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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

[SOLVED] Calling startfluxbox properly

Hi,

I've been trying to run fluxbox manually. It requires starting X first (Archwiki is not very clear on the proper way).

This sort of works:

$ startx

Then, from inside a sample window:

$ startfluxbox

The sample window then can't be closed for the duration of the desktop session. It's a lot better than nothing, yet still a bit awkward. Suggestions from Arch and Gentoo Wiki, like

xinit -- :1

or

X -retro

result in errors.

How am I supposed to do it really nice?

Last edited by Llama (2018-05-21 11:43:16)

topernic

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Registered: 2014-12-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Calling startfluxbox properly

Did you check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xi … figuration ?

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Calling startfluxbox properly

Thanks!

I've created .xinitrc:

$ cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc

and modified it:

...
#~ twm &
#~ xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#~ xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#~ xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
#~ exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

exec startfluxbox

So far so good (running startx). Is it quite correct or just a piece of good luck?

Last edited by Llama (2018-05-21 11:42:30)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,388

Re: [SOLVED] Calling startfluxbox properly

That is correct yes. If you retained the if directives before that snippet.

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: [SOLVED] Calling startfluxbox properly

That is correct yes. If you retained the if directives before that snippet.

Yes, I did. Thanks!