Fluxed and Flummoxed

I am really enjoying Fluxbox. An interesting statement for a KDE fan to make. Or not. I love the customizability of KDE and Plasma works great (Well it did until the latest update). But as I believe I've written about, I love the Black Arch theme. So I went online and found that distro's file repo. I found the Fluxbox configs.

I had never used Flux before. But I wanted the BA theme. So I installed Fluxbox. It was actually pretty easy to get the theme rolled and figure out enough of the basics to get my system as I like it. There were definitely things I had to live without, but nothing terribly painful.

I'm glad I did this... I ended up back in Plasma, but decided I should check for updates and get everything current. Plasma quit working. I couldn't get logged in etc - it just froze as soin as I clicked to login or reboot etc.

So I switched my desktop to Flux and everything was good. Until the doom I encountered installing the latest Linux Mint.

I have since gone back to Fluxbox nearly exclusively. But I tried Reaper in it the other night. I hadn't yet worked with the music production app in Flux yet. The experience was... interesting. I have to run Reaper via Wine. Flux did very strange things with my windows. At times Reaper would behave as though I set it to always on top, other times it behaved properly. It all was dependent upon the windows/dialogs I had open. At one point the Reaper window moved below all the other windows and I couldn't get to it without minimizing everything else.

I'll have to look into what window management options there are for Flux. Maybe I'm missing something.