On Thursday 28 October 2004 23:43, geoff wrote: > Hi, > I'm a very new newbie and running Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop sharing drive > with XP. I'm now only using xp for Quickbooks. I love Mandrake > I downloaded Fluxbox and unpacked it with tar then configure, make and make > install.. > Everything went well. On reboot, to see if it had installed, it didn't come > up but for a second or two I could see different icons in the task bar then > up came the usual ones. I am using KDE. > Can you please advise me where I went wrong? Simple language please till I > learn more. > Regards > Geoff
The easy way for a newbie to install applications like fluxbox is as a binary RPM package. Fluxbox is in the contrib folder on any Mandrake mirror. Go here http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the online instructions to add online sources for 'contrib', 'plf', and 'updates' (if you have not already defined an update source) You can then add fluxbox from your software install GUI, or from a root terminal with 'urpmi fluxbox' Installing the binary RPM package will work better than compiling it yourself because the RPM package is configured to use the Mandrake Menu structure so that the menus appear automatically in fluxbox, just like in KDE. The version you compiled will require menus to be constructed by hand. The RPM package will also automatically put an entry into the list of available Window Managers in your login manager. You can also get a more recent version of fluxbox from Charles Edwards' download site at http://www.eslrahc.com/ Follow the instructions to add it as an online urpmi source. Your system will automatically select the most recent version of fluxbox to install. Once you have tried out fluxbox, then give Enlightenment, xfce, IceWM, and Blackbox a go. They are all available as RPM Mandrake packages. (Yes Joe I know pekwm is better, but its not so easy to install) derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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