Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 December 2006 04:18, Samuel Baldwin wrote: Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night, my bad. :) Under /etc/X11/Sessions I have a file called fluxbox. In there I have:

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-28 Thread Dan
I'm not sure if this helps, but I believe all i have to do to get to fluxbox (in fact i'm sure of it) is to select fluxbox from the menu in gdm. If you use xdm, .xsession would be the right file (you can select that in gdm as custom). I dont know for kde. I always forget about fancy

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-28 Thread Dale
Dan wrote: I'm not sure if this helps, but I believe all i have to do to get to fluxbox (in fact i'm sure of it) is to select fluxbox from the menu in gdm. If you use xdm, .xsession would be the right file (you can select that in gdm as custom). I dont know for kde. I always forget about

[gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread frank
Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). Now I had to shutdown and boot. After logging in and typing the magic command startx TWM comes up. How do I get back fluxbox a s the dafault window

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Tuttle
On December 27 at 22:46 EST, frank hastily scribbled: Hi, I use to use Fluxbox as my window manager. I upgraded world 2 times without a restart (I think there were new versions of portage too). I don't mean to be rude, but you really should watch what Portage was doing. It's generally

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. There should also be a variable in your X config. Cheers! -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost my window manager

2006-12-27 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Try .xsession , add exec startfluxbox. Excuse me. That should read .xinitrc , and that's in your ~. Light night, my bad. :) -- Samuel (shardz) Shardz's Igloo: shardz.homelinux.net Registered Linux User #410639 amarok.kde.org defectivebydesign.org usmc.mil