Openbox workspace names

sehwoo · 2008-06-10 21:18:01

A while back (not sure when, but it's been one or two updates ago) I updated openbox. Ever since then, my workspaces were named 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Next time I started up, my panel said that my desktop name was '1', etc so i changed my .pypanelrc.

Opening up obconf, the Desktop names are correct. Opening up ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml, the desktop names are again correct. When I right click the title bar, the send to Desktop is 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. So is the right click menu's Desktop list.

smurnjiff · 2008-06-11 01:00:48

I'm lost, what exactly is wrong? The names in the Openbox configuration don't match your pypanel names?

sehwoo · 2008-06-11 02:12:47

Well.. Though my Openbox config files say that my desktops have names, they apparently don't (my pypanel says that I don't and Openbox doesn't show them on the right click menus)). Has anybody else had similar problems and if so, have a fix for it?

koch · 2008-06-11 22:32:45

post your config files and screenshot, please

sehwoo · 2008-06-12 00:51:56

openbox config: http://sehwoo.unixpod.com/files/rc.xml (or http://sehwoo.unixpod.com/files/rc.xmls)
screenshot: http://sehwoo.unixpod.com/files/screenshot.png

as you can see in the screenshot, the Desktop names conflict.
(the reason my pypanel's 'correct' is because i manually changed my .pypanelrc when I realized things were kinda broken)

drewbie · 2008-06-12 10:55:03

Well your rc.xml looked correct.

I went into obconf changed a desktop name, which changed the displayed name in the menu, the put back to old name through a text editor in rc.xml but it didn't change back, even with an openbox --reconfigure. I had to exit and restart openbox to get the name back.

maybe a bug somewhere in obconf or openbox?

Barghest · 2008-06-12 11:12:58

I had a similar problem.

I switched from xfce to openbox without removing xfce and in the xfce-settings-manager also provides the possibility to change the desktop names.

Maybe you have something that interferes with openbox, too?

moljac024 · 2008-06-12 11:35:39

Probably a bug in the newest openbox, since it starts all kind of crap with it automatically.

/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh

# This shell script is run before Openbox launches.
# Environment variables set here are passed to the Openbox session.

# Set a background color
BG=""
if which hsetroot >/dev/null; then
    BG=hsetroot
else
    if which esetroot >/dev/null; then
    BG=esetroot
    else
    if which xsetroot >/dev/null; then
        BG=xsetroot
    fi
    fi
fi
test -z $BG || $BG -solid "#303030"

# D-bus
if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
       eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

# Make GTK apps look and behave how they were set up in the gnome config tools
if test -x /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null; then
  /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
elif which gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null; then
  gnome-settings-daemon &
# Make GTK apps look and behave how they were set up in the XFCE config tools
elif which xfce-mcs-manager >/dev/null; then
  xfce-mcs-manager n &
fi

# Preload stuff for KDE apps
if which start_kdeinit >/dev/null; then
  LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup &
fi

# Run XDG autostart things.  By default don't run anything desktop-specific
# See xdg-autostart --help more info
DESKTOP_ENV=""
if which /usr/lib/openbox/xdg-autostart >/dev/null; then
  /usr/lib/openbox/xdg-autostart $DESKTOP_ENV
fi

As someone pointed out, maybe the xfce settings somehow collide with openbox ?

sehwoo · 2008-06-12 14:26:53

Ohhh this is interesting. It seems that it's a problem with autostart.sh. I had an old version that i copied to ~/.config/openbox and I used it instead of the one the one in /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh (by accident though, I was actually going to run it without xfce-mcs-manager but forgot) It works, but now i'm curious why.

Oh just noticed, the one in .config doesn't have anything about xfce..

autostarts:
http://sehwoo.unixpod.com/files/autostart.shs
http://sehwoo.unixpod.com/files/autostart1.shs

moljac024 · 2008-06-12 14:33:18

I can confirm that xfce seems to be the problem. When I ran xfce-setting-show visibility immediately picked up xfce's desktop names. Seems interesting.

sehwoo · 2008-06-12 18:03:25

Hmm. this is kinda annoying. Would this be an Openbox bug or XFCE4 bug?

moljac024 · 2008-06-12 18:52:45

If you name your desktops in xfce the same as you name them in openbox it doesn't matter!

Good question, though...where to file the bug report ?

thayer · 2008-06-12 19:00:39

For the record, the Openbox autostart behaviour is as follows:

If ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh does not exist, openbox-session will use /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh

If ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh does exist, openbox-session will ignore /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh

If you wish to use both the local autostart and the global autostart, add the following to ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh:

. $GLOBALAUTOSTART

There's no need to actually 'copy' /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh to your ~/.config/openbox directory.

sehwoo · 2008-06-12 19:50:37

Yup, I know, i have a custom one though, kinda glad too cause the new ones are 'broken'.

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