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JohnGalt

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2007-02-08

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Openbox will not start, gives this error...

(openbox:3300):Openbox-CRITICAL**:Failed to open the display

I have E17 installed and running well, so I don,t think it is an X server error, but I am not sure about that.
Has anyone seen anything like this with Openbox?

I am trying to to start it with

/usr/bin/openbox

I have also tried starting it from .xinitrc with

exec openbox

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-Thomas Sowell-

Crooksey

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

You are trying to run it alongside E17 ?

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Captain Spaulding

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

I agree, we need a little more information. The error message looks a lot like there is no X-Server running.

JohnGalt

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2007-02-08

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

Sorry that it took so long to reply, I had to work late tonight.

I don't know what more I can tell you, except that I am not running it 'alongside' of E17.
I can run E17 with "startx". If I edit .xinitrc, commenting the "exec /opt/e17/enlightenment" line and adding
"exec /usr/bin/openbox" the previously stated error is returned when "startx" is run. The same error is returned if I run "/usr/bin/openbox" or just "openbox".

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"For society as a whole, nothing comes as a 'right' to which we are 'entitled.' Even bare subsistence has to be produced—and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him."
-Thomas Sowell-

Snowman

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

look in your xorg log for warning/error messages.

Captain Spaulding

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

And please show us your .xinitrc.

JohnGalt

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From: United States of America

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

Could you be more specific about "look in your xorg log for warning/error messages"
and here is my .xinitrc

#!/bin/sh

#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
numlockx &
exec /opt/e17/bin/enlightenment_start
#exec /usr/bin/openbox
# exec wmaker
# exec startkde
# exec icewm
# exec blackbox
# exec fluxbox

Last edited by JohnGalt (2007-02-21 13:42:39)

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"For society as a whole, nothing comes as a 'right' to which we are 'entitled.' Even bare subsistence has to be produced—and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him."
-Thomas Sowell-

watsonalgas

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Registered: 2007-01-15

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

Just comment everything out and add "exec openbox".

To be sure kill all X processes and then run startx.

Captain Spaulding

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

There you have it. Comment the openbox line in, your enlightenment line out and start your X-Server by issueing

startx

JohnGalt

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From: United States of America

Registered: 2007-02-08

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Re: Openbox will not start, gives this error...

Well, thanks for trying but I think I'm going to drop Openbox and just continue using E17.
It was only curiosity that started this anyway.

Thanks, again

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"For society as a whole, nothing comes as a 'right' to which we are 'entitled.' Even bare subsistence has to be produced—and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him."
-Thomas Sowell-