Paul Morgan wrote:
I tried that. (Actually, since the files were all named <manager>.desktop, IThis 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>
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
