[openbox] My autostart.sh file is not restoring things

Removed44 · 06-13-2010, 02:41 AM

I've decided to give openbox a try with Debian testing. I set up my right-click menu exactly how I want it, and everything else is set up perfectly.

I installed trayer and tint2, along with nitrogen. I added the following lines to my ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file, but things aren't loading/restoring as they should. Tint2 and trayer don't load at all, and nitrogen isn't restoring my wallpaper. All I get is a black screen with my cursor, but the ability to right-click and open the menu, so it's not like X is dead. I did set the default wallpaper by issuing the command nitrogen /home/john/Pictures/Wallpapers, where "Wallpapers" contains all of my background images.

Here is my autostart.sh file:

Code:

# Autostart file for openbox

nitrogen --restore &
(sleep 2s && tint -c /home/john/.config/tint/.tintrc) &
(sleep 2s && trayer --expand true --transparent true --alpha 255 --edge bottom --align right --expand true --SetDockType true --widthtype request --margin 130) &

I do have proper content in the .tintrc file located in /home/john/.config/tint/tintrc. Am I doing something wrong here?

Andrew Benton · 06-13-2010, 07:01 AM

So how do you start openbox? To run ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh you need to start openbox with the /usr/bin/openbox-session script. That is what calls ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. If you just put exec openbox in ~/.xinitrc it will just start openbox without running autostart.sh

Removed44 · 06-14-2010, 10:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew Benton

So how do you start openbox? To run ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh you need to start openbox with the /usr/bin/openbox-session script. That is what calls ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. If you just put exec openbox in ~/.xinitrc it will just start openbox without running autostart.sh

That must be my problem. I'm running Debian squeeze and having openbox start by having the line exec openbox in the file ~/.xsession.

EDIT: What content should be in the /usr/bin/openbox-session script?

Andrew Benton · 06-14-2010, 06:44 PM

I don't use Debian, I install openbox from source. /usr/bin/openbox-session looks like this

Code:

#!/bin/sh

if test -n "$1"; then
    echo "Syntax: openbox-session"
    echo
    echo "See the openbox-session(1) manpage for help."
  exit
fi

# Clean up after GDM
xprop -root -remove _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS \
      -remove _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES \
      -remove _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP 2> /dev/null

AUTOSTART="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config"}/openbox/autostart.sh"
GLOBALAUTOSTART="/etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh"

if test -r $AUTOSTART; then
    . $AUTOSTART
else
    if test -r $GLOBALAUTOSTART; then
        . $GLOBALAUTOSTART
    fi
fi

exec /usr/bin/openbox "$@"

Removed44 · 06-14-2010, 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew Benton

I don't use Debian, I install openbox from source. /usr/bin/openbox-session looks like this

If I just copied/pasted this text into my openbox-session file, will this work, regardless of what distro I'm running?