[SOLVED] Openbox-Menu not reacting

Psylver · 2012-08-09 14:26:34

Hello,
I just reinstalled Arch and I'm trying to make Openbox my new window manager. I followed the Arch Wiki and got it starting, but the right click menu does not react.

I know, I first need to install the applications displayed by the menu in order to make them work, but even though I got xterm, firefox, gedit and obconf installed, I can't run them by selecting their entrys in the Openbox Menu, while when running them in Awesome WM they work fine. I also can't log out by selecting it in the menu..

Hope you can help me.

Last edited by Psylver (2012-08-09 22:09:47)

2ManyDogs · 2012-08-09 16:26:09

Can you run the apps in Openbox by typing their names in a terminal?

Please run these commands:

sudo pacman -S wgetpaste
wgetpaste ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml

and then post the link you get from wgetpaste. This will let us look at your menu.xml without having you post the whole thing here.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-08-09 16:28:03)

Psylver · 2012-08-09 17:38:51

Well, I can't even open a terminal window in Openbox, that's why I'm sticking with awesome at the moment.

Here's the link: https://gist.github.com/3306287

Trilby · 2012-08-09 17:58:24

I'd recommend simplifying that menu drastically to help troubleshoot. You can back that one up, then create a new much simpler version.

That said, what I took time to glance through in that menu all looked in order, so I suspect the problem is elsewhere: either your rc.xml or more likely some other part of the start up sequence.

Do you get any errors from X when you try to use the menu items? (eg, these would show up on tty1 is you start x by "xinit" from tty1).

Psylver · 2012-08-09 18:32:05

I'm not getting directly any errors in TTY where I start openbox when starting an application. But as I see.. when I kill openbox and if I tried to start xterm in that session, I get:

xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0"

Except of that, I'm getting:

which: no hsetroot in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/java/bin:/opt/java/db/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/usr/bin/core_perl)
which: no hsetroot in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/java/bin:/opt/java/db/bin:/opt/java/jre/bin:/usr/bin/core_perl)

Trilby · 2012-08-09 18:49:40

the "no hsetroot" is not a problem. If you have as bad OCD-minimalism as I do, you'll eventually clean all the nonsense out of the autostart scripts which test for everything under the sun - but this does no real harm and would not cause the current problem.

The xterm error seems to suggest that the attempt to spawn the xterm does not actually occur until after X is shutting down. The most likely cause of this is some other process that should be backgrounded is running in the foreground.

The most likely place for one of these processes would be in your xinitrc or autostart. As you get to your desktop and can access the menu, that means it's in autostart.

I'm guessing you have run some app from openbox's autostart but it is not backgrounded properly with an "&".

Psylver · 2012-08-09 19:15:44

The autostart file in /.config/openbox is empty.. everything in there is commented out.

Psylver · 2012-08-09 22:09:26

Okay, I got it solved.. That was probably one of the dumbest mistakes I ever made.
I forgot, I already configured the Nvidia driver to use TwinView and yeah.. I had my second monitor turned off and that's where the apps are spawning.

But thanks for your help!

Last edited by Psylver (2012-08-09 22:10:45)

2ManyDogs · 2012-08-09 22:15:16

Thanks for admitting that -- I got a chuckle out of it. We've all done stuff like that. I'm glad it's working now.

Psylver · 2012-08-10 10:02:37

Thanks.

Trilby · 2012-08-10 11:11:24

Ha ...

Not too long ago I thought my wm froze. None of my key bindings worked - I couldn't even change ttys. Then I noticed the power switch on my wireless keyboard was off.

I do call this forum the support group for PEBKAC errors.

Psylver · 2012-08-10 13:06:30

Guess, that's how it should be called officially lol.

Thank you, too Trilby.

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