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I am working on a ETX-BT Atom board. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 with "mini.iso" using the Unetbootin utility. Now Ubuntu is running fine.

I am trying to configure the GUI interface to use a window manger.

I am trying to configure Fluxbox, but I'm unable to run it.

I am getting the below error when I run /usr/bin/fluxbox:

Error: Couldn't connect to Xserver passing Null Display

Could you please share your suggestions or inputs to solve this problem?

mrudula
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  • I've removed the additional questions, please ask only one question at the time; of course you're free to ask other questions about the other problems. – kos Oct 12 '15 at 17:14

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Try this:

Run in a terminal:

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install  software-properties-common
apt-get dist-upgrade

apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xfonts-base xinit x11-xserver-utils x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils xinput xorg lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter oxygen-icon-theme flashplugin-installer gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg libcurl3 libnotify4 libtag1-vanilla dkms gvfs gvfs-backends policykit-1 udisks2 synaptic fluxbox fluxconf idesk rox-filer

dpkg --configure -a
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
reboot

Edited: Minimal fluxbox install

Run in a terminal:

sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install xorg gvfs gvfs-backends policykit-1 udisks2 fluxbox fluxconf idesk rox-filer
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
reboot
kyodake
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  • I'm having ubuntu 14.04 which is running on embedded application and i may get into memory problems after installing all this packages. Could you please share the list of minimal packages that do i need to install to get fluxbox working? – mrudula Oct 13 '15 at 21:41
  • When i tried installing fluxconf on ubuntu 14.04. it apt-get gives an Error: E :unable to locate package fluxconf – mrudula Oct 14 '15 at 21:33
  • Install other packages and download this from: http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/download.php – kyodake Oct 15 '15 at 01:06
  • How to make sure the current window setting is fluxbox? I'm able to get one GUI window for login, but unable to login. – mrudula Oct 15 '15 at 12:30
  • I am able to run fluxbox with default ubunt 14.04 with linux kernel 3.13-x. Appreciate your help.. :) How to make flux box as a default login session. – mrudula Oct 15 '15 at 19:28
  • Try install lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter. – kyodake Oct 15 '15 at 19:28
  • I am able to install lightdm and able to login through. I added new file .conf to lightdm conf demon directory for enabling auto login. I was able to get the same working. But now i am unable to get same behaviour, login window is waiting for authentication. when i entered password, it is throwing authentication failure message. Any Idea? – mrudula Oct 16 '15 at 12:32
  • There are many issues that require differents posts. – kyodake Oct 16 '15 at 21:19
  • I want to use below steps which has gdm instead of lightdm. apt-get install xserver-xorg gdm fluxbox reboot with above minimal steps unable to get fluxbox. Any idea what is missing? – mrudula Oct 19 '15 at 19:34
  • gvfs gvfs-backends policykit-1 udisks idesk rox-filer are these packages mandatory? – mrudula Oct 20 '15 at 15:02
  • No, these packages are not mandatory. – kyodake Oct 20 '15 at 18:29
  • Instead of lightdm can i use gdm? Please share package details for fluxbox configuration using gdm. – mrudula Oct 20 '15 at 19:18
  • lightdm startup configuration not able to start application automatically. Any idea what is missing? – mrudula Dec 09 '15 at 17:48
  • Read here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/74551/lightdm-not-starting-on-boot – kyodake Dec 10 '15 at 00:33
  • I do not have nVidia Card. I'm running it on ETX-BT embedded board. Any idea? – mrudula Dec 10 '15 at 16:55