Re: Openbox update

[Paul W. Frields]

Hi Eduard,

The file appears to be present in the openbox RPM.  I can only guess
that you have to kill GDM or reboot to get it to show up, and I hadn't
done that.

Paul

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 03:51:28PM -0300, Eduard Lucena wrote:
> You should show how to add the entry in gdm:
>
> Create the file:
> /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop
> With the following content:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Openbox
> Comment=Log in using the Openbox window manager (without a session manager)
> Exec=/usr/bin/openbox-session
> TryExec=/usr/bin/openbox-session
> Icon=openbox
> Type=Application
>
> This is the openbox.desktop file used by LightDM (Cinnamon Spin).
> Br,
>
> 2017-10-23 15:03 GMT-03:00 William Moreno <[e-mail]
> > :
> > Hi Paul I have doble checked and the install instructions work fine but GDM
> > in Fedora Workstation do not show the entry for openbox after the install,
> > the Plasma sddm and light in the Mate spin show the option to login with
> > openbox.
> >
> > Do you think ins fine to provide the instruction to swich from GDM to
> > LightDM in the post?
> >
> > *William Moreno Reyes*
> > Colaborador Proyecto Fedora | Nicaragua
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> >
> > 2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields :
> > > Hi William,
> > >
> > > Are you able to work on that Openbox post over the weekend?  We are
> > > hoping to publish it next week if you can help figure out the
> > > instructions to make it work properly on a fresh install.
> > >
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