[openbox] KDE configure options

James Harr james at grickle.org
Fri Oct 4 21:10:11 EDT 2002


Seem to have gotton it working, now only one issue remains..

The openbox menu vs. kde's desktop. I know there's some shortcut keys, but
the problem is that I can't seem to find any of them. Is there more to the
config than the rc file?, or at least what openbox's menu puts in there?

Later,
jh

James Harr said:
> Hey again,
>
> Just got openbox running, I'm impressed. It'll take a while to get used
> to it as I'm an old-time window-maker user. I needed something
> different.
>
> I actually lied, I'm not starting it from my .xinitrc (although I should
> create a hook in the Xsession so that kdm can have a "xinitrc" option).
> I'm doing it from kdm. I'll probably end up setting up that xinitrc deal
> I was talking about.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion...
>
> Later,
> jh
>
> Ben Jansens said:
>> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:58:56PM -0500, James Harr wrote:
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> I think I'll use my .xinitrc file instead of modifying it globally
>>> for everyone. I thought KDE had an option for window managers like
>>> gnome does. You don't think it would be all that hard to implement..
>>>
>>> Hopefully they do sometime in the future.
>>>
>>
>> The KDE developers see no reason why everyone doesnt run kwin, and so
>> I don't think they will add this. In KDE 3.1 tho, youll be able to set
>> the KDEWM environment variable and kde will use that if it is set
>> instead of kwin.
>>
>> personally, ive found the best is to put this in my .xinitrc
>>
>> LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
>> kicker & korgac & klipper &
>> epist & exec openbox
>>
>>> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 16:56, Marius Nita wrote:
>>> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:00:11PM -0500, James Harr wrote:
>>> > > I noticed on some of the screenshots that you were running kde,
>>> but with openbox as the window manager.
>>> > >
>>> > > I was wandering what steps you took to do that. I know in gnome
>>> you can select it in the config program, but I saw nothing like that
>>> in kde.
>>> >
>>> > From /usr/bin/startkde, toward the end of the file
>>> >
>>> > # finally, give the session control to the session manager
>>> > # Syntax:   ksmserver [--restore] [--windowmanager <wm>]
>>> > # if no windowmanager is specified, ksmserver will ensure kwin is
>>> started. # [--restore] should be controlled by kdm
>>> > # kwrapper is used to reduce startup time and memory usage
>>> > kwrapper ksmserver --restore || \
>>> >   xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Couldn't start ksmserver. Check your
>>> installation."
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > so add --windowmanager openbox to that line.
>>> >
>>> > A lot of users, however, prefer not to run kde's fullblown
>>> services,
>>> and they run kicker and/or kdesktop separately, together with
>>> openbox. Whatever works for you.
>>> >
>>> > > Later,
>>> > > James Harr <james at grickle.org>
>>> > >
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
>
>
> Thank You,
> James Harr <james at grickle.org>


Thank You,
James Harr <james at grickle.org>





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