bvc Posted February 15, 2003 Report Share Posted February 15, 2003 So you installed with a tarball correct? What ever is in /usr/local/bin/ should be fine. The contents of a /usr/X11R6/bin/startxxxx is the path to the wm, which in your case is probably /usr/local/bin/fluxbox To find out, as a user and or root run which fluxbox I'm currently using waimea [bvc@localhost bvc]$ which waimea/usr/X11R6/bin/waimea [bvc@localhost bvc]$ /usr/X11R6/bin/startwaimea exec /usr/X11R6/bin/waimea You don't need to create this Plain Text file but you could. For /etc/ X11/wmsession.d for fluxbox put the result of which. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hea Posted February 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2003 This is the contents of my /etc/X11/wmsession.d/08fluxbox : NAME=Fluxbox EXEC=/usr/local/bin/fluxbox DESC=Fluxbox desktop environment SCRIPT: exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox Works fine for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thunorsman Posted February 15, 2003 Report Share Posted February 15, 2003 That worked! Thanks everybody! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 well, it sounds like you want fluxbox to show up in your login manager. if so, your best bet is to install from rpm, the Mandrake rpm will automatically put an entry in your login manager. if you really want to install from source, write back, I can probably link you to some info on that, but the rpm would be your best bet until you get your feet wet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Here http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/download.php you'll find a link to a Mandrake source rpm. Download it>cd to its location>rpmbuild --rebuild fluxbox-x.x.x-bla.src.rpm Look for a line that says Wrote /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ixxx/fluxbox-bla.bla rpm -ivh /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ixxx/fluxbox-bla.bla If all is well continue on. In the future if you have to use a tarball ./configure with ./configure --prefix=/usr pkgname.tar.gz and it'll be installed in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joehill Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 sorry, looks like I got in kinda late on this...LOL I gotta remember to make sure there aren't more replies before I post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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