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Hi GT! Well the only thing I can think of is that you can create a xinitrc.fluxbox file and put the:
exec fluxbox
line in it. And then put the file in your /etc/X11/xinit directory. Good luck!

Alright. There's a file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession. Find the section where the file mentions the other wm's and try adding fluxbox to the file. And make it similar to those already written there only type:
exec fluxbox
Well, good luck!!

P.S. You must have created the Fluxbox entry with your KDE Control Center in order for this to work.

Hey Wonderpun,

Yeh i have checked that out as well...sooo many times hehe

heres what it contains....

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Modification for Linux-Mandrake by Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandraksoft.com>

# 20000309, Francis Galiegue <fg@mandrakesoft.com>: imwheel -k added for wheel

# mice and braindead-not-supporting-wheel-yet toolkits (this includes Qt...)



# read the user (~/.i18n) or system-wide (/etc/sysconfig/i18n) i18n settings

. /etc/profile.d/lang.sh



# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can

for errfile in "$HOME/.xsession-errors" "${TMPDIR-/tmp}/xses-$USER" "/tmp/xses-$USER"

do

    if ( cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null )

    then

        chmod 600 "$errfile"

        exec > "$errfile" 2>&1

        break

    fi

done



# Mandrake default background

if [ "`whoami`" = root ]; then

    xsetroot -solid "#B20003"

else

    xsetroot -solid "#21449C"

fi



AGENT=$(type -p ssh-agent)

if [ -x "$AGENT" ]; then

    if [ -r $HOME/.ssh/identity -o -r $HOME/.ssh2/identification -o -r $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa -o -r $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa ]; then

        SSH_AGENT="$AGENT --"

    fi

fi    



# clean up after xbanner

if [ -f /usr/X11R6/bin/freetemp ]; then

    freetemp

fi



userresources=$HOME/.Xresources 

userresources2=$HOME/.Xdefaults

sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources 



# merge in defaults and keymaps 

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then 

    xrdb -merge $sysresources 

fi 

 

if [ -f $userresources ]; then 

    xrdb -merge $userresources 

fi 



if [ -f $userresources2 ]; then 

    xrdb -merge $userresources2

fi 



if [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard ]; then

    /etc/X11/xinit/fixkeyboard

fi



if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] ; then

        # we need to find a browser on this system

        BROWSER=`which mozilla`

        if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] || [ ! -e "$BROWSER" ] ; then

        # not found yet

                BROWSER=

        fi

fi



if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] ; then

        # we need to find a browser on this system

        BROWSER=`which netscape`

        if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] || [ ! -e "$BROWSER" ] ; then

        # not found yet

                BROWSER=

        fi

fi



if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] ; then

        # we need to find a browser on this system

        BROWSER=`which lynx`

        if [ -z "$BROWSER" ] || [ ! -e "$BROWSER" ] ; then

        # not found yet

                BROWSER=

        else

                BROWSER="xvt -e lynx"

        fi

fi

export BROWSER



export HELP_BROWSER="$BROWSER"



if [ -x /usr/sbin/chksession ];then 

    LIST=$(/usr/sbin/chksession -l)

else

    LIST="kde Gnome AfterStep Icewm AnotherLevel failsafe"

fi



# run scripts in /etc/X11/xinit.d

for i in /etc/X11/xinit.d/* ; do

    [ -d $i ] && continue

    # Don't run ??foo.{rpmsave,rpmorig,rpmnew} scripts

    [ "${i%.rpmsave}" != "${i}" ] && continue

    [ "${i%.rpmorig}" != "${i}" ] && continue

    [ "${i%.rpmnew}" != "${i}" ] && continue



    if [ -x $i ]; then

        $i &

    fi

done



# now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment

if [ $# = 1 ]; then

    DESKTOP=$1

else

    # use default DESKTOP from config file

    # users may want to choose their own desktop

    # even when x-session is started by startx command.

    # -- Jaegeum --

    if [ -f $HOME/.desktop ]; then

        . $HOME/.desktop >/dev/null 2>&1

    elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then

        . /etc/sysconfig/desktop >/dev/null 2>&1

    fi

fi



### Launch an XIM input server if needed

# it must be after definition of DESKTOP variable; but before any

# program that may want user input

if [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/XIM ]; then

    . /etc/X11/xinit/XIM

fi



### Launch first time wizard if needed

if [ ! -e $HOME/.drakfw ] && type drakfw > /dev/null 2>&1; then

    touch $HOME/.drakfw

    exec drakfw

fi



if [ -n "$DESKTOP" ]; then

    case $DESKTOP in

            failsafe)

        exec $SSH_AGENT xvt -geometry 80x24-0-0

        exec $SSH_AGENT xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0

        ;;

        default)

        ;;

        *)

        exec $SSH_AGENT /bin/sh -c "$(/usr/sbin/chksession -x=$DESKTOP)"

