How do I setup fluxbox!?

[carrja99]

Alright... I did ./configure, make, and make install.... NOW WHAT!? How do I get it to show up as an option in the login menu!?

[carrja99]

I want to get this installed before I go to class!! Please hurry!!

[z0mbix]

I'm afraid I don't know as I run X with startx, but I think you'll have to give everyone a little more than 3 minutes to reply. Even mdwatts would find it hard to reply in that time :)

[z0mbix]

Right! I've found this in my fluxbox mailing list archives:

> Hi
>
> There is probably a dumb question, but how can I select a fluxbox
> session via gdm? I'm currently using a ROX session and fluxbox as the
> windowmanager, but I would prefer to just use flux.
>
> thanks
>
> Brian
Firts, as root, create a file called Fluxbox in /etc/gdm/Session (or
/etc/X11/gdm/Session depending your distro) and edit it so it contains :


#!/bin/sh
thingsToLaunchAtStartUp &
otherThingsToLaunchAtStartUp &
exec fluxbox

Make shure it's executable : chmod a+x Fluxbox

You should now have a new entry in your gdm menu

[carrja99]

but is there a way to do the same with kdm too? I'll probably get this done myself hehehehe... just gotta find the kdm dir

[z0mbix]

This is weird, I wasn't even searching for this and look what I found:

http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/pet/pet.cgi?SUBMIT=Display&id=79

[carrja99]

Sheesh... I can't be the first and only person to install fluxbox on a mandrake 8.2 distro system, yet everywhere I've searched, all tutorials I'v found have brought me nothing. Each one I find like the one you showed will tell me to edit any different file and look for a line that says 'so and so', but when I edit the file, that line isn't even there, and entering what they tell me does nothing. What the...!?

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by carrja99
Sheesh... I can't be the first and only person to install fluxbox on a mandrake 8.2 distro system, yet everywhere I've searched, all tutorials I'v found have brought me nothing. Each one I find like the one you showed will tell me to edit any different file and look for a line that says 'so and so', but when I edit the file, that line isn't even there, and entering what they tell me does nothing. What the...!?

I hate login managers anyway :) I much prefer to boot to console login anyway, alot of the time I don't even need X running to do what I want.

[carrja99]

Don't know how I did it, but I got it added to the session dropdown list. just screwed around with xdm and gdm and Xsessions. finally... it just somehow showed up.

[z0mbix]

anytime ;)

[IsaacKuo]

I'm absolutely positive there was a thread about this exact thing last week. (Someone asking how to add a Fluxbox option to Mandrake's graphical logon menu.) Someone gave a nice simple answer.

[IsaacKuo]

Or then again, I may be mistaken. It may have been Google groups where I read it. Sorry! ^_^;

[carrja99]

Well.. I mainly followed what cheeky_zombie said and the link he provided... still didn't show up. then I went to etc/X11/wmsession.d

then I made a file named 04Fluxbox with the lines:
NAME=Fluxbox
DESC=Fluxbox
EXEC=/usr/local/bin/fluxbox
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

And rebooted.. it showed up!
(now I just need to add all them things that everyone else has in thier screenshots, and perhaps a background. So far, I like it's speed and flexibility.. but I plan on trying Enlightment too!!

[tournesol]

Hi, it is probably to late for you now, but if you are using Mandrake 8.2 there is an rpm file on disk 3, I beleive it is. It is not the current new stable version but it works:confused: sorry it took so long but I just turned on my computer.


tournesol

[nillo]

what about starting fluxbox with startx? when i type startx at the console it just goes into GNOME is there a way i can go into fluxbox instead of GNOME with startx?

[Q3_Slack3r]

what about starting fluxbox with startx? when i type startx at the console it just goes into GNOME is there a way i can go into fluxbox instead of GNOME with startx?

create a .xinitrc file in your home dir with exec fluxbox or /usr/bin/fluxbox

[C_Pac]

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=2880&highlight=fluxbox

follow the links in the thread