fluxbox_install_help

[kern]

I thought KDM did that by default?

if not I guess you'd want to be looking at the KDM config file to add such an option, this is if I get you correctly.

[icedtea]

so the question is HOW can i DO such a thing that will enable me to CHOOSE between KDE and flux upon entering the login screen. .

[kern]

http://madpenguin.org/cms/index.php/?m=show&id=325

I believe this is what you want, if you use KDM, which is default if you have KDE installed.

[icedtea]

ok, il do this when i get home.. Mr. OZAR also gave me a link. . il try to apply the suggested links.. thanks

[icedtea]

i got the track!!! i edited xinitrc.fluxbox

i changed the default location to /usr/local/bin/startfluxbox

that's aLL. .

(i already have my .fluxbox dir )

thanks to the helpers of my post!! Sir OZAR, KERN and JavaSnob. . .


now its time for me to go further with their docs. . . another road to challenge

[kern]

may I ask why your fluxbox binary is in /usr/local/bin ?

I take it you're not using the fluxbox package that came with slackware?

ah

[icedtea]

yup I did not used the default of slack. I downloaded a new source from the site. . actually it was suggested to me by a friend.. (in that way I WILL BE able to LEARN.. and not just use the packages i see. . ) from compiling, and tweaking my box..


Xcess : m confused.. what does binary mean? im always thinking binary as the term in MATH..

[kern]

just sounds like hard work to me ,

you learn nothing compiling stuff, and as you said, you didn't have a ~/.fluxbox directory when you compiled your own fluxbox package (it was a package wasnt it?), in my opinion if a package comes with slack, I use it. compiling your own doesnt offer much, if any of a performance increase. and simply wastes your time compiling something that is a package on the cdrom anyway.

its hardly difficult to configure, make, and make a package from a source tarball, unless its a kernel which takes a little more effort and knowledge.

binary = built from source executable

i.e my fluxbox binary in /usr/local/bin

you see?

[icedtea]

i got ur point.. but mine is. . since i am just starting to explore the world of linux, i am being advise to do the possible tasks without being dpendent too much in the READY made packages... its like "practice makes perfect" yes as u say compiling is not that challenging? but for me.. i gives me the confidence of handling such things... (of course compared to an expert / advance users like you guys..) i really need more confidence on doing such things. . time may come that when i reached the stage wherein i almost know it all.. il just be dpendent on ready made packages. . . im coming from a student point of view. .


now i know. . basically a binary is the source location of ANY executable apllication ? did i got it right?

[kern]

no, a binary is what you build from the source.

i.e

"I built my fluxbox binary from the source tarball"

binary = executable = built from source.