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Phixion

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Registered: 2006-08-03

Posts: 13

Openbox & GNOME?

Hi there, I just finished installing my base system and want to get GNOME with Openbox configured. I've downloaded both gnome and openbox and in my .xinitrc I have:

exec openbox
exec pypanel
exec gnome-session

Problem is pypanel isn't loading, and it's loading as a gnome desktop rather than openbox.

What I want is an openbox style desktop, with no gnome panels, but with gtk for the interface graphics.

Sorry if I'm explaining this wrong...

Last edited by Phixion (2008-07-05 16:00:54)

tj

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Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 48

Re: Openbox & GNOME?

try this in your .xinitrc

dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox &
gnome-settings-daemon &
pypanel &
exec openbox

andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Openbox & GNOME?

Are you using Gnome only to have GTK themes? You can use other apps to do that, like gtk-chtheme.

Install it, choose the theme you want, apply, and you're done. No need to have a app running on background for that.

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tj

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Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 48

Re: Openbox & GNOME?

@Phixion

the example .xinitrc I gave you will launch openbox with pypanel (which you'll need to configure - .pypanelrc in ~/) and gnome-settings-daemon (if you have gnome installed) as a simple way to switch gtk themes; otherwise andre.ramaciotti's suggestion of using gtk-chtheme avoids the need to install gnome if you don't need/want it

Sjoden

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From: WA

Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 380

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Re: Openbox & GNOME?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ope … with_GNOME. You can remove panels if you want the gnome desktop functionality. Openbox doesn't provide a desktop enviroment.

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Openbox & GNOME?

Openbox provides the openbox-gnome-session binary

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