Arch Linux

light9876

Member

Registered: 2020-01-05

Posts: 142

[SOLVED] What is a good lxsessions substitute?

Hello,

I use Arch with awesomewm. But I have to install lxsessions (from lxde), because otherwise I can't copy/paste between windows if the source window is closed.

Are there any good substitues please?

Thank you all.
Elias.

Last edited by light9876 (2021-07-26 00:01:18)

jonno2002

Member

Registered: 2016-11-21

Posts: 889

Re: [SOLVED] What is a good lxsessions substitute?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Clipboard

light9876

Member

Registered: 2020-01-05

Posts: 142

Re: [SOLVED] What is a good lxsessions substitute?

Thank you.

But without lxsessions the system tray for some reason does not appear in the awesomewm main bar.

What is the reason of this? And how can I get rid completely of lxsession please? (I am on awesome and I am trying to get rid of lxde apps. I managed to remove all but lxsession and lxpolkit.)

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,311

Re: [SOLVED] What is a good lxsessions substitute?

It seems that enabling systray for awesome requires some configuration .
look at etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua for an example .

---

Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

light9876

Member

Registered: 2020-01-05

Posts: 142

Re: [SOLVED] What is a good lxsessions substitute?

Yes true. There are options to 'insert' it on the main bar. But it does not 'start' it.

Whenever I run

lxsessions &

the system tray immediately takes its place on the awesome main bar. So I think lxsessions is starting it up by running something. But what is it?

I had a look at ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE and indeed it seems it launches its own lxclipboard and lxpolkit:

[Session]
window_manager=openbox-lxde
disable_autostart=no
polkit/command=lxpolkit
clipboard/command=lxclipboard
xsettings_manager/command=build-in
proxy_manager/command=build-in
keyring/command=ssh-agent
quit_manager/command=lxsession-logout
lock_manager/command=lxlock
terminal_manager/command=lxterminal
quit_manager/image=/usr/share/lxde/images/logout-banner.png
quit_manager/layout=top
windows_manager/command=openbox-lxde

Last edited by light9876 (2021-07-25 15:33:07)

light9876

Member

Registered: 2020-01-05

Posts: 142

Re: [SOLVED] What is a good lxsessions substitute?

Solution:

Put these two lines in ~/.profile:

parcellite -n &
nm-applet &

Last edited by light9876 (2021-07-25 23:59:40)