some help with x and mounts
 

first issue i'm having:
i finally got fluxbox working nice and smooth under root. unfortunatley X is not starting flux for the one user that i have. i've change the .xinitrc file in the user's ~/ directory to read:
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox

at the end with exex fwm2 commented out. i've done the same to the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file. i've even chmod'ed the ~/xinitrc file to 700.

when i run startx it starts fwm2 for that user isntead of flux, though root works just fine.

could it be because i went through the whole install procedure of fluxbox as root?

second question:
i think i asked this before, but i couldn't find it with the search in any forums.

i have a 2nd drive that is fat32 formatted that i use for archives. when i boot linux, it automatically mounts that drive as /archive in the root directory. my users don't have the ability to read and write to the /archive directory. any clue how to mount it so all of the default users group gets full access to the drive? are there any options i can configure the inettab file with so that those permissions are granted on boot?

thanks :)

Re: some help with x and mounts
 

certainly not ... I'd suggest you look at your
~/.xsession-errors ... maybe the executable
has wrong permissions by some accident?

Try adding "umask=022" and "user" to the options
in fstab ...
/dev/hda8 / vfat auto,user,umask=022 0 0

The thread you're after is http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t+user+windows

Cheers,
Tink

For problem #1, try logging in as that user and doing 'xwmconfig' and choosing 'fluxbox' if it's present rather than editing the ~/.xinitrc file directly. You *can* do it all directly but, under some cirumstances, it doesn't always work with a simple exec change and xwmconfig makes it easier.

thanks for the help on setting up the mount. and i'll check those errors later tonight when i have a chance.

** edit **

xwmconfig still doesn't show fluxbox, but i have it running for my user. its wierd how it runs though, when i run startx it starts fwm2, but if i quit out of fwm2 using the menu instead of killing the server, it quits out and fluxbox is there running!? lol.

my mounts are up how i wanted them though :) .now if only i could get fluxbox to keep my background as the pic i have instead of constantly comming up with the default bg...

Just put the command you use to set-up
your background in your .xsession file,
before the exec fluxbox

Cheers,
Tink