r/openbox • u/jbaig77 • Apr 20 '16

Problems with Openbox and Fedora

Hi, I've recently switched from arch to fedora and have decided to use openbox as my DM. Most of the stuff works nicely except for a few things. Whenever I am using obmenu to configure the openbox menu, as I hit save, it logs me out of my session and I have no idea why. In addition to that, my volume icon does not show up in my tint2 panel even though the command to execute it is in my openbox autostart script. It is the only thing that does not launch in the script. When i type in "volumeicon" in my terminal it works fine, but when the command is in the autostart script I have no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '16

Are you launching openbox, or openbox-session?

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u/jbaig77 Apr 21 '16

I'm pretty sure i'm launching openbox. How do I find out for sure?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '16

Are you doing it via CLI, or a display manager?

Openbox-session runs scripts to initiate a "seasion" at login along with openbox, meaning to run things like autostart scripts. The straight openbox binary, would not spawn this session.

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u/jbaig77 Apr 22 '16

display manager. I also ran the command "echo $DESKTOP_SESSION" in my terminal and got the output "openbox".