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[Nathan F]

This is fluxbox-0.9.15.1 (the very latest) compiled within Puppy109CE and packaged specifically for it. It includes an xdg menu generation utility specifically for Flux and is able to very closely approximate your jwm menu, along with any unleashed packages you might install. I've also added transparency support via wmsetbg from the WindowMaker package I'm putting together, and a few dockapps for system monitoring.

wmnd - a nice little network monitor
wmsm - monitors cpu, memory, swap, and disk activity
volume.app - a simple volume knob for on your desktop

If you're running 109CE this will install and be ready to go without doing anything further. For older pups or for Puppy2 you will need Rarsa's xdg package, available from the 109 repo at puppyfiles.us, and MU's Puppybackground program (install this first, before Fluxbox).

I'm also posting the source for the menu generation utility, along with a binary. This is an adaptation of Rarsa's code, taken from the icewm version. I've got it set up to generate the top part of the menu and read just the very bottom from a file in your .fluxbox directory. The menu refreshes every time you start fluxbox, and can be refreshed manuallly with the 'refresh menu' entry in the fluxbox submenu.

In order for the backgroundsetter to work properly it was also necessary for me to include a hacked version of the puppybackgrounsetterwrappper file from MU's Puppybackground program. The only change is that it calls fbsetbg or fbsetroot when you change wallpapers.

Nathan