I've got something like 7-8 month of Linux experience. What got me hooked, was when I learned to do a cli install of Manjaro the "Arch way", so as to start with a clean blank canvas, where you can then learn one thing at a time in peace and quiet when you add it to your installation. But I always seem to return to Debian and the net iso server base instal, and then build on top. A rolling release just became too much to handle with 6-7 cumputers in the house, when you're still at the learning stage. With Debian, when I've got the entertainement system surround audio set up "perfectly", it stays that way (for the most part), and then I can concentrate on learning other stuff.I can solve problems with a fixed target, as opposed to a moving target with a rolling release.
Now I'm in the process of creating my ideal Debian desktop (in Virtualbox), and I've arrived at Fluxbox. The snappiness and lightness is addictive, and you can set windows to remember position and dimension. That last point is a must to me.
antiX and MX Linux have very good implementation of Fluxbox, especially with menu handling. I'm trying to recreate that on Debian, with all 3 distros loaded in Virtualbox to try to observe and learn. antiX offers a "core" base install, which would be ideal in my case. But I'd like to stay on Debian. I'm not qualified to hold much opinion on systemd, but I like to stay with it because it is easy to find solutions online, and because it just seems the way to go for the majority of Debian-based distros. And Debian is "always there" so to speak, I'd like to stay with the source distro.
What I've done so far, is a Debian base install with no extras - EFi, swap, home and root partitions. I updated, installed sudo and added my user, installed isenkram-cli and ran it, and installed alsa-utils.
For x11 i did:
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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg x11-xserver-utils xfonts-base x11-utils xinit
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sudo apt-get install lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter fluxbox pcmanfm gvfs-backends lxpolkit
So far, I've found this script from MX Fluxbox:
https://github.com/MX-Linux/mxfb-access ... -generator
First I right-clicked the script file in Pcmanfm and set execute permission to "owner". I edited the ~/.fluxbox/init file to point to "my-menu" in Home, and "my-menu" I edited to point to the script with this line:
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[exec] (Update Menu) {/home/mxfb-menu-generator}
I'm inserting two images of the functionality of MX Fluxbox I'd like to implement in my Debian: