Installed gentoo, now trouble installing FluxBox [SOLVED]

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funboy.ch · Post by **funboy.ch** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:58 am

I folks, i'm new to linux and all and I have now attempted to installed gentoo and fluxbox. Gentoo install went great with almost no setbacks. Now I am following the The Fluxbox Configuration HOWTO guide from gentoo.org to install and configure fluxbox. So now I have done the following:

# emerge fluxbox xlockmore x11-terms/eterm

and then once that was complete I did:

# emerge gdm
# rc-update add xdm default

and then edited the /etc/rc.conf file and added:

DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"

then I did all of the following:

# emerge commonbox-styles commonbox-styles-extra \
fluxbox-styles-fluxmod gentoo-artwork
# emerge fluxbox-syntax

So now I get to installing the Application Launcher, in which I am told to "You can define a menu entry called "Run...", by editing your ~/.fluxbox/menu to say". Now my problem is, how do I get to "~/.fluxbox/menu"? I assumed that as root I type nano -w ~/.fluxbox/menu but this just returns an error no such directory.

So I played around a bit until I decided perhaps I should reboot computer, so I did and it booted to the login manager for the first time. I entered with my user I created, in this case, funboy. I then am logged into pretty much a gray screen with a little box at top titled "xsm: Default". Is this fluxbox?

Where do I go from here?

Oh, before I rebooted I also installed or emerged the following:

# emerge idesk
# emerge gentoo
# emerge xzgv
# emerge --sync && emerge -u fluxbox

Then after the reboot in the XSM thing, I tried to run the command

$ fluxbox-generate_menu -is -ds

which just returned the error ' /home/funboy/.fluxbox/menuocnfig': No such file or directory. Warning: I couldn't create /home/funboy/.fluxbox/menuconfig. Fatal Error: can't create or write to /home/funboy/.fluxbox/menu

Think someone could help a poor fellow like me out?

Thanks in advance.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/fluxbox-co ... #doc_chap2

chunderbunny · Post by **chunderbunny** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:50 am

Right, forst things first. In order to get GDM to automatically start fluxbox you need to edit your /etc/rc.conf file so the last line reads XSESSION="fluxbox".

Next when people talkj about the "~" directory in Linux, they mean the home directory of your user. In your case "~" is equivalent to /home/funboy. So the ~/.fluxbox/menu file you need to edit is in fact in /home/funboy.fluxbox/menu, which you should edit as a user, NOT as root.

PsychoticRetina · Post by **PsychoticRetina** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:52 am

try hitting Ctrl+Alt+backspace, that should kill x. if x reappears, just keep hitting Ctrl+Alt+backspace until it doesnt (can take 10 - 15 attempts). when youre at the command line, try editing the XSESSION variable in /etc/rc.conf to read "fluxbox". then restart.

when youre asked to edit ~/.fluxbox/menu, this means editing /home/whoever_you_are/.fluxbox/menu. dont edit it as root. if you try editing it as root, and type nano ~/.fluxbox/menu, you will fail because theres no .fluxbox directory in roots home dir. (~ is the equivalent of /home/home_dir_of_user_at_prompt)

funboy.ch · Post by **funboy.ch** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:14 am

thanks for the help. I am now in fluxbox and trying to figure out what is what, etc.

I'm sure I'll be back soon with more problems

cheers

PsychoticRetina · Post by **PsychoticRetina** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:17 am

http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/ ... -docs.html is a good source of info on fluxbox. enjoy : )

funboy.ch · Post by **funboy.ch** » Thu May 25, 2006 11:15 am

Nice, thanks again