On Sun 24 Jan 2016 at 11:52:52 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > 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.
Using startx? > 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/ > ) : You do not want to use consolekit. > exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session > openbox-session > > The xinitrc file I am interested in looks like this: You are not interested in using /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but in devising a ~/.xsession file. [Snip] > Running the consolekit is apparent done as follows: > > root #/etc/init.d/consolekit start Where did you get the idea youneed to run consolekit? > My question is: how would I best modify the above script to add the openbox > start up command line? The command might be 'openbox'. Put it at the end of ~/.xsession.
