[openbox] gnome eats buttons 1 and 3

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:38:47 -0500
Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
| Dana Jansens wrote:
| 
|   Stop running nautilus. You'll have to remove it from your session.
| 
| Thanks. I couldn't figure out how to disable it, and ended up doing this:
| gconftool-2 -t b -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop f
| 
| I don't know if that stops nautilus, but it solved the problem.
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No it does not stop nautilus, just stops it putting a window over the
root background window.

Easiest way I found to get rid of all that gnome crap to remove the
"Gnone Desktop" package, and specifically gdm.

A simple replacement foir the "gdm" login is "lightdm"
but do this from a text console, not the graphics console.

I actually did this because I needed to also remove the mutter-wayland
package as part of using the ATI Graphics Driver.

For file managers thunar looks to be a good replacement.
and lxpanel has worked well for me as a replacement for the launcher
and toolbars, though it can take a bit to setup.


NOTE This does not mean I cannot run gnome applications, I do that all
the time. But without the main gnome startup stuff (from gdm) it does
not take over your system!


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