my very own fluxbox issues...

[HippieJoe]

Hi everyone,
I have this old computer that I loaded Gentoo on (233mhz) so it was took a while. Basically I just use it for some SSH stuff. However, I would like the ability to run a desktop on it, for no reason other then to install fluxbox for the first time and attempt to learn its ins and outs. I would like to only start the desktop using startx whenever I decided. So I emereged Xorg, and that seems to work fine (twm works fine...). So after emerging fluxbox, i edited ~/.xinitrc to read:

[blackdog]

~/.xinitrc should read

[HippieJoe]

Thank you very much for your reply. I changed both files as you said, one at a time. When I started X, I got the exact same failure with the same output. Thanks again though, take it easy.

Hippie Joe

Edit:
I guess it is also important to note that, when i: /etc/init.d/xdm start - I get an ugly black and white login screen. I have never seen it before but it looks like it might belong to twm. However, when I log in with a legitament user and pass, it appears to log in successful, but then returns me to a blank login again. Also I can't exit it. The only way to get out is ctrl-alt-backspace twice. That returns me to the cmd line, however i still can't kill the xdm from there.

[wnelson]

What is you ~/.fluxbox directory. There should be init, menu and keys files. Optionally there should be group and apps. You can get these from /usr/share/fluxbox or /usr/local/share/fluxbox. Just make a .fluxbox directory in you home directory and copy those files. Edit them to what you need for you init and menu.

This is my init file

session.screen0.menu.alpha: 198
session.screen0.overlay.lineWidth: 1
session.screen0.overlay.lineStyle: LineSolid
session.screen0.overlay.joinStyle: JoinMiter
session.screen0.overlay.capStyle: CapNotLast
session.screen0.window.focus.alpha: 197
session.screen0.window.unfocus.alpha: 197
session.screen0.tab.width: 64
session.screen0.tab.alignment: Left
session.screen0.tab.rotatevertical: True
session.screen0.tab.placement: Top
session.screen0.tab.height: 16
session.screen0.toolbar.layer: Desktop
session.screen0.toolbar.onTop: False
session.screen0.toolbar.onhead: 0
session.screen0.toolbar.height: 0
session.screen0.toolbar.maxOver: true
session.screen0.toolbar.autoHide: false
session.screen0.toolbar.widthPercent: 66
session.screen0.toolbar.alpha: 198
session.screen0.toolbar.tools: workspacename, prevworkspace, nextworkspace, iconbar, systemtray, prevwindow, nextwindow, clock
session.screen0.toolbar.placement: BottomCenter
session.screen0.toolbar.visible: true
session.screen0.slit.direction: Vertical
session.screen0.slit.autoHide: false
session.screen0.slit.onTop: False
session.screen0.slit.layer: AboveDock
session.screen0.slit.alpha: 147
session.screen0.slit.onhead: 0
session.screen0.slit.placement: TopRight
session.screen0.slit.maxOver: true
session.screen0.iconbar.deiconifyMode: Current
session.screen0.iconbar.usePixmap: true
session.screen0.iconbar.alignment: Relative
session.screen0.iconbar.wheelMode: Screen
session.screen0.iconbar.mode: AllWindows
session.screen0.iconbar.clientWidth: 70
session.screen0.iconbar.iconTextPadding: 10l
session.screen0.iconbar.iconWidth: 70
session.screen0.resizeMode: Bottom
session.screen0.clickRaises: true
session.screen0.desktopwheeling: true
session.screen0.rowPlacementDirection: LeftToRight
session.screen0.windowMenu:
session.screen0.antialias: true
session.screen0.windowPlacement: RowSmartPlacement
session.screen0.workspaces: 4
session.screen0.fullMaximization: true
session.screen0.menuDelay: 0
session.screen0.decorateTransient: true
session.screen0.sloppywindowgrouping: true
session.screen0.rootCommand:
session.screen0.menuAlpha: 50
session.screen0.autoRaise: true
session.screen0.showwindowposition: true
session.screen0.imageDither: true
session.screen0.workspaceNames: Workspace One,Workspace Two, Workspace Three, Workspace Four
session.screen0.menuDelayClose: 0
session.screen0.menuMode: Delay
session.screen0.followModel: Ignore
session.screen0.workspacewarping: true
session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold: 0
session.screen0.colPlacementDirection: TopToBottom
session.screen0.opaqueMove: true
session.screen0.focusNewWindows: true
session.screen0.focusLastWindow: true
session.screen0.focusModel: SloppyFocus
session.screen0.strftimeFormat: %m.%d.%y %l:%M
session.titlebar.left: Stick
session.titlebar.right: Minimize Maximize Close
session.focusTabMinWidth: 0

session.keyFile: ~/.fluxbox/keys
session.ignoreBorder: false

session.appsFile: ~/.fluxbox/apps
session.numLayers: 13
session.cacheMax: 200l
session.tabsAttachArea: Window
session.slitlistFile:
session.iconbar: true
session.tabPadding: 0
session.autoRaiseDelay: 250
session.tabs: true
session.doubleClickInterval: 250
session.imageDither: True
session.menuFile: ~/.fluxbox/menu
session.useMod1: true
session.forcePseudoTransparency: true
! Change this for you styles directory
session.styleFile: /home/wnelson/.fluxbox/styles/LintherBrushed
session.groupFile:
session.cacheLife: 5l
session.opaqueMove: False
session.colorsPerChannel: 4
session.updateDelayTime: 0
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[HippieJoe]

I did have the files you mentioned including an extra - startup. I backed up my init, and cut and pasted yours just for kicks into a new init and started x. It actually worked "better" then mine. Again, a raw black and white desktop. The bottom toolbar was there, and the menuing system appeared to work, though all entries were blank. However guessing where apps would be within the menus, would bring up apps like more xterms, the eyes on the desktop. However, everything was black and white, no grays or color tone at all. Could my x config file be bad? Would that cause this?

[ghostmango]

doesn't perm 700 only give access to root? So i figure when u are trying to access the file as a user u can't read it nor execute... perhaps changing the permission to 755???

[nightm4re]

[ghostmango]

ohhhhh.... cool cool.... hehehe i guess that's why i'm still a noob