[openbox] wallpaper falls back to debian like one

David Barr dpb at clara.co.uk
Sat Sep 27 05:00:10 EDT 2008


Thayer Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:58 AM, '2+ <electriclightheads at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> am moving from fluxbox to openbox @ ubuntu8.04.1
>> most are going fine but 2 things have to be solved
>>
>> 1)
>> eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
>> is in my autostart.sh and my custom wallpaper comes out when launching x
>> but after about 30secs
>> it automatically fall backs to the one with debian logo on it
> 
> Sounds to me like the gnome-settings-daemon is being loaded in the
> background. When the wallpaper falls back to the debian logo, are you
> able to access the Openbox menus when you click on the desktop? Do any
> desktop icons appear?
> 

You can tell g-s-d to not set the background with this:

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background --type bool 0

or use gconf-editor...

> The only other option I can think of is that some other
> wallpaper-managing application is being loaded in your ~/.xinitrc or
> autostart.sh files.
> 
> 
>> 2)
>> want to setup a keybind for putting off the window decoration
>> couldn't understand what this in rc.xml mean
>> can someone give me an exact example?
>> (maybe i can make no-decoration as default? if yes that would be great)
> 
> This will do the trick...
> 
>     <application class="*">
>       <decor>false</decor>
>     </application>
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