I am trying to set up flux box, how do you make the dockapps load automatically everytime you start fluxbox?

and Can someone recommend some handy applications for a linux newb?

you can make any application load within any window manager by listing them within /home/you/.xsession

Fluxspace works good but takes time to set up:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/displa...group_id=76737
Also if you use startx you can use /home/you/.xinitrc

I don't find .xsession in /Home/myself
nor do I find xintric, what am I suppose to do?

You could copy one of the files in /etc/X11/xinit
and modify it to match your needs.


Cheers,
Tink

.xinitrc not xinitric , very important! make sure you have the . in front and the syntax is correct.
Try this; touch /home/yourname/.xinitrc
echo exec fluxbox > /home/yourname/.xinitrc

I added both .xsession
and .xinitrc in /Home/myname/
and added in it the command to run one of the dockapps,
exec wmblueclock

is it suppose to start wmblueclock when I click Restart on the fluxbox menu?
or is it suppose to start it next time I start my machine?
I tried both, neither works

Here is a sample;
http://fluxbox.org/download/dotfiles/aleczapka/xinitrc

You should replace "exec wmblueclock" with "wmblueclock &", and make sure it's placed before the fluxbox line.

"exec" tells bash to replace the current process (xinitrc) with wmblueclock, and the result is that the rest of the script is not run. If you have "exec fluxbox" before wmblueclock, Fluxbox will run and wmblueclock will never run. If you have just "fluxbox" before "wmblueclock", then Fluxbox will run and wmblueclock will try to run when you shut down fluxbox.

If you add "&" after a command, bash will run that command in the background and continue to the next line in xinitrc, so if you have
wmblueclock will be run in the background allowing the script to continue on, and so fluxbox can then be launched.