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I get this error message when I try to start it from a terminal after I am into fluxbox already:

 

[pwolfe1@TECH04 pwolfe1]$ fluxspace

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/usr/local/bin/fluxspace", line 15, in ?

   import fluxspace

ImportError: No module named fluxspace

[pwolfe1@TECH04 pwolfe1]$

 

ok, I'm lost and my boss thinks I need to go back to work or something.

well, I didn't actually do that. the readme says to put in your .xinitrc, or .xsession file, but I have neither of those. so i added it into the autostart.sh file I had made. I edited the fluxspace.xml to change my wallpaper and thats it.

 

However, it doesn't load. or at least the wallpaper never changes, so I have no idea if its working.

if anyone is anygood with XML, can you tell me if you see anything wrong with this?

 

<?xml version="1.0"?>



<!-- This is a sample fluxspace configuration file.  Enable modules

    by substituting "yes" for "no" in appropriate module enable

    attributes.  Place your customized configuration in ~/.fluxbox .

-->



<fluxspace>



 <!-- Painter module - Different wallpaper for each workspace -->

 <painter enable="yes">

   <wallpaper workspace="0" image="/stuff/PICS/Winter_Mist_1280.jpg"/>

   <wallpaper workspace="1" image="~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/wallpaper1.png"/>

   <wallpaper workspace="2" image="~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/wallpaper2.png"/>

   <wallpaper workspace="3" image="~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/wallpaper3.png"/>

 </painter>



 <!-- Rox Filer module - provides panels and pinboards -->

 <rox enable="no">

   <!-- Per-workspace Rox panel -->

   <panel position="left"/>

   <!-- Per-workspace Rox pinboard (desktop icons) -->

   <!-- Note: if you want desktop icons consider idesk instead of the

        pinboard.  The pinboard can make the Fluxbox root menu

        misbehave.  See README.  But if you want pinboards remove the

        comment surrounding the line below. -->

   <!--

   <pinboard/>

   -->

 </rox>



 <!-- Idesk module - for desktop icons on each workspace -->

 <idesk enable="yes">



 <!-- Runner module - command execution -->

 <runner enable="no">

   <!-- Global startup commands -->

   <program command="wmCalClock"/>

   <program command="wmtop"/>

   <program command="wmmixer -w"/>

   <program command="wmcliphist"/>

   <program command="wmweather+ -station KSEA"/>

   <program command="gkrellm -w"/>

   <!-- Per-workspace dockapps -->

   <program workspace="0" command="wmdrawer -c ~/.wmdrawer/main"/>

   <program workspace="1" command="wmdrawer -c ~/.wmdrawer/net"/>

   <program workspace="2" command="wmdrawer -c ~/.wmdrawer/app"/>

   <program workspace="3" command="wmdrawer -c ~/.wmdrawer/play"/>

 </runner>



 <!-- Tracer module - event tracing -->

 <tracer enable="no"/>



</fluxspace>

you have to have the XML modules installed too. then there is a fluxspace.xml that you have to load before X. in that fluxspace.xml, you turn on the features so that you can see that it is installed and working. or so the readme says. making that happen is another thing all together apparently. no luck here yet. been playing with it off and on all day here at work.

grabbed the imlib2 rpm's from enlightenments site. sweet jesus. its installed, but get ready for some fun configuring it. can you say XML????

nope no dice. I think my errors are coming from imlib2 not being installed. back to the drawing board...I have an idea.

interesting. I'mn gonna go and try it now.

waimea has no taskbar, not even a BB or FB type. nice......... 8)

have you tried eroaster? super easy and feature packed.

when I get to work today I'm gonna install on it the mac I have there. report to follow later.

KICK ASS! thanks for the links!!!

nope...no fixed code here. just a missing "Y" key from me punching the keyboard and it going flying to god no what remote corner of my room.

AA you need this line atthe end of your /home/yournamehere/.fluxbox/init file:

 

session.screen0.rootCommand:	sh /home/yournamehere/.fluxbox/autostart.sh

 

And in your ./fluxbox create a file called autostart.sh

 

in that file, any apps you put there will start up. here's what mine looks like.

