fluxbox tabs missing

[Don W. Jenkins]

On 4/25/05, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 19:45 -0700, Don W. Jenkins wrote:
> > I have encountered a mystery that totally perplexes me.  I installed
> > Fluxbox from the Breezy repository (I also did this from the Hoary
> > stable repository previously with the same result.), and was able to
> > work out getting a full menu displayed, but the windows display with
> > no tabs, so I am unable to use the tab/grouping function, which is why
> > I wanted to try Fluxbox again in the first place.  The ~/.fluxboz/init
> > file has session.tabs set to true, so they should be turned on, but
> > not only are they not displayed, there is no reference to them in the
> > Configuration menu or the window context menu.  Is there something
> > more that should have been installed? Or is the Ubuntu package
> > corrupted?
> >
> > Thanks?
> >
> > Don J.
> 
> It's probably OK :-)
> 
> New versions of Fluxbox have "embedded" tabs - try middle-click and drag
> on the title bar to join your windows into groups.
> 
> By the way, there's some excellent documentation linked from
> http://fluxbox.org
> 
> Let us know if you have any problems with this; it should work as I've
> described. You can also configure to have dragging with the middle
> button to a window rather than to a title bar to achieve this. I'm in
> gnome at the moment, but I run fluxbox 0.9.12 on my laptop. The first
> time I saw this I found it equally puzzling !
> 
> Peter
> 
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Oh. Oh, yeah.  I get it now.  I read that in the documentation, but
didn't quite understand what it meant.  That neatens things up a bit
and uses all the real estate.  Thanks!

Don J.
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