[gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[frank]

Hi,

I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. 

I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new
versions of portage too).

Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic
command "startx" TWM comes up.

How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window manager?

Thanks
Frank


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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Thomas Tuttle]

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On December 27 at 22:46 EST, frank hastily scribbled:
> Hi,
> 
> I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. 
> 
> I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new
> versions of portage too).

I don't mean to be rude, but you really should watch what Portage was 
doing.  It's generally a bad idea to emerge -u world unsupervised, since 
(as you can see) it can break things if you don't read messages printed 
after packages are upgrades.

> Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic
> command "startx" TWM comes up.
> 
> How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window manager?

Check the contents of ~/.xinitrc.  It should say "exec fluxbox;" at the 
end.

How did you configure your window manager before?

--Thomas Tuttle

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Samuel Baldwin]

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Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox".

There should also be a variable in your X config.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Samuel Baldwin]

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> Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox".

Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night, my
bad. :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Mick]

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On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> > Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox".
>
> Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night,
> my bad. :)

Under /etc/X11/Sessions I have a file called fluxbox.  In there I have:
============================
/usr/bin/startfluxbox
============================
along with a few other apps I need started/stopped with fluxbox, e.g. 
gpg-agent.

I believe this file was created automatically when I emerged fluxbox (but 
can't remember for sure).  The same directory has other WM startup files too, 
like Xsession and kde-3.5.  Bear in mind that relevant files moved around 
when xorg was changed to modular.

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Dan]

I'm not sure if this helps, but I believe all i have to do to get to
fluxbox (in fact i'm sure of it) is to select fluxbox from the menu in
gdm.  If you use xdm, .xsession would be the right file (you can select
that in gdm as "custom").  I dont know for kde.

I always forget about fancy point-&-click smart configurations like
gdm, so it took me a while for someone on the forums to point out that
if i just bothered to look in the session chooser dialog i'd have seen
that my custom setting was right there, waiting to be selected.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:23:55 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> > > Try .xsession , add "exec startfluxbox".
> >
> > Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light
> > night, my bad. :)
> 
> Under /etc/X11/Sessions I have a file called fluxbox.  In there I
> have: ============================
> /usr/bin/startfluxbox
> ============================
> along with a few other apps I need started/stopped with fluxbox, e.g. 
> gpg-agent.
> 
> I believe this file was created automatically when I emerged fluxbox
> (but can't remember for sure).  The same directory has other WM
> startup files too, like Xsession and kde-3.5.  Bear in mind that
> relevant files moved around when xorg was changed to modular.
> 
> HTH.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

[Dale]

Dan wrote:
> I'm not sure if this helps, but I believe all i have to do to get to
> fluxbox (in fact i'm sure of it) is to select fluxbox from the menu in
> gdm.  If you use xdm, .xsession would be the right file (you can select
> that in gdm as "custom").  I dont know for kde.
>
> I always forget about fancy point-&-click smart configurations like
> gdm, so it took me a while for someone on the forums to point out that
> if i just bothered to look in the session chooser dialog i'd have seen
> that my custom setting was right there, waiting to be selected.
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:23:55 +0000
> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   

My kdm is the same way too.  I know when I upgrade to a new version I
have to select the new version to log into.

Dale

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