        ;;

    esac

fi



# otherwise, take default action

if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ]; then

        exec $SSH_AGENT "$HOME/.xsession"

elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then

        exec $SSH_AGENT "$HOME/.Xclients"

fi



# We may try with chksession

if [ -x /usr/sbin/chksession ];then

#get the first available

        SESSION=$(/usr/sbin/chksession -F)

        [ "$SESSIONxxx" != "xxx" ] && exec $SSH_AGENT sh -c "$(/usr/sbin/chksession -x=$SESSION)"

fi



# Argh! Nothing good is installed. Fall back to icewm

if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm ];then

        exec $SSH_AGENT /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm

else

        # gosh, neither icewm is available; 

        # fall back to failsafe settings

        xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &

        xvt -geometry +0+50 &

        if [ -x "$BROWSER" -a -f /usr/doc/HTML/index.html ]; then

            $BROWSER /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &

        fi

        if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm-light ];then

            exec $SSH_AGENT icewm-light

        elif [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/twm ];then

            exec $SSH_AGENT twm

        else

            exec $SSH_AGENT xsm

        fi

fi

I have no idea where to put it...geeez all this trouble for fluxbox lol

Garry :D

Hi Garry :) Well, I must say that your Xsession file doesn't look like mine, that's for sure :) I'm sorry that I can't help you much, never used Mandrake. But I have a question to you. When kdm loads, it asks you for your username the password and then what? It lets you choose what wm you want to load? If yeah then I have an idea :) You see at the end of the Xsession file there's a section that starts:
# Argh! Nothing good is installed. Fall back to icewm
Try to change the:
/usr/X11R6/bin/icewm
to
/usr/local/bin/fluxbox
Then when you select icewm from the menu it should load flux. If I'm right and this worked then post back and will try to think out a way how to add flux to the menu :) If not, then sorry I couldn't help you much :) Good luck GT!

Ok thanks, i'll get straight onto it.....

Garry

Nope sorry, didn't work, it just loaded Ice....thanks for your help anyway...

Garry

GT, /usr/local/bin/fluxbox is rather a suggested path, you would actually find the one that is on your system and use it. I am thinking this might be your problem :confused:

Do this:
whereis fluxbox

Note the location, then wherever you are editing these files, use that location. Example:

whereis fluxbox
/opt/wm/whoknows/nowhere/fluxbox /usr/man/man1/fluxbox.gz

So you see that fluxbox is in /opt/wm/whoknows/nowhere/fluxbox

So this will be your flux path.

Cool

Yeh thats my correct path....checked it first hehe

Code:

[root@localhost root]# whereis fluxbox

fluxbox: /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

Garry

All i need to know is how to make flux a selectable wm at the login screen....geeez didn't think it would be this hard :p

Garry :D

Post here the contents of ~/.xsession and/or ~/.Xclients

Cool

Well here's the deal I think so far...

I am basically newbie with a kagillion posts, so my experience is my knowledge. Most of my "experience" comes from Slack. I could easily tell you how to do this on slack, but for Mandy it's not the same. I am thinking pretty much the same boat for other's trying to help so far.

So instead of LQ Addict, I could still have "newbie" as my title and it'd be more fitting :D

Anyway, let's see if we can get this one going, I will do some searching after I see whats in those 2 files above.

Cool

Xsession is up above ^

Xclients is....

Code:

#!/bin/bash



exec /etc/X11/Xsession

Garry

Living dangerously now, I'd try this:

Place a # sign in front of exec /etc/X11/Xsession in your Xclients file. Place a line below it with:
exec /path/to/fluxbox
replacing /path/to/fluxbox with the correct path.

So your Xclients should now look like:
#!/bin/bash

#exec /etc/X11/Xsession
exec fluxbox

Again, only if you wanna live dangerously, because I really don't know what effect this will produce. You might wanna post a few more things here instead first. Maybe the contents of your /etc/X11/xinit directory (if it exists).

At worst I think that would not allow you to enter X, you could probably still enter the file via command line and edit back to normal, but I really don't know.

Good Luck

Hmmm i don't think i wanna try that just yet hehe

heres /etc/X11/xinit

Code:

[root@localhost xinit]# ls -al

total 24

drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root        4096 Sep 29 05:55 ./

drwxr-xr-x  19 root    root        4096 Nov  1 20:49 ../

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root        2019 Feb 28  2002 fixkeyboard*

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root          36 Feb 28  2002 Xclients*

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root        2658 Feb 28  2002 XIM*

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root          61 Feb 28  2002 xinitrc*

Anything else you wanna check out?

Garry :D

Ok, so, what is in that file there xinitrc? Post the contents of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Then, from there you might symlink this file to your user's home directory...

hmm, might be on to something...

Anyway post the contents of that first ;)

Cool