F15: LXDE install, OpenBox not running

[Niels Weber]

I installed the LXDE spin of Fedora 15 via a live usb stick on my Acer Netbook.
The install went through without errors but when starting up LXDE, the
Openbox window manager isn't running.
Starting it by hand works though I'm not sure how to correctly set it
up that it starts up every time. Any hints?

Thanks,
   Niels

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Niels Weber  wrote:
> I installed the LXDE spin of Fedora 15 via a live usb stick on my Acer Netbook.
> The install went through without errors but when starting up LXDE, the
> Openbox window manager isn't running.
> Starting it by hand works though I'm not sure how to correctly set it
> up that it starts up every time. Any hints?

There was a bug at some point I thought was already fixed... Maybe it
made it onto the spins?

Take a look at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704403

The fix is probably to update and then remove and add your user.

An alternative might be to update than then "rm -f
~/.config/lxsession" and relogin.

YMMV

Richard

[Niels Weber]

2011/6/5 Richard Shaw :
> Take a look at:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704403
>
> The fix is probably to update and then remove and add your user.
>
> An alternative might be to update than then "rm -f
> ~/.config/lxsession" and relogin.

Thanks, deleting the ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE as recommended in the
Bugzilla entry did the trick.

Niels

[JB]

Niels Weber <nathelbiya <at> gmail.com> writes:
> ...

How do you start LXDE ?

I do:

$ cat .xinitrc
# start LXDE
startlxde

$ startx

$ ps aux |grep -i lxde
jb       11541  0.0  0.0   4452   748 pts/2    S+   18:10   0:00 grep -i lxde
jb       29913  0.0  0.1   4856  1200 ?        S    Jun03   0:01
/usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE
jb       29924  0.0  0.7  14880  5780 ?        S    Jun03   0:12 openbox
--config-file /home/jb/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
jb       29926  0.1  4.3 334880 32860 ?        Sl   Jun03   5:13 lxpanel
--profile LXDE

Also have:

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop 
PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm

JB

[solarflow99]

$ cat .xinitrc
> # start LXDE
> startlxde
>
> $ startx
>
> $ ps aux |grep -i lxde
> jb       11541  0.0  0.0   4452   748 pts/2    S+   18:10   0:00 grep -i
> lxde
> jb       29913  0.0  0.1   4856  1200 ?        S    Jun03   0:01
> /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE
> jb       29924  0.0 0.7 14880 5780 ?        S    Jun03   0:12 openbox
> --config-file /home/jb/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
> jb       29926  0.1  4.3 334880 32860 ?        Sl   Jun03   5:13 lxpanel
> --profile LXDE
>
> Also have:
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startlxde
> DISPLAYMANAGER=/usr/sbin/lxdm

I noticed that the top line PREFERRED= seems to do nothing.  I still can't
find any way to run slim