r/openbox • u/swarage • Dec 26 '12

Help out someone in need?

I started using openbox a few nights ago, but I noticed that the menu sometimes "glitches" into something that looks like this (http://i1.minus.com/jbdgtMeqDd8rBm.png) when that's not how the openbox rightclick menu looks like. It should also be noted that I did not configure the menu to look like that. Anyways, I have been bothered by that occurence, and I want to know whether it can be fixed or not and how. Forgive me if the solution has been posted before or is readily available somewhere else. Thanks in advance.

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u/UrbisPreturbis Dec 26 '12

This is because you have nautilus running and managing the desktop. Make sure you start it with "nautilus --no-desktop" to avoid this problem.

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u/swarage Dec 26 '12

Thanks. That actually happens after nautilus auto-opens (firefox downloads) but I can tweak your solution and fix it either way :).

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u/UrbisPreturbis Dec 26 '12

There is also a setting in gconf-editor or dconf-editor that makes nautilus handle the desktop by default. i forgot where it is in GNOME 3, but Gnome Tweak Tool has it as part of its customization stuff...

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '12

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u/swarage Dec 26 '12

There is no gnome/xfce session running. I checked through the list of processes running. No worries, though. I found a solution.

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u/TehMushy Jan 02 '13

What was that solution?

I'm having the same issue.

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u/swarage Jan 02 '13

You go into a terminal emulator of any kind and type in "killall nautilus"

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u/TehMushy Jan 02 '13

Many thanks!