[Bug 272418] Re: openbox/Gnome wont launch from gdm

[Antti Kaihola]

I've experienced this on Ubuntu Netboox Remix 9.04.

After installing the openbox packages, selecting the Openbox/GNOME
session used Metacity instead of Openbox as the window manager.

I removed the --choose-session argument, and it fixed the issue until I
turned Compiz on and back off from the System menu. I wouldn't get any
window manager with GNOME and got this in .xsession-errors:

    gnome-session[13754]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'openbox' of
required component 'windowmanager'

These are the steps I took to fix the issue:

1. applied this patch to /usr/bin/openbox-gnome-session:
   http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/3498?getfile=657

2. gconftool-2 -s -t string
/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager openbox

3. sudo ln -s /usr/share/gnome/wm-properties/openbox.desktop
/usr/share/applications/

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openbox/Gnome wont launch from gdm
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272418
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