ObConf problem [SOLVED]

User_3MAfo/Y(fn:13 · 2012-01-10 11:06:03

I have tried to get answers to this problem for a quite a while now and it seems that nowhere people know what to do. I have tried to look from the wiki and google but no answers that would solve my problem.

When trying to change theme on obconf on lxde (which windows manager is openbox) it gives error "An error occured while saving config file ' /home/censored/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml '"

I have checked the config file through terminal and it seems empty. I have tried to google the problem but have come up with nothing that really solves it.

I have also tried to remove the file and logged out and in again to see if that would help but it didn't.

Last edited by User_3MAfo/Y(fn:13 (2012-01-11 12:44:43)

Trilby · 2012-01-10 13:31:43

Empty?

That should be a fairly large file.

Where are your keybindings? Are there other files in ~/.config/openbox?

obconf is just a front end to editing part of the openbox/rc.xml or openbox/lxde-rc.xml. Specifically there is a "<theme>" tag in the xml file.

Trilby · 2012-01-10 13:35:33

do you have an /etc/xdg/openbox/(lxde-)rc.xml?

User_3MAfo/Y(fn:13 · 2012-01-10 13:51:30

ah, there is lxde-rc.xml there and it contains text. I must have misstyped it before. There are no other files there besides lxde-rc.xml.

Trilby · 2012-01-10 14:32:17

do you have write permission for the file lxde-rc.xml file?

If you don't know you can 'ls -l' to see permissions.

Reki · 2012-01-10 14:55:45

Not sure with LXDE, but since it basically is Openbox that comes with other stuff, you could just copy the contents of /etc/xdg/openbox to your ~/.config/openbox folder. I remember seeing four files there, but I don't know if LXDE changed or moved them.

Trilby wrote:

do you have write permission for the file lxde-rc.xml file?
If you don't know you can 'ls -l' to see permissions.

This, check for permissions in the lxde-rc.xml file, as you may need to copy the folder as root. And yes, you could use 'ls -l' to see permissions.

Last edited by Reki (2012-01-10 14:57:49)

User_3MAfo/Y(fn:13 · 2012-01-10 17:23:54

problem solved. Somehow managed to change permissions to the file. Got it working with this command:

chown -R youruser /home/youruser

Reki · 2012-01-10 22:12:07

That's good to hear. Please mark your thread as [SOLVED], then.

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#1 2012-01-10 11:06:03

ObConf problem [SOLVED]

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Re: ObConf problem [SOLVED]

#3 2012-01-10 13:35:33

Re: ObConf problem [SOLVED]

#4 2012-01-10 13:51:30

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#5 2012-01-10 14:32:17

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#6 2012-01-10 14:55:45

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Re: ObConf problem [SOLVED]

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