Support Requests item #755562, was opened at 2003-06-16 14:46 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=428681&aid=755562&group_id=40696
Category: Compilation or Installation Issue Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Red Hat Linux 9.0 Initial Comment: Can someone please provide line-by-line specific instructions to integrate Blackbox 0.65 into a full install of Red Hat Linux 9.0? I have been working on this work weeks and can't get it to integrate (I can get it to compile properly). Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2004-01-22 17:06 Message: Logged In: NO Well I only just got linux so Im not too savy but I got it working by doing the command 'switchdesk TWM' so it creates the file '.Xclient-default' or something like that in my home directory. Then used nano to edit it so instead of launching TWM it launches blackbox. Hope that helps ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2003-12-20 12:49 Message: Logged In: NO I noticed that when you run MAKE you get an error on the language translation. If you run MAKE again, and again for each error when it is done compiling the language files the compile will finish. I can't get blackbox to run however [EMAIL PROTECTED] progs]# blackbox BaseDisplay::BaseDisplay: connection to X server failed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Edward Iglesias (templeward) Date: 2003-12-16 08:47 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=932448 The way I got it to work was by installint Apt from http://freshrpms.net/apt/ Then it was simply a matter of typing at the command line apt-get install blackbox Blackbox installed with all of its dependancies. Then I just logged out and chose a diffrent session when logging back in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Shawn Kirk (zentsang) Date: 2003-12-11 13:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=929239 I am experiencing the same problem. I downloaded the tar.gz ... uncompressed it ... ./configure ... make generated error 1 at the end and su - 'make install' wouldn't complete successfully so I'm still without Blackbox. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon) Date: 2003-10-29 17:59 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=231518 the easiest way to set up blackbox under redhat 9 is init 3 [if you're running under runlevel 5] if not, exit from X and do: swichdesk twm and then go back with switchdesk (gnome|kde) [this will create the ~/.Xclients and ~/.Xclients-default files.] vim ~/.Xclients-default [comment out the startkde or gnome-session exec line, and add exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox save and exit sudo vim /etc/inittab :%s/id:5:/id:3:/ save and exit now when you boot, you'll be booting to the console not the pretty login, but it's easy enough to run startx from there. If you want GDM/KDM/XDM login then it starts getting tricky. However, this works, and works fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq) Date: 2003-10-28 18:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=871342 Had problems when I made the files.. hehe..oops chown and chmod is a must when your su creating files. chmod --reference=./Xclients.gnome ./Xclients.blackbox X11 error log for users in Rh9 /home/~user/.xsession-errors ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2003-10-24 15:06 Message: Logged In: NO I think the easier way to do it is with .xinitrc, in your home directory. You can have other window managers "commented" out with the `#' character For me it's: #gnome-session #exec /usr/local/bin/whiteBOX #startkde exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox xset +dpms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq) Date: 2003-10-24 14:03 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=871342 Ok I edited all those files but I get session error when I attempt to login.. It fails (less than 10 seconds). Where would that error log be so I can get more details about why its not loading?? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: tamara (novelnous) Date: 2003-10-18 10:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=858677 edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession by adding blackbox line (back up the old Xsession file) . . . # now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment case $# in . . kde|kde1|kde2) exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.kde" ;; blackbox) exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSHAGENT /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/Xclients.blackbox " ;; twm) # fall back to twm . . . make sure it looks like the other window manager is in the file, the editor here isn't letting me make long enough lines. then go to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions and add a file called blackbox which looks like the other files in the directory... basically: #!/bin/bash exec /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession blackbox then go to /usr/share/apps/switchdesk/ and make a file called Xclients.blackbox containing whatever you want to do on startup, but especially the 'exec blackbox' line: xscreensaver -no-splash & exec bbpager & exec bbkeys -i & exec blackbox that should work. you might wanna install bbpager and such if you want to use them. i did this a little while ago, so i hope i didn't miss anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq) Date: 2003-10-18 10:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=871342 rh9.0 After installing all the dev .rpms Xfree/freetype/font then I made the install.. tar -xvzf blackbox-0.65*.tar.gz ./configure --enable-nls=no make make install Installed bbkeys & bbconfig But how do I access it with a user? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott MacGregor (shadowbq) Date: 2003-10-18 08:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=871342 Ok.. Im a newb.. can someone please point me to a site that has documentation for step by step instructions on what I need to install it on rh 9.0 and how to set new desktop enviroments on a linux system? http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/9/blackbox/blac kbox-0.65.0-fr4.src.rpm I found the rpm but once I execute the rpm then what.. how do I change my user to that desktop etc? