well that's why using a distribution is easier than doing things by yourself :-) you can for sure create your own desktop by plugging several programs togather, but then you need to know about certain things. We could detect that X settings are missing, but after all, all applications could, and all applications will look ugly without them.
Openbox is a Window-manager, like Compiz or Metacity, so it's not its job to define the X settings. Your distribution should have set 'gnome-settings-daemon' as auto-start on logging (I wonder why it was not the case for you). In any case, I think that when you start tweaking your desktop like that, you need to learn a bit (what you did), and that's part of the fun :-) 2013/9/18 Jehan <[email protected]> > Hi, > > actually right now, using gnome-settings-daemon is acceptable because it > gives me some nice features (like support of ICC profiles, etc.). But I > am wondering if there is not a way to at least tell the user about these > kind of tools. Not all users know all Freedesktop specifications. ;-) > > For instance, I was certain for days that there was something broken > with cairo-dock when I saw all these broken icons. And I stumbled upon > gnome-settings-daemon completely by chance by seeing this command > commented out in a default openbox autostart script. I tried to see what > it did, and kept it in my own autostart only because I saw it got me > back the support of ICC profiles. Then at the next restart, the icons > were there! That was just chance after chance. > > A better way would be to be able to somehow tell the user who does not > use one of the common desktops about common tools to still have features > and a nice-looking UI. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Cairo- > Dock Devs, which is subscribed to Cairo-Dock Core. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226925 > > Title: > gnome-settings-daemon necessary to have icons > > Status in Cairo-Dock : Core: > New > > Bug description: > I was using cairo-dock in a bare openbox session (no GNOME/KDE) and > many of the icons in various plug-ins were broken (ok so maybe that is > a bug report which should go in cairo-dock-plug-ins then, but since it > happened all over the place, I was unsure if this is not rather a core > issue. > > For instance in the attached image, you can see that all icons in > shortcuts are question-mark icons instead of usual partition/folder > icons. In the Applications Menu plug-ins, they would be ugly red- > crossed "no icon" icon. > > But if I run `gnome-settings-daemon &` in my autostart script *before* > I run cairo-dock, then I have nice icons in shortcuts/Applications > Menu (and even the application menu icon itself would change to the > Mint icon for some reason). > > Why is that? Can't you run cairo-dock without some minimum of GNOME > running (or KDE or other, I have not tried if it fixes the issue > there) and have nice-looking icons? It would be nice to have a nice- > looking system, even without any desktop environment running in > background. :-) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1226925/+subscriptions > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Cairo- Dock Devs, which is subscribed to Cairo-Dock Core. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226925 Title: gnome-settings-daemon necessary to have icons Status in Cairo-Dock : Core: New Bug description: I was using cairo-dock in a bare openbox session (no GNOME/KDE) and many of the icons in various plug-ins were broken (ok so maybe that is a bug report which should go in cairo-dock-plug-ins then, but since it happened all over the place, I was unsure if this is not rather a core issue. For instance in the attached image, you can see that all icons in shortcuts are question-mark icons instead of usual partition/folder icons. In the Applications Menu plug-ins, they would be ugly red- crossed "no icon" icon. But if I run `gnome-settings-daemon &` in my autostart script *before* I run cairo-dock, then I have nice icons in shortcuts/Applications Menu (and even the application menu icon itself would change to the Mint icon for some reason). Why is that? Can't you run cairo-dock without some minimum of GNOME running (or KDE or other, I have not tried if it fixes the issue there) and have nice-looking icons? It would be nice to have a nice- looking system, even without any desktop environment running in background. :-) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core/+bug/1226925/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
