Re: fluxbox and kde

[Thomas Peri <ispleen@mac.com>]

Hmm... It kinda works.  The main problem is that doing it that way is 
that kdesktop just shows up in a blackbox window.

I've explored the alternative of just starting kdesktop by itself with 
fluxbox, using the --x-root flag, but that presents some problems too:

1) kdesktop intercepts the middle- and right-clicks that are intended 
for the fluxbox desktop for its own menus.
2) lowering a window in fluxbox (by middle-clicking the titlebar) sends 
the window behind the desktop, only retrievable by using fluxbox's 
window-selecting arrows.
3) if I run the kicker, (a) it only shows up on one virtual desktop in 
fluxbox (I don't know how to launch it sticky, and it doesn't seem 
possible to change that once it's running), and (b) when I collapse it 
by clicking on one of its ends, it goes behind the desktop, just like 
the windows in #2 above.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to overcome these obstacles, I'm 
all ears.

Thanks
Thomas

Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote:

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> On April 10, 2002 06:02 am, Thomas Peri wrote:
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> > I've read that it's possible to use Fluxbox as the window manager in
> > KDE, but everything on the Web explaining how to do this seems to be
> > either outdated or 404'd.  Can someone point me to up-to-date
> > documentation on this?  I'm using Woody / KDE 2.2.2 / Fluxbox 0.1.6.
>
>
> Edit the file /usr/bin/kde2 and on the line:
>
> ksmserver --restore
>
> add
>
> - --windowmanager <wm>
>
> where <wm> is the path to the script/program to start your window manager.
>
> In the file you can see the following documentation just before the ksmserver 
> line:
>
> # Syntax:   ksmserver [--restore] [--windowmanager <wm>]
> # if no windowmanager is specified, ksmserver will ensure kwin is started.
> # [--restore] should be controlled by kdm
>
> Sheldon.
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