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finally decided i give fluxbox a try seeing how the screen shots i saw look absolutely delicious and i hate being curious about anything. so i get it installed (from source) then logout of X. i then run 'startfluxbox' and my first error hits me like an angry grandmother.

the error i received was something along the lines of 'cannot find (or open) /usr/X11R6/share/fluxbox/nls/en_US/fluxbox.cat .
so i go to that directory only to find out it doesnt exist! i have an es_ES (probably spanish) then i have an et_EE. am i supposed to have this directory/file, or was i supposed to point it at another one. if so, which is the directory for english?

btw this is the newest version of fb (v0.1.14).
please let me know what i did wrong, ill keep tinkering away at it, and thanks ahead of time guys.

I'm using 0.1.14 and there's no file fluxbox.cat on my system ...

Cheers,
Tink

strange, then why am i getting that error?
'startfluxbox' is how you start it no? unless i truely am going retarded (ive been known to do that) im lost 0_o

No, you've to choose it as your default window manager using xwmconfig or manually editing your .xinitrc file. (The first will be ok).
The run: startx

Edit: Since you installed from source you won't have a selection in xwmconfig for it, so edit a file called .xinitrc in your home directory (doesn't exist by default, just create it) and put something like:

Code:

#!/bin/sh



userresources=$HOME/.Xresources

usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap

sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources

sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap



# merge in defaults and keymaps



if [ -f $sysresources ]; then

    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi



if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then

    xmodmap $sysmodmap

fi



if [ -f $userresources ]; then

    xrdb -merge $userresources

fi



if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then

    xmodmap $usermodmap

fi



exec startfluxbox

The run startx.

Oh and If you're wondering why you have to do this, it's because the Window Manager runs inside X, with startfluxbox you're trying to start it but you're not in X. startx command runs a X server and loads first a ~/.xinitrc to execute the window manager. If it can't find it, it looks at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, this is the global window manager option.

alright! :) that makes perfect sense. i want to thank you for your speedy response. now i can get to the fun stuff :)

fluxbox.cat files - defined

well... just for anyone's future reference, the fluxbox.cat files are not actually a real problem -usually.
If you read the rest of your screen around that it will say something about translating and just using default messages.

How bout you give a go at "cat"ing the fluxbox.cat files. They are translations of messages/menus, whatever...

So they are often referred to when printing out an error message that needs to be translated... or menu stuff...
If you have set options for internationalization then you are likely to come across this. Otherwise... I doubt it...

To get rid of the problem of not finding the cat files just cd to fluxbox/nls director and cp -r C en_US
Atleast in my case the directory nls/C holds the default fluxbox.cat file

Anyway.

It might let you actually get to read the messages that you are missing?

In my case, it was griping about something going wrong. I love linux, and it works fine for me. But I always destroy it when I try to internationlize in any way.... but it is certainly better than a few years ago...

Hope you get things fixed (without having to reinstall-- although, that is half the fun of running *nix...)