[openbox] cannot get Openbox to start on Ubuntu 9.04

Niels Berglund niels.berglund at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 04:16:31 EDT 2009


On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Schild, ChristianHelge <
ChristianHelge.Schild at delaval.com> wrote:

 [snip]


> I then created a .xinitrd:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> exec openbox
>

As Dana says, try and rename it to .xinitrc


>
> and tried to use startx. That just gives me a black screen with a mouse
> arrow in the middle which is however not moving.
>

It sounds like your OpenBox session has started. What is strange is that the
mouse is not moving. Are you certain that the xorg package you installed,
also has the mouse "stuff"? What happens if you comment out "exec openbox"
in your init file, and then run startx, is the mouse working?

Niels
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