[openbox] KDE configure options

[James Harr]

Oh, didn't know about the epis part.

Thanks,
jh


Ben Jansens said:
> 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>
>>
>
>
> --
> I am damn unsatisfied to be killed in this way.


Thank You,
James Harr <james at grickle.org>