[openbox] Using Openbox with Wayland

[Ranjan Maitra]

Anthony,

I had never heard to xorg-x11-xinit-session before, but the info file has the 

Summary     : Display manager support for ~/.xsession and ~/.Xclients

My question is: what login manager do you use? I use SLiM but was thinking of going to XDM since the former appears to be dead. Would either of these work?

Many thanks,
Ranjan


On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:24:19 +1000 Anthony Thyssen <a.thyssen at griffith.edu.au> wrote:

> I am currently using openbox on fedora 25 ... no problems,
> Though it switched to a XOrg server (on tty2) for my session, rather than
> run under Wayland (on tty1)
> 
> I run openbox from the 'orginal' scripted Xsession/XInitrc setup.
> Which I launch by installing the package  "xorg-x11-xinit-session"
> That lets me select a "User Script" session from the login screen (on tty1)
> 
> 
> I don't know the mechanics of how it does this switch, but it worked
> 'out-of-the-box',  mostly as all my normal packages was installed.
> 
> I installed Fedora 25 into a new 'root' partition while running fedora 22.
> As such I had all the packages I wanted installed even before I first boot
> the system!
> This was the first time I did it this way and after some experimenting it
> worked great.
> My notes on how to install (not upgrade) a new release, while running a old
> release is in
> http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/usage/fedora_on_new_partition.txt
> 
> WARNING: That update worked for EXT4 but I am missing something with grub
> for handling a XFS root partitions. If anyone know what I missed please
> contact me.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >
> >   Thanks again to both Dana and Ian! This will be quite a problem for me to
> >   leave Fedora since I have spent over 13 years on it, and have been a
> >   contributor also. But I will ask on Fedora's mailing list about what the
> >   options are, since I also do not want to get tied down by an unnecessary
> >   DE.
> >
> > I too have avoided using a DE. Every time I try one it seems to just get in
> > the way. But the world is headed in that direction.
> >
> > I've had good luck with Arch. It's modular enough that you can add just
> > Xorg, add a WM if you want, or add any of the popular DEs if you want. I
> > suspect you can still do this with Fedora; you could last time I tried. But
> > it's probably easier with Arch. I have even installed Ubuntu with just Xorg
> > and Openbox, and that wasn't too hard.
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