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Gaurang Khetan (grkhetan) Date: 2003-10-07 01:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=422035 Check out the blackbox rpm present on http://freshrpms.net for Redhat 9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2003-10-07 00:59 Message: Logged In: NO You can try the blackbox rpm available on the http://freshrpms.net site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2003-10-01 19:37 Message: Logged In: NO I CAN'T get it to compile properly, what am I missing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: tamara (novelnous) Date: 2003-09-03 20:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=858677 thanks guys it worked! looks like i missed xfree86-devel somehow... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon) Date: 2003-09-03 19:25 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=231518 oops, I put rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs twice in the 'progression of events'. my bad. you don't need to do it twice. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Scott R. Godin (webdragon) Date: 2003-09-03 19:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=231518 on the subject of LANG, my /etc/sysconfig/i18n is set to this: LC_ALL="C" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C" SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" the LC_COLLATE is redundant but is there to remind me to make sure it stays set to C if/when I upgrade. I had no problems compiling blackbox on this system but then I used ./configure --disable-nls. on the subject of other compiling issues, yes you do need a goodly number of *-devel packages installed on the system. For redhat 9 you can do (up2date --showall |sort >9allpkgs; rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs) Once you have these two files you can extract from them anything you need, and diff the results. so, here's the progression of events: up2date --showall |sort >9allpkgs rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs egrep '^\w+-devel.*' 9allpkgs >all-devel less all-devel; # just checking :) rpm -qa |sort >instpkgs egrep '^\w+-devel.*' instpkgs > inst-devel less inst-devel; # just checking again :) vimdiff inst-devel all-devel or if you're in X: gvim -d inst-devel all-devel or plain-old diff -y inst-devel all-devel |less This should help you more clearly ascertain which *-devel packages you are missing and/or might need and which you can then up2date -i package1 package2 etc :) hope this helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Jamin W. Collins (jamincollins) Date: 2003-09-03 18:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=88136 Sounds like you don't have the xlib development package installed. Not completely sure what it's called in RH 9.x This might be the package your looking for: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm Once it's installed try the configure again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: tamara (novelnous) Date: 2003-09-03 18:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=858677 I tried to get it compile but i can't get beyond the configuration part. i haven't had problems with other linux distros but with RedHat 9.0 i get : checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... no configure: error: Could not find XOpenDisplay in -lX11. any ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shaleh) Date: 2003-06-24 19:06 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=37132 before you run configure do this: export LANG=en_US export LC_ALL=en_US The RH default is en_US.UTF8 which confuses the gnu translation program. We try to make blackbox compile 100% silently so any warnings seen are considered low priority bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Bruce Smith (a_space_monkey) Date: 2003-06-24 17:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=808813 Thanks to a tip at http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/rpm- list/2003-April/003924.html I tried "./configure --enable-nls=no" and then "make" learned to play nice, compiling without errors (plenty of warnings but who cares about those?). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2003-06-24 16:48 Message: Logged In: NO Blackbox 0.65 won't compile under RH9 for me either. ./configure runs without errors make coughs up at: make[3]: Entering directory '/home/apps/blackbox/blackbox- 0.65.0/nls/es_ES' Translation.m:3: invalid character: message ignored ^ the above line is repeated for lines 4, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 19, 20, ... [and so on]...,182 My Redhat install is US-English. I don't speak spanish. Why is it trying to read the spanish translation file? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2003-06-18 08:37 Message: Logged In: NO I don't know if your issue is the same. I needed a small footprint Window manager and I liked old versions of BlackBox, so I gave it a shot. Below is a sample of the errors I am getting. Note I have compiled setting "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" and "LANG=". The output of the errors vary depending on the values of this variable. Unfortunately I have no time to check on this deeper, so I just picked another WM. JUAN Translation.m:186: invalid character: message ignored make[3]: *** [blackbox.cat] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jmedina/Downloads/blackbox-0.65.0/nls/fr_FR' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jmedina/Downloads/blackbox-0.65.0/nls' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jmedina/Downloads/blackbox-0.65.0' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] blackbox-0.65.0]# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry (shaleh) Date: 2003-06-17 13:28 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=37132 Sorry, this is not very clear. 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