Thnx. The sleep actually made it. If you push windows out of the current workspace/desktop, they rotate into the other workspaces. It was a nostalgia trip with openbox, from my Linuxes way back. I think I’ll stick with ctwm which I use on an openbsd device. /niels
Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:01, RVP <[r...@sdf.org](mailto:On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:01, RVP <<a href=)> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Niels Müller Larsen wrote: > >> When I run ‘obpager &’ from a terminal after X is started, it starts nicely >> showing my workspaces and everthing works. >> >> The problem is that I don’t get the pager on the screen if I try to run >> ‘obpager &’ from either .xsession or .config/autostart. Nothing shows. >> > > What a bizarre little program this is. > It: > > a) dies if it can't locate the atoms it needs (which is only set by the WM); > > b) creates a separate process for each desktop it finds (yes, indeed!); > > c) can't handle any window already sitting where it wants to be (top LHC); > > d) makes any window who's left edge goes off-screen disappear from its > preview. > > I suggest you file a PR upstream. In the meantime, try this workaround: > > ``` > $ cat ~/.config/openbox/autostart > #!/bin/sh > > { sleep 5; obpager; } & > xmessage -fn 10x20 -timeout 1 'Dummy window created for OBPager' & > > # Run other autostart programs. > # xterm -fn 12x24 -fg Ivory -bg Black -ls & > $ > ```
