[openbox] How do I set up openbox?

Leon Gomail leon.gomail at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 03:55:20 EDT 2023


All you need is there :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Openbox

and

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager

(section 1.2 : click on your prefered display manager)



Le 3 juin 2023 à 19:26, à 19:26, Alessandro Vesely <vesely at tana.it> a écrit:
>Hi all,
>
>I don't recall what did I do to set up openbox.  Now I want to set up
>another 
>PC and I'm unable to find out any hint.  The Help:Getting_started wiki
>page 
>talks about cases I never saw.
>
>On my PC, I see openbox started by lightdm.  However, the string
>"openbox" 
>appears nowhere in /etc/lightdm/*.  There is a directory
>/etc/xdg/openbox, but 
>I'm not clear if/how it gets involved.
>
>On the new PC there's xfce.  It is started by slim.  I installed
>openbox and 
>all suggested packages.  However, lightdm is not installed.  Does it
>make a 
>difference?
>
>(Both PCs run Devuan, a Debian variant, in case that matters.)
>
>On the new PC, the alternatives settings was already pointing at
>openbox for 
>the x-window-manager, but x-session-manager was xfce.  I switched to
>openbox 
>and rebooted.  That did change the desktop.  Still running slim.
>
>Is there a site which explains which is which as if I were 5?
>
>
>TIA
>Ale
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