Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLVED)

2022-04-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/2/22, Haines Brown wrote: > > Thank you. The problem turned out to be that my hostname somehow > changed. It was originally but then it became > -10. The only way I can account for this is my senility > (87). This is my third email attempt at this. I started to say that sounds odd. I init

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 21:56:00 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file > > that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that > > its three entries haven't been

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file > that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that > its three entries haven't been changed in donkey's years. unicorn:~$ ls -a /etc/skel ./ ../ .bas

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 15:17:41 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > > accounts by adduser. No other program should r

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLUTION)

2022-04-02 Thread Nathanael Schweers
Haines Brown writes: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: >> That’s how most window managers are designed to work. I certainly do >> something similar with i3. > > Nathan I copied over the .fluxbox hierarchy. It turned out this can be > done, but lines left in

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLVED)

2022-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 03:17:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > > accounts by adduser. No other program should

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in > /etc/skel. > > Therefore, if a program needs a

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Apr 2022 at 08:43:11 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then > fluxbox. > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. > > I'd like to know why this happened and how to fix it. It's Debian policy: 10.7.5 U

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLUTION)

2022-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: > > Haines Brown writes: > > > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then > > fluxbox. > > > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. > > I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: > Haines Brown writes: > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. Did you run it? > > Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be > > copied over from a working system? > That’s how

Re: fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Nathanael Schweers
Haines Brown writes: > After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then > fluxbox. > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. I haven’t used fluxbox for many years, but I don’t use a DE either. For what it’s worth, I use i3, which also does not place a

fluxbox partial installation

2022-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
After installing base system (without DE) I install xorg and then fluxbox. Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. I'd like to know why this happened and how to fix it. Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be copied over from a working system