mikshaw
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Posted: Aug. 25 2004,15:05 |
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Stripped? Yes. The only binary included is fluxbox itself (the other executables included are shell scripts). DSL already has grun, bsetroot and xsri, which negates the need for fbrun, fbsetbg and bsetroot. I've never seen a need for startfluxbox, so that's out, and fluxbox-generate_menu would screw with myDSL menus. I may edit it in the future to deal with that, but it would mean a serious rewrite to keep it small and fast...there are many things included in the script which probably aren't needed in DSL. Locale files, man, and default configs are removed as well.
The configs might be an issue if you happen to create a new user and then load and run fluxbox-0.9.9 as that user without first running fluxbox stable, but I haven't tested the effects of that. If that's a problem I think it can be fixed easily enough. The issue I have with the default configs is that they're configs for fluxbox stable...this flux-dev package uses "dev-*" configs, except for the menu. Anyway, the easiest way to avoid trouble is simply for a new user to run the default fluxbox first.
Your script is very similar to the current menu item in that it replaces a particular window manager with flux-dev. This would not apply if the user has already edited .xinitrc to run something else. So the best I could do at this point is just replace the last line regardless of what it is.
This method is easier on the user as well, since it doesn't touch the current .xinitrc. It just copies the script elsewhere and runs xinit using the new file. The user can restart fluxbox stable with "startx" like normal without having to edit the file. I tested it out last night, and the switch between window managers was seamless.
btw: I've already sent the new release to ke4nt...so any changes made from here will have to wait a little while.
Thanks again for the input, TM.
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