mateamargo Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 I want to try Fluxbox, but I have some doubts about it, because I don't know how much my system depends on KDE. If I install Fluxbox, does this affect sound, video or any program installed before? I'm going to have trouble with RPM or some software? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 From experience I can tell you you can safely remove all of KDE without borking your install, okay you'll be without the kde programs and without stuff like Kaffeine and Opera (although the static build should work) but you can't do the same with GNOME without losing all Mandriva stuff. You can always just keep KDE installed, most programs which depend on KDE should still be able to run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateamargo Posted July 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 If I use Fluxbox keeping KDE installed, my system will run faster or is the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 (edited) I never tried fluxbox, only icewm, it was fast and basic but in the mean time I managed to get KDE to start up a bit quicker too, though I don't know what I did exactly. Something with running various dcop*** (either dcopstart, dcop, dcopclient, dcopserver) commands and kbuildsyscoca --no-incremental --global. After playing around a little the massive load of messages when starting kde apps from terminal stopped and they started way faster.... sorry for being vague :sad: Edited July 25, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateamargo Posted July 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 I just installed Fluxbox from Mandriva DVD. But every time I want to start it says "Couldn't connect to XServer" Should I do something else before installing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 how did you start fluxbox? did you start kde first and then try to run fluxbox or did you run it from a new session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Using fluxbox is easy. urpmi fluxbox After that, it will be automatically added to the login-manager for selection. If you run fluxbox (of course you should not run any other session like KDE at the same time), the system will of course be faster as fluxbox is the least resources consuming windowmanager after icewm. You can also install fluxboxconfig for additional tweaking, if you don't want to change the scripts/config files manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateamargo Posted July 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 I frist execute "init 3" in Konsole. Then I tried with "fluxbox" and then with "startfluxbox". Both gave me the same error. If I run "startx" loads KDE. Where is that login-manager arctic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Just use the KDE or Gnome login manager (whichever you use). It is added to the selection-list of the loginmanager menu automatically. No need for going into init 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 you probably have your system set up to automatically log you in. you can change this in the boot options in mandriva control center. once you turn off auto-login you'll get the login window. unless of course you are logging in at a prompt and running startx everytime you boot your computer... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 unless of course you are logging in at a prompt and running startx everytime you boot your computer... In that case he needs to install the Xtart package since that will give him the choice of which WM/DM to run and handle the gritty X stuff. I have been using it since 8.0/8.1. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateamargo Posted July 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 I'm not using autologon. But I can't see the option to choice between KDE and Fluxbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 If you are using kdm or gdm, there are some buttons like "sessions" or "menu". You should access it from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 After running startx to get into KDE, run mcc and go to Boot then click "Enable autologin and select...blahblah" Choose "Launch the graphical environment when the system starts" and "No, I don't want to autologin" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mateamargo Posted July 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Every time I start the PC I see a graphic login interface, but there is no option to choose between Fluxbox or KDE or wathever. I did what Steve said and now I'm with Fluxbox. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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