From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PAyx1-0008QW-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:53:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE417E0740; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DE74E0740 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gye5 with SMTP id 5so169956gye.40 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:52:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5Z+wBh0CLj2EaPteoZvSSuN9nGwFK++MtiMznCNs1P8=; b=c22ODfwZ+KIQOj52ER13JqiJGg2GvLoM+dBh+ZXqXZ/7V3ZhQTWiL1NfHy9bqtGugo K+kKu/LQagGtcvD2BfGMv14Ji+7d1Azpfy/7oDRqFsW5CWEnop4mi6gornURikJODECZ 36i6c/9Y76CdtjpbRyNPJ1IveISq+HGhM6oC8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qgDbAbLsoWipv+PB3CPD5hQY2vdGD5SlNkFCjt/gkI69pS/u49C0xcVnCoSLow9/rB NOqTYP4eloCOyXTqtf2wqCjMk+OIcvr9Oz9zZAzCmQ0dYP81R8MPqmp7djQGh+5RsWwu R2e1UDreQebO6i18c9v2jeCCtB0RSINSEvJTc= Received: by 10.100.174.4 with SMTP id w4mr421942ane.215.1288158735327; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-94-212.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.212]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm11310135anv.26.2010.10.26.22.52.12 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CC7BE0A.8080708@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:52:10 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101020 Gentoo/2.0.9 SeaMonkey/2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm References: <4CC76457.7040804@gmail.com> <20101027032123.GA7415@root_A20> In-Reply-To: <20101027032123.GA7415@root_A20> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 31320f7c-28d9-4d3b-98ba-894a84f98bde X-Archives-Hash: f63ff55942a03fe5202ae1bd2d0d3172 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 :-) :-)