Slackware minimal install with Fluxbox
 

I have install Slackware minimal install following the instructions from this link: http://slackwiki.org/Minimal_System
Now I would like to install Fluxbox as the windows manager. I have install all the X packages and Fluxbox from the CDs but when I run the startx command I get the window but then I cannot do anything inside of it. No response from the keyboard and no response from the mouse. I get a Fluxbox frozen window. The question is, what packages am I missing to get this window manager to work?
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

see if you've got "xf86-input-keyboard" and "xf86-input-mouse" packases installed.

xf86-input-{keyboard,mouse} arent even used by default by 13.37's X server. You have to disable input hotplugging start using them.

Hi,

The Minimal System entry on Slackwiki is completely outdated. I should know it, I wrote it in 2007. Maybe it's time someone removed it.

As for Slackware with Fluxbox, just install A, AP, D, E, F, K, L, N, X and Y, and then add the 'fluxbox' package from XAP as well as any graphical application that you need. Today, this would be the most orthodox way to do this, I guess.

Thanks to all for the replies.
Kikinovak, so basically just go ahead and do a full install?

Yeah. I did some fiddling recently, out of curiosity, but concluded that it wasn't worth the pain. I've mostly been using a homemade script that checks dependencies for all installed binaries recursively, then hunted down eventually missing libs. What I do now is make a full install and just leave out the stuff I'm 100% sure I don't need.

I didn't wanted to install everything. I guess I will just have to play with it I guess. Thanks for your help.

OK so I'm using Oracle VM VirtualBox and I'm concern that if I install all of these series packages I might run out of space on the virtual disk that I have created for Slackware.
What would be the required size for all of these series packages kikinovak?

Allocate about 20GB and you should be good for any installation of Slackware.

Disk space (real as well as virtual :p) is cheap.

For me, a minimal install is all of the slackware packages except for those in KDE and KDEI. Sure, I end up with some WMs that I have no use for but these take up minimal space on the hard drive.

On a server, I install everything except KDE, KDEI and XAP.

OK... So, I went ahead and install the following series packages A, AP, D, E, F, K, L, N, X and Y as suggested by kikinovak. I got fluxbox, firefox, thunderbird, XMMS, piding and xchat working.
Now I have another question, what would be the easiest way to install enlightenment? Should I go ahead and install it from SlackBuilds.org? I notice that if I do this it will take a long time for me to install everything. Does anyone have a script to do this automatically? Download, untar and install the packages?
Any information would be appreciated.

I tested Enlightenment on a sandbox machine out of curiosity. IMHO the best way to install it is using the scripts from SlackBuilds.org. You know, you don't have to download, unpack them, download the code and build and install every single package individually. Check out 'sbopkg', which does a great job and simplifies things considerably. I wouldn't miss it.

As for Enlightenment's usability, that's another question. My reaction to Enlightenment went something like this:

1) Wow! It's fast! It's beautiful! :cool:

2) Now what? :scratch:

3) Back to KDE:D

Hahaha Thanks for the the info Kikinovak. I have used Enlightenment in the past and I really like it.

So, I'm going to give it another shot.

I'm going to take a look at sbopkg. Thanks again for the information.