[openbox] Number of desktops

[Wai Yan Pong]

Thank you very much!! It works like a charm.


On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Philip Newborough
<corenominal at corenominal.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:19:24 -0700
> Wai Yan Pong <wypong00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I use openbox as the window manager on a Ubtuntu machine.
>> Recently, I have upgraded to Ubtuntu 9.10 but I cannot set the number
>> of desktops via rc.xml anymore. The setting is 4 desktops it worked
>> fine with Ubuntu 9:04
>> Now everytime I login I only get one desktop... Sound like somehow to
>> new Ubuntu is overriding what is set by rc.xml. How can I get around
>> this problem? Please help.
>>
>> The openbox version is 3.4.7
>> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Hey :)
>
> For a fix, you could try adding the following to your autostart.sh file:
>
> xprop -root -remove _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS -remove _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES
> -remove _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP &
>
> ^ mail formatting may break, basically put it all on one line.
>
> As far as I know this issue is caused by Ubuntu's use of the new GDM
> rewrite. More information and the source of the above workaround can be
> found at:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openbox/+bug/435638/comments/7
>
> Hope this helps. :)
>
>  -- Philip
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