Hi everyone,

I have a distro based on Ubuntu 11.04, and the default window manager is OpenBox / LXDE. I want to use Fluxbox instead.

All I want to do is tell Ubuntu to use Fluxbox as the default window manager, instead of OB / LXDE. In Arch Linux, there are simple config files that you can use to accomplish this, like .xinitrc ("exec startfluxbox &") - but I don't see anything like that in Ubuntu.

Also, I don't want to use the Login screen session manager - I want to override the OpenBox / LXDE startup with a Fluxbox startup using a config file. I KNOW there is a way to do this, I just can't find the correct file.

Please help?

Any help on this? I feel like there should just be a local config file which overrides the system-wide behavior of starting OpenBox / LXDE by default.

Run lxsession-edit and change the window manager to fluxbox.

Well, that half-worked. Now it appears that I have two window managers running at the same time. For example, now when I right-click, I get the LXDE-OpenBox context menu, AND the Fluxbox menu, overlapping each other.

Perhaps toggling the Show menus provided by window managers when desktop is clicked option on the advanced tab of will help (or perhaps not, but it shouldn't cause any irreparable harm)

Have you tried writing a ~/.xinitrc file for that? I'm pretty sure it will get read.

As far as I can tell, X server isn't even installed on this distro. xinit and startx are unknown commands. I have no idea what is dictating the launch of OpenBox-LXDE.

@RockDoctor: That command had no effect

@bonixavier: Since X server is not installed, a custom xinitrc script won't work here.

I thought it was as simple as selecting Fluxbox form the login manager, so it becomes the default for the next and subsequent sessions, then setting the login manager to log in your user automatically? Or are you trying something more specific?

If you don't have xorg-server installed, how can you login to lxde?!?

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