Re: [gentoo-user] New install on x86 and login to KDE fails

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>> On Wednesday 31 Aug 2011 01:05:15 Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> Still open to ideas.  Keep in mind, failsafe works as does Fluxbox.
>>> Speaking of, how do I get the Fluxbox menu to include all the KDE apps?
>>> I want the card games, kpat and such, to show up.  He may can use that
>>> until I can figure out something else.  Maybe a mobo with a decent 
>>> video
>>> card for a start.  ;-)
>> I used to write my own when I was using Fluxbox all the time, mostly 
>> because I
>> had my own preferences for menus/submenus/apps, menu icons, etc.
>>
>> However, there's a number of scripts that will parse other DE and create
>> Fluxbox menus for you.  Can't recall them off hand, have a look at 
>> the Fluxbox
>> website - I'm sure I saw them mentioned there.  I also seem to recall 
>> scripts
>> discussed in the forums>5 years ago.
>
> Thanks.  I'll go look some more.  I been there before but I was 
> looking for other info so I may have missed that.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

For future reference, this is a good link and it works.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Fluxbox

I ended up using the menumaker package.  I also had to use the -f option 
to overwrite the already created file.  Now I have the apps in the menu 
where they should be.

Thanks much.  Now I wish I had a better video card to fix the other 
problems.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)