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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

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Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

I've added conky and avant-window-navigator to openbox autostart script.

These are the problems I'm having:

Conky for some reason stays above other windows until I kill it and start it again.

Avant-window-navigator stays only on the virtual desktop it was started on. Still haven't figured out how to fix it. It sometimes does this and sometimes doesn't.

Any help please ?

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DrNick

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Registered: 2008-01-01

Posts: 14

Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

You should be able to get avant-window-navigator on every desktop if you add this code to you rc.xml

   
    <applications>
      <application name="avant-window-navigator" class="Avant-window-navigator">
        <desktop>all</desktop>
    </application>

As for conky I guess that since you are using avant you are using something like xcompmgr too. Maybe you should pause startup for a sec or two until xcompmgr finished loading before starting conky.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

Hey, I've managed to fix avant-window-navigator with that. I've also fixed conky by starting it normally and then killing and restarting it after everything else loads. What really bugs me is the fact that it was working before without me needing to do all this. That kind of sh*t happens to me a lot, I really am puzzled.

Thanks for the help. 

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DrNick

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Registered: 2008-01-01

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Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

Glad it did work for you.
While using openbox together with xcompmgr and avant I find it annoying that avant is "covering up" an invisible area of exactly the height of the dock. I can't click there for example to resize a window. To declare some margins with openbox is of course possible but hate to loose the horizontal space.
kiba-dock is behaving better in this regard and can even be placed on the left side of the screen (I like that!) but it is leaking memory faster than I can restart it at the moment .
That leaves me with xfce-panel until avant (more likely) or kiba are progressing.

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

Hey, I've managed to fix avant-window-navigator with that. I've also fixed conky by starting it normally and then killing and restarting it after everything else loads. What really bugs me is the fact that it was working before without me needing to do all this. That kind of sh*t happens to me a lot, I really am puzzled.

Thanks for the help. 

If restarting conky after openbox has started fixes the problem for you then it's definitely a problem of startup sequence.  Try changing "conky&" in your .xinitrc/autostart.sh to something like "(sleep 2 && conky)&" -- you can play with the value of sleep until you get the desired effect, of course.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

Well actually my startup sequence was this:

fbsetbg -l
xcompmg &
conky&
avant &

sleep 1; restart-conky

restart-conky is just a script i wrote that kills all instances of conky and starts a new one.

It still would only work sometimes, so I had to force conky to be below in the openbox rc.xml. Buggy shit

I have some other problems with openbox, though - When I want to start kooldock or kxdock it crashes my X session and throws me to the login screen. And once it even caused a hard-lock so I had to manually reset the computer.

But I guess I wouldn't like it that much since I'm using avant-window-navigator as a panel

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-02-14 12:15:31)

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zenlord

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Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

Well actually my startup sequence was this:

fbsetbg -l
xcompmg &
conky&
avant &

sleep 1; restart-conky

restart-conky is just a script i wrote that kills all instances of conky and starts a new one.

Why don't you try out what was suggested? It works for me if I make conky start after everything else and with a timeout of 4 (sleep 4 && conky)

Zl.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,675

Re: Openbox issues with conky and avant-window-navigator

I tried running it after everything else. I think my system is seriously broken, everything crashes/bugs out and pacman is not receiving updates.

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