[openbox] KDE configure options

Ben Jansens ben at orodu.net
Fri Oct 4 21:12:01 EDT 2002


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:10:11PM -0500, James Harr wrote:
> Seem to have gotton it working, now only one issue remains..
> 
> The openbox menu vs. kde's desktop. I know there's some shortcut keys, but
> the problem is that I can't seem to find any of them. Is there more to the
> config than the rc file?, or at least what openbox's menu puts in there?

Good resources for configuration:
http://icculus.org/openbox/rc.php
man epist
man epistrc   <-- keybingings config file

Its all in there.

Later,
Ben
 
> Later,
> jh
> 
> James Harr said:
> > Hey again,
> >
> > Just got openbox running, I'm impressed. It'll take a while to get used
> > to it as I'm an old-time window-maker user. I needed something
> > different.
> >
> > I actually lied, I'm not starting it from my .xinitrc (although I should
> > create a hook in the Xsession so that kdm can have a "xinitrc" option).
> > I'm doing it from kdm. I'll probably end up setting up that xinitrc deal
> > I was talking about.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion...
> >
> > Later,
> > jh
> >
> > Ben Jansens said:
> >> On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:58:56PM -0500, James Harr wrote:
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> I think I'll use my .xinitrc file instead of modifying it globally
> >>> for everyone. I thought KDE had an option for window managers like
> >>> gnome does. You don't think it would be all that hard to implement..
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully they do sometime in the future.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The KDE developers see no reason why everyone doesnt run kwin, and so
> >> I don't think they will add this. In KDE 3.1 tho, youll be able to set
> >> the KDEWM environment variable and kde will use that if it is set
> >> instead of kwin.
> >>
> >> personally, ive found the best is to put this in my .xinitrc
> >>
> >> LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
> >> kicker & korgac & klipper &
> >> epist & exec openbox
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 16:56, Marius Nita wrote:
> >>> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:00:11PM -0500, James Harr wrote:
> >>> > > I noticed on some of the screenshots that you were running kde,
> >>> but with openbox as the window manager.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I was wandering what steps you took to do that. I know in gnome
> >>> you can select it in the config program, but I saw nothing like that
> >>> in kde.
> >>> >
> >>> > From /usr/bin/startkde, toward the end of the file
> >>> >
> >>> > # finally, give the session control to the session manager
> >>> > # Syntax:   ksmserver [--restore] [--windowmanager <wm>]
> >>> > # if no windowmanager is specified, ksmserver will ensure kwin is
> >>> started. # [--restore] should be controlled by kdm
> >>> > # kwrapper is used to reduce startup time and memory usage
> >>> > kwrapper ksmserver --restore || \
> >>> >   xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Couldn't start ksmserver. Check your
> >>> installation."
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > so add --windowmanager openbox to that line.
> >>> >
> >>> > A lot of users, however, prefer not to run kde's fullblown
> >>> services,
> >>> and they run kicker and/or kdesktop separately, together with
> >>> openbox. Whatever works for you.
> >>> >
> >>> > > Later,
> >>> > > James Harr <james at grickle.org>
> >>> > >
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Thank You,
> > James Harr <james at grickle.org>
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> James Harr <james at grickle.org>
> 


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I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.
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