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vasdee

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Registered: 2006-07-15

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gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

I have gnome running with openbox, and i login via GDM, however i can't for the life of me get xcompmgr to start when i login.

my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file looks like this:

(sleep 5 && /usr/bin/xcompmgr -c) &

I've tried using startx with openbox-gnome-session in my .xinitrc but again, still no luck

is anyone having/had success with a similar setup cos this is driving me up the wall! I bet it's a really simple issue too which will make me feel extra stupid

onearm

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

I had a similar problem and I resolved putting the xcompmgr line as the first one in autostart.sh. Basically you'll have to start xcompmgr right after Xorg and before everything else.

Hope it helps.

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vasdee

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

mmm no go i'm afraid. I only have that 1 line in my autostart.sh and it still doesn't start.

Incidently the syntax is fine because if i run the script manually after gnome/openbox has loaded then it works fine

Reasons

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

Have you tried making that into a bash script and the running the script at start?

vasdee

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

that's how i have to run it at the moment, once gnome/openbox have settled, i load a terminal and run

~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

and it works fine.

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

U have to load it first as the other guy said, but there is a way to force it by making something else pause and wait a few seconds so that script can have time to start.

I had the same problem with pypanel. I just gave up and moved to a different DE.

Last edited by jacko (2007-12-19 02:38:57)

onearm

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

U have to load it first as the other guy said, but there is a way to force it by making something else pause and wait a few seconds so that script can have time to start.

Yes, something like

xcompmgr -c
sleep 5 && $whatever_you_want_to_run_after

or perhaps you'll have to increment the sleep time, some programs, like pypanel, start too fast, even before X or openbox themselves, and so they get closed.

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vasdee

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

Thanks to everyone, I've tried everything suggested but it still isn't working so I'm just going to switch to metacity-compistor-svn from aur instead.

Cheers for your help peeps!

andre.ramaciotti

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Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

Are you sure that when you start openbox with gnome it reads autostart.sh? It looks like it's not.

Using Openbox without a desktop environment (The lightweight approach)
(...)
When choosing this option, the autostart file is executed before launching Openbox, (...)

Last edited by andre.ramaciotti (2007-12-21 12:23:14)

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Re: gnome, openbox & autostart.sh

++ andre

I believe autostart.sh is only executed when running the openbox-session command; not openbox-gnome-session.

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