Hi,
I read the install notes and it said that:
Well,I don't have either a .xinitrc file nor an .xsession file. What should I do.
I 've had a look on the fluxbox forum and mailing list,but I can't se this topic covered at all



cheers
Ludwig

Red Hat 8

I take it you're installing from source right?
How do you log in, via a graphical login display manager?

If your booting to runlevel 3 and doing 'startx' to get to your wm then you can just create the .xinitrc file in your home directory. I use fluxbox as well and mine looks like this:

# window manager
/usr/local/bin/fluxbox & wmpid=$!

# applications that start automatically
aterm -geometry 129x18+83+462 -tr -trsb -fg white -tint blue &
bbpager -w &
gkrellm -w &

# HANG POINT - wait for windowmanager to exit
wait $wmpid

Hope that helps

Hi Crashed Again and thanks for your reply.

I do use run level 3 and startx.

So you just create a text file with
# window manager
/usr/local/bin/fluxbox & wmpid=$!

# applications that start automatically
aterm -geometry 129x18+83+462 -tr -trsb -fg white -tint blue &
bbpager -w &
gkrellm -w &

# HANG POINT - wait for windowmanager to exit
wait $wmpid in it and save it as .xinitrc.
IS that the idea?

thanks

Ludwig

Well you don't need these four lines:

# applications that start automatically
aterm -geometry 129x18+83+462 -tr -trsb -fg white -tint blue &
bbpager -w &
gkrellm -w &

Sorry I should have specified that. Yeah so basically you go into your home directory and create a file called .xinitrc and then add:

# window manager
/usr/local/bin/fluxbox & wmpid=$!

# HANG POINT - wait for windowmanager to exit
wait $wmpid

Then when you type startx it should bring up fluxbox. One other thing is to make sure that you change the path to the fluxbox application. Mine is in /usr/local/bin/fluxbox but yours may be somewhere else.

ok.Thanks m8

And if I want to go back to Gnome, I just delete the .xinitrc file?

hmmm...good question. Well if it was going to GNOME before you created .xinitrc then deleting .xinitrc to get back to GNOME would be logical. I'm not 100% on that though.

well,I'm just asking cos most of the things I touch in Linux go wrong,so I just want to know that I have an escape plan if ,in all likelyhood,things do go wrong

thanks for your help.
I've got it up and running.
It's quite a change from Gnome !!

Yeah it is different. I found a lot of info in the FAQ section of fluxbox's site.

One thing that's troubling me is that I can't visually navigate through the directories.I can't open up a HOME window or a ROOT window or anything.Is it supposed to be like that or am I missing something?

You mean you can't open up something like konqueror? You can simply type it from a shell:

konqueror&

or edit your menu file(/home/user/.fluxbox/menu) and add something like this:

[exec] (Konq) {konqueror}

Yes, that's waht I mean.Sorry,I should have explained better.
I think I used Nautilus before.Forgive me,but I'm new to Linux and half the time I don't even know what I'm using.

So,presumably I could edit the menu file with:
[exec] (Naut) {Nautilus} ?

thx,
Ludwig

Just to save you a headache. If you just open Nautilus, it will want to open the Gnome desktop. Run Nautilus like this and it will behave properly.

[exec] (Nautilus) {nautilus --no-desktop}

thanks for that, rmartine.

It sounds like most people don't use Nautilus with Fluxbox.
How do they navigate around,visually?
Or maybe they use the command line instead?