On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:48:43 -0600 James Jones <jamesjones01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Morgan wrote: > > >This worked for me (from http://www.fluxbox.org/docs/en/faq.php#fedora): > > > ><quote> > >The fedora distribution uses a different setup again. Instead of the > >dm-specific locations, it requires session files to be in > >/etc/X11/dm/Sessions. > > > >So, to get Fluxbox into its session menu, create the file: > >/etc/X11/dm/Sessions/fluxbox with contents: > > > >[Desktop Entry] > >Encoding=UTF-8 > >Name=Fluxbox > >Type=Application > >Icon= > >Exec=fluxbox > >You may need to put the full path to fluxbox in the Exec line if it is > >in a non-standard location. > > > ></quote> > > > > > I tried that. (Actually, since the files were all named <manager>.desktop, I > named it fluxbox.desktop.) No luck; I'd choose a fluxbox session, log > in, and > just get a blank blue screen with a mouse cursor (that did move around). > I had > to ctrl-alt-bs out of X, after which I would get the nVidia driver > splash screen > followed by the computer going into some sort of hibernation mode, > taking some > keypressing to get out of and back to the graphical login. > > I noticed the *.desktop files had the execute bits set, and set them on > fluxbox.desktop; > no change. I noticed that /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions had a Fluxbox file in > it, but noticed > that, unlike the other files therein, it just exec'd /usr/bin/fluxbox > rather than doing > > exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession fluxbox > > analogously to the GNOME and KDE files in the same directory, so I made > that change. > No difference. > > Finally, I figured I should try the directions exactly as written, and > changed the > name of the added file from fluxbox.desktop to just plain fluxbox. Then > the login no > longer displayed fluxbox as a choice for sessions. > > Any suggestions about what to do to let me use fluxbox would be greatly > appreciated; > for me personally, it's just an experiment, but for the person who's > getting the > 200 MHz Pentium Pro box I've had sitting around and put Fedora Core on, > having > access to a lower-overhead window manager is very much worthwhile. > > James Jones I use fluxbox as my window manager on Fedora Core 1. Fluxbox has a problem with the locale-related environment variables on Fedora Core 1. Actually the problem is font-related. It's complicated... When you run fluxbox and just got a blue screen, if you wait a while (quite a while) it will ultimately start up. The solution is to set LC_ALL=C prior to starting up fluxbox. Create a .xsession file with the following contents: export LC_ALL=C startfluxbox (make sure startfluxbox is in your path) Alternatively, if you're building fluxbox from source, you can apply the following patch so you don't have to do the export LC_ALL=C diff --unified --recursive --exclude=CVS fluxbox-0.9.6/src/main.cc fluxbox-0.9.6-patched/src/main.cc --- fluxbox-0.9.6/src/main.cc 2003-10-02 12:14:41.000000000 -0400 +++ fluxbox-0.9.6-patched/src/main.cc 2003-12-05 11:18:56.000000000 -0500 @@ -134,6 +134,8 @@ } int main(int argc, char **argv) { + + setenv("LC_ALL","C",1); std::string session_display = ""; std::string rc_file; Save the patch as lcall.patch in the same directory as the fluxbox-0.9.6 directory. Apply the patch by running patch -p1 < ../lcall.patch from inside the fluxbox-0.9.6 directory. On the GDM login screen, select Session -> default then log in. If you want to use fluxbox as your gnome window manager, add the following line to the end of your ~/.fluxbox/startup file: exec gnome-session My ~/.fluxbox/startup file contains only the following lines: fluxbox & exec gnome-sessioncd You also need to copy /usr/share/gnome/default.session to ~/.gnome2/session and remove these lines: 1,id=default1 1,Priority=10 1,RestartCommand=gnome-wm --default-wm gnome-wm --sm-client-id default1 2,id=default2 2,Priority=40 This will prevent metacity from even trying to start. Theoretically, all you should have to do is set WINDOW_MANAGER=fluxbox in your .bashrc. That should cause gnome-wm to use fluxbox intead of metacity. But, the locale problem and the fact that fluxbox interacts strangely with gnome-session make that solution unworkable. If you want to use Fluxbox along with gnome and you like the Bluecurve theme, I made a FluxBluecurve style for fluxbox that approximates it. Search for it at themes.freshmeat.net It includes another patch that makes fluxbox tile pixmaps correctly. Good luck. David Muse david.muse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
