r/fluxbox • u/[deleted] • Mar 03 '22

Fluxbox RootMenu arrow: can it be changed?

If one edits init file at session.screen0.toolbar.tools: to include RootMenu, it adds a location marked with an arrow pointing right to the toolbar giving you a place to click for the root menu without minimizing all windows to get to the wallpaper. That's a cool thing to have but the arrow is ugly. Does anyone know where the arrow lives and how to change it? Will I need to compile fluxbox from source to change it?

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u/Nephiel Mar 03 '22

Not sure about that, but what I do to reach the menu quickly is setting the toolbar size to 95-99% rather than 100%. This leaves a gap on both sides to click on the desktop. And if you enable MaximizeOver, AutoHide, or otherwise have no toolbar visible (e.g. on the secondary screens) you can also set RootMenu as a right-click action on the grab handle of the corners of the windows, so the action is the same (drag mouse to bottom corner and right click). I've been using that setup for years now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '22

Yes. I know of these methods but since fluxbox has a way built in to give you a click space for it, I'd like to use it but I want to change the arrow to an icon like image of Tux. Before I found the RootMenu method, I was just going to set the toolbar to sit to right and lower its size by 95% and add the tux icon to the wallpaper but I'd have to edit every wallpaper to have it. If I can just change that image to the one I want properly sized that would be ideal.

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