Friday, July 15, 2005

Fluxbox

Installed Fluxbox today through YaST. Fine and dandy installation. Still very bare and have no idea how to work on this desktop. First task though:

1. Set the wallpaper. Used fbsetbg
a. "fbsetbg -i" to see if there is any suitable wallpapersetter. Apparently not, as the output was something that said that my wallpapersetter did not support transparency.
b. Installed WindowMaker so that I have wmsetbg. Other alternatives: feh (no idea where to get that)
c. Output of 'fbsetbg -i' this time: wmsetbg is a nice wallpapersetter. You won't have any problems.
c. To set wallpaper: $fbsetbg -f /wherever/your/wallpaper/is.jpg
d. Have to put that in ~/.fluxbox/init file or in a startup script file so that the wallpaper will appear every time I log in. Took a pretty damn long time for me to figure that out.

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