I've compiled and installed fluxbox. Now what? How does it start?

[donJulio]

I'm using FC3 as my OS. I'm using the graphical login, so X starts automatically, so I'm not sure that the instructions for starting fluxbox work for me, because they refer mostly to using the startx command, which I don't.

So I want to know how to make fluxbox my default GUI while keeping the graphical login. And if it's not possible, how do I set it up so that I get a text login on startup w/o X starting automatically, therfore allowing me to follow the instructions at the Fluxbox website.

Thanks!

[JoeyJoeJo]

I think you need to check out the switchdesk (http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/switchdesk1.html) command.

[donJulio]

Originally posted by JoeyJoeJo
I think you need to check out the switchdesk (http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/switchdesk1.html) command.

It didn't work. It said that fluxbox wasn't stalled.

[spowel4]

The way I do it is to create a .Xclients file in my home folder (that way it's specific to my login versus a system-wide default) with a line in it which corresponds to whichever window manager you want to use. For fluxbox on mine (fedora core 2) the line is "/usr/bin/X11/fluxbox", for kde it's "startkde", for gnome it's "exec gnome-session" and so on and so forth. Then whichever window manager I wish to use I simply uncomment the line which executes it.

[psi42]

If you want to add fluxbox to your gdm/kdm menu, look in /usr/share/xsessions or /etc/X11/dm/sessions. You should see lots of .desktop files. Copy one to fluxbox.desktop and edit it. Then restart your login manager, select fluxbox as your session, and it will ask you if you want to set it as default.

~psi42