Continuing on with BLFS

I had previously bypassed the discussion of the X11 install. I can remember the first time I set up X11, a long time ago. It literally took days to compile. Of course I had a slow processor and not much memory. Today's installation has been changed. No longer is it one big package, instead X11 is compiled and installed in sections. There is the installing of the X11 headers. There's the X11 libraries of which there are eighteen. There are X11 utilities like imake to be built. There are X11 applications, fonts, bitmaps, themes, and configurations, and finally the X server. At this point I had enough built to open up an xterm remotely.
I've continued to work on BLFS. I tried numerous things to try and get the USB ports to work. Ultimately someone provided me with a boot line they found in a Ubuntu group, where people were experiencing the same problem. That didn't actually fix my USB ports, but it did allow me to use the old PS/2 input for my keyboard. A subsequent fix, gave me access to the serial port for the mouse. I then installed Fluxbox, a lightweight windows manager. With that, and the installation of GPM, a had a functioning desktop environment.
BTW, GPM is a software package for mouse support in Linux, but of course I need to compile and installed Fluxbox to get to the point where I could use a mouse. So, FB gave me windows, but the standard desktop is sort of bland. I needed to find a nicer looked desktop and that is where 'styles' come into play.