[openbox] Using Openbox with Wayland

[Dana Jansens]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra at email.com> wrote:

> Dana,
>
> That is what I read (on Fedora's webpage about wayland) also. Does that
> mean that Anthony's suggestion will eventually stop working?
>

Yeh but it's probably still a long way out.


>
> Thanks also to Anthony for the detailed instructions. I will try them out
> for now.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:00:47 -0500 Dana Jansens <danakj at orodu.net> wrote:
>
> > There is currently a transitional period where you can run X under
> wayland,
> > in which you can of course run a WM. One day most apps will be ported to
> > wayland and everyone will run them natively with the wayland compositor
> as
> > the WM. At least this is my understanding of where things are/going.
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Anthony Thyssen <
> a.thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I am currently using openbox on fedora 25 ... no problems,
> > > Though it switched to a XOrg server (on tty2) for my session, rather
> than
> > > run under Wayland (on tty1)
> > >
> > > I run openbox from the 'orginal' scripted Xsession/XInitrc setup.
> > > Which I launch by installing the package  "xorg-x11-xinit-session"
> > > That lets me select a "User Script" session from the login screen (on
> tty1)
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know the mechanics of how it does this switch, but it worked
> > > 'out-of-the-box',  mostly as all my normal packages was installed.
> > >
> > > I installed Fedora 25 into a new 'root' partition while running fedora
> 22.
> > > As such I had all the packages I wanted installed even before I first
> boot
> > > the system!
> > > This was the first time I did it this way and after some experimenting
> it
> > > worked great.
> > > My notes on how to install (not upgrade) a new release, while running a
> > > old release is in
> > > http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/usage/fedora_
> > > on_new_partition.txt
> > >
> > > WARNING: That update worked for EXT4 but I am missing something with
> grub
> > > for handling a XFS root partitions. If anyone know what I missed please
> > > contact me.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Jim Rees <rees at umich.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > >>
> > >>   Thanks again to both Dana and Ian! This will be quite a problem for
> me
> > >> to
> > >>   leave Fedora since I have spent over 13 years on it, and have been a
> > >>   contributor also. But I will ask on Fedora's mailing list about
> what the
> > >>   options are, since I also do not want to get tied down by an
> unnecessary
> > >>   DE.
> > >>
> > >> I too have avoided using a DE. Every time I try one it seems to just
> get
> > >> in
> > >> the way. But the world is headed in that direction.
> > >>
> > >> I've had good luck with Arch. It's modular enough that you can add
> just
> > >> Xorg, add a WM if you want, or add any of the popular DEs if you
> want. I
> > >> suspect you can still do this with Fedora; you could last time I
> tried.
> > >> But
> > >> it's probably easier with Arch. I have even installed Ubuntu with just
> > >> Xorg
> > >> and Openbox, and that wasn't too hard.
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