Fluxbox has no background

[bbolin]

Hello all,

Recently ran fink to install kde and fluxbox. Kde works fine.

Fluxbox almost works fine but dosen't display any background. Right click brings up the menu items and diffrent styles can be selected. Only the right click menus and toolbar show the correct style. The background stays black.

Moved /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to my home directory ~/.xinitrc

This shows up in ~/.fluxbox/init

session.screen0.rootCommand:

The init file shows the correct style selected

session.styleFile: /sw/share/fluxbox/styles/Artwiz

Here is the tail end of the above file -

rootCommand: bsetroot -mod 4 4 -bg rgb:10/18/20 -fg rgb:30/38/40

There is no bsetroot command on my system, should there be?. Also tried linking /sw/bin/bsetroot-flux /sw/bin/bsetroot

There is also a bsetbg-flux in the directory installed with the fluxbox distribution.

Anybody have any ideas ?

I have used fluxbox befor without any of these problems.

I am using the X11 package from macosx

btb

 

[bbolin]

OK I was able to determine what the problem was. The path!

I should have relized that my entry in .xinitrc didn't work without the full path to fluxbox

exec /sw/bin/fluxbox (worked with xserver background screen)
exec fluxbox (never did work)

When I did get fluxbox to work I fired up xterm. Ran -

bsetroot -solid white (didn't work)
bsetroot-flux -solid white (it worked)

Created links for these that fluxbox was looking for -
ln /sw/bin/bsetroot-flux /usr/X11R6/bin/bsetroot
ln /sw/bin/bsetbg-flux /usr/X11R6/bin/bsetbg

Humm. Why would the fink source install create these unusuall names ?

It is apparent when Mac X11 is fired up it dosen't follow the paths set in /etc/bashrc or I suspect others.

Is there a way to set the path for Mac X11 ?