something called the Unix Haters Manual which has a large section about X. I remember X back in 1998. It is a POS! It took 70% of the ram in my system.

You all hate it and think it is GOD because you are reading this on an i5 with gigs of ram. But trust me no openGl, true type fonts, 100% of all ram in a 8 meg system, wrong XFree86.conf file meant fried monitors, etc. I am in favor of gutting it but I know after the hate with SystemD Slashdot has become the ultraconservative place even if it has nothing to do with it.