Re: [Hampshire] Ububtu Gutsy i386 + Fluxbox

Sean Gibbins wrote:
> I am trying to get Fluxbox working on a resource-strapped mini-itx box.
> When I log in I am presented with a minimal toolbar along the bottom
> plus a blank screen. No amount of left- or right-clicking anywhere on
> the screen or toolbar generates the sort of menu I was familiar with
> last time I used Fluxbox, which was admittedly some time ago now.
>
> I tried to play around with it on my main machine and managed to reduce
> the above to an unresponsive blank screen with no toolbars at all!
>
> Googling has thrown up a few solutions, but to be perfectly honest they
> all look petty manual and intensive to me, with graphical configuration
> tools being passed over in favour of editing text files by hand*. I
> really haven't got time to play around like this, so can anyone
> recommend a reasonably direct way of installing a basic application menu
> in Fluxbox or shall I go for xfce4 to avoid the pain?
>
> Sean
>
> *roughly a third of the list cheers while another third groans and the
> remainder simply shrug!
>
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You could try "fluxbox-generate_menu" to make an initial menu. I'm not
sure where it puts it by default. On my system, the menu is in
~/.fluxbox/menu which is referenced in ~/.fluxbox/init. Once you have
one, the format is easy enough to edit without to much head scratching

MikeD