On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote:
>
> Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> writes:
>
> > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then
> > fluxbox.
> >
> > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up.
>
> I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but I don’t use a DE either. For
> what it’s worth, I use i3, which also does not place a configuration in
> $HOME. I guess it would not be a good idea for a package to place a
> file in every $HOME directory which happens to exist at the time the
> package is installed.
> >
> > Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be
> > copied over from a working system?
> That’s how most window managers are designed to work. I certainly do
> something similar with i3.
>
> Regards,
> Nathan
Nathan I copied over the .fluxbox hierarchy. It turned out this can be
done, but lines left in ./fluxbox/start up would not allow X server to
start. Commenting them allowed fluxbox to load.
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Haines Brown
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