RE: [newbie] fluxbox and xscreensaver (and kmail, and xterm, and...)
Hello, I've been using Fluxbox on my home machine (LM8.2) for several weeks now. I'd like to run certain programs at startup: xscreensaver, and some GUI applications I use all the time such as Kmail. I read a page on mandrakeuser.org about creating a .Xclients file with the program I want to run, followed the instructions to the letter but no success. Can someone help me? Thanks, Richard There are a number of ways to do this. What I do is insert a line in ~/.fluxbox/init ... Thanks Derek, your suggested solution worked perfectly. HOWEVER... curse my luck, I then went to the Fluxbox homepage in search of more themes to download. And of course, there's a patch, released 3 days ago, that does exactly what I was looking for. Simply bring up the menu, select option to save current desktop configuration, et voila. I'll try it out next week! :-) Thanks again, Richard PS Sylpheed is on my list of apps to try out. Rox? Sounds interesting, I haven't yet found a file manager I'm fully happy with so I'll certainly give it a try. *** This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s) only and are confidential and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or disclose them or any part of their contents to any person or organisation; please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail and its attachments from your computer system. Please note that Internet communications are not necessarily secure and may be changed, intercepted or corrupted. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us and we will not accept any liability for any such changes, interceptions or corruptions. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and its attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Copyright in this e-mail and attachments created by us belongs to Littlewoods. Littlewoods takes steps to prohibit the transmission of offensive, obscene or discriminatory material. If this message contains inappropriate material please forward the e-mail intact to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it will be investigated. Statements and opinions contained in this e-mail may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communication may be monitored. Registered office: Littlewoods Retail Limited, Sir John Moores Building, 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB Registered no: 421258 http://www.littlewoods.com *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fluxbox and xscreensaver (and kmail, and xterm, and. ..)
On Thursday 03 Oct 2002 10:14 am, Barran, Richard wrote: Hello, I've been using Fluxbox on my home machine (LM8.2) for several weeks now. I'd like to run certain programs at startup: xscreensaver, and some GUI applications I use all the time such as Kmail. I read a page on mandrakeuser.org about creating a .Xclients file with the program I want to run, followed the instructions to the letter but no success. Can someone help me? Thanks, Richard There are a number of ways to do this. What I do is insert a line in ~/.fluxbox/init ... Thanks Derek, your suggested solution worked perfectly. HOWEVER... curse my luck, I then went to the Fluxbox homepage in search of more themes to download. And of course, there's a patch, released 3 days ago, that does exactly what I was looking for. Simply bring up the menu, select option to save current desktop configuration, et voila. I'll try it out next week! :-) Thanks again, Richard PS Sylpheed is on my list of apps to try out. Rox? Sounds interesting, I haven't yet found a file manager I'm fully happy with so I'll certainly give it a try. Rox is nice, especially if you use prettier icons than the ones supplied. I am using KDE's icon set. Rox allows you to drop icons on your desktop, but unfortunately rox 1.3 uses the right mouse button to manage its desktop, and so does fluxbox, and they interfere with each other. A compromise is to allow rox to drop icons onto a 'panel' at the edge of the screen. While you are trying out file managers also check out xwc It is a classical 'windows explorer' type interface which is really easy to navigate and very fast. Its 3 pane mode is very useful. Have you discovered 'bbtools' yet? These are a collection of tools for blackbox which also work in fluxbox. The most useful IMO is 'bbpager' which gives you a little view of what is on all 4 of your desktops just like kde does. It even allows you to drag applications from desktop to desktop. Unfortunately there is no RPM for 9.0 I am aware of, and I have not got around to compiling it yet. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] fluxbox and xscreensaver (and kmail, and xterm, and...)
On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 8:59 am, Barran, Richard wrote: Hello, I've been using Fluxbox on my home machine (LM8.2) for several weeks now. I'd like to run certain programs at startup: xscreensaver, and some GUI applications I use all the time such as Kmail. I read a page on mandrakeuser.org about creating a .Xclients file with the program I want to run, followed the instructions to the letter but no success. Can someone help me? Thanks, Richard There are a number of ways to do this. What I do is insert a line in ~/.fluxbox/init session.screen0.rootCommand: /home/derek/.fluxbox/startup This calls up a little bash script which starts all my start up apps for me. #!/bin/bash xscreensaver -no-splash bsetbg -f ~/fluoresence6.jpg wmxmms wmapm wmsysmon bbpager rox -l mypanel Why use a script and not just put several session.screen0.rootCommand statements? For some reason I could not get it to work if I had more than one. BTW: If you are using fluxbox because it it is faster than KDE, then give sylpheed a try in place of Kmail. It is *lots* faster. And if you are on Mandrake 9.0, then rox is now available in Contrib. It is way faster than konqueror file manager HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
