[openbox] i can not use gnome/openbox

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, waterloo wrote:

> I install openbox in gentoo with gnome .
> now I can use openbox lonely from gdm .
> when I use  gnome 2.22 ,I can use gnome/openbox.
> after I update to gnome 2.24, I can not use gnome/openbox .
>
> it displays:
> your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. if you have not logged out
> yourself , this could mean that there is some installation problem or that
> you may be out of diskspace . Try logging in with one of the failsafe
> sessions to see if you can fix this problem.
>
> below is my ~/.xsession-errors file
> /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> non-network local connections being added to access control list
> /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent --
> /usr/bin/seahorse-agent --execute /usr/bin/openbox-gnome-session
> gnome session warning unknown option --choose-session=openbox-session
>
> how to fix it ? thanks

Gnome 2.24 doesn't allow you to easily use another wm. You can google up 
the bug entry on the gnome bugzilla for ugly workarounds.

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Mikael Magnusson