[openbox] Strange issue, x11 apps started by openbox, output problem.

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Mon Mar 1 17:04:51 EST 2010


On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 04:47:10AM EST, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57:47PM +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Piotr Karbowski <jabberuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > No luck, recompiled whole system (~800 packages) still the same issue
> >> > with openbox. How can I debug it? gdb and fancy switches?
> >>
> >> If anyone interesed I did workaround, I use much gmrun (alt+f2) to
> >> exec something, my openbox menu is empty. So I added wrapper to gmrun:
> >>
> >> % cat bin/gmrun
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> exec /usr/bin/gmrun > /dev/null 2>&1
> >>
> >> and now, when I run for example psi from gmrun, it not abusing CPU. So
> >> problem is that openbox have problem with handle output. I have latest
> >> Xorg what can be found in gentoo ~arch, maybe there is problem?
> >> Fluxbox amd Pekwm do not have any problems with it so it must be
> >> openbox bug.
> >
> > It should work without this work-around in the latest version of Openbox, as we addressed this problem.  If you find it to be otherwise, please let us know.
> 
> I emerged x11-wm/openbox-3.4.7.2, x11-wm/openbox-3.4.10 and
> x11-wm/openbox-3.4.11. In all I found this issue. I am sure that some
> time ago it was working so it must be something with openbox depends
> on system deps. Even if I start "xinit /usr/bin/openbox" I still have
> this output-block. Openbox --debug can easy print to tty1 but not apps
> started by openbox.

Oh, sorry that's my bad.  It was a similar bug which we fixed, but not this.  I still did not find any way to reproduce this myself.  But I'm glad to see a workaround for you.


Dana


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