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 &
$
```
