[openbox] multiple accours

Ian Zimmerman itz at buug.org
Fri Sep 18 15:28:14 EDT 2015


On 2015-09-18 20:35 +0200, Leon Gomail wrote:

> I run Openbox on my laptop and I am happy with it. My config files
> are in ~/.config/openbox/ and I start openbox using the startx utility
> My .xinitrc file contains the line
> exec openbox-session 
> 
> For some reason I'd like to start openbox on another display with
> 
> startx /bin/openbox-session -- :1
> 
> but with different config files or directory. I have read the
> openbox-session man page and it says the openbox-session command does
> not take any command line arguments. Is there a way to give openbox a
> path to the config files I want to use ?

Set the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable to something else than $HOME.

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