Openbox trouble

Thompz · 2008-02-17 16:37:45

Trying to setup openbox. I have installed it and everything but cant seem to save any changes. I am using it as my user account and not as root, but when I run obconf I get:

An error occured while saving the config file '/root/.config/openbox/rc.xml'

Also - my keyboard on my user is US when it is UK on root, anyway I can change this

Roberth · 2008-02-17 16:44:14

It is trying to save the changes to the root's openbox config, are you sure you are not running obconf as root?

Thompz · 2008-02-17 16:47:02

I dont think so, I am typing obconf in xterm as my user so i guess thats as my user. :S

Has it anything to do with privaledges?

wyvern · 2008-02-17 17:05:10

The best thing would be to copy the rc.xml and menu.xml to your own '~/.config/openbox' directory, then edit them, that way you should have the correct permissions, and be certain it's your regular user's files you are editing.

To be certain a quick 'chown yourusername ~/.config/openbox/*' should ensure you can write to them.

Last edited by wyvern (2008-02-17 17:55:15)

Dheart · 2008-02-17 17:49:42

Also use obconf for setting themes only - the other stuff should be done by editing the config files...

eerok · 2008-02-17 17:53:28

Maybe X was running as root when openbox was set up? I didn't think running X as root was allowed, though.

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wyvern · 2008-02-17 17:59:31

eerok wrote:

Maybe X was running as root when openbox was set up? I didn't think running X as root was allowed, though.

I set up my Arch install that way; got X running correctly, set up sudo and then installed my regular user. I reckon that's what happened though, hence the permission problems

Is there even a ~/.config/openbox?

There always has been for me, from distro to distro O_o

eerok · 2008-02-17 19:29:12

wyvern wrote:

eerok wrote:
Maybe X was running as root when openbox was set up? I didn't think running X as root was allowed, though.
I set up my Arch install that way; got X running correctly, set up sudo and then installed my regular user. I reckon that's what happened though, hence the permission problems

I consider that an unnecessarily risky way to do it

Better to set up X from console and log in first (and every) time as user.

wyvern wrote:

eerok wrote:
Is there even a ~/.config/openbox?
There always has been for me, from distro to distro O_o

In before the edit Yes, I realized that was a silly question. Odd that it should default to root when accessing the conf as user, though.

Mr Green · 2008-02-17 19:41:17

Best bet for Openbox set up is read Wiki page.... check it out!

bionnaki · 2008-02-17 22:42:36

yeah its in the wiki - very straight forward

mrcold · 2008-02-18 05:16:16

when you start it are you using "openbox-session"? or just openbox"?

openbox-session is what you should be using (perhaps its sessions, with an s at the end, i can't remember.. look it up )

exiguous · 2008-02-18 17:57:42

It's openbox-session. No "s" at the end.

mrcold · 2008-02-18 23:07:59

exiguous wrote:

It's openbox-session. No "s" at the end.

thanks

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