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Dale wrote: |
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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 |
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> to fail on me during a KDE upgrade. I think it was a version mismatch |
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> of some kind because later on as it emerged more packages, ir worked |
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> fine. So, I'm looking to make sure it works with kdm, which it does, |
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> and 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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Just to confirm the results. The command startx /usr/bin/startfluxbox |
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worked fine here. I forgot to do this at first so I will add this. You |
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have to stop xdm/kdm first. I guess xdm/kdm locks the process. |
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Other than forgetting to stop xdm, it worked fine. Thanks much. I now |
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have a backup GUI. So now a KDE upgrade can bork on me and I can still |
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have something. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |