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Topic: Fluxbox 0.9.9, build 2, finishing up second release

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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 24 2004,20:08

I just spent the better part of the last 24 hours (minus 6 hours sleep time) creating a new theme and image, and fixing up Fluxbox-0.9.9 to make it easier to deal with.
The new version will have a shell script instead of the menu item. In order to start it, all you'll need to do is close X and run the script, which will copy your .xinitrc into a new file using the new fluxbox path instead of the default. Xinit will then use this file instead of .xinitrc (only for this session)....no manual configuration necessary =o). To get back to Fluxbox stable, just restart X.
edit: to be honest, I only just noticed the $XINITRC variable while I was making this post....I'm going to assume that adding this to the script will do what I mentioned above, but I still have to test it.

The background image is 30k. It's a bit larger than the default 2.2k DSL image, but I wanted to make something that would fit in with the style....and wanted more practice with Gimp.

One last thing I need to do...
I noticed an error message when Fluxbox tried to find some locale files, so I'm going to rebuild the binary without this feature.
There's also an error "Failed to read WM protocols", but I get this on my workstation with the "real" fluxbox too...so maybe it's a Flux bug.

Again, anyone who has used the first build and has some suggestions, I'm open to them. If no changes are suggested by around midnight or so (EST), I'm going to pack it up and send it.

edit #2: btw...the script works only if your .xinitrc has nothing (except blank lines) after the window manager line...it simply removes the last line and replaces it with a new one. I really don't know of a reasonable alternative considering a user may have one of at least 4 window managers on that line, so grepping a particular command isn't convenient. Still, there's really no reason to have additional lines beyond the window manager....just thought I'd make sure that information was posted.

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Posted: Aug. 24 2004,21:45

Why not use a Perl script and then use regular expressions, or if you have to use bash, use sed or awk?

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 24 2004,22:41

I am using sed....it's only a simple matter of changing the last line of the file. If a user has additional lines at the end of their xinitrc, then they'll just have to change that. As I said, there is no reason to have the extra lines. The only exception I can think of is comments....maybe I'll edit the script to deal with comments....
Perl wouldn't work...because I don't know Perl

Thanks for the feedback!

edit: I just thought of another exception...
Assume that you want to run a process automatically upon shutting down X. A simple way to do this is to add lines after the window manager in .xinitrc....they wouldn't run until you shut down the window manager, as long as you don't load the window manager as a background process.
So....that's something for me to consider in a future release. The chances are slim that many people do this, so for now I'm going to take the IE developer's approach (namely, practically everyone in the world uses IE, so I'm not going to take the effort to accomodate the 5% using other browsers).
I don't personally like that approach, but my skills are limited.

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Posted: Aug. 25 2004,11:36

Hmm - would you like me to write a Perl script for you? Then you could just jump to the windowmanager line, without worrying about the rest.
Just something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$x = `cat /home/damnsmall/.xinitrc`;
$x=~s/xxx/yyy/g;
open (FH, "/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc");
print FH $x;
close $x;

Just replace xxx with the current fluxbox location, and yyy with the desired command to run (but don't forget that if you have a forward slash (/) in your path, you have to put a backslash before it).

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Posted: Aug. 25 2004,11:41

Also, will Fluxbox be stripped in this second build?

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