Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Vincent Launchbury wrote:
> 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
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>      

I'll give that a try.  That is what I am looking for.  I once had kdm to 
fail on me during a KDE upgrade.  I think it was a version mismatch of 
some kind because later on as it emerged more packages, ir worked fine.  
So, I'm looking to make sure it works with kdm, which it does, and 
without kdm, which I am about to find out.

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)