[Xorg] Xvesa & fluxbox (again)

Chris Debenham chris at adebenham.com
Mon Jun 21 17:45:21 PDT 2004


Try
/usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 1400x1050x16 & (sleep 5; fluxbox)
That will force fluxbox to wait 5 seconds before starting which will
hopefully give X time to start.

Chris

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:28:53PM -0800, Asterius Pandoras wrote in a legally binding way:
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:28:53 -0800
> From: Asterius Pandoras <asterius at airpost.net>
> To: xorg at freedesktop.org
> Subject: [Xorg] Xvesa & fluxbox (again)
> 
> When I try to start fluxbox /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 1400x1050x16 &
> fluxbox, it says can't connect to X server. Make sure you start X before
> the Fluxbox. I can run /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvesa -screen 1400x1050x16 & aterm
> though and after I call fluxbox inside of aterm, fluxbox starts just
> fine. How do I start fluxbox on a command line? Any suggestions? Another
> thing is that I'm trying to migrate to ratpoison and, as with fluxbox,
> ratpoison can't connect to X and when I call it from inside of aterm, it
> complains about 7x16bold fonts. Where in general Xserver font path?
> As always, thanks everyone for any suggestions.
> 
> 
> Asterius.
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