drogoh
July 30th, 2005, 02:42 PM
As being a Fluxbox user, I was a bit baffled when I went to generate a menu for the first time within Ubuntu (lost my three year old files, d'oh!) and lo and behold, there was no fluxbox-generate_menu! I did some investigating and found that it is actually installed but is not packaged correctly and therefore not installed correctly. To regain the functionality of both fluxbox-generate_menu and convertkeys, do the following:
Open your favorite terminal.
cd /usr/share/doc/fluxbox
sudo gunzip fluxbox-generate_menu.gz
sudo gunzip convertkeys.gz
sudo chmod 755 fluxbox-generate_menu convertkeys
sudo mv fluxbox-generate_menu /usr/bin
sudo mv convertkeys /usr/bin
Voila! You will have these two seemingly small but quite useful scripts back in use. It can make for a big help with new users to Fluxbox on Ubuntu, especially when asking "where's the menu?"
Note: This was tested with the backports 0.9.13 version, I do not know if it is limited to just the backports or if the 0.9.11 in universe/x11 has the same problem.
Open your favorite terminal.
cd /usr/share/doc/fluxbox
sudo gunzip fluxbox-generate_menu.gz
sudo gunzip convertkeys.gz
sudo chmod 755 fluxbox-generate_menu convertkeys
sudo mv fluxbox-generate_menu /usr/bin
sudo mv convertkeys /usr/bin
Voila! You will have these two seemingly small but quite useful scripts back in use. It can make for a big help with new users to Fluxbox on Ubuntu, especially when asking "where's the menu?"
Note: This was tested with the backports 0.9.13 version, I do not know if it is limited to just the backports or if the 0.9.11 in universe/x11 has the same problem.