Hi,

I installed fluxbox via yum, and my installation was at version 0.1.14. I later found src rpms for fc2 at version 0.9.7-1. I rebuilt the rpms for i686 and installed the resulting rpms. When I log into fluxbox, however, the gui tells me I am still at 0.1.14, and it is so basic that I can't even figure out how to open up a terminal window. None of the mouse buttons seem to get me to such an option. When I look at the results of "fluxbox -version" it claims to be at 0.9.7-1. I even used rpm -e flux* to try and clear things out, then reinstall the 0.9.7-1 rpms for fluxbox and fluxconf. When using fluxbox, however, it still claims to be 0.1.14 (what's displayed on the desktop). I thought that it might be a conflict with yum, since I installed the earlier version with yum and later versions via src rpms. So I tried to get rid of the earlier version via "yum remove fluxbox", but it asks to get rid of 0.9.7-1, so even yum seems to think the later version is installed! Is it that the later version simply didn't update its visual display of version number? I tried to locate .xinitrc to see if fluxbox was being called from the right place, but couldn't find that file.

Any help is appreciated.

correction: the version is reported as 0.9.9

Open a filemanager and set it to view hidden files. Delete the folder called .fluxbox (dot fluxbox) and then try logging into fluxbox again. There are alot of changes since the stable version and the latest developement so some of the old settings in your .fluxbox are obsolete anyway. Then see if you notice a change.

Thanks for you help! I got the same advice from the people at justlinux.com. Oops...shoulda thought that just because I do something as root doesn't undo previous settings at the user level. Thanks again. It looks ever so much nicer, and is even usable!!

Glad to hear. Hope you enjoy fluxbox, I do.