On Friday 26 September 2003 10:02 am, Duncan wrote: > Greg Meyer posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > below, on Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:22:31 -0400: > > > On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:09 am, Han Boetes wrote: > >> Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Fresh install, log into fluxbox, no [EMAIL PROTECTED] terminal. > >> > >> Can you debug that? > >> > > Yeah. I can't start a terminal because there is no menu entry for a > > terminal. Since I can't start a terminal to get a CLI, I can't start a > > terminal from the CLI. > > > > No menu entry for rxvt and no menu entry in fluxbox menus for konsole. > > Does fluxbox not have a "run dialog" then? Even without a menu entry for > a terminal, a run dialog should be usable to start one -- unless of course > you don't know the actual command name, but anyone that actually misses a > terminal should be able to figure /that/ out. Of course, no run dialog > and.. > Not that I could see on the menu on 9.2
> Or.. start up a file browser and launch it by clicking on the file there.. > Or.. start up Konqueror and use the launch terminal command there, or > activate its builtin terminal pane, or use its shell command function > (basically a run dialog). Of course, if the konsole entry is missing, > kdebase-konsole may not be installed, and I'm not sure if those entries > will work. Still, the shell command function should. > > Someone mentioned mcc/drakconf still has a shell function.. Of course, > that does require root.. > I know all these things. I just didn't think one should have to think so hard to get a CLI > Oh.. another one.. menudrake.. then create your menu entry, and run it.. > assuming of course that IT'S in the menu (and that fluxbox uses the Mdk > menu system, but I'd guess it does). > Again, I realize that I can do this, but it is a hack. I'd really rather not have to set up a menu entry manually on all 10 boxes that I am going to be installing 9.2 on, there is enough other stuff to tweak as it is. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
