GNOME shell menu on FluxBox
Hi all,
I know about GNOME shell after installing FluxBox (desktop manager) on my Back Track 5R2 linux. GNOME shell menu is listed in: FluxBox > System > Utility > GNOME shell. I try to click the menu and a small sized box is pop up without menu or anything. it only contains windows title and blank white space below it. I want to close it but there's no close symbol (X) or anything, so I type "close" in the white box and then press "enter". Then it disappear. But then I realize that when I click GNOME shell menu again nothing is pops up. Also the icon besides GNOME shell menu is disappear. I try to type "gnome-shell" in the terminal: Code:
root@bt:~# gnome-shell Code:
Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager Code:
Error: unable to open display I don't know what happen here? how to fix this? what is GNOME shell? How to restore the GNOME shell menu on FLUXBOX? my system: OS linux backtrack 5 R2 notebook HP compaq NC4010 ATI Radeon IGP 350M graphics |
Try right clicking on your desktop.
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Here is a Ubuntu thread that mentions glx and the radeon driver with a similar error message like you posted. I am posting this because of your posted Laptop specs which show radeon.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...05154&page=102 I took the easy way out in Fluxbox in AntiX, for a fuax Gnome shell using Tint2 taskbar set to autohide in Fluxbox. http://i39.tinypic.com/29llnbt.jpg |
@rokytnji
thank you, but when I type "gnome-shell --replace" in CLI, the outcome is little bit different with that on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...05154&page=102 here is mine: Code:
root@bt:~#gnome-shell --replace Code:
root@bt:~# gnome-shell --replace |
For menu entries in Fluxbox. They are located in the hidden folder in /home/<username>/.fluxbox.
Open that folder and look in there for the text file and see what it says. to find the path for executable in gnome-shell in terminal. Code:
which gnome-shell [exec] (gnome-shell) {gnome-shell} <> or [exec] (ApplicationName) {/path/to/program} < path/to/icon> http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs/...t.php#commands |
Code:
root@bt:~# which gnome-shell regarding the menu configuration. I try to type: Code:
root@bt:~# gedit ~/.fluxbox/menu Code:
.......... Code:
[exec] (About GNOME) {cd ; gnome-about} </usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png> what makes me crazy is because it used to generate a window when I click the menu |
That menu syntax looks odd to me; I don't understand all the cd commands. Did you write it or was it generated by something? It also doesn't look like the standard Fluxbox menu format as described at the wiki.
Here's a snippet from my Fluxbox menu; the parts that refer to icons were copied from the default universal menu--I don't worry much about icons in the menu myself: Code:
[exec] (Gedit) {/usr/bin/gedit} </usr/share/pixmaps/gedit-icon.xpm> Note that I don't have an answer for you, though I am somewhat puzzled as to why you might want to call Gnome-shell from inside Fluxbox. I just have questions about why the menu looks so unusual. |
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your syntax is same with mine on ~/.fluxbox/menu. please check my previous post while syntax that contains cd is on /usr/share/flux-for-back/inc/Utility which is part of ~/.fluxbox/menu. As I said before that I have try to call gnome-shell from CLI (outside fluxbox) as well but I got error messages as I describe on previous posts yes, of course, ICON is not important ( I can add to it Right?). The most important is functionality. plz help |
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My experience is strictly with Fluxbox; I'm afraid I'm not qualified to assist with Flux-for-Back. |
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