[openbox] gnome-panel PagerApplet hates me.

[John Russell]

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> > The weird thing is, if i start an xterm, kill gnome-panel, and run gnome-panel --disable-sound & manually, it works without a hitch.
> > Does anyone know why this is?  I'm running gnome-panel from gnome 2.4 (gentoo ~x86 portage).
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> I believe...with 2.4 you need to be running the gnome-settings-daemon. The
> first time you run gnome panel it probably starts it, but too late for the
> pager applet. The second time it would work then. Try running it before the
> panel.

You could avoid this by just starting using 

exec gnome-session

When openbox is your WM save the session so that it will always start
with openbox from then on.  That way, all stuff that gnome apps need to
run, will be started automatically.

John