[openbox] Openbox context menu not working

[Piscium]

On 27 March 2016 at 22:45, Piscium <groknok at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 March 2016 at 21:11, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
>> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>>   On 2016-03-27 20:39 +0100, Piscium wrote:
>>
>>   If you use programs
>>   that link to GNOME libraries, it's likely that some GNOME daemons get
>>   started behind your back.  That is just the way of the GNOME :-(
>>
>> This sounds likely to me and is why I suggested checking for ibus or
>> nautilus. I don't think it's either of those based on the description, but
>> wouldn't be surprised if it's yet another gnome program stealing
>> events.
>
> Jim and Ian: you are both right with respect of me unwittingly using
> Gnome applications. When I did "ps-e | grep gnome" I saw more
> processes than I expected.


> I have uninstalled polkit-gnome, ibus* (even though there was no
> process with ibus in the name), Gnome Control Centre and a few others.
>
> I am still keeping 3 programs that use Gnome libraries or are
> affiliated with the Gnome project because I use them a lot: Tomboy
> (note taking), Gnome Mplayer (to play music inside Seamonkey and
> Firefox) and Geany (for small source-editing jobs).
>
> In any case, as I said before the issue manifests after an apparently
> random time after login, so there could be an hidden obscure bug
> somewhere.

This issue (Openbox context menu not working) has not manifested since
I wrote the email above 12 days ago (although I had to log out once in
the meantime due to an ALSA update).

This does not mean of course that one of polkit-gnome, ibus* or Gnome
Control Centre is the culprit. My plan is to wait a couple more days
and early next week reinstall Gparted, which is a program I like to
use occasionally and that pulls in as dependency polkit-gnome, and
then wait to see if the issue manifests again. I don't have at the
moment any use for ibus or Gnome Control Centre so I am not planning
to reinstall them.