Gentoo installed, fluxbox emerged, xstart loading twm.....

DailyNodes · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 67

Hey all, I figured I'd finally ditch vidalinux and give an official gentoo install a shot.
I had some snags along the way, but all'n'all it wasn't as difficult of an install as I feared. Mind you that I used genkernel and used a stage2 tarball.

So, gentoo is installed, I emerged Xorg, I emerged fluxbox(got past the media-libs/jpeg bug), and I'm stuck =(
I searched the forums on how to load up a window manager, but I couldn't find any specific threads.
Apperently I'm supposed to do something with ~/.xinitrc and/or /etc/conf.d/local.start, but what exactly, I'm not too sure.

Can anyone explain how to load up fluxbox and/or point me to a tutorial? thx

SZwarts · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:15 am Post subject:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Fluxbox

basically do a rc-update add xdm default
go to /etc/rc.conf, and change the line XSESSION="Xsession" to XSESSION="fluxbox"
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