Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

[Vincent Launchbury <vincent@doublecreations.com>]

On 2010/10/26 07:29PM, Dale wrote:
> Is starting fluxbox without kdm as easy as typing "startfluxbox" in a
> console as a user?  Surely it can't be that easy.

No, since X has to be started first. X creates windows, but just puts
them all on top of each other, with no way to move them, and no way to
switch between them except by clicking. Fluxbox just runs ontop of X,
and manages it's windows, adding decorations and a sane way to control
them. For example, try doing:
   xinit "xterm -e /bin/bash" -- /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp
and run fluxbox from the xterm. It's just a layer ontop of an already
running X.

You should be able to start fluxbox from a console with just:
   startx /usr/bin/startfluxbox
which overrides the default /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc script. That should
basically create an xauthority file and run xinit, which in turn starts
X, then fluxbox, and waits for fluxbox to exit so it can shutdown X
nicely.

Regards,
Vincent.

> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)