September 11th, 2008
The default Fluxbox startup file at ~/.fluxbox/startup is run by startfluxbox and has embedded comments describing how to add applications ("apps") to run before Fluxbox starts up. The startup file can be fixed to also run apps after Fluxbox starts or after Fluxbox finishes. You might run apps after Fluxbox startup to be sure that Fluxbox applies its window position/decoration settings or puts the programs in the slit. Running apps after Fluxbox finishes is useful to cleanup things that were started earlier. The example startup file given below covers both situations.
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September 11th, 2008
So I’m trying this blog thing again. I never really got into it because I didn’t want to post a bunch of simple chatty stuff. Then I started noticing that my web searches were finding more answers on blogs than on archived email lists. Finally, Jared Richardson convinced me during his keynote Career 2.0 at the Rich Web Experience conference. Viewing blog posts on technical issues as informal documentation makes sense to me. If I have find a solution or workaround to some problem, then it would probably help other people. Lately I’ve been trying to get my new desktop system at work up to snuff. The sysadmins barely did anything - changed the home directory and user logins to the network but didn’t even set the right time zone or setup ntp. So my first new post will be a little update to the documentation for the Fluxbox window manager that I can’t add to their wiki docs.
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