[openbox] gnome-panel/session management

David Barr dpb at clara.co.uk
Tue May 25 13:34:31 EDT 2004


On 25 May 2004, at 15:21, bleak wrote:

> I also have this problem. I use tpager(tiny pager) and it has to be 
> initialized manually. A script like Benedict sugested would fix the 
> problem.
>
> Wilson Oliveira
>
>
>
> On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:56:12 -0400
> "Benedict J. Brown" <bjbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> If I have openbox and gnome-panel in my xinitrc, the windowlist applet
>> dies as soon as the panel loads with:
>>
>> The panel encountered a problem while loading 
>> "OAFIID:GNOME_WindowListApplet"
>> Details: Unknown CORBA exception id: 
>> 'IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0'
>>
>> However, if I take gnome-panel out of my xinitrc and then start it
>> manually after the
>> fact, everything works fine. Likewise if I start a full gnome-session
>> and run openbox --replcae everything works fine.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what the problem might be? I'm running 3.2, but
>> have had the same problem with 3.0 and 2.3.
>>
>> --Brad
>>
>>

so why not run gnome session? yeah i know it;s not the 'cool' thing to 
do but maybe it is the smart thing to do?

or you can run gnome-settings-daemon in your .xinitrc, this way you can 
still run a bare windowmanager, if that is to your fancy :)

David




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