Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 June 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jacob Toddjaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: You need to emerge xorg-server. I'm about half way through now. Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a shedload of dependencies, being a meta

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It will also pull in a

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:00:55 +0100, Mick wrote: Isn't it correct to say that you just need to emerge x11-base/xorg-x11, which will pull in x11-base/xorg-server by default (unless you have some fancy USE flags setup). It

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0100, Mick wrote: What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? Install xorg-server, anything else that's needed will be installed as a dependency of xorg-server or your client software. The xorg-x11 meta package was,AFAIR, created

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Mick
On Sunday 28 June 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:22:14 +0100, Mick wrote: What's the 'right' way of installing Xorg on a machine that runs FB as a WM? Install xorg-server, anything else that's needed will be installed as a dependency of xorg-server or your client

[gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Just curious. The fluxbox ebuild doesn't emerge xorg-server which means I now have a machine with fluxbox emerged but I don't know how to start it as there is no xstart on the machine. What would be the lightest way to get X running right now? man startfluxbox suggests fluxbox can be started

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-26 Thread Jacob Todd
You need to emerge xorg-server. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:33:54PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Just curious. The fluxbox ebuild doesn't emerge xorg-server which means I now have a machine with fluxbox emerged but I don't know how to start it as there is no xstart on the machine. What would be

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jacob Toddjaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: You need to emerge xorg-server. I'm about half way through now. Thanks, Mark