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Shidouuu
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 Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:32 pm Post subject: Should you create ~/.xinitrc for Openbox? |
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On the Openbox wiki page, it says,
| Quote: | | ...note that a common misconception is to create a ~/.xinitrc file - please do not do that, as it will prevent X from executing all the automatically provided scripts in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ - if you wish to add anything in particular, you can create an executable file in that directory. |
and instead put export XSESSION=openbox in ~/.bashrc or to use a display manager. I did this and it did not work. Using exec openbox-session in ~/.xinitrc did however, though I'm not sure how that affected any scripts in xinitrc.d.
Contrary to Gentoo's Openbox page, the Arch wiki mentions none of this, and just says to use xinit. Why is it that only this page says not to use a ~/.xinitrc file? |
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GDH-gentoo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I run Openbox by setting XSESSION to "openbox", and don't have an ~/.xinitrc file. It works.
| Shidouuu wrote: | | Contrary to Gentoo's Openbox page, the Arch wiki mentions none of this, and just says to use xinit. Why is it that only this page says not to use a ~/.xinitrc file? |
Because it is a Gentoo-specific setup. There's an /etc/X11/chooser.sh script on Gentoo that handles XSESSION. |
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Shidouuu
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Huh, is this specific to Openbox aswell? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Shidouuu,
~/.xinitrc is only used when you run startx.
If you use a display manager, its not consulted.
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GDH-gentoo
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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I don't understand the question. On Gentoo, the value of XSESSION tells startx what it should start. If you set it to "openbox", then startx will start Openbox.
The complete mechanism that makes this work is:
- startx is a shell script that runs the xinit program. If you do not have an ~/.xinitrc file, startx will supply /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc as the client.
- /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is also a shell script that will source all files in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d. That's what the Wiki article mentions.
- /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc will also call /etc/X11/chooser.sh to determine what to run, using the value of XSESSION.
- If the value of XSESSION is "openbox", /etc/X11/chooser.sh will run /etc/X11/Sessions/openbox, which is provided by Gentoo's x11-wm/openbox package.
- /etc/X11/Sessions/openbox calls /usr/bin/openbox-session, and that's what ultimately launches Openbox.
If you use a display manager, then nothing of this applies. Display managers have their own way to determine which desktop environment or window manager to start. |
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figueroa
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| Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:25 am Post subject: |
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"... please do not do that, ..." is a little bit too strong, in my opinion.
My ~/.xinitrc takes care of the necessary duties, plus then some.
| Code: | setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
#exec startkde
#exec xfce4-session
#exec startxfce4
#exec startlxde
xhost +local:root > /dev/null
/usr/bin/numlockx on
#DEPRECATED ck-launch-session
# ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startlxde
export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=lxde-
#dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startlxde
#dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session openbox-session
/usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session /usr/bin/openbox-session |
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