 

idesk > /dev/null &

Esetroot -s /stuff/PICS/DIGIMAGEZ/3196-Screen01.JPG &

gkrellm -w &

fluxter &

3ddeskd &

3desktop &

3desktop --aquire &

 

you can see that I start idesk to have my icons, gkrellm in the slit, Esetroot changes the background image, fluxter is a pager, and 3ddesktop enables screenshot 2 above.

oh I get it now!!!!!! crappy code.

Guarddog preference here. What questions did you have about it? If their not too tech savvy, maybe I can help.

The slit is just a central place to stuff all your little apps, like dockapps in other WM's like WindowMaker. DockApps are little programs that run and all have the same size. If you run them in the slit, they all stick to one place instead of being all over your screen. picture being in KDE and having a second panel. though instead of running across the bottom of the screen, this one runs along the side, and has apps that look like this:

http://dockapps.org/

 

In my screenshot however, I run gkrellm in the slit. That is because I wanted to give it rights like always on top, and I wanted to see it on every desktop.

 

And to keep you from being discouraged, check out these screenshots!!!!!

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

If you mean switching apps while they are open, what wrong with >ALT< >TAB< ?

you know what else is wierd is the part about imlib2 not being found, so pixmap support is disabled. that sucks pixmap support is what the whole damn program is about! I have imlib3 installed. I tried to install imlib2, and it would let me, but I always got the same error messsage.

I am trying to install this thing called Fluxspace.

 

http://www.isomedia.com/homes/stevencooper.../fluxspace.html

 

I'm getting some really funky error messages that I am not familiar.

 

when I try to do the ./configure, I get the following halfway through it. The lines in red are the ones in question.

[pwolfe1@TECH04 fluxspace-0.0.2]$ ./configure

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking for sed... sed

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output... a.out

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of executables...

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for g++... g++

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr//bin/install -c

checking for swig... /usr//bin/swig

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for ld used by GCC... /usr//bin/ld

checking if the linker (/usr//bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes

checking for /usr//bin/ld option to reload object files... -r

checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr//bin/nm -B

checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all

checking command to parse /usr//bin/nm -B output... ok

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for egrep... grep -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking dlfcn.h usability... yes

checking dlfcn.h presence... yes

checking for dlfcn.h... yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for strip... strip

checking for objdir... .libs

checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC

checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes

checking if gcc static flag -static works... no

checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes

checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes

checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes

checking whether the linker (/usr//bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate

checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes

checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so

checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes

checking whether to build shared libraries... yes

checking whether to build static libraries... yes

checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no

creating libtool

checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

checking ctype.h usability... yes

checking ctype.h presence... yes

checking for ctype.h... yes

checking fcntl.h usability... yes

checking fcntl.h presence... yes

checking for fcntl.h... yes

checking libgen.h usability... yes

checking libgen.h presence... yes

checking for libgen.h... yes

checking locale.h usability... yes

checking locale.h presence... yes

checking for locale.h... yes

checking process.h usability... no

checking process.h presence... no

checking for process.h... no

checking signal.h usability... yes

checking signal.h presence... yes

checking for signal.h... yes

checking stdio.h usability... yes

checking stdio.h presence... yes

checking for stdio.h... yes

checking time.h usability... yes

checking time.h presence... yes

checking for time.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking sys/param.h usability... yes

checking sys/param.h presence... yes

checking for sys/param.h... yes

checking sys/select.h usability... yes

checking sys/select.h presence... yes

checking for sys/select.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes

checking sys/time.h usability... yes

checking sys/time.h presence... yes

checking for sys/time.h... yes

checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes

checking sys/wait.h usability... yes

checking sys/wait.h presence... yes

checking for sys/wait.h... yes

checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes

checking for setlocale... yes

checking for sigaction... yes

checking for strftime... yes

checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers

checking for gethostbyname... yes

checking for connect... yes

checking for remove... yes

checking for shmat... yes

checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes

checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... yes

checking for pixmap support... yes

checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes

checking for TT_Init_FreeType in -lttf... no

checking for imlib_create_image in -lImlib2... no

configure: WARNING: *** Pixmap support has been disabled because Imlib2 was not found ***

configure: WARNING: *** or could not be linked. Eterm should still work

configure: WARNING: *** not be very happy. Check config.log for more detailed ***

configure: WARNING: *** information on why my attempt to link with Imlib2 failed. ***

