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Fluxbox also has first class support for Dockapps. They're a great pairing.

An old screengrab to prove my point: https://www.thran.uk/img/desktop-aug-21.jpg. I'm especially fond of the VU-meter style ethernet traffic monitor, 'wmnd'.

Find dockapps here: https://www.dockapps.net/

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Fluxbox is awesome.

I used to use it on hardware-limited machines at first, then started to prefer it for its minimalism.

That screenshot makes me want to use Fluxbox, it looks great!

It's very usable when paired with PcManFM, and there are a plethora of themes available. Customising is done by an intuitive config file. There are tools to auto-generate the application menu, so you don't need to toil after installing a new program.

The hardest part was setting up automount to handle my network drives and USB drives - no gvfs here! A result you'll welcome if you like sane paths to mountpoints.

That's useful information, huge thank you!

I use Fluxbox since the first version. Very easy to customize. I've just an issue with Firefox, the Firefox windows doesn't want to play with Fluxbox (on Debian)...

I think this is a bug in upgrade path, I have my normal profile with this problem (and a lot of accumulated things) but if I launch Firefox with a fresh profile then it works nice.

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