HAL, Xorg, and Fluxbox on Slackware 13.0
Hey everyone,
So has anyone tried loading up Fluxbox on there shiny new 13.0 installation? My first thought was: Will HAL and Xorg still work together to configure X without an xorg.conf file? It seems that the short answer (in my case anyway) is no. In fact, it seems Fluxbox fails completely if no xorg.conf file is detected. I have yet to experiment with creating an xorg.conf file that properly works with both Fluxbox and KDE. Has anyone done much with this yet? Coto |
Well, fluxbox works fine for me with no xorg.conf. But, after I installed the nvidia drivers I needed to make an xorg.conf ... and fluxbox still works fine. Does it post any errors ?
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Got it to work.
Since I was just checking to see it did work, I just ran "startfluxbox" instead of changing the windows manager through xwmconfig and then running startx. If I remember correctly though, this was never a problem. I guess with this new system, it's what you have to do. |
If you don't change the window manager, even if typing startfluxbox aren't you still using kdm?
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I used xwmconfig to change to fluxbox and she fired right up with startx. I like starting from console too.
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This is interesting, I was thinking about running fluxbox and KDE in 13.1 when I load it up. I play a lot of games and in Ubuntu the compbiz/KDE took up most of my 2 gigs of ram and ran games slower (than 3.5 in slackware 12.2)
I always start from console so that shouldn't be an issue. |
One of the issues that I ran into was that my keyboard mapping got screwed up. Subsequently, all of the combos that I set up in ~/.fluxbox/keys stopped working. I think the new X is either identifying the keyboard wrong, or I had it set up the wrong way previously.
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Also, if I have to quit X with Ctrl+Alt+BkSpc, Fluxbox (or KDE) won't restart properly until I reboot. Probably a radeon driver issue between my laptop's ati Mobility U1 and the new Xorg. |
I solved the keyboard issue by adding
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Section "ServerFlags" And solved my desktop issue. If the 3ddesktop daemon is running before startx it paints the background on top of my desktop. |
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