Old thread, but this is still an issue. I upgraded Firefox via Gslapt to 24.2.0 and this upgrade changed the default search engine to DuckDuckGo (which I don't want). Changing the bout:config browser.search.defaultenginename value to another search engine works for the length of the session, but ...

Ah. Yes, I had noticed that Linux apps didn't normally return execution to the terminal when launched from terminal!

Yes.

Okay, I figured it out.

I think Wicd was updated at some point after I installed Salix, at which point it was no longer compatible with a Fluxbox feature that starts apps "in the background" upon loading of Fluxbox. This is controlled by adding a space and a "&" after the name of the app in a ...

This is strange...

I had put my computer into Suspend mode...then tried to start it up again. I got a black screen and the mouse cursor, that was it. I didn't know how to get my windows and everything back, so I turned off the computer. Then I turned it on again.

When I logged in, the Wicd Network ...

Ah, ok.

Hello,

I was reading this post http://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5061 and I have one of the same issues as that poster: no Sourcery.

I installed Salix from a Salix Fluxbox Live CD.

To be clear, I do have slapt-get. When I search Gslapt or slapt-get for "sourcery" I do not get any ...

Point taken!

Thank you!

I was playing around with alsamixer a little bit before I posted, but it was late. Anyways, I'm not sure if I had to change the default card and if I actually did or not, but now I see that the speakers were muted. Unmuting them fixed it. Thanks again! I don't remember seeing that ...

Hi there,

I installed Salix OS recently on a kind of whim...I had used a fluxbox-esque shell for Microsoft Windows before, and installed Ubuntu before, both a long time ago. At that time I didn't know much about the command line. Now I'm a bit more familiar with the MS-DOS command line, and to a ...