[openbox] running tint2 and wbar under openbox

Frank McCormick beacon at videotron.ca
Tue Dec 29 19:33:36 EST 2015


On 28/12/15 02:47 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> I am trying to get tint2 and wbar running under openbox but it seems 
> no matter
> where in the autostart file I put the commands it won't work. Either 
> wbar runs and tint2 doesn't
> or tint2 runs and wbar doesn't. I have tried many combinations of 
> starting both early, late and with
> various lengths of sleep in between. Is there some basic 
> incompatibility in these two applications
> or am I missing something.



   I was missing a & after the call to tint2.
>
> A second problem is whenever I run wbar-conf(ig) to change a parameter it
> garbles the second line of the .wbar file in my home directory, which 
> is the line
> which sets parameters for wbar. I then get an invalid location in the 
> .xsession-errors
> file.
>

    This is bug 809296 in Debian Sid as I filed it.  A patch is being 
reverted.
Guess not too many openbox'ers are running wbar :)




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