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Vincent Launchbury wrote: |
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> On 2010/10/26 07:29PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Is starting fluxbox without kdm as easy as typing "startfluxbox" in a |
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>> console as a user? Surely it can't be that easy. |
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> No, since X has to be started first. X creates windows, but just puts |
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> them all on top of each other, with no way to move them, and no way to |
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> switch between them except by clicking. Fluxbox just runs ontop of X, |
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> and manages it's windows, adding decorations and a sane way to control |
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> them. For example, try doing: |
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> xinit "xterm -e /bin/bash" -- /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp |
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> and run fluxbox from the xterm. It's just a layer ontop of an already |
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> running X. |
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> You should be able to start fluxbox from a console with just: |
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> startx /usr/bin/startfluxbox |
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> which overrides the default /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc script. That should |
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> basically create an xauthority file and run xinit, which in turn starts |
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> X, then fluxbox, and waits for fluxbox to exit so it can shutdown X |
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> nicely. |
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> Regards, |
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> Vincent. |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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I'll give that a try. That is what I am looking for. I once had kdm to |
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fail on me during a KDE upgrade. I think it was a version mismatch of |
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some kind because later on as it emerged more packages, ir worked fine. |
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So, I'm looking to make sure it works with kdm, which it does, and |
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without kdm, which I am about to find out. |
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Thanks much. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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