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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:31 pm 
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Hi

I have not tried this in R5.5 but I think it still uses the fluxbox keys as did F27.

I simply added a line to the /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys
Mod1 w :ExecCommand mozilla

Since you installed it in your home directory, you will probably need to give the complete path to get to firefox. This allows me to simply do an alt + w to bring up my web browser and do an alt + tab to flip between KM and the browser.

A ctl + alt +bksp will activate the hot key.
Just a thought.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:36 pm 
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neutron68 wrote:
I just followed your directions using an xterm window in the Fluxbox desktop and they worked.
I noticed that there is no kind of fluxbox program menu header was created after doing this - like it would be if we installed using apt-get.


Right.. the only reason apt-get sometimes adds links to gnome, or fluxbox menus is because someone added a script that does that upon install. In this case you're simply untarring a pre-compiled binary to some directory on your filesystem. Fluxbox has no idea that you did that, nor does it care :)

neutron68 wrote:
Does that mean that you would have to go to a xterm window and type "./firefox" every time you want to run Firefox?
Is there a way to make a Fluxbox program header that could be clicked on in R5.5?


No,you can make add an entry in your menu for firefox or any other program... First backup the file you're preparing to edit -- this is always good practice. Then load up the fluxbox menu in nano or vim, whatever your fav text editor may be:

Code:
$ cp ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/fluxbox/menu-virgin
$ nano ~/.fluxbox/menu


Once you're in the file, I think you can figure out the syntax it uses. For example, if you wanna make an entry under 'internet' for 'firefox' you'd find the appropriate location in the menutree and insert the following:

Code:
[submenu] (Internet)
      [exec] (Firefox) {/path/to/firefox}

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:22 pm 
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After following the steps on page 1 of this thread, firefox is in the /home/<user>/firefox directory.

Can I move it /home/mythtv/firefox?
I'd like to download the flashplayer plugin for firefox.

My original goal was to follow these steps but change the browser to firefox:
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mkdir /home/mythtv/.mozilla/plugins
su
apt-get update
apt-get install konqueror (and it's dependencies) - about 48 meg.
apt-get install konqueror-plugins
cd /home/mythtv
wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz   
tar zxvf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cp libflashplayer.so /home/mythtv/.mozilla/plugins

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:25 pm 
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@neutron68 - you can put it anywhere you want. I forget, but I believe that flash needs to be in a particular directory on Debian. I've been running Arch for a while now and have deleted my Ubuntu/Debian notes :)

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