[openbox] Temporary custom openbox

mikey abc.mikey at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 12 04:07:44 EST 2009


Hi there,

I'm writing a little application to start games in a second X session
and I'm hoping to use openbox as the window manager in the second
session. I'm hoping to be able to provide a custom setup for openbox
just for the games session. Is it possible to specify a new set of
config files (menu.xml, rc.xml, autostart.sh) from .xinitrc when
openbox-session is called?

If not when are these files read? Are they just accessed during
startup or does it expect to be able to read them at any time during
the session? If I can't use my own locations for these files I'm
wondering if I can move out the user's .config/openbox folder and
replace it with my own while I start openbox then once it's been
running for a couple of seconds copy back the user's own folder.

Thanks,

Michaael


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