Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)
I am using FreeBSD 6, and are new to *nix in itself. I have used the 'pkg_add -r fluxbox' command to get the fluxbox packages. Although after all my searching on different sites and asking someone I still cannot find where these packages would have been installed to, from using that command. The official fluxbox site doesn't offer any insight into this either, as I suspect it may be general knowledge to unix users? Any help in tracking these down would be greatly appreciated, as would any help in configuring for base things such as the konsole. Cheers, Warwick. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)
Enigma wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6, and are new to *nix in itself. I have used the 'pkg_add -r fluxbox' command to get the fluxbox packages. Although after all my searching on different sites and asking someone I still cannot find where these packages would have been installed to, from using that command. The official fluxbox site doesn't offer any insight into this either, as I suspect it may be general knowledge to unix users? Any help in tracking these down would be greatly appreciated, as would any help in configuring for base things such as the konsole. Cheers, Warwick. You can read a lot by trying some of these commands: $ man ports $ man pkg_which $ man pkg_info and then using pkg_which or pkg_info to find out answers to questions like these. As a shortcut: If fluxbox is indeed installed on your system, and your $PATH environment variable is set in a more or less standard fashion, then the following should help you, at least a little bit. 1. Edit a file in your $HOME directory entitled .xinitrc. (Yes the dot is there and important). If it is not already extant, try this: $ echo exec fluxbox ~/.xinitrc If you have the file already, you can edit it with your $EDITOR, or you can add the line to the end of the file by doubling the redirector above: 2. Assuming you've correctly configured your X server, (which is a whole other chapter in and of itself), you should now be able to type startx and the console's shell prompt, and have the X server bring fluxbox into action when the GUI starts. As for the location of fluxbox, it's probably under /usr/X11R6/bin/, but I can't say for sure. If you log out and back in, does whereis fluxbox work? The C shell (and TCSH) need to rebuild your $PATH data after installing new programs. You can issue rehash after installation, or logout/in as I mentioned. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)
--- Enigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6, and are new to *nix in itself. I have used the 'pkg_add -r fluxbox' command to get the fluxbox packages. Although after all my searching on different sites and asking someone I still cannot find where these packages would have been installed to, from using that command. $ pkg_info -Lx fluxbox __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)
To help you figure out which file is which $pkg_info -Lx fluxbox | grep ^/ | xargs file On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:05 -0400, Peter wrote: --- Enigma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6, and are new to *nix in itself. I have used the 'pkg_add -r fluxbox' command to get the fluxbox packages. Although after all my searching on different sites and asking someone I still cannot find where these packages would have been installed to, from using that command. $ pkg_info -Lx fluxbox __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part