aru Posted January 15, 2003 Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 spiderman Frequent user Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Michigan Post Posted: Wed May 15, 2002 7:09 am Post subject: Auto launch apps in Fluxbox.... _________________________________________________________________ This is the easiest way that I found to get applications to launch at login with Fluxbox: 1. Create a new text file called autostart.sh . The best place for this file is in /home/username/.fluxbox. Where username is your username. 2. My autostart.sh file looks like this: Quote: # Be sure that you put the & at the end of each line else you will only be able to launch the first application... # This loads your wallpaper Esetroot -s /home/steve/glaciated_10x7.jpg gaim & # This launches gkrellm in the slit gkrellm -w & /usr/bin/gnome-terminal & opera & konqueror & Substitute the apps that you want to launch for the ones that I have listed. 3. You will also need to make your autostart.sh file executable. 4. Open ~/.fluxbox/init in your favorite editor (I like gedit) 5. Scroll down to the session.screen0.rootCommand: line 6. Add this: Code: sh /home/username/.fluxbox/autostart.sh to this line so that it now looks like this: Code: session.screen0.rootCommand: sh /home/username/.fluxbox/autostart.sh 7. Save your init file and exit the editors. 8. Open your menu and select Settings >> Reload Configuration Viola! The apps that you listed in autostart.sh should magically appear. They should now load every time you launch Fluxbox. >> edit, apparently this doesn't work quite the same in Blackbox Last edited by spiderman on Sat May 18, 2002 11:02 pm, edited 1 time in total Smigs Newbie Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 15 Location: UK Post Posted: Sat May 18, 2002 9:41 pm Post subject: Blackbox compatibility _________________________________________________________________ I tried adding Quote: session.screen0.rootCommand: sh /home/username/autostart.sh to my .blackboxrc file, but it doesn't work; I don't think blackbox supports session.screen0.rootCommand (it isn't mentioned on the manpage)? Any ideas at all? I must thankyou anyway, cause I found out how to change the date display as a result of this Smile Smigs spiderman Frequent user Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Michigan Post Posted: Sat May 18, 2002 11:02 pm Post subject: _________________________________________________________________ Sorry Smigs, for some reason yet to be determined, my blackbox doesn't want to start up, so I can't play with it. I'm still learning all this too, and wrote this up as much to help myself as to help other people. I know that there are a lot of similarities between BBox and Flux, but maybe this isn't one of them. Anyway... Glad that I could help you at least a little, I post if I find anything out. phunni Frequent user Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 84 Location: Bristol, U.K. Post Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 10:23 am Post subject: background _________________________________________________________________ I followed your steps and everything seems to work great - I have both gkrellm and gaim starting nicely, but I used bsetbg to try and set a background image and it doesn't work. If I simply reload the config then I (still) have the image that I want, but if I restart then I lose it. delboy711 Senior user Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 412 Location: Wokingham, UK Post Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2002 11:11 am Post subject: Fluxbox 0.1.10 _________________________________________________________________ Texstar has put up an RPM of fkuxbox 0.1.10 on his download site ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...ndrake-8.2/RPMS This seems to fix the problem with edits to .fluxbox/init not sticking One change is that bgset is now called bgset-fluxbox so you will have to edit your init files to get your wallpaper back. Another thing I noticed is that the default menu for fluxbox is ~/.fluxbox/menu, but If you add an RPM or use menudrake to add an application Mandrake will update ~/fluxbox-menu So to make sure my fluxbox menu is automatically updated when I add an RPM I deleted ~/.fluxbox/menu and replaced it with a symlink to ~/fluxbox-menu Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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