Created attachment 617523 [details] firstboot-frontend-wm-display.patch Description of problem: Firstboot fails to start openbox and will fail to start other (yet unsupported) WM's that do not support the --display option either. It would be better if firstboot set DISPLAY=:9 for the WM process instead of using --display=:9 which is not supported by many window managers. Otherwise it would be better not to start a window manager since "openbox --display" crashes immediately anyway. And in fact for most users firstboot works well enough without a windowmanager. In fact since the DISPLAY envvar is already set in frontend.py --display is redundant and can be dropped. The attached patch does that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 18.4 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. install LXDE 2. boot to firstboot 3. Go to a VC and check openbox process status. 4. Click on user account buttons to popup windows. Actual results: 3. openbox crashed at startup [defunct] due to unsupported --display option. 4. windows not decorated Expected results: 3. window managers that don't support --display not to crash 4. popup windows to be handled by WM. Additional info: I tested metacity, xfwm4, openbox, and xmonad with the --display option dropped and they all work find in firstboot. (I can test kwin later.)
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The firstboot utility is deprecated and no longer developed in Fedora 19 and newer releases. It was replaced by the initial-setup utility with a completely different codebase. If you still have any similar problems with Fedora 19 or later, please file a new bug against initial-setup or gnome-initial-setup if you did a GNOME install.