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Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

When I move  the cursor (in normal mode) over any character, it takes a
while (almost a second) until I can see what character is 'under' the cursor.
This doesn't happen with other window managers, like fluxbox and metacity.

I already tried running g/vim without loading any plugins or personal configuration.

It runs fine on urxvt. I din't run fine on xterm, but I tried to set

XTerm.cursorColor:#9370db

in ~/.Xdefault and believe it or not,  this setting made the vim/xterm problem stop.

Now, the only problem remains with gvim.

I tried starting x (from .xinitrc) in different ways with no luck. I have tried:

exec openbox-session
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session.

I also tried loading gnome-settings-daemon. Nothing worked.

Last edited by Athunye (2010-09-02 11:27:04)

Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

After investigating everything I could think of, (not much, I know), uninstalling things
and removing things from the daemons list, I found out that If I remove this lines:

if test -x /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null; then
  /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
elif which gnome-settings-daemon >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  gnome-settings-daemon &

from /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh the problem with openbox/xterm goes away.

So, I really think the problem is with gnome-settings-daemon, or at least, that
it does not like some other config of mine.

I know I said in the previous post that 'I also tried loading gnome-settings-daemon' and it didn't work.
That fact is that it was already being loaded by the autostart.sh file.

Still waiting for any ideas and thoughts.

Last edited by Athunye (2010-06-30 00:30:20)

Trent

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From: Baltimore, MD (US)

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 990

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

gnome-settings-daemon will screw up all kinds of carefully constructed configs.  Trust me.

Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

I'll try to figure how to make openbox load themes and icons set from lxappearance instead. O I'll have to learn
much more about settings in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.

EDIT: I also noticed that the problem also happens if I startx gnome-session. So the problem is really not only
with gnome-settings-daemon + openbox. I think the problem is with gnome-settings-daemon alone.

Not sure if would deserve a bug report, because urxvt and gnome-terminal do work fine, and also
because it seem the problem is only with my system.

Last edited by Athunye (2010-06-30 14:05:21)

Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

Sorry for posting in this old thread. Well, actually not that old...

I started using gnome some times, and I get almost the same problems described above, except
that it does not take 'almost a second' to show the character under the cursor, but it is still slow and
boring. Other thing that is different, is that it does not happen in gvim, as before, but in xterm,
gnome-terminal and urxvt.

How boring! Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited by Athunye (2010-08-25 10:53:58)

Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

Up.

yabasta

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Registered: 2010-05-01

Posts: 167

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

have you tried - exec openbox-gnome-session?

Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

have you tried - exec openbox-gnome-session?

Yes, I have.

The problem now is even worse because now it happens both in Gnome and in Openbox.
When I first started this topic, it would only happen in Openbox when it would load gnome-settings-damon.
At that time, I had gnome installed, but I would rarely actually use it for a day of work.

There must be something that could be done. Arch is a GREAT (if not the best, at least for me) distro.
It must be something I'm doing wrong.

Athunye

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 33

Re: Openbox xterm/vim/gvim - gnome-settings-daemon problem. (solved)

Well, almost sure it was not a gnome-settings-daemon problem:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104037