[openbox] man openbox

Jorge Almeida jjalmeida at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 13:38:04 EDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes the autostart stuff changed in 3.5 and the manpage didn't however
> that flag is for openbox-session more than for general use, but it
> should probably be in the manpage.
>
OK. Meanwhile, maybe you could say here what it does? This is not idle
curiosity, I like to customize stuff rather than using a "just works"
approach. This amounts to using a personalized "openbox-session". In
particular, I want to have my initialization stuff in a single place,
and it would be helpful to know how the openbox binary interacts with
the shell script where initialization starts
(/usr/lib/openbox/openbox-autostart). I don't understand the arguments
(or flag-value + list of arguments?) appearing in
/usr/bin/openbox-session (after all, the binary is supposed not to
accept arguments)
I already use envdir to set  the environment, and ob starts up
blinking-fast (on an old computer). It would be nice to reduce usage
of the shell to a minimum (maybe even  avoiding it completely by using
execline )

TIA

J.A.


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