Fluxbox trouble

[jitup]

once again I grovel at your feet and beg for your help! I installed flux box, installed without a hitch, then I loged out and loged back in with fluxbox. it loaded super quick. the only problem is that I can't acess any thing in it. it was just a blueish backgraound with a little bar on the bottom, couldn't find anything, no icons, just blank, so I logged out usin ctrl+alt+backspace, than I logged back in running gnome. How do I do stuff in fluxbux, I love how it loaded instantaneously.
thanks ,once again

[jitup]

ok, I figured out the right click menu thing. How do I get it to detect my network settings?

[Yeri]

clicking with the right mouse button on the background makes appear the menu.
you can edit .fluxbox/startup to configure which apps you want to run at startup
Here is the piece of mine where I set the wallpaper, start the gnome applet which automatically connects to inet and gkrellm a nice system monitor.

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fbsetbg -f /home/yeri/imatges/blueboy1024x768.jpg
nm-applet &
gkrellm &

# And last but not least we start fluxbox.
# Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it.

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

There also other lightweight window managers that you could try (icewm,...) and then choose the one that fits best with you

Good luck,

Gerard.

[jitup]

thanks, I'll give it a try!

[DioXide]

For the network settings you can use WICD. It's Gnome-independent and IMHO works better than nm-applet outside Gnome.

I know I'm late, but I recommend you Openbox with xfce-panel and xfce-setting-manager. Openbox is as fast as Fluxbox, but it doesn't have a panel, so you get xfce-panel wich is more flexible (yet still lightweight), and xfce-setting-manager can sort out all the tedious stuff for you (such as the mouse/keyboard speed, GTK themes and the likes).

That's the setup I use and it's very nice for working with audio, zero-distractions and lightning fast