{"id":551,"date":"2009-05-30T21:07:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2009-05-30T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T18:07:05","slug":"migrating-from-fluxbox-100-to-11x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2009\/05\/30\/migrating-from-fluxbox-100-to-11x\/","title":{"rendered":"migrating from fluxbox 1.0.0 to 1.1.X"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently upgraded from a stable fluxbox release (1.0.0) to a development one (1.1.1), on gentoo x11-wm\/fluxbox-1.1.1-r1, ~x86 branch . There have been some interesting changes. If you also upgrade you might find though that your “tabs<\/a>” are not working.
\nRecent fluxbox versions (1.1.0+) have dumped the old “groups” file which used to contain applications that could be grouped in tabs<\/a>. Now the grouped applications must be declared inside the “apps<\/a>” file. The syntax is rather simple, if you want an application to have tab support just add a “[group]” line before it. For example if you had a groups file that combined urxvt, xterm and aterm tabs:
\n% cat ~\/.fluxbox\/groups
\nurxvt xterm aterm<\/code><\/p>\n

The new proper syntax in apps file would be:
\n%cat ~\/.fluxbox\/apps
\n[group]
\n [app] (name=urxvt)
\n [app] (name=xterm)
\n [app] (name=aterm)
\n[end]<\/code><\/p>\n

I wrote a perl script that can convert your old groups file to the new group format for apps file. fbox_groups_to_apps.pl<\/a><\/p>\n

Bugs reports,fixes are more than welcome…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently upgraded from a stable fluxbox release (1.0.0) to a development one (1.1.1), on gentoo x11-wm\/fluxbox-1.1.1-r1, ~x86 branch . There have been some interesting changes. If you also upgrade you might find though that your “tabs” are not working. Recent fluxbox versions (1.1.0+) have dumped the old “groups” file which used to contain applications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[24,107,601,48,49,108],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux","tag-convert","tag-fluxbox","tag-gentoo","tag-perl","tag-script","tag-tabs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t