Fluxbox And Angstrom

[Wildherb]

Hi

I've been having quite a lot of success running pocketworkstation under OpenZaurus GPE. I get the benefit of all the Debian apps but on an optimised and stable X platform. However, I've found that I just cant live with the matchbox wm which auto-fills the screen, but fluxbox-gpe is in the OZ feed and that makes the whole system feel just right. What a difference!

I'd love to now move up to Angstrom but every time I think I'm there I find a reason to stay with OZ. This time, I cant find fluxbox in the Angstrom feed. Is it there, or am I destined to stay on OZ forever?

[Capn_Fish]

I guess it's not in the feeds, but it IS in OE. If you have a dev environment, you can build it painlessly. Otherwise, I believe I read one of the devs post that they'd rather have people request packages to be in the feeds rather than having IPKs floating around. If asking on the mailing list doesn't work, I can build it for you (send me a PM).

HTH

[Capn_Fish]

OK, I guess I can't build it (it fails with the version officially in OE, and my own 1.0.0 recipe doesn't work with the GPE patches.).

If you want just the WM, I can build that for you.

[Wildherb]

OK, I guess I can't build it (it fails with the version officially in OE, and my own 1.0.0 recipe doesn't work with the GPE patches.).

If you want just the WM, I can build that for you.

What can I say, Cap'n? I'm hugely grateful for your offer. I just want to be able to run X applications in re-sizable windows - not much to ask given that X-windows evolved for just such a purpose? I think it was fluxbox-gpe that I installed on OZ, nothing more. Hope that can compile OK.

BTW, I've never setup an OE development environment as I dont have the facilities. I'm a Mac G4 user (other than my Z's!).

As far as Angstrom on the Z is concerned, I know that icewm, xfce4 and even e17 appear in the feed but my experience is that none of them 'work'. If they run at all they require endless tweaking for menus and fonts to the extent that the average user will give up and re-flash. It also seems that even 2 years on, OZ has more apps than Angstrom, even if they are  a bit long in the tooth now. Such a shame.

So, grumbles aside, Aye, Cap'n! Hit me with your best shot and lets see if I can condemn OZ down to Davey Jones' locker once and for all, ah-harrrggghh !

[Capn_Fish]

Well, here's Fluxbox. Like I said, I can't seem to get the Fluxbox-GPE package built, but I've included the Bitbake file for it that may tell you what files it edits.

Anyway, best of luck! I've never had luck getting another WM to work on a GPE install.