[SOLVED] Fluxbox won't work and mirror problem

Question

Hello all, I recently tried to make the switch to Arch again from Ubuntu. Ran into some trouble though. Obviously I was using the 64 bit version. It installed just fine, but once I booted into it I couldn't use pacman to install anything or even refresh. After a bit of playing I found the file where the mirrors hide. The one I set in installation was uncommented as it should be but not working so up above I uncommented the same one (ibilio) and that fixed that. Is that a normal problem? Anyhow no biggie so I moved on. I go for straight Fluxbox. So I installed xorg and fluxbox. But for the life of me I can not get it to boot to fluxbox. Keeps going to twm. I tried everything in the fluxbox guide from the Arch wiki to get it going with no luck. Finally gave up and went back to Ubuntu. Now I used the 32 bit a time or two on an old computer and fluxbox worked fine. Here like I say startx would bring up twm. And startfluxbox (think thats the right command) would get a cannot connect to xserver error. Any ideas? I sure would love to use Arch. Sorry I can't be more precise on how it went but I no longer have it installed. If someone thinks they can help me with this though I would love to try again. Thanks.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2008-02-16 07:32:36)

Answer 1

Ah, sorry, I should have specified that you add it to your ~/.xinitrc file, and you will most likely have to make then edit that file (as I did) yourself.
touch ~/.xinitrc
and then, with your text editor of choice add this line to that file
exec startfluxbox
and save. If that still doesn't work let me know
You will always get kicked back to the command line, as X cannot find any login manager, and you had no user-specified fallback file that it would look for instead, so it fell back finally on the system-wide fallback, which is TWM.
So you have to rely on writing your own way to start x, which is the ~/.xinitrc file. Otherwise it will always find twm.
If you really don't want twm,  you can easily remove it (I don't have it installed at all) with a simple 'pacman -R xorg-twm'.
HTH
Last edited by wyvern (2008-02-15 18:45:07)