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Posted by Oroshi - 2004-01-06, 02:31 AM

Anyweb, have you try the 0.9.7 -devel version? for me it works fine on

 

$ ./configure

 

$ make

 

su

 

# make install

 

then i got Fluxbox works as sweet.

Posted by anyweb - 2004-01-05, 10:19 AM

i couldnt get that to work either,

 

rpm installs fine then 'nada'

 

:(

Posted by Ritter - 2004-01-05, 09:41 AM

FYI:

Fedora Core 1 RPMs

Posted by Oroshi - 2004-01-05, 09:25 AM

the newer version of fluxbox not working properly on Fedora Core 1, but, the development version works.

 

v0.9.7

fluxbox-0.9.7.tar.bz2

fluxbox-0.9.7.tar.gz

 

thise two links works fine on Fedora Core 1.

 

hope this help ya mate

Posted by anyweb - 2004-01-05, 09:07 AM

this is NOT working for me (yet...)

 

i have compiled the latest version of fluxbox from source in fedora

 

see my commands entered below

 

first i 'configure'

 

 

 



Code:
[anyweb@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$ ./configure --enable-gnome checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes /home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing: Unknown `--run' option Try `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/missing --help' for more information configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependant libraries... pass_all checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking for objdir... .libs checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... no checking if we can lock with hard links... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for sed... sed checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking errno.h usability... yes checking errno.h presence... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking ctype.h usability... yes checking ctype.h presence... yes checking for ctype.h... yes checking dirent.h usability... yes checking dirent.h presence... yes checking for dirent.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking libgen.h usability... yes checking libgen.h presence... yes checking for libgen.h... yes checking locale.h usability... yes checking locale.h presence... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking nl_types.h usability... yes checking nl_types.h presence... yes checking for nl_types.h... yes checking process.h usability... no checking process.h presence... no checking for process.h... no checking signal.h usability... yes checking signal.h presence... yes checking for signal.h... yes checking stdarg.h usability... yes checking stdarg.h presence... yes checking for stdarg.h... yes checking stdio.h usability... yes checking stdio.h presence... yes checking for stdio.h... yes checking time.h usability... yes checking time.h presence... yes checking for time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking sys/param.h usability... yes checking sys/param.h presence... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking sys/select.h usability... yes checking sys/select.h presence... yes checking for sys/select.h... yes checking sys/signal.h usability... yes checking sys/signal.h presence... yes checking for sys/signal.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking sys/wait.h usability... yes checking sys/wait.h presence... yes checking for sys/wait.h... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for basename... yes checking for getpid... yes checking for setlocale... yes checking for sigaction... yes checking for strftime... no checking for strcasestr... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for catopen... yes checking for catgets... yes checking for catclose... yes checking for t_open in -lnsl... no checking for socket in -lsocket... no checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... yes checking whether to build support for the XShape extension... yes checking for XShapeCombineShape in -lXext... yes checking for X11/extensions/shape.h... yes checking whether to include the Slit... yes checking whether to include the new WM Spec... yes checking whether to include Pseudocolor ordered dithering code... no checking whether to include verbose debugging code... no checking whether to include NLS support... yes checking for setlocale in -lxpg4... no checking for gencat... gencat checking whether to use the new timed pixmap cache... yes checking whether to have KDE slit support... no checking whether to have GNOME support... yes checking whether to have Xft support... yes checking for xft-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/xft-config checking Xft UTF-8 support... yes checking whether to have Xmb (multibyte font, utf-8) support... yes checking whether to build support for the Xinerama extension... no checking return type of signal handlers... void        fluxbox version 0.1.14 configured successfully. Using '/usr/local' for installation. Using 'g++' for C++ compiler. Building with '-g -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -DSHAPE  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include ' for C++ compiler flags. Building with '  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11  -lXext -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXft -lX11 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXrender ' for linker flags. configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating version.h config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/FbTk/Makefile config.status: creating util/Makefile config.status: creating util/fbrun/Makefile config.status: creating data/Makefile config.status: creating data/styles/Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating nls/Makefile config.status: creating nls/C/Makefile config.status: creating nls/da_DK/Makefile config.status: creating nls/es_ES/Makefile config.status: creating nls/et_EE/Makefile config.status: creating nls/fr_FR/Makefile config.status: creating nls/pt_BR/Makefile config.status: creating nls/ru_RU/Makefile config.status: creating nls/sv_SE/Makefile config.status: creating nls/tr_TR/Makefile config.status: creating nls/pt_PT/Makefile config.status: creating nls/bg_BG/Makefile config.status: creating nls/ja_JP/Makefile config.status: creating nls/lv_LV/Makefile config.status: creating nls/it_IT/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing default-1 commands [anyweb@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$




