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How do I install Openbox on Tiny Core Linux (core ISO)?

I tried:

tce-load -wi openbox

Installation finished without errors. Then I did:

tce-run openbox

But then I got this error:

Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY enviroment variable.

Maybe I must install X first or something else?

What am I doing wrong?

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Maybe I must install X first or something else?

I'm not familiar with tiny core, but I'd hope it would not let you install openbox unless X were there already, since a window manager is useless without the X server. If you've seen any GUI on it at all, methinks you have X installed.

In that case, the problem is probably that you don't have X running ;). Generally, to get it to start a particular window manager, you need create a $HOME/.xinitrc or $HOME/.Xclients...hopefully tiny core follows this pattern. Have a look at my answer here from yesterday and replace myGUIapp with openbox in the example Xclients file. The point of that file it is the last of a series the X server runs at start-up. Unfortunately, where that file should be and what it should be called may vary, but I mention the most common places in that answer.

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  • I don't have X indeed; the core ISO doesn't have that. Is installing X just creating these directories?
    – jobukkit
    Commented Jul 19, 2013 at 14:55
  • @Jop: No, the X server is the core of the linux GUI; it's a fairly substantial package. Window managers like openbox are just a layer on top of X. When skimming that wikipedia article I mistook "fltk" for "lxde", but "flwm" (the window manager on tiny core that uses fltk) is stil an Xorg client. So X is available for tiny core, and you need it to run openbox. If you google "tiny core Xorg openbox" you'll find some stuff; just try installing X tho, it might be that easy.
    – goldilocks
    Commented Jul 19, 2013 at 15:56
  • Thanks, I found this: wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:using_xorg_over_xvesa But now when executing the startx command, the screen turns black, and a few seconds later it returns to the commandline.
    – jobukkit
    Commented Jul 19, 2013 at 18:02

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