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.
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?
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2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
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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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 <williamjmorenor@fedoraproject.org
:
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?
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2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
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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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 <williamjmorenor@fedoraproject.org
:
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?
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2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
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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Hi William,
This was the exact problem I ran into, but it no longer seems to be a problem now. I tried on both F26 and F27 and now Openbox shows up for me on the GDM screen, *after* I kill GDM (or reboot). So you may want to advise about that, and then go ahead.
Don't advise switching from GDM to LightDM, doesn't appear necessary.
Paul
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:03:21PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
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?
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2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
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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I did find out during my reading that openbox is basically unmaintained now. You should definitely mention that in the article up front. I don't think the Magazine should cover dead technology without warning users.
https://github.com/danakj/openbox https://github.com/Mikachu/openbox
Paul
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 05:18:56PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Hi William,
This was the exact problem I ran into, but it no longer seems to be a problem now. I tried on both F26 and F27 and now Openbox shows up for me on the GDM screen, *after* I kill GDM (or reboot). So you may want to advise about that, and then go ahead.
Don't advise switching from GDM to LightDM, doesn't appear necessary.
Paul
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:03:21PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
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?
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2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
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.
I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one of the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started guide can help people to use it in fedora.
Regards
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2017-10-24 7:21 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
I did find out during my reading that openbox is basically unmaintained now. You should definitely mention that in the article up front. I don't think the Magazine should cover dead technology without warning users.
https://github.com/danakj/openbox https://github.com/Mikachu/openbox
Paul
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 05:18:56PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
Hi William,
This was the exact problem I ran into, but it no longer seems to be a problem now. I tried on both F26 and F27 and now Openbox shows up for me on the GDM screen, *after* I kill GDM (or reboot). So you may want to advise about that, and then go ahead.
Don't advise switching from GDM to LightDM, doesn't appear necessary.
Paul
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:03:21PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
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 IRC: williamjmorenor Canales: #fedora-latam ; #fedora-ni https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Williamjmorenor
2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
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.
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:58:23PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one of the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started guide can help people to use it in fedora.
William, I've seen the updates and we will get to publishing this. The impending release interrupted our plans but I believe we'll end up publishing this around the week after next.
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:43:24PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:58:23PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one of the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started guide can help people to use it in fedora.
William, I've seen the updates and we will get to publishing this. The impending release interrupted our plans but I believe we'll end up publishing this around the week after next.
William, I see that instead of adding your updates, you overwrote all my previous editing. This makes it much harder for me to finish and publish the article. Can you revert to my last revision, please, and then just add your new material, instead? Thank you in advance.
2017-11-15 7:18 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:43:24PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:58:23PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one
of
the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started
guide
can help people to use it in fedora.
William, I've seen the updates and we will get to publishing this. The impending release interrupted our plans but I believe we'll end up publishing this around the week after next.
William, I see that instead of adding your updates, you overwrote all my previous editing. This makes it much harder for me to finish and publish the article. Can you revert to my last revision, please, and then just add your new material, instead? Thank you in advance.
I think it is done now, thanks a lot for your time.
Hi William,
Is there a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsession for Openbox? I found instructions for this at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2920
I just tried it myself and after rebooting the computer an option for Openbox now shows in the GDM Desktop Session list. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Shaun Assam
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 09:00 -0600, William Moreno wrote:
2017-11-15 7:18 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:43:24PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:58:23PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one
of
the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started
guide
can help people to use it in fedora.
William, I've seen the updates and we will get to publishing this. The impending release interrupted our plans but I believe we'll end up publishing this around the week after next.
William, I see that instead of adding your updates, you overwrote all my previous editing. This makes it much harder for me to finish and publish the article. Can you revert to my last revision, please, and then just add your new material, instead? Thank you in advance.
I think it is done now, thanks a lot for your time. _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@lists.fedoraproject.or g
There is -- for some reason it wasn't working for me, and then it did. I suspect I failed to reboot. So we'll make sure the article reflects the right process.
Paul
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 03:12:13PM +0000, Shaun Assam wrote:
Hi William,
Is there a .desktop file in /usr/share/xsession for Openbox? I found instructions for this at https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2920
I just tried it myself and after rebooting the computer an option for Openbox now shows in the GDM Desktop Session list. Hope this helps.
Regards,
Shaun Assam
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 09:00 -0600, William Moreno wrote:
2017-11-15 7:18 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields stickster@gmail.com:
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:43:24PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 08:58:23PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one
of
the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started
guide
can help people to use it in fedora.
William, I've seen the updates and we will get to publishing this. The impending release interrupted our plans but I believe we'll end up publishing this around the week after next.
William, I see that instead of adding your updates, you overwrote all my previous editing. This makes it much harder for me to finish and publish the article. Can you revert to my last revision, please, and then just add your new material, instead? Thank you in advance.
I think it is done now, thanks a lot for your time. _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@lists.fedoraproject.or g
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Hello Paul did you have a moment to review the openbox article?
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 04:19:25PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
Hello Paul did you have a moment to review the openbox article?
It's been edited and will be published next Monday. Thank you Ryan for the excellent image!
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