Bug 117423

Summary:	fluxter 0.1.0 won't start
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Josh Dukes <Josh.Dukes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Commonbox Team <commonbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	ka0ttic
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Josh Dukes 2006-01-02 00:38:08 UTC

After following http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency, fluxter will no longer start.
It gives the error "Cannot connect to window manager"
It continues to do this even when xcompmgr isn't running.

Info

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.13-gentoo-r1 x86_64 [ELF] 
Current Operating System: Linux syn 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #3 PREEMPT Sat Dec 31 05:53:04 PST 2005 x86_64

I use an nVidia GeForce 6200 (rev a1) agp with nvidia-glx 1.0.8178,  nvidia-kernel 1.0.8178. 

syn ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre12
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa audiofile avi berkdb bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr crypt cups curl eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib java jpeg lcms lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline recode sdl spell sqlite ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales v4l vorbis xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Comment 1 Henrik Brix Andersen 2006-01-14 12:01:12 UTC

Confirmed on x86 (without following above howto).

Comment 2 George Retsinas 2007-11-16 23:55:21 UTC

Fluxter works like a charm here. Maybe you didn't tried it with fluxbox? Fluxter is designed for use with fluxbox window manager. Please cancel the removal and remove the hard mask from it.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-18 17:21:50 UTC

I've unmasked it, plus

  18 Nov 2007; Samuli Suominen <drac@gentoo.org>
  +files/fluxter-0.1.0-asneeded.patch, fluxter-0.1.0.ebuild:
  Fix building with --as-needed & amd64 stable.

This is why we have 60 days waiting period.

Thanks George for pushing me to check it.

Comment 4 Nikita Zlobin 2023-06-08 15:51:11 UTC

Must be reopened.
fluxter is supposed to work in non-fluxbox environment, as stated in its README.
There are even two configs: fluxter.bb for fluxbox env and fluxter.nobb for non-fluxbox env. When started - it automatically picks correct config variant.
Dependency in dock is not issue, as there's cli option to started as normal window.

Comment 5 Nikita Zlobin 2023-06-08 15:57:12 UTC

For anone, who seeks replacement - netwmpager is just fine.

Comment 6 Nikita Zlobin 2023-06-08 16:19:06 UTC

Strange, they got it with fluxbox too, althouth I thought, it's only without it:
https://sourceforge.net/p/fluxbox/mailman/message/20093867/