setting up XFCE with fluxbox
 

Hi,
What is the easiest way to set up XFCE to work with the fluxbox window manager? Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but, if what you're trying to accomplish is to have fluxbox running under xfce, then, isn't possible.

xfce has its own built-in window manager which (at least I don't remember anyone that have done it) can be replaced just like that by fluxbox.

I haven't tried it, but there shouldn't be a reason why this can't be done.

The kde wm is kwin, and can be changed by any arbitrary wm, like {flux,open,black}box, fvwm, icewm, enlightenment or whatever. The same for gnome, I have seen it even running with tiling wm's like xmonad, no problem.

In kde you can do this by just setting the KDEWM variable.

In gnome it's just a matter of killing its native wm (metacity) and launching fluxbox instead. Then, the gnome session manager will *remember* the wm that is loaded, and will start it automatically from that moment.

In xfce there's a session manager, so, maybe, this trick can be done as well. If not, you can open the xfce4-session script (or whatever it's called) on a text editor and check it's contents. I guess that there must be a way to change xfwm by fluxbox, and see no reason why it couldn't be done.

EDITED: If you don't understand the script, paste xfce4-session in pastebin.com or wherever and put a link here, so I can review it. I don't have xfce installed so I can't look at it on my own box.

Hi,
Thanks for the replies, I know it is possible to do it becos Wolvix runs XFCE with fluxbox as the window manager. However i remember once befoe when i tried to run XFCE with the Ice WM it screwed the system. At that time i was running Xubuntu which uses XFCE and the built in XFWM. I assume like you say, i92guboj, that it is a case of replacing the inbuilt WM with, in this case, fluxbox. So i will try that and see what happens.

Cheers.

Indeed, I was wrong about that :)

After a little googling I found people that have done it but don't say how (pretty nice right?) anyway, this is what I would do, after entering xfce, kill the xfwm4 and start fluxbox, hopefuly, saving the session will do it.

If not, then you can try adding in the [General] section of ~/.config/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc, this:
Use fluxbox instead of xfwm4 and see what happens