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i emailed the guy who wrote fluxspace, and got the following response:

 

 

----------------------------Begin Email--------------------------------------

>From Mark Harrison <email stripped>, on Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:00:08PM -0500:

> I'm attempting to compile your "FluxSpace" program on a Mandrake Linux

> 9.0 machine. the following error(s) are being spit out during the

> "make":

>

> In file included from BaseDisplay.cc:41:

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

 

I just posted a new version to:

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

 

I ran into stdlib compilation problems when I switched from Debian to

Gentoo and from gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.2. Perhaps the new version will

build for you. I also added a new module for "idesk".

 

> Sorry if anyone else has asked you about this, but I was unable to find

> an answer or a fix. There are a bunch of us at

> http://www.mandrakeusers.org trying to get this working, so if you know

> a solution I'll share it with them and we'll all get it fixed up and

> running :)

 

There has only been a trickle of email on this project. It would be

very cool if you and your group find it useful.

 

Enjoy. Please let me know if you have more problems or questions.

 

Cheers,

Steve

------------------------------End Email--------------------------------------

 

so hopefully that will fix things for all of you who were trying to get it up and running :)

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Guest joehill

got it.

 

1. #urpmi imlib2-devel

 

2. ./configure

 

3. make

 

compiled!

 

found this while trying to compile something else with pixmap support, the waimea window manager, looks very cool.

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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.

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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>

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Guest joehill

you have to load the fluxspace.xml before X?!

 

sounds dangerous having it start at boot or login. what if some part of the fluxspace.xml becomes corrupted and I cannot log in?

 

that would suck.

 

or am I jumping to conclusions?

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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.

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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.

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well, I've gotten it to build and install on 2 completely different systems, but still can't get it to load. I've just been trying to get it to load from that autostart.sh. no dice.

 

:evil: :evil: WTF does that mean "no module named fluxspace." :evil::evil:

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