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snowgod
02-04-2001, 11:49 PM
Hello all:
I am using storm linux and installed it with enlightenment as default. I got blackbox installed fine, but to start it, I had to edit my xinitrc file to start blackbox instead of enlightenment, so I commented out the line to start Xsession and replaced it with exec blackbox. this worked fine except that I lost the keyboard mapping when I did that and have no backspace button. I looked at the Xsession file and could not find a place that either mapped the keyboard, or told the comp that the manager to exec was enlightenment. So how do I fix this so that I can use blackbox with the proper keymapping?

ColdPack
02-04-2001, 11:54 PM
You don't have to mess with any of that stuff if you log in using the graphical log in screen.
Did you use apt to install blackbox? (I can't imagine why you wouldn't have...)
Anyway, once it's installed, do the following:
cd /etc/gdm/Sessions
ln Debian blackbox

Now, you will see blackbox as one of your choices in the gdm login screen for Storm.
That's it.
If you don't use the graphical login screen, that's when you mess with the ~/.xsession file.

snowgod
02-05-2001, 01:28 AM
I don't use a graphical login. and I don't especially want to, and I know that there is a way to do it with the Xsession, but can't follow the code well enough to know where to change it.