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STARTFLUXBOX

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NAME

startfluxbox - start a fluxbox session

SYNOPSIS

startfluxbox

DESCRIPTION

startfluxbox is a script which runs the file ˜/.fluxbox/startup If it doesn’t exist it will be generated.

startfluxbox should be started from your ˜/.xinitrc if you use startx, or ˜/.xsession if you run a display manager, like xdm.

FILES

˜/.fluxbox/startup

This file contains all commands that should be executed before fluxbox is started. The initial file contains helpful comments for beginners. It also starts fluxbox.

EXAMPLES

The default ˜/.fluxbox/startup is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
#
# fluxbox startup-script:
#
# Lines starting with a '#' are ignored.

# Change your keymap:
xmodmap "$HOME/.Xmodmap"

# Applications you want to run with fluxbox.
# MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END.
#
# unclutter -idle 2 &
# wmnd &
# wmsmixer -w &
# idesk &

# And last but not least we start fluxbox.
# Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it.

exec fluxbox
# or if you want to keep a log:
# exec fluxbox -log "$fluxdir/log"

If you need to start applications after fluxbox, you can change the exec fluxbox line above to something like this:

exec fluxbox &
fbpid=$!

sleep 1
{
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg white -bg black &
ipager &
gkrellm2 &
} &

wait $fbpid

So xsetroot, ipager, and gkrellm2 will all be started after fluxbox, after giving fluxbox 1 second to startup.

For more details on what else you can do in this script, see sh(1) , or the documentation for your shell.

AUTHORS

The author of startfluxbox(1) is Han Boetes <han at fluxbox.org>

This manpage was converted to asciidoc format by Jim Ramsay <i.am at jimramsay.com> for fluxbox-1.1.2

AUTHOR

Jim Ramsay <i.am@jimramsay.com>

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