Description of problem: The openbox-gnome-session (gnome/openbox) is not available at the login-screen. I just can select "gnome" or "openbox". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I have done an Fedora 10 installation with the standard gnomepackets and afterwards installed openbox. Expected results: I think you should be able to login openbox-gnome-session by selecting it at the login-screen. Additional info: I'm not familiar with these things. I createt a "autostart.h" in ~.config/openbox with the contents below, to workaround this problem. Don't know if it is a good solution, but perhaps it will help someone else. # Run the system-wide support stuff . $GLOBALAUTOSTART # Programs that will run after Openbox has started (sleep 2 && gnome-session) &
The script was dropped as gnome-session no longer supports WINDOW_MANAGER variable. Reassigning to gnome-session.
I think the way this works (Jon correct me if I'm wrong) is: 1) openbox should put in the desktop file X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager This tells gnome-session that it satisfies the "windowmanager" component requirement. 2) invoke gnome-session with different default-session using the --default-session-key argument. This is the list of things to start automatically and is normally just [gnome-settings-daemon]. This list doesn't normally include the required components (windowmanager, filemanager, and panel), since defaults for these are implicitly added if an override isn't explicitly given. In your case you want to override windowmanager, so you would add your desktop file to this list. Since it now has X-GNOME-Provides=windowmanager, it will satisify the "windowmanager" requirement and the default windowmanager won't get implicitly started.
I think you're right so far. The "openbox-gnome-session" is a normal gnome-session with the openbox windowmanager instead of metacity. I still think the possiblility to start an "openbox-gnome-session" should be available by default. If for some reason this possibility will no longer be given, please tell me and I will try to find a solution by myself. The reason why I choose to load the gnome-session after starting openbox like the way above is 1) I don't know how to configure the gnome-session and the login-screen and 2) I still want to be able to login "standard gnome". Also the configuration of openbox is easier and more flexible (I think).
(In reply to comment #2) > This is the list of things to start > automatically and is normally just [gnome-settings-daemon]. This list doesn't > normally include the required components (windowmanager, filemanager, and > panel), since defaults for these are implicitly added if an override isn't > explicitly given. Is default_session supposed to be configurable by user? If the openbox session script on every start copied the default_session value to openbox_session and added openbox to the list, would that be acceptable? DEFAULT_SESSION=$(gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/session/default_session) gconftool-2 -t list --list-type=strings -s /desktop/gnome/session/openbox_session "${DEFAULT_SESSION%]},openbox]"
that should work okay, I think. (again, would be good if Jon chimed in, though).
openbox-3.4.7.2-7.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openbox-3.4.7.2-7.fc10
openbox-3.4.7.2-7.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update openbox'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2008-11129
openbox-3.4.7.2-7.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.