[openbox] man openbox

[Dana Jansens]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Openbox runs the command it is passed once it has set itself up as a
>> Window Manager and all the proper startup stuff is complete.
>
> So, the current version of openbox-session just sets the environment
> and then execs the openbox binary, which sets itself as wm and then
> executes "/usr/lib/openbox/openbox-autostart OPENBOX" or whatever is
> passed to it via --startup. Is there any other "proper startup stuff "
> that must be done _before_  executing openbox-autostart? Am I right to
> assume that initialization stuff like xmodmap, screensaver stuff, etc
> is done at the --startup phase? (I seem to remember some stuff in

Stuff you want to affect openbox should go in environment setup,
before openbox is run.  xmodmap likely falls in this category.
Screensaver most propably does not.

> autostart.sh needed a "sleep 1" to give time for ob to start. Is this
> issue obsolete now?)

That's the idea entirely.

>> In this case, we run /usr/libexec/openbox-autostart OPENBOX.  If you
>> read the script, you'll see it passes this on to
>> openbox-xdg-autostart, to start things that want to run in an OPENBOX
>> environment.. It could be changed to include GNOME as well if you want
>> to run things that want to start in a GNOME environment.
>> openbox-xdg-autostart --help has more info on that.
>
> OK, I see that the xtra arguments are just passed to openbox-xdg-autostart
>
> Thanks.
>
> J.A.
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