[openbox] using with gnome

Tim Riley tr at slackzone.org
Thu Jul 24 13:43:48 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 02:54, Richard Witt wrote:
> Ok i am trying to make it replace metacity in the gnome-session. I start
> gnome via ~/.xinitrc. I see that it says type in "openbox --replace" but
> that just gives me an error. 

Go into GNOME like normal.  gnome-session etc.  Metacity should be
running.  Then, in a shell, type this: killall metacity && openbox3.
Then, save your session.  Next time you boot into GNOME, ob3 should be
the wm, if all works well.

- Tim

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