[openbox] man openbox

[Dana Jansens]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Dana Jansens <dana at orodu.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> So, the current version of openbox-session just sets the environment
>>> and then execs the openbox binary, which sets itself as wm and then
>>> executes "/usr/lib/openbox/openbox-autostart OPENBOX" or whatever is
>>> passed to it via --startup. Is there any other "proper startup stuff "
>>> that must be done _before_  executing openbox-autostart? Am I right to
>>> assume that initialization stuff like xmodmap, screensaver stuff, etc
>>> is done at the --startup phase? (I seem to remember some stuff in
>>
>> Stuff you want to affect openbox should go in environment setup,
>> before openbox is run.  xmodmap likely falls in this category.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this one. By "environment" I meant
> environment variables. In my setup, they are set by envdir, which
> execs openbox, so that openbox inherits a proper environment, which it
> will pass to its children, assuming that the openbox binary itself
> does not modify the environment.

I meant ~/.config/openbox/environment (see autostart docs on wiki), or
you .xsession before running openbox-session, etc.

>
>>
>>> autostart.sh needed a "sleep 1" to give time for ob to start. Is this
>>> issue obsolete now?)
>>
>> That's the idea entirely.
>>
> This is Good News. It seems a cleaner and nice  design. If I
> understood correctly, we start an openbox launcher (openbox-session or
> other) from a display manager (or from xinit), the launcher sets
> environment variables, then starts openbox. The latter does its thing
> with the X server and does its wm initializing, then executes a
> program of our choice, and when this program returns it starts
> accepting input from the user. Is this picture right?

It starts accepting input immediately, the startup stuff is run
asynchronously, but yes that's the idea :)

> J.A.
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