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Jun
17
2015
fluxbox keys
Posted by ebal at 21:55:15 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

I am using fluxbox as my primary window manager on both my laptop and home desktop. If you want a non distractive environment to work with, I strongly suggest to take a look.

 

On the laptop, I had a problem to configure the backlight. It was always on 100%, fixed without the ability to change it. If you run on battery, then you need to lower the brightness of your display.

After Linux kernel v3.16, things got a lot easier and better for newest models of laptops that had problems with the backlight and brightness.

You can find a lot of blog/site & wiki pages that suggest to append something of the below to your grub menu entry:


video.use_native_backlight=0
video.use_native_backlight=1
acpi_backlight=vendor

or something similar.

 

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    Tag: laptop, dell, backlight, fluxbox
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May
18
2014
fluxbox simple tiling function
Posted by ebal at 22:21:52 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

reading

man 5 fluxbox-keys

i found that there is

ArrangeWindows pattern / ArrangeWindowsVertical pattern / ArrangeWindowsHorizontal pattern

so i edited my


~/.fluxbox/keys

to auto-tile (vertical/horintal) with my super (window) key as shortcut

Mod4 h :arrangewindowshorizontal
Mod4 v :arrangewindowsvertical

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