I Wanted to Flux Someone..
Ok, I was bored so i decided to give the world a quick and easy to follow
reference for installing the great window manager "fluxbox" for UNIX
platforms. Now of course you can grab it at http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net
Install
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1. grab that file from the link like i said above
2. cd /path/to/file/ normally your home directory such as /home/me
3. If you have the .bz2 file which i recommend, simply type:
tar xjf fluxboxversionhere.tar.bz2
4. Now to throw files in the right places and make sure you are indeed on
a gcc version the world can understand, the world being fluxbox, you
need to configure. Simply by typing ./configure
There are several other options for configure that allow you to use kde
and gnome menus etc in fluxbox but i could care less and you can read
the README file for more information on that, but they are something
like ./configure --enable-kde and ./configure --enable-gnome. Not sure.
5. Now to compile, type make
6. next type make install
7. and you are done installing, now go get a coke.
Setting It to work :)
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If you use a login manager to get into X, such as kdm, just change the
options in its appropriate control, this is just assuming that whenever
you login to your system, you type startx because you are on runlevel 3 :)
whatever@yourcomputer: cd /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit
pico or vi xinitrc
now at the bottom, itll say something like "exec gnome-session" erase this
and put exec fluxbox
Next, cd to /etc/X11/xdm
pico or vi Xsession
You should see something like this near the end of the file, its hard to
miss:
openwin)
exec olvwm
;;
fvwm2)
xsetroot -solid SteelBlue
exec fvwm2
;;
fvwm95)
xsetroot -solid SteelBlue
exec fvwm95
;;
blackbox)
exec blackbox
;;
xfce)
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce
;;
windowmaker)
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.wmaker
Thats the before shot, now you need to alter it a bit to have fluxbox on
the X agenda :P
The after shot would have an added:
fluxbox)
exec fluxbox
;;
or something along those lines, my bash isn't always very pretty. Now:
type:
reboot
next login as a regular user, or even root if you feel like it, it is not
required. type startx, and there you have it, fluxbox installed on your
machine and running. Can i get a w00t ;)
You have now been thoroughly fluxed by er0k.