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Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:04 pm

I am installing fluxbox and after emerge fluxbox-syntax I restarted and now when gentoo starts It asks me to log in then i select default/fail save and the only stuff it shows is a gray backround, X cursur, and a white box in the bootom right corner that says "Console log for Tux"

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:14 pm

fluxbox-syntax is just for highlighting in vi, to use fluxbox you have to emerge fluxbox.
After that you either should have a selectable option with your favorite *dm (which was actually missing in older versions, don't know if this was fixed in between - I've done manually, but cannot remember how, sorry), or you select "Xsession" and create an .xsession file in your home and put fluxbox (and other stuff) in there, one of mine for example looks like

#!/bin/sh
fluxbox &
nvidia-settings --load-config-only &
fbsetbg -c ~/homeworld2xs.jpg &
xset r rate 250 30 &
fluxter -w &
wmdrawer dock &
wmix &
wmusic &
gkrellm2 -w &
xmms &
wmnetmon -t 30 -r 120 -y 60 &
wmappl -i /opt/icons/smallxpms/:/usr/share/icons/wmappl/:/usr/share/wmappl/ &
licq &
skype &
nice -n 19 xscreensaver

Hope that helps

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Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:16 pm

sign in with root?

Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:20 pm

the only thing i can do is boot with lilo and it goes into gui mode but after i log in and click on default/failsafe it distplays cursur and "console log for tux" box can't get to anything else

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:42 pm

sorry, I don't get it:

Version 1: after booting, do you get a text-console or a xdm/gdm/kdm login screen?

Version 2: If text-console: you enter login, password and without any further question it starts X? and if so, happens this with every user on the system, including root?

What exactly happens?

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Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 6:55 pm

ElCondor wrote:sorry, I don't get it:

Version 1: after booting, do you get a text-console or a xdm/gdm/kdm login screen?

Version 2: If text-console: you enter login, password and without any further question it starts X? and if so, happens this with every user on the system, including root?

What exactly happens?

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Version 1, after booting I get a xdm/gdm/kdm login screen i think i get xdm

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:05 pm

Halocorn wrote:Version 1, after booting I get a xdm/gdm/kdm login screen i think i get xdm

Okay, fine. If it was gdm or kdm, you would have a choice about the kind of session you want to use:)
DO NOT LOGIN here in X. press CTRL+ALT+F1 - you should be at a console now.
you can log in here and edit your .xsession file (simplest version: just enter one line with "fluxbox" and DON'T put a '&' after that) and then retry in X. You can return to the X console by pressing ALT+F7. If something fails and you've got no menu in X on any mousebutton (which there should be, usually by default twm starts), you can exit X by pressing CRTL+ALT+BACKSPACE.

If it's not for performance or disk space issues, I would suggest that you emerge gdm, so that you have a choice about what session to run at login. If you have gdm or kdm installed, you may want to edit /etc/rc.conf and alter the value for DISPLAYMANAGER and/or XSESSION there.

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Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:30 pm

ok now i am in fluxbox but there is a black screen and a tool bar and i can't find Run... anywhere even if i right click and go through everything

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:39 pm

you should have "xterm" anywhere in the menu. take this, then you can continue

you may want to emerge fluxconf. run fluxmenu then, edit your menues and add a "run.." entry pointing to "fbrun" in the menu at a point of your choice

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Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:50 pm

well, i tried that but it just didn't do anything

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:53 pm

Halocorn wrote:well, i tried that but it just didn't do anything

you tried WHAT? opening an xterm? starting anything from the menu? emerging fluxconf? editing the menu? running fbrun? .

sorry, but you have to be much more exact in your posts, this way it will take years to figure out just what your problem might be ...

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Halocorn · Post by **Halocorn** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:02 pm

lol sry to make you mad, but i forgot the say i tried xterm and it wouldn't load

ElCondor · Post by **ElCondor** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:13 pm

Halocorn wrote:lol sry to make you mad, but i forgot the say i tried xterm and it wouldn't load

hmm .. strange .. never saw something like that happen. either you have messed up or broke something, but I don't know how this could just happen.

you can add a "/usr/bin/xterm &" before the fluxbox line in your .xsession, then you've got the terminal when you log in. That's no solution, but then you can continue and try to find out what have might gone wrong. but from you postings I would say that you are rather new to coping with problems at that level, so I'm afraid this will be difficult and taking a longer time to find out.

if your system is fresh set up, I guess you just missed something, the one or other use-flag or config or post-emerge action .. if you did an update to an very long (>6months) not updated system there also can happen strange things.

one more thing: maybe you want to switch back to the console, log in as root and check whether you have x11-terms/xterm installed. actually that's the best step to continue with i guess

usually it is automatically installed with x11-base/xorg-x11, but who knows .....

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