WINDOWMAKER-FLUXBOX

David Muse david.muse at firstworks.com
Sun Dec 21 04:28:00 UTC 2003


On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:37:15 -0600
James Jones <jamesjones01 at mchsi.com> wrote:

> James Jones wrote:
> 
> > Thanks very much for the advice. I will followup with the results I get.
> 
> OK. I created the startfluxbox script, changing the path to fluxbox 
> itself to fit
> where the Fedora RPM puts it, and also adding /usr/share/fluxbox/startup
> which wasn't there but which startfluxbox references. I put the "export 
> LC_ALL=C"
> in /usr/share/fluxbox/startup.
> 
> That done, and with a .xsession of
> 
>     startfluxbox
> 
> I can run fluxbox fine by asking for a default session (it takes maybe 
> five or six
> seconds to start up). Asking for a fluxbox session explicitly bypasses 
> startfluxbox,
> I presume, and thus /usr/share/fluxbox/startup, and hence takes a long time
> (I have yet to wait long enough to say how long it is). I'll experiment 
> with the
> fluxbox.desktop file, maybe making it
> 
>     Exec=startfluxbox
> 
> to see whether that works.
> 
>     James

I suspect that it will.  Although it seems like I tried putting "export LC_ALL=C"
my startup file and it didn't work.  I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't though
so maybe I'm just not remembering it right :)

Dave





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