WDM is a small, light-weight replacement for XDM. If you’re looking for nice simple replacement to XDM, i would highly recommend it.
Its fairly easy to add fluxbox (or any other window manager) to its list when logging in.
__TOC__ I assume you’ve got WDM installed and working properly. If not, go do that and then come back.
Firstly, you’ll need to edit two of the config files for wdm. The first being Xclients and the second being wdm-config. On my distribution (Gentoo) these are located in /etc/X11/wdm.
In the Xclients file we’ll need to add a little bit of scripting that will check if the fluxbox executable exists, and is executable.
Open the Xclients file with your favourite editor. The part of the script we want to change starts like this:
# First thing - check the user preferences
if [ -f $HOME/.wm_style ] ; then
WMSTYLE=`cat $HOME/.wm_style`
case "$WMSTYLE" in
and is filled out with a bunch of items that look like this:
wmaker*|WindowMaker*)
# startup WindowMaker
WMAKER_PATH=/usr/bin/wmaker
if ! test -x $WMAKER_PATH ; then
FindInPath $WMAKER_PATH
if test -n "$result" -a -x "$result"; then
WMAKER_PATH="$result";
fi
fi
if test -x $WMAKER_PATH ; then
echo Starting WindowMaker >$HOME/.xwm.msgs
env > "$HOME"/Xrootenv.0
exec $WMAKER_PATH >>$HOME/.xwm.msgs 2>&1
fi
;;
esac
fi
we need to add a piece of code to tell it to check for the fluxbox executable. so before the finishing code displayed above, add the following lines:
fluxbox*|FluxBox)
# startup fluxbox
FLUXBOX_PATH=/usr/bin/startfluxbox
if ! test -x $FLUXBOX_PATH ; then
FindInPath $FLUXBOX_PATH
if test -n "$result" -a -x "$result"; then
$FLUXBOX_PATH="$result";
fi
fi
if [ -x $FLUXBOX_PATH ] ; then
echo Starting FluxBox >$HOME/.xwm.msgs
exec $FLUXBOX_PATH >>$HOME/.xwm.msgs 2>&1
fi
;;
After weve done this, we’ll need to add fluxbox to the wdm-config file. Open this file with your favourite editor, and find the line that looks like this:
DisplayManager*wdmWm: WindowMaker:None
and change it so it looks like this
DisplayManager*wdmWm: WindowMaker:FluxBox
And that’s all there is to it. Restart WDM and hey presto, FluxBox apears in the menu.
Enjoy
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