I've searching the forums and Google but I'm still stumped. I can't add Fluxbox to my list of windows managers. I added this to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions named fluxbox:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/fluxbox

and it didn't work. I checked the other sessions (KDE, GNOME) and I saw this:
#!/bin/bash

exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession kde

How do I add fluxbox?

Fluxbox is great. To have it working, simply issue the following into your home directory :

echo 'exec fluxbox' >> .xinitrc

This will add the exec fluxbox command to the xinitrc file. That's the best way to start fluxbox. Notice that you will need to add this command to every users on your box who wish to use flux.

Hope this helps

Cheers.

KaZer's suggestion may, or may not, work depending how you log in. If you use a graphical login manager like kdm or gdm, then the file you added to the .../Sessions should work if you add exec fluxbox in place of your /usr/local/bin/fluxbox line. The graphical login managers tend to ignore .xinitric so adding exec fluxbox to that may not do the trick.

However, if you log in through the text console and use startx to start your graphical environment, then editing .xinitric is the way to go. However, I would strongly suggest editing it with a text editor like pico or gedit (if you are in a graphical environment) since simply tacking exec fluxbox onto the end (as KaZer's command would do) could have unwanted results. For example, if you .xintiric already has exec startkde as the last line, putting exec fluxbox after that isn't going to do much except maybe screw up KDE.

I tried editing /etc/X11/gdm/Sessionsfluxbox to show this:
exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession fluxbox
and this:
exec fluxbox

Neither worked. I tried using the precompiled Redhat rpms which setup gdm for me but it was an older version of Fluxbox that crashed incessantly.

That didn't work because that isn't where the fluxbox executable is (at least I doubt it)

That should have worked IF the fluxbox executable is on your PATH. To find out where the executable is try which fluxbox. If you don't get anythign back from that, they something may be wrong with the installation.

How did you install fluxbox anyway? I know you said that you used an RPM of an old version, but did you compile one of the newer ones?

I am having the same problem as bax.

Here is my /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Fluxbox :
Has anyone managed to run fluxbox under redhat 9?

Edit:

I managed to get it working!

http://www.nxsupport.net/forums/show...astpost&t=6349

You need to chmod a+x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Fluxbox

[root@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/tw33k/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/home/tw33k/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

^that is what happens when I type ./configure, as su, in the correct folder,
what do i do?

http://www.macewan.org/howto/getting...redhat%208.txt


here's how i did it on redhat 8

may or may not help for rh9

Hi bax....check out this thread..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...=fluxbox+guide

Hope that solves your concerns..

Regards,

amit

I have installed flux box in RH9. You just have to compile and create the fluxbox binary. Then, you have to find the fluxbox path, which is usually /usr/local/fluxbox.

So, add the following to your /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox

#! /bin/bash

exec /usr/local/fluxbox

and it is done with.