Fluxbox on BT4

Well I personally am not a huge fan of KDE so I decided to make a switch to a lightweight windows manager which I'd enjoy. Fluxbox was an easy switch as I found out. Below I will show you how to make the switch.

First off you should make sure you're all up to date. Once you've done that run "apt-get install backtrack-dragon" to make sure it's installed and up to date as well. Now run backtrack-dragon with the command "dragon" which will prompt you with usable commands. We will now change the default WM to Fluxbox like so;

desktop fluxbox

Now in a new shell we will actually switch to flux now;

flux-for-back -s

You will be prompted with some possible commands, we will be using either option 1 or 2. I choose 1, but if you want icons with flux choose 2. Once you issue the command it will begin making the switch, which may take a moment or two. After it's completed if it doesn't switch than you may have to reboot, which will boot running flux as we set that to be the default WM.

Screenshot taken with imagemagick, you can also see how to add images to your users backgrounds;

import -window root flux.png

Do note though, Fluxbox takes a bit of configuring and isn't quite so user friendly, but it's really not to complicated and kicks ass.