WINDOWMAKER-FLUXBOX

David Muse david.muse at firstworks.com
Sun Dec 21 04:25:37 UTC 2003


On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:10:19 -0600
James Jones <jamesjones01 at mchsi.com> wrote:

> David Muse wrote:
> 
> >I use fluxbox as my window manager on Fedora Core 1.
> >
> >Fluxbox has a problem with the locale-related environment variables
> >on Fedora Core 1.  Actually the problem is font-related.  It's complicated...
> >When you run fluxbox and just got a blue screen, if you wait a while (quite
> >a while) it will ultimately start up.  The solution is to set LC_ALL=C
> >prior to starting up fluxbox.
> >
> >Create a .xsession file with the following contents:
> >
> >	export LC_ALL=C
> >	startfluxbox
> >
> >(make sure startfluxbox is in your path)
> >
> >  
> >
> Hmmm. "rpm -ql fluxbox | grep startfluxbox" turns up nothing. "rpm -q 
> fluxbox"
> says I have fluxbox-0.1.14-0.fdr.6.1. Do I have the correct RPM?

Ahh, sorry, I use fluxbox-0.9.6 which I compile from source.  Fluxbox 0.1.14
doesn't have a startfluxbox script but 0.9.6 does.  Also, the patches and
FluxBluecurve theme are for 0.9.6

Sorry for the confusion.

Dave





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