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SirMyztiq

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[Solved]SDDM + OpenBox + Daemons Config

Hello,

I've got to the point of tweaking my installation. Aside from not knowing which panel to go with or what wallpaper I need, I've been bugged by using a Display Manager. Granted, it is merely for eye candy and making it look nice for the wife to not be afraid to use it, but some look pretty cool.

I decided to use SDDM and I download and install it and enable it. The issue I am having is figuring out how to wire things up. I was using .xinitrc to start up pcmanfm's desktop handling capabilities as a daemon before executing the command to start OpenBox. At the moment, none of the *.desktop configurations in the Xsessions directory really show how to handle these background processes. I've looked everywhere for an idea of how to handle this, I believe I saw one example where I would just execute my .xinitrc from a .desktop file in Xsessions but that seems really hacky.

The SDDM Wiki just states that "it should work out the box" and I've Googled the heck out of this and can't find something concrete about this. How can I run daemon processes for the SDDM DM?

SOLUTION:
Used OpenBox's autostart file.

Last edited by SirMyztiq (2015-04-01 06:51:23)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved]SDDM + OpenBox + Daemons Config

Isn't that what Openbox's autostart file is for?

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SirMyztiq

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Re: [Solved]SDDM + OpenBox + Daemons Config

Isn't that what Openbox's autostart file is for?

Right, but I watched this video when I was first tinkering with arch:
https://youtu.be/zgb9GhSXsBA?t=20m

It helped me get a feel for how everything is wired and the guy mentioned that I shouldn't put the

pcmanfm --desktop &

in the autostart because "things would load twice"
So I got that stuck in my head. But I just realized how old that video is so I went ahead and added it to the autostart and check it out.

ps aux | grep pcmanfm

gives me

fuzz       580  0.0  0.1 592936 30908 ?        Sl   20:12   0:00 pcmanfm --desktop

So is it safe to say that the video is wrong?

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved]SDDM + OpenBox + Daemons Config

If it is a video on youtube about Arch, it is safe to assume it is always wrong...

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SirMyztiq

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Re: [Solved]SDDM + OpenBox + Daemons Config

If it is a video on youtube about Arch, it is safe to assume it is always wrong...

But he looked so official.