startfluxbox - start a fluxbox session

JimRamsay <i.am@jimramsay.com>
           Author.

startfluxbox.txt                                08 February 2015                                 STARTFLUXBOX(1)

       The author of startfluxbox(1) is Han Boetes <han at fluxbox.org>

       This manpage was converted to asciidoc format by Jim Ramsay <i.am at jimramsay.com> for fluxbox-1.1.2

startfluxbox is a script which runs the file ~/.fluxbox/startup If it doesn’t exist it will be generated.

       startfluxbox should be started from your ~/.xinitrc if you use startx, or ~/.xsession if you run a
       display manager, like xdm.

       The default ~/.fluxbox/startup is as follows:

           #!/bin/sh
           #
           # fluxbox startup-script:
           #
           # Lines starting with a '#' are ignored.

           # Change your keymap:
           xmodmap "$HOME/.Xmodmap"

           # Applications you want to run with fluxbox.
           # MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END.
           #
           # unclutter -idle 2 &
           # wmnd &
           # wmsmixer -w &
           # idesk &

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

           exec fluxbox
           # or if you want to keep a log:
           # exec fluxbox -log "$fluxdir/log"

       If you need to start applications after fluxbox, you can change the execfluxbox line above to something
       like this:

           exec fluxbox &
           fbpid=$!

           sleep 1
           {
               xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg white -bg black &
               ipager &
               gkrellm2 &
           } &

           wait $fbpid

       So xsetroot, ipager, and gkrellm2 will all be started after fluxbox, after giving fluxbox 1 second to
       startup.

       For more details on what else you can do in this script, see sh(1), or the documentation for your shell.

~/.fluxbox/startup
           This file contains all commands that should be executed before fluxbox is started. The initial file
           contains helpful comments for beginners. It also starts fluxbox.

       startfluxbox - start a fluxbox session

fluxbox(1)

startfluxbox