 

now i do a 'make'

 

 

 

 

 



Code:
[anyweb@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$ make cd . \  && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h \     /bin/sh ./config.status config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing default-1 commands make  all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14' Making all in data make[2]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/data' Making all in styles make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/data/styles' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/data/styles' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/data' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/data' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/data' Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/doc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/doc' Making all in nls make[2]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls' Making all in C make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/C' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/C' Making all in da_DK make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/da_DK' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/da_DK' Making all in es_ES make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/es_ES' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/es_ES' Making all in et_EE make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/et_EE' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/et_EE' Making all in fr_FR make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/fr_FR' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/fr_FR' Making all in pt_BR make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/pt_BR' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/pt_BR' Making all in ru_RU make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/ru_RU' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/ru_RU' Making all in sv_SE make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/sv_SE' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/sv_SE' Making all in tr_TR make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/tr_TR' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/tr_TR' Making all in it_IT make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/it_IT' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/it_IT' Making all in pt_PT make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/pt_PT' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/pt_PT' Making all in bg_BG make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/bg_BG' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/bg_BG' Making all in ja_JP make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/ja_JP' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/ja_JP' Making all in lv_LV make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/lv_LV' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls/lv_LV' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/nls' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/src' Making all in FbTk make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/src/FbTk' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/src/FbTk' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/src' source='fluxbox.cc' object='fluxbox.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/fluxbox.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/fluxbox.TPo' \ depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -Wall -DLOCALEPATH=\"/usr/local/share/fluxbox/nls\" -DDEFAULTMENU=\"/usr/local/share/fluxbox/menu\" -DDEFAULTSTYLE=\"/usr/local/share/fluxbox/styles/Clean\" -DDEFAULTKEYSFILE=\"/usr/local/share/fluxbox/keys\" -DDEFAULT_INITFILE=\"/usr/local/share/fluxbox/init\" -IFbTk   -g -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -DSHAPE  -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include  -c -o fluxbox.o `test -f fluxbox.cc || echo './'`fluxbox.cc fluxbox.cc: In member function `void Fluxbox::save_rc()': fluxbox.cc:1976: error: `B_EuropeanDate' undeclared (first use this function) fluxbox.cc:1976: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for   each function it appears in.) fluxbox.cc: In member function `void Fluxbox::load_rc(BScreen*)': fluxbox.cc:2324: error: `B_AmericanDate' undeclared (first use this function) make[3]: *** [fluxbox.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/src' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/anyweb/rpms/fluxbox-0.1.14' make: *** [all] Error 2 [anyweb@localhost fluxbox-0.1.14]$




 

i notice there are some errors there, any idea what they mean ????

 

cheers

 

anyweb

Posted by Oroshi - 2004-01-02, 05:26 PM

do the same way as i explain for xfce4, so just change into fluxbox.

 

2. Execute the following commands:

su

cd /etc/X11/dm/Sessions

cp gnome.desktop fluxbox.desktop

 

 

3. Edit /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/fluxbox.desktop

gedit /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/fluxbox.desktop

On line ~58, replace

Exec=gnome-session

with

Exec=/usr/local/bin/fluxbox

Do a case sensitive replace (Ctrl R in gedit)

Replace GNOME with fluxbox

 

that should do. rh9 to fedora are just the same, they use gdm.

Posted by anyweb - 2004-01-02, 03:08 PM

i have not managed to get fluxbox added to my session list in fedora yet,

 

perhaps its because i upgraded from rh9 to fedora

 

any thoughts ?

 

cheers

 

anyweb

Posted by Oroshi - 2003-12-30, 05:59 PM

Session menu for GDM login screen.

 

I'm running Fedora Core 1. I'm going to show you how to add the desktop in Session Menu for GDM Login Screen.

 

Example for xfce4 desktop:

 

1. Check that the following files exist:

/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/XFce4

 

 

2. Execute the following commands:

su

cd /etc/X11/dm/Sessions

cp gnome.desktop XFce4.desktop

 

 

3. Edit /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/XFce4.desktop

gedit /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/XFce4.desktop

On line ~58, replace

Exec=gnome-session

with

Exec=/usr/bin/startxfce4

Do a case sensitive replace (Ctrl R in gedit)

Replace GNOME with XFce4

 

 

Logout, and XFce4 will appear in the Session GDM menu.

 

it can be done on any desktop such as Fluxbox