Support Requests item #631555, was opened at 2002-10-31 06:12 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=428681&aid=631555&group_id=40696
Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: getting blackbox started Initial Comment: Hi first, im a comlete newb to linux I have installed blackbox 0.65.0 on my rehat8.0 distro. I think i have installed it correct, cause i followed teh instructions, and saw it happen. Q: how do i start it ?? someone told me to just type startx in the terminal window, from gnome or kde, but nothing happens. pls help :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Paul Mackinney (pmackinney) Date: 2002-11-02 13:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=206717 I hope the following helps. I recommend Method 2 below if it will work for you. Method 1: Assuming that the following is true (it is on most RH systems) You have a gui login dialog, and one of your options is to select the GNOME desktop. If you log in and open the Gnome Control Panel, it says that you're current window manager is Sawfish. You don't care about your GNOME desktop settings and won't mind reverting to the default ones if you decide to stick with GNOME and a different window manager. In this case, one way to get started is to click the toolbox icon (e.g., run the GNOME configuration tool.) When the Control Center opens, select Destktop>Window Manager in the list at the left. Click Add to create a new window manager. Set the command to 'blackbox' and the Configuration Command to 'bbconf'. Make sure the 'Window manager is session managed' box is UNchecked. Apply your changes and blackbox will launch behind GNOME. Now you can quit all the GNOME things you don't want (e.g., right-click on the menubars and select Panel>Remove this panel). This technique has some drawbacks in that GNOME will still run the desktop (those MS Windows-like icons) when you start up. BTW: To get a default GNOME config back, just delete everything named '.gnome*' in your home directory. The advantage to the above is that you can do it as a user, without ever invoking any root privs or reconfiguring gdm. Method 2: When you log in from gdm, select the session option that says 'Xsession'. If you don't see this option, you're going to need to log in with root permissions and use your expert RH skills to configure gdm to make it happen. Now you're going to get some kind of window manager, probably TWM. Don't freak out, just click the mouse buttons until you get a menu that lets you open an Xterm. Click and drag to set your Xterm window. Now create an executable file in your home directory named '.xsession' that contains the command to launch blackbox.' Here's how, in case you don't know. You type everything that the computer doesn't type, and press the [Enter] key at the end of each line you type. Anything in square brackets means that you type a special key or key combination instead of typing the brackets. The following assumes that your name is joe and that the blackbox executable is in /usr/local/bin. If your system is different, use what's on your system. $ pwd /home/joe $ which blackbox /usr/local/bin/blackbox $ cat >.xsession #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/blackbox [Ctrl-D] $ chmod +x .xsession Now Blackbox should start whenever you log in with the session set to Xsession. HTH, Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=428681&aid=631555&group_id=40696 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
