[openbox] Packaging 3.4.6.1 for Slackware

[Jacques Bon]

Le Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:39:07 -0500
"Dana Jansens" <danakj at orodu.net> a écrit :

> >  - no /etc/X11/xinit/.xinitrc.openbox (present in previous Icculus
> >  packages) ;
> 
> This has never been a part of our releases, I've never even heard of
> the file, so I think it must have been provided by the person who was
> making the slackware package.

You're right, I looked at Slack's sources, this file is added by
Patrick for all WM included in Slackware. It's easy to copy one of them
and just change the wm's name.

> >  - Slack's original /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/openbox.session
> > still used by kdm, so "openbox" is launched instead of
> > "openbox-session". Should this file be included in the sources, or
> > modified by install script ?
> 
> This file shouldn't be there.. where does it come from?  The .session
> files distributed in the openbox tarball should preferably be used.

Again I looked the sources... This one is not Slackware specific, it's
a part of the official KDEbase distribution. For instance kdm seems to
use is own wm.desktop files in /usr/share/apps/kdm. There is an
openbox.desktop file, wich is internationalized, but just launches
openbox not openbox-session. I think the better is to make a modified
copy ot this file, and to save it as "openbox-session.desktop" to keep
the package non intrusive. 

It would be interesting to see how kdm manage openbox in other
distros. I have Ubuntu in a VM, will have a look.

> >  - /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh no executable : bug, or feature ?
> 
> It doesn't need to be executable, it is not "executed" like that.  You
> can see how it is run in openbox-session.

Yes you're right, I've mis-understood its behaviour. 
 
> Maybe you could get ahold of the person who has been packaging Openbox
> for slackware for a while, you can find him through the bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3147

It's a good idea, thanks !

I apologize for my poor english.

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Jacques Bon
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