[openbox] Running "openbox session" instead of Lubuntu session

[Wayne Oliver]

On 12 Sep 2013, at 8:07 AM, Augustine Souza <aesouza2008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to use just openbox session instead of Lubuntu session and I'm having a few difficulties although, overall, I can do 99% of what I want.
> 
> Lubuntu 13.04 comes with lxpanel and so I'm using that in ~/.config/openbox/autostart:
> xsetroot -solid "#000005"
> lxpanel --profile Lubuntu &
> 
> I also have ~/.config/autostart which contains .desktop files for Dropbox and xfcedesktop. Could the latter be causing problems? Should I remove it?
> 
> I edited ~/.gtkrc-2.0 to include:
> include "/home/vasa1/.themes/MyGreybird/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
> gtk-icon-theme-name = "/home/vasa1/.icons/NoInherits"
> 
> The first line seems effective (99% except for the skinnier fonts);
> The second line seems totally ignored.
> (I don't know what to do about gtk3 apps such as gedit.) 
> 
> 
> *** Compared to a Lubuntu session, the fonts seem a bit thinner and smaller in several places (but not everywhere). Whatever is handled by Openbox themerc is perfect and unaffected. I'm guessing it's the gtk side of things that are affected.
> 
> *** My icon theme is not being used in the openbox session; the icons look like those in /usr/share/icons/gnome.
> 
> *** When I open lxappearance, whatever changes I make in the "widgets" tab or in the  "Icon theme" tab appear only in the lxappearance window itself and nowhere else. Changes in the "Window Border" and "Font" tabs work as expected.
> 
> *** The fonts in my lxterminal window seem different (and smaller) although the font choice is unchanged. 
> 
> I know my question is a bit vague but if more specifics are needed, I'll do my best to provide them.
> 
> Thanks for any guidance!

I hate to reply with a question, but you seem to be using most of the LXDE suite anyway, why not just run the lxsession?

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Wayn0






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