Fluxbox Problem

[Linux_Lover]

Hi,

I am a very new user of Red Hat Fedora Linux Core 2. Will anybody read my this FLUXBOX story? I have a problem and many many stupid questions? PLEASE reply .............

Firstly I installed the Fluxbox (fluxbox-0.9.10-0.fdr.1.2.i386.rpm) by using "# rpm -ivh fluxbox-0.9.10-0.fdr.1.2.i386.rpm" command. It was installed successfully but I don't know how to work with FLUXBOX and it's menu. Is it totally command based or can I open any application like XMMS through it's menu and what is "Withdrawn"? Is it necessory to be installed in Fluxbox environment? Well, I went to Fluxbox's site and I read the documantation. I again downloaded the "fluxbox-0.9.12.tar.tar" version and decided to uninstalled previous version. I tried this way "#rpm -e fluxbox-0.9.10-0.fdr.1.2.i386.rpm" But I could not uninstall Fluxbox (error: package fluxbox-0.9.10-0.fdr.1.2.i386.rpm is not installed). So I deceided to install new version without uninstalling previous one. I followed the instructions as they are in documantation page on Fluxbox's official site. Why is it written "fluxbox-0.1.12.tar.gz" in docs instead of "fluxbox-0.9.12.tar.tar" which I downloaded? Are they different packages or same? I reached at this step succssesfully :-

"The next step is to find the executable for Fluxbox. For most people, this is /usr/local/bin/fluxbox. Now you need to edit (or create) the file I just mentioned. Just put the following line at the bottom of the file:

exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox"

But I was unable to open and edit "/usr/local/bin/fluxbox" file so I created another text file fluxbox and replaced it in /home/avi. I also renamed the folder ".fluxbox" (/home/avi) which was created while installing previous version of Fluxbox to ".fluxbox01" & I took the init, menu, and titlebar files from the /usr/local/share/fluxbox directory to newly created ".fluxbox" folder (as instructions).

Now the problem is when I login in Fluxbox and try to work with it's menu I could not find KDE menu which I was enabled while installing. One more important question, if I want to open my /home/avi directory or any other directory, so how can I open it? Will I have to use commands for opening a folder? And there is no availablity of "fluxbox-generate_menu" page on FLUXBOX's site.

I like Fluxbox and I want to be familier with it but now I am thinking to uninstall the Fluxbox and start from scratch again. What should I do, please advice me.

Thanks in Advance.

Avi.

[Linux_Lover]

Hi,

I hope I'll get any solution as soon as posible.

Thanks
Avi

[ghaefb]

Fluxbox window manager is not for beginners, you should start with gnome/kde or xfce.
But if you insist on using fluxbox, I can help you with this issues.

Learn some basics about rpm, packages and source tarballs.
To install rpm: rpm -ivh name-version.rpm
To uninstall rpm: rpm -e name (so it's the rpm package name, without version and extension)
To update rpm: rpm -Uvh name-version.rpm

.tar.gz and .tar.bz2 are compressed source files, you need to compile. stick with rpm

You can find rpms you need on http://rpm.pbone.net
download latest fc2 fluxbox rpm and install.

Leave the /usr/local/bil/fluxbox file alone.
To change fluxbox right-click menu edit the /home/username/.fluxbox/menu file.
the .fluxbox folder is hidden in your home directory, try: ls -a
All the configuration files are there in that folder.

Fluxbox is just a window manager, it's not like GNOME/KDE desktop environment.
So when running fluxbox you can use apps from KDE/GNOME to do stuff....

[sailor]

Fluxbox does take some time to configure...the config files are located in
/home/user/.fluxbox

the files you will edit for the menu is "menu"
start up options are in the file "init"
you would edit these with a txt editor. Just look at the the other entries to get an idea of how your entries should look.

There is a gui for configuration called Fluxconf available here http://devaux.fabien.free.fr/flux/
It is a pretty nice utility for setting up your menu.