Flux Box 0.1.10

[Dr. v0odo0]

Pentium 233 mmx
128 megs of ram
6gig hard drive
mandrake 8.2


With that being said, i figured KDE would be a bit slow on my machine (and it is), i wanted to learn the file system and how to compile so i figured"hey lest's install a WM" well to get to the point: I've compiled it, i know which directory it's in but the following problem have arisen

1) I don't know how to creat or edit the file .xinitrc
2) can't find the executable
3) not sure how to place it on the login menu

I've read through a lot of material including the fluxbox webpage and nothing seems to directly address my problem


excuse my ignorance, your help would be appreciated.

[rapture]

1) I don't know how to creat or edit the file .xinitrc

At the command line type touch .xinitrc. Then you can you use a text editor to fix it up. Or type echo 'exec /path/to/fluxbox'.

2) can't find the executable

Type whereis fluxbox and that should giv eyou the directory to where the executable is. It's usually in /usr/local/bin/fluxbox, but it might not be for you.


3) not sure how to place it on the login menu

I'm not sure either. I boot to the command line so I can't help ya there

[fancypiper]

Sounds like there is another candidate for the Linux Newbie Administrator Guide and/or the Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. See links in my sig.

[Wallex]

About adding Fluxbox to the login manager, it depends on which login manager you use. SuSE uses xdm and brings KDE by default; in the K control center there's a part where you administer users and the login screen, there you can see the list of windows managers that you can choose from at startup and.. well, you know what to do there.
You should compare where fluxbox is to where the other window managers are, if all of them are not in the same directory, you'll probably want to create a symlink to fluxbox so that all the windows managers are in the same directory:
/dira/ <- where all the windows managers are
/dirb/ <- where fluxbox is (the file fluxbox would be /dirb/fluxbox
Then you just do:
ln -s /dirb/fluxbox /dira/fluxbox
or
cd /dira/
ln -s /dirb/fluxbox fluxbox
Of course, if something is messed up, check the ln -help for the ln (link?) command.