Lumina Desktop

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 14:02:24 +0000
Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> wrote:

> On 01/10/2016 13:48, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 09:11:55 +0000
> > Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> What would be the best contact email, list or forum to reach
> >> regarding problems with Lumina Desktop compiled from ports on
> >> FreeBSD?  Starting from version 1 on my desktop Lumina doesn't
> >> have any window manager, so windows can't be sized or moved.
> >>  
> > fluxbox is a run dependency in the Makefile, so at least that
> > window manager must already be present on your system.
> >
> > I would expect that start-lumina-desktop would automatically start
> > fluxbox;  fluxbox is the default window manager for Lumina.
> >
> > If all else fails, just start fluxbox in a terminal (fluxbox&), so
> > it runs in the background.
> >  
> 

> Well, it's surely present in the system because I am using it
> at the moment instead of Lumina.  Interestingly, I just tried
> to start lumina-desktop in the background having fluxbox
> already running and it also seems to work.  So, the problem
> apparently is, that on FreeBSD Lumina doesn't start fluxbox
> automatically.  Maybe it's related to how I start it?  I simply
> do startx having this in the .xinitrc file:
> 
> exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
> (or lumina-desktop instead of fluxbox).
> 

Try putting just start-lumina-desktop in your .xinitrc.  Logically,
that should automatically start every necessary component, including
fluxbox.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn