Hi,

I have a sevial questions about fluxbox.
But you must known, I just started with linux.
I'm using Red Hat 8.0 + GNOME and Fluxbox.... but the questions are ....


A) I'm using fluxbox, but now how do I can change the background image?!
bgset or something I cant understand, someone can that explane to me, i readed the man pages but can change my background.

B) In Gnome I have in the menu many programs, but not in fluxbox, how can i find out where they are located end put them in the menu of fluxbox (example OpenOffice)

Thanks in advandge...

well you can just type bsetbg /path/to/image and add it to your .xinitrc file for it will load that image on startup...remember to put & at the end of the command for the stuff that appears after that command will also execute....
i know when i edit my fluxbox menu i just go to /home/USER/.fluxbox/menu and edit that menu file to add/remove entries in the menu....just follow the syntax used in the file and i am sure you can see how it is structured to add your own stuff...

here is the doc for backgrounds on flux site
and here is something for the menu

k, bg is working now...

but in Gnome i saw many programs, but the where in the menu .... how can i see what the command is to start those programs?!

do you have this file? if so, you can open it in a text editor, each menu entry is listed with the command next to it. you can just add/remove lines from this file to change the flux menu....

yes I know how to edit my menu, but how do I edit the GNOME menu so I know what the commands are to start a application and put them in my fluxbox menu ?!

well typically if you installed the app then all you need to know is the name of the app....for example say you use programs such as konqueror, gkrellm, mozilla, xchat, k3b, kmail, evolution, synaptic, etc, etc, etc...
then all you need to do is add the line like so ::
[exec] (konqueror) {konqueror}
the name in () is what will appear in the menu and the name in {} is the executable....this stands true for basically everything...you don't need the full path, but if for example you use something like amsn, which all you do is extract the tarball to a location then you will specify this, so if you indeed extracted it to a specific spot then in turn i would think you know the location....for an example in my case, i extracted amsn to /home/USER/msn
so my shortcut looks like this in my menu::
[exec] (msn) {/home/USER/msn/amsn}
its only programs like this that all you had to do was extract the tarball and cd into the directory and the executable was right there without the need to install....

thanks!


helped!

no problem man

Back again... still some problems with the background.
The background file is lokated at /home/username/background.jpg

If edit fluxbox (located at /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions)
and it looks like this :
#!/bin/sh

exec fluxbox
bsetbg /home/rick/7858-1.jpg &&
~

but that didnt worked. So I made a .xinitrc file and it look liks this :

xscreensaver &
bsetbg /home/rick/7858-1.jpg &&
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
~

But, still will the background wount start up if i start my x

Please help

-Enemyforce

try like this ::
the way i do it is like so :

Still not 100% working , because now if I login I see the background. Afterthat the fluxbox bar under in the screen is coming the background change in a blackcolor.

My distro is RedHat 8.0 with Gnome, but ... I have the feeling that he isn't loading my .xinitrc. I have edit in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox the file and added exec fluxbox.

To the point : I dont now wich file is loading for my fluxboxsettings and dont know which file needed to be edit (.xinitrc or the fluxboxfile in /Sessions) If tryed many thing now in the two files but it wont help.

Maby you see the solution ?

-Enemyforce

I'd suggest u edit the standard .xinitrc from the dir /etc/X11/xinit.

Run xwmconfig, select ur prefered wm, then edit ur ~/.xinitrc, append ur custom makeup there ..

xwmconfig actually make a symbolic link /etc/X11/xinit/.xinitrc -> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.{fluxbox,twm,kde, ..wut ever ur choise was}, n it copy the xinitrc.urChoice to ur ~/.xinitrc.

Whenever u run "startx" it look for ~/.xinitrc fist, if not found then it will use /etc/X11/xinit/.xinitrc ..

Redhat 8.0 doesnt have xwmconfig :S