FC3 annoyance.

Fenster

This is probably something I missed, but I've looked, checked and checked again. Anyways. in FC3 on my desktop, I want to make Fluxbox my default WM.

So I create .xsession and .xinitrc files for the root and regular user:

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

I also edited my /etc/sysconfig/desktop file:

DESKTOP="FLUXBOX"
DISPLAYMANAGER="FLUXBOX"

And lastly, to be on the safe side, I even replaced Fedora's version of Switchdesk with a version which supports Fluxbox and set it to Fluxbox there.

However, after all that, it still logs into a Gnome desktop unless I select something else specifically.

As I said, its probably just something I missed, anyone want to point me in the right direction?

nadir

you say it logs into gnome as default. are you using gdm ???
Im not familiar with fedora, but if you use gnome they made a change to how desktops are managed about a year ago.

you should have .desktop files.
for example in /etc/X11/dm/Sessions/
i have

custom.desktop  default.desktop  fluxbox.desktop  gnome.desktop  kde.desktop

where cat fluxbox.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=fluxbox
Comment=This session logs you into Fluxbox
Exec=/usr/local/bin/startfluxbox
TryExec=/usr/bin/fluxbox
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application

& default.desktop remains unchanged.

If you use gdm then fluxbox should appear in the menu and you can just select it as default.

Fenster

I can't. Believe me-I've tried. I edited the default.desktop file to point at Fluxbox. However, I get message say its logging me into the failsafe Gnome WM. I can just pick Fluxbox out of the list everytime I log in, but I find it incredibly annoying, as you might imagine.

DeadBankClerk

How have you installed fluxbox? From RPM or from source.
I would have assumed that the RPM would edit any dot files for you.

Fenster

Source doesn't install correctly, however, the rpm does, so yeah, I'm using the rpm version.

nadir

you should use the fluxbox cvs
the other normal version is hardly maintained any more.
At least use dev, id recommend cvs though, way more up to date.

mambo50

Fenster wrote:

I also edited my /etc/sysconfig/desktop file:

DESKTOP="FLUXBOX"
DISPLAYMANAGER="FLUXBOX"

Have you tried using single quotes ? i.e.

DESKTOP='FLUXBOX'
DISPLAYMANAGER='FLUXBOX'

niallb

mambo50 wrote:

Have you tried using single quotes ? i.e.

DESKTOP='FLUXBOX'
DISPLAYMANAGER='FLUXBOX'

or maybe,

DESKTOP='FLUXBOX'
DISPLAYMANAGER='GDM'

NiallB

Fenster

Doh, good point