Ok, I was bored so i decided to give the world a quick and easy to follow

reference for installing the great window manager "fluxbox" for UNIX

platforms. Now of course you can grab it at http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net



Install
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1. grab that file from the link like i said above

2. cd /path/to/file/ normally your home directory such as /home/me

3. If you have the .bz2 file which i recommend, simply type:
tar xjf fluxboxversionhere.tar.bz2

4. Now to throw files in the right places and make sure you are indeed on
a gcc version the world can understand, the world being fluxbox, you
need to configure. Simply by typing ./configure
There are several other options for configure that allow you to use kde
and gnome menus etc in fluxbox but i could care less and you can read
the README file for more information on that, but they are something
like ./configure --enable-kde and ./configure --enable-gnome. Not sure.

5. Now to compile, type make

6. next type make install

7. and you are done installing, now go get a coke.



Setting It to work
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If you use a login manager to get into X, such as kdm, just change the

options in its appropriate control, this is just assuming that whenever

you login to your system, you type startx because you are on runlevel 3

whatever@yourcomputer: cd /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit

pico or vi xinitrc

now at the bottom, itll say something like "exec gnome-session" erase this

and put exec fluxbox


Next, cd to /etc/X11/xdm

pico or vi Xsession

You should see something like this near the end of the file, its hard to
miss:

openwin)
exec olvwm
;;
fvwm2)
xsetroot -solid SteelBlue
exec fvwm2
;;
fvwm95)
xsetroot -solid SteelBlue
exec fvwm95
;;
blackbox)
exec blackbox
;;
xfce)
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.xfce
;;
windowmaker)
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.wmaker

Thats the before shot, now you need to alter it a bit to have fluxbox on

the X agenda :P

The after shot would have an added:

fluxbox)
exec fluxbox
;;
or something along those lines, my bash isn't always very pretty. Now:

type:

reboot

next login as a regular user, or even root if you feel like it, it is not

required. type startx, and there you have it, fluxbox installed on your

machine and running. Can i get a w00t

You have now been thoroughly fluxed by er0k.