From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 20 18: 6:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A6037B405 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sephiroth (dialup-uu-dynamic141.cshore.com [63.112.158.141]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9039B23ED0; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:08:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:15:24 -0500 From: Matthew Graybosch To: daverk@epix.net, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: fluxbox install questions Message-Id: <20011220211524.0b23404a.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <200112201244.fBKCil5n010692@bean.epix.net> References: <200112201244.fBKCil5n010692@bean.epix.net> Organization: starbreaker.net X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.NBpufHHmq6Z9(P" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.NBpufHHmq6Z9(P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 07:44:39 -0500 Dave Kaufman wrote: > hi, hope you don't mind me writing direct. your responses on > freebsd-questions have been a big help to me. Thank you. > read what you wrote about fluxbox and decided to try it. have downloaded > the tarball from their site. there is no ports directory for it in my > freebsd 4.4-release install so am wondering. i read your response where > you said you just did a make install && make clean to install it. doesn't > it need a makefile? i'm very new at this so please excuse if this is kind > of a dumb question. Hey, I'm still pretty new at this as well. Only been hacking BSD since the end of September. >^..^< > should i move the tarball to a different directory of its own? currently i > have it in /usr/ports/distfiles with the other tarballs i've downloaded. Don't worry, your question is light-years beyond "which key is the 'any' key?" Fluxbox hasn't been ported to FreeBSD, but it isn't really necessary to do so. Here's what I did: 1) Open an Xterm. 2) mkdir ~/src (if you haven't already.) 3) cd ~/src 4) tar -xzvf /usr/ports/distfiles/fluxbox-0.1.5.tar.gz 5) cd fluxbox-0.1.5 6) ./configure --enable-kde 7) make 8) su to root 9) make install (afterwards, I typed "rehash" as root and as myself since I use tcsh instead of sh or bash.) 10) follow the instructions in README to transfer my Blackbox settings to Fluxbox 11) alter ~/.xsession to make Fluxbox my WM. 12) restart X Also, have a look at the Fluxbox docs at http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docs.php Happy Hacking. -- Matthew Graybosch http://www.starbreaker.net GnuPG Key ID: 0x45BC4581 "Sex, Unix, and rock 'n roll" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 G! d- s:+ a-- C+++ UB++++ P+ L+++ E W++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b++++ DI+++ D+ G++ e* h+ r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --=.NBpufHHmq6Z9(P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8IptAXG3c5kW8RYERAsbtAKCc/YfzVAQPN9RjIryUsFHAyQ6eOQCeN4AL qE8lAxZi+tEjl1HWaMyKWZM= =MrVt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.NBpufHHmq6Z9(P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message