Fluxbox issue with Dapper Drake

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:10:51 +0530
Yagnesh Desai <ynd at lntenc.com> wrote:

> I installed the fluxbox and when I login to the fluxbox session I find only mouse
> and a blank blue screen. Is there any way what I can configure the fluxbox menu.

Yes, fluxbox can be a bit confusing :) There should be *some* default
entries in the menu if you right-click the desktop though ( at least
xterm, maybe a couple of others )

There are several ways to obtain a more complete menu. The system wide
file is 

/usr/share/fluxbox/menu

You can copy this to ~/.fluxbox/menu and use it as a template to customise
your menu - there is information about this at the documentation I link
below.

Another way to generate a menu is to install the "menu" package, which is
the "Debian" menu. Then run " sudo update-menus " . After this any package
you install should be added to the "Debian" menu. The downside, if you
dislike it ( I don't dislike it, but you might) , is that this will add a
"Debian" submenu to your Gnome menu. 

There are good fluxbox docs at

http://fluxbox.org/docbook.php

Note, though, that the Ubuntu fluxbox package appears not to have the
"fluxbox-generate_menu " command ( at least, the dapper version lacks this
IIRC ). I compile fluxbox myself and use the latest version from the
fluxbox.org site, but the Ubuntu version is quite OK.

Peter