Dear Folks,
I am running debian stretch on an AMD machine:
AMD A4-3400 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
on a Gigabyte F2A78M-HD2 board.
I had the display manager that comes with the xfce window manager
installation set up to allow a choice between xfce and the enlightenment
environment.
I then installed openbox and noticed that the display manager saw it and I
had choice to use either of the three window managers when I logged in.
I experimented with openbox and I think it's rather good.
I notice that there is package called consolekit that you can install which
would allow you to start up openbox without a conventional display manager
being installed.
If you want to use consolekit then I think you are meant to add the
following line to the xinitrc file (which seems to live in /etc/X11/xinit/
) :
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
openbox-session
The xinitrc file I am interested in looks like this:
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#!/bin/sh
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi
if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi
# start some nice programs
if [ -n "`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`" ]; then
command="`/etc/X11/chooser.sh`"
else
failsafe="yes"
fi
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?* ; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
if [ -n "$failsafe" ]; then
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
else
exec $command
fi
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Running the consolekit is apparent done as follows:
root #/etc/init.d/consolekit start
My question is: how would I best modify the above script to add the openbox
start up command line?
Regards
Michael Fothergill
