Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)

2006-04-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey

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
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Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)

2006-04-24 Thread Peter

--- 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

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Re: Setting up Fluxbox (May apply to other GUI's)

2006-04-24 Thread Gregory J. Knight
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
 
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