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mikshaw Posted on Sep. 08 2004,08:35yikes....is this ~/.fluxbox/init you're talking about?
Remind me to edit your themes before I install them :laugh:


Yikes!?
Uh oh ? ..

Ok, your the fluxbox guy, so give up the beans...
Will we lose "huge tracts of land" by including this file?

Sometimes things don't look right until you exit X and startx,
If I include an init file, this goes away..
( It's a copy of the autogenerated one using that theme )

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ke4nt
I'm just saying that init contains a lot of settings for the look and behavior of Fluxbox.  If a user has gone to the trouble of making changes, and then a theme overwrites these changes, he may not be very happy with it.  I'm not sure the tradeoff is worth it when the styleFile is a single line among many....particularly when changing a style should be easy enough to do from the menu.
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Sometimes things don't look right until you exit X and startx

hmmm...not sure what you mean here.  It sounds a little like it might be a problem with X
The curiosity is why does a theme that autoloaded in 7.3 not act that way in 8.0

Try the striking-theme for instance

I have found this Feature/Bug/Issue with every theme but Rox

So maybe it is something to do with the init file
I will try playing a bit I guess I am a linux noob but I like to play. :)


Craig
Ok, I can see that..
I thought with it autocreating, how could someone keep changes in it ?
( at least I think so, because even using the default themes, lines like bsetbg
get updated automatically, without an included "init" file in those themes. )

So, is there a Master Copy that fluxbox pulls from, that you can edit, that
is used as the template when the ~/.fluxbox/init file is recreated automatically
after a theme change?  :)

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ke4nt
I don't think bsetbg does anything to flubox/init. As far as I know, init is copied from /usr/share/fluxbox/ if there isn't already one in ~/.fluxbox/, and when a style changes, fluxbox edits only the "styleFile" line.
If init is already found in ~/.fluxbox/, then Fluxbox doesn't copy it from the master...all your settings will remain untouched from one X session to the next.
This is the way it has worked for me on other distros, anyway.

oooohh...wait a minute.  I think I know what might be happening.  Do you include a "rootCommand" line in init?  You mentioned bsetbg in init, which shouldn't be there unless you are using a global root command.  If you have a bsetbg root command in init, Fluxbox will ignore whatever root command you have in your style file, so in that case the only way to change your background is to change the root command in init.
If you have no root command in init, you should have no trouble changing backgrounds using only a style file.

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The curiosity is why does a theme that autoloaded in 7.3 not act that way in 8.0

Do you mean autoload as in "get extracted to your styles directory"?  If so, this is a completely different issue.  I assumed that any extension added to the root of a CD would load automatically.
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