Ahimsa
07-16-2002, 04:13 AM
Hello
I'd post this to the Fluxbox forum, but for whatever reason I keep getting a server error when I try to connect, and since this LNF has been so helpful to me in the past, this seemed like a good place to post.
Now with the prelims out of the way:
I downloaded Fluxbox-0.1.10 as a tarball. Logged in as root and compiled the program. So far so good. Now the snag:
The prog docs suggest that I either find or create the file called ".xinitrc", and I created it as user (should I do this as root?), and added the line "exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox" as per direction (which is the correct path on my machine). This is the only line in this newly created ".xinitrc" file. I also followed the direction and created a directory called ".fluxbox", again as user (although I noticed that there is a file called this in my root directory also??), and moved the 'init', 'menu' and 'keys' files into the /home/ahimsa/.fluxbox directory as directed. I made the necessary changes to the .fluxbox/init file and changed references to ~/.fluxbox.
OK: When I went to run it, I got the following error message:
"ahimsa@localhost ahimsa]$ ./.xinitrc
Warning: Failed to open catalog, using default messages.
Faild to read: session.tabs
Setting default value
Faild to read: session.slitlistFile
Setting default value
BScreen::BScreen: an error occured while querying the X server.
another window manager already running on display :0.0.
Fluxbox::Fluxbox: no managable screens found, aborting.
So my questions are:
1. Did I make a mistake in this process (maybe should have been done entirely as root or not at all? Did I overlook a file? Make an incorrect reference? ,etc.)
2. How will I be able to load Fluxbox, when my current windows manager is the default wm (Sawfish)? If someone can give me some baby-steps directions this would be most excellent.I don't appear to have an ".xsession" file in my home directory.I only have ".Xauthority" and "/.xauth".
3. At what point do I load the themes, and can someone give me a clue as to how to do that. I might be having a brain fugue but for some reason the directions on that part don't seem very clear.
4. Once everything is loaded and set, when I login, will fluxbox be offered as a session as kde and gnome are presently, or will it be listed under 'default', in which case I would need to change my default.
I'd appreciate any help you can offer, because I've gone over my steps several times, read and re-read the scant docs available, but am still stuck.
I'd post this to the Fluxbox forum, but for whatever reason I keep getting a server error when I try to connect, and since this LNF has been so helpful to me in the past, this seemed like a good place to post.
Now with the prelims out of the way:
I downloaded Fluxbox-0.1.10 as a tarball. Logged in as root and compiled the program. So far so good. Now the snag:
The prog docs suggest that I either find or create the file called ".xinitrc", and I created it as user (should I do this as root?), and added the line "exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox" as per direction (which is the correct path on my machine). This is the only line in this newly created ".xinitrc" file. I also followed the direction and created a directory called ".fluxbox", again as user (although I noticed that there is a file called this in my root directory also??), and moved the 'init', 'menu' and 'keys' files into the /home/ahimsa/.fluxbox directory as directed. I made the necessary changes to the .fluxbox/init file and changed references to ~/.fluxbox.
OK: When I went to run it, I got the following error message:
"ahimsa@localhost ahimsa]$ ./.xinitrc
Warning: Failed to open catalog, using default messages.
Faild to read: session.tabs
Setting default value
Faild to read: session.slitlistFile
Setting default value
BScreen::BScreen: an error occured while querying the X server.
another window manager already running on display :0.0.
Fluxbox::Fluxbox: no managable screens found, aborting.
So my questions are:
1. Did I make a mistake in this process (maybe should have been done entirely as root or not at all? Did I overlook a file? Make an incorrect reference? ,etc.)
2. How will I be able to load Fluxbox, when my current windows manager is the default wm (Sawfish)? If someone can give me some baby-steps directions this would be most excellent.I don't appear to have an ".xsession" file in my home directory.I only have ".Xauthority" and "/.xauth".
3. At what point do I load the themes, and can someone give me a clue as to how to do that. I might be having a brain fugue but for some reason the directions on that part don't seem very clear.
4. Once everything is loaded and set, when I login, will fluxbox be offered as a session as kde and gnome are presently, or will it be listed under 'default', in which case I would need to change my default.
I'd appreciate any help you can offer, because I've gone over my steps several times, read and re-read the scant docs available, but am still stuck.