checking for python... /usr//bin/python

checking for python version... 2.2

checking for python platform... linux-i386

checking for python >= 2.2... okay

checking for headers required to compile python extensions... found

checking for Py_Initialize in -lpython2.2... yes

checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

checking malloc.h usability... yes

checking malloc.h presence... yes

checking for malloc.h... yes

checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes

checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... (cached) yes

checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h

checking for select... yes

checking for strstr... yes

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating version.h

config.status: creating Makefile

config.status: executing depfiles commands

[pwolfe1@TECH04 fluxspace-0.0.2]$ make

if /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME="" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=" -DPACKAGE_VERSION="" -DPACKAGE_STRING="" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT="" -DPACKGE="fluxspace" -DVERSION="0.0.2" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRNGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H= -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_CTYPE_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBGEN_H=1 -DHAVE_LOALE_H=1 -DHAVE_SIGNAL_H=1 -DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 -DHAVE_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1-DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SETLOCAL=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_STRFTIME=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DTIE_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SELECT=1 -DHAVE_STRSTR=1 -I. -I. -I/usr/include/pytho2.2 -O2 -Wall -MT BaseDisplay.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/BaseDisplay.Tpo"

-c -o BaseDisplay.lo `test -f 'BaseDisplay.cc' || echo './'`BaseDisplay.cc; then mv ".deps/BaseDisplay.Tpo" ".deps/BaseDisplay.Plo";

else rm -f ".deps/BaseDisplay.Tpo"; exit 1;

fi

mkdir .libs

g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME="" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME="" -DPACKAGE_VERSION="" -DPACKAGESTRING="" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT="" -DPACKAGE="fluxspace" -DVERSION="0.0.2 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_TDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_CTYPE_H=1 DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 -DHAVE_LIBGEN_H=1 -DHAVE_LOCALE_H=1 -DHAVE_SIGNAL_H=1 -DHAVE_STIO_H=1 -DHAVE_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SELECTH=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_WAI_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SETLOCALE=1 -DHAVE_SIGACTION=1 -DHAVE_STRFTIE=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_SELECT=1 -HAVE_STRSTR=1 -I. -I. -I/usr/include/python2.2 -O2 -Wall -MT BaseDisplay.lo -MD-MP -MF .deps/BaseDisplay.Tpo -c BaseDisplay.cc -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/BaseDisply.lo

In file included from BaseDisplay.cc:41:

BaseDisplay.hh:119: parse error before `,' token

BaseDisplay.hh: In member function `const char* BaseDisplay::getXDisplayName() onst':

BaseDisplay.hh:282: `display_name' undeclared (first use this function)

BaseDisplay.hh:282: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each unction it appears in.)

BaseDisplay.hh: In member function `const char* BaseDisplay::getApplicationName) const':

BaseDisplay.hh:284: `application_name' undeclared (first use this function)

BaseDisplay.cc: In constructor `BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay(const char*, const cha*, bool)':

BaseDisplay.cc:179: class `BaseDisplay' does not have any field named `applicaton_name'

make: *** [baseDisplay.lo] Error 1

[pwolfe1@TECH04 fluxspace-0.0.2]$

 

 

Thanks in advance for any help!!!

I have used several cards with a Realtek chipset on them and have never had a problem. The cards that I would recommend are D-Link

 

I agree. I'm on a D-Link at home. And I never had any issues in any Os with that card.

I'd get a netgear nic if you can find one.

sorry that first pic is all garbled. I dunno what happened there.

here's what mine looks like:

 

 

and the 3d pager in action

 

 

in the last one you can see gaim running on one desktop and opera on the other and Xchat on the desktop I just zoomed out from.

My FluxBox setup... lemme tell you switching between apps could not be any easier. you need a good pager:

 

http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

and

http://www.isomedia.com/homes/stevencooper...r/projects.html

 

and maybe an app to let you put icons on your desktop:

 

http://linuxhelp.hn.org/idesk.php

 

and a super heavy duty gkrellm, and I'm set. I use konqueror and konsole a lot for working with files and opera to browse the web. I think the cool thing about blackbox and fluxbox is that you can design the GUI yourself.

This is a good explanation. Its lengthy, but good.

 

http://www.freeos.com/articles/3102/