[openbox] Problems starting Openbox

Dana Jansens danakj at orodu.net
Sat Oct 18 11:03:14 EDT 2014


You looked at these?
~/.cache/openbox/openbox.log
~/.xsession-errors

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Frank McCormick <beacon at videotron.ca>
wrote:

> I installed openbox on my machine a few months ago, but haven't really
> used it very much since then. I am running Debian Sid, and about a month
> ago switched it to the new init system SystemD. I don;t know whether this
> is related to my problem.
> Yesterday I tried starting up open box to do a little customization and
> found it wouldn't run. It seems to open up, displays the background, then
> crashes to the computer returns to lightdm.
>
> I reduced the local startup menu to almost nothing but to no avail.
> The strange thing is if I run openbox itself and not openbox-session, it
> starts and runs fine, but of course nothing in the auto-start files gets
> run.
>
> I have checked the logs but there are no clues there as to what is
> happening.
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to whats going on or where I might start
> looking. There are a few remnants of SystemD on the computer such as
> systemd-logind...but I don;t see the connection there.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
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