Ok i download fluxconf and i did ./configure and then i went to do make and this is the error i get: Makefile:234: *** missing separator. Stop. anyone know why im getti ng this error and how i can fix this problem

Also i wanna know if anyone know of a better windowmanager than fluxbox??? Thanx

Matt3333

Ok im just having alots of troubles today ok after fluxconf didnt work i decided i would try out fluxbg downloaded unziped it then i went to ./configure and it goes fine for alittle while then i get this error and it stops:

"Checking for gtkmm-2.0... packages gtkmm-2.0 was not found in the pkg-configure search path.
Perhads you should add the directory containing 'gtkmm-2.0.pc' to the OKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtkmm-2.0' found

Configure: error: Libarary requirement (gtkmm-2.0) not met: consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in the nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them."

This is what i get i dunno what do to i tried to see i need an update to this package and swaret finds to package by that name?? so maybe i have to download it or something or is there another way around this dep.?

thanx

Matt3333

You could try 'locate gtkmm-2.0' but on my system it didn't turn up anything. Google is your friend:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkmm/

Checkinstall should take care of it. I haven't really used swaret.

But you don't really need fluxconf. Fluxbox has up to five text files in ~/.fluxbox that you can add to the menu like

[exec] (fluxedit) {gedit ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/init ~/.fluxbox/keys ~/.fluxbox/slitlist ~/.fluxbox/groups}
or
[exec] (fluxedit) {gvim -S ~/fluxedit.vim -geometry 109x43+0+14}
(after opening the ~/.fluxbox directory in gvim and saving it as a session).

Voila! A better, more complete, more consistent fluxconf. I don't even know what fluxbg is.

Fluxbox is my favorite window manager and, on the stripped-down side, I doubt you'd find better, but it's a personal choice. If you want more, you want something else, probably.

--- And if this isn't your actual question I'm going to shoot myself. I've been spectacularly dain bramaged lately.

lol ya that was my question thanx ill download it and see if it works hmm fluxbg is suppose to let u put icons on ur desktop...I wanted fluxconf ibelieve i wanted it for this reason to change me background or maybe its the other way around anyways ya thats what i wanted them for and i tried bsetbg -c /home/Matt/My Pictures/[Image] and it says /home/Matt/My not a directory??? but when i open a file browser i can see i there i made sure i spelt everything right and i dunno whats wrong with it??? does anyone else get this find of problem for is it just me???

Matt3333

Try changing that to My\ Pictures (the slash to indicate an upcoming space)

Just to generalize that, spaces aren't entirely allowed in linux filenames so, like GOBY says, you have to use the \ escape character to say "No, I really mean a space, not a separator between two arguments."

And if you want icons on a desktop you can have them in flux but you might be more interested in XFCE or WindowMaker or one of those heavy-wm's/light-ide's. As far as changing the background, if you're using a theme, there'll be a file with the theme's name - you can just open that in an editor and edit the 'rootCommand' line to select the background of your choice. Don't get me wrong, fluxconf is nice but after I downloaded it and used it for awhile I just kind of started wondering what was the point. And editing the menu is a lot easier with the 'menu' file than using fluxconf and filling in boxes and trying to drag and drop stuff.