Problems with Fluxbox

[0dd0rz]

I just got x working in debian, after that I go to install fluxbox (apt-get install fluxbox) and it installs fine, but I can't get it to load. I have tired a few different way to start it up ~/.xinitrc "exec fluxbox" and then it says command not found, so I fish around and find out that you can do do /usr/bin/fluxbox in the .xsessions in your $home foldier, So I do that and I get these wierd errors when I start it and it just goes to the old grey backround.

faild to read: session:screen0.tab.alignment
I get a bunch of them but they are different like tab.menu

then in the end I get

/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu no such file or directory

[adam_boz]

hmm... I don't have a global-configuration either, I don't know why it would be doing that.

try this in your ~/.xinitrc
#start
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
#end

I don't know why it wouldn't be in your path though..

what does "echo $PATH" give you?

if you need some configuration files, let me know and I'll tar up mine and send it up here.

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by 0dd0rz
...but I can't get it to load. I have tired a few different way to start it up ~/.xinitrc "exec fluxbox" and then it says command not found...

Try apt-get install xbase-clients. The package x-window-system-core is a metapackage of all the main packages you need to get X working correctly

[0dd0rz]

When I do echo $PATH I get this
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

[z0mbix]

Originally posted by 0dd0rz
When I do echo $PATH I get this
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games

Odd! Try adding /usr/X11R6/bin to your path with the command:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin

then try again. If that fixes it you will need to set this permanently in your ~/.bash_profile file.

Also /bin should be in there too. Is that your root user's PATH or normal user?

[adam_boz]

you might also need to add "/usr/X11R6/lib" to /etc/ld.so.conf it it's not there. then run ldconfig.

[0dd0rz]

that was my user path, this is my root path

bash: export: `/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin': not a valid identifier

I dunno if that is good or bad

[adam_boz]

is that the exact output of "echo $PATH"? that doesn't look good at all.

first of all, that /usr/bin/X11's gotta go again. replace it with /usr/X11R6/bin.

what does your /root/.bash_profile look like?

Wherever it sets the PATH variable, it looks like there shouldn't be the (')s there (apostraphe... or however you spell them ;-)

[theevilblah]

have you tryed it without the exec in .xinitrc ? also after that you should have startx

[vbp6us]

happy b-day theevilblah

[thread_killer]

Originally posted by adam_boz
hmm... I don't have a global-configuration either, I don't know why it would be doing that.

try this in your ~/.xinitrc
#start
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
#end

I don't know why it wouldn't be in your path though..

what does "echo $PATH" give you?

if you need some configuration files, let me know and I'll tar up mine and send it up here.


For me it's ~/.xinitrc
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

then chmod 700 .xinitrc
mkdir .fluxbox

end "X" then startx again

[0dd0rz]

yay, I got it working thanks for the help people

[theevilblah]

Originally posted by vbp6us
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[Vlad902]

Originally posted by theevilblah
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