[Fluxbox-users] Fedora 12 Fluxbox issue

[greg]

Hi,

I'm using Fedora 12, and the Fluxbox 1.1.1-5 that comes with it.

It's plain X, using Slim as a login manager, and launching fluxbox via
exec startfluxbox at the end of my .xinitrc . Running as a normal,
non-root user.

Intermittently at startup, applications that are automatically started
in the
.fluxbox/startup file are obscured by the grey fluxbox wallpaper
background. Or at least I think that's what is obscuring them.

The bottom 3/4 of the screen is the same colour grey as the fluxbox
background and clicking on the part of the apps that I can see does not
result in them appearing over fluxbox.

Killing the apps, and restarting them DOES result in them appearing over
fluxbox.

I've attached the xwininfo result from clicking on this grey area.

I've tried the two different approachs to launching fluxbox in the wiki
startup page - ie launch fluxbox last, or launch fluxbox first then
waitpid for it at the end of the script. Both produce the same result.
Intermittently.

Any suggestions?

thanks for your help,

Greg



xwininfo: Window id: 0x104 (the root window) (has no name)

Absolute upper-left X: 0
Absolute upper-left Y: 0
Relative upper-left X: 0
Relative upper-left Y: 0
Width: 1024
Height: 768
Depth: 24
Visual: 0x21
Visual Class: TrueColor
Border width: 0
Class: InputOutput
Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
Backing Store State: NotUseful
Save Under State: no
Map State: IsViewable
Override Redirect State: no
Corners: +0+0 -0+0 -0-0 +0-0
-geometry 1024x768+0+0

startup script

#!/bin/sh
#
# Change your keymap:
xmodmap "/home/lincor/.Xmodmap"

# Applications you want to run with fluxbox.
# MAKE SURE THAT APPS THAT KEEP RUNNING HAVE AN ''&'' AT THE END.

fluxbox &
fbpid=$!

sleep 1
{
/tmp/lincor/mcp &
/usr/bin/unclutter &
} &

wait $fbpid