[openbox] 3.5.0, $GLOBALAUTOSTART

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Tue Aug 30 12:04:43 EDT 2011


On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Paul <openboxml023478 at rainslide.net> wrote:
> I've always had ". $GLOBALAUTOSTART" at the beginning of my
> ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. I upgraded to 3.5.0 and restarted X. Openbox
> started, but it didn't execute anything after that line in autostart.sh. I
> looked at the X output window and saw that it was complaining about not
> being able to source anything at that line, in other words, $GLOBALAUTOSTART
> was not defined. I commented out the line and restarted X again. Openbox
> started as it usually does, executing everything in autostart.sh. Is this
> new behaviour of 3.5.0, that $GLOBALAUTOSTART has now been removed?

GLOBALAUTOSTART is no longer being passed to the user's autostart
script.  Instead, the system wide autostart file is run before the
user one automatically.


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