flux box menu

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: flux box menu
started by: new_user_lol

Posted by new_user_lol on Mar. 03 2005,07:20

hi i have remasterd dsl and would like to change the menu of fluxbox how can i do it?

thanks

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 03 2005,14:51

edit /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu

< http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/html/x745.html >

Posted by new_user_lol on Mar. 07 2005,13:29

the file does not exist until the pc is booted
it i and if i edit the file and stick it in home/dsl/.fluxbox it does not take effect

Posted by clivesay on Mar. 07 2005,13:49

The /home/dsl/ files reside in /etc/skel/. The /dsl directory is not populated until boot. So, make all your /dsl modifications in /etc/skel/

Chris

Posted by thorzul on Mar. 19 2005,01:57

Quote (clivesay @ Mar. 07 2005,08:49)

The /home/dsl/ files reside in /etc/skel/. The /dsl directory is not populated until boot. So, make all your /dsl modifications in /etc/skel/

Chris

I am not able to edit any of the /etc/skel/ files (even as root). I assume this is because I boot from USB and I have not installed this on a hard drive. But is there another option for me?

I want to modify the slitlist in .fluxbox, so only wmnet shows. I tried changing the slitlist file (and also pointing to a new file in 'init' so it didn't look to 'slitlist''), but when I did an X restart the old slitlist came back with all the other programs listed.

Is there another way to refresh the display, other than going to WindowManager -> Restart, so that it won't overwrite changes I make to slitlist?

Posted by thorzul on Mar. 19 2005,03:43

On a related note, is there documentation on the 'enhance' script?

I tried "man enhance" in Google and you don't want to know the results I got.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 19 2005,06:14

enhance is a DSL-specific script, so there is no documentation floating around in the usual manpage repositories.

What it does is start some applications to make life in X a little easier:
fluxter is your desktop pager
xtdesk is the icons
wmcpuload is your CPU monitor
wmnet is a network monitor
mount.app allows you to mount drives with the push of a button
asmem shows memory and swap usage
wmix is an audio mixer

Editing the slitlist doesn't affect which dockapps are loaded...it only changes the order in which they appear.

Posted by jshaw on Mar. 21 2005,05:51

thorzul

edit /home/dsl/.xinitrc
delete the line(s) that start the enhance script and then add the lines from the enhance script that you want

my .xinitrc looks like

Code Sample

# put X windows programs that you want started here.
# Be sure to add at the end of each command the &
wmnet -w &
asmem -withdrawn -bg black -fg white &
wmcpuload -bl -lc rgb:00/0c/ee &
mount.app &
wmix &
fluxbox

hope that helps
jshaw

Posted by new_user_lol on Mar. 21 2005,07:23

fester@fester:/new/source/etc/skel$ ls
filetool.lst media

there is nothing else in there to edit

Posted by new_user_lol on Mar. 21 2005,10:14

never mind it was hidden

Stupid nautilus:@