[gentoo-user] lxde +openbox updates

[gentoo-user] lxde +openbox updates

[James]

Hello,

Well, I took the plunge and put LXDE and openbox on a FX-8350
with 32 gig of ram. KDE was just too much of a pig and I got
tired of spending hours and hours of researching what had changes....ymmv.

So I'm lov'n LXDE _ openbox, although I do have to go out and
parse the scant documentation available. So I'll just post what 
I want. I set up my desktop manually, just the way I like it.
I basically have 2 problems.

1. All of the software I install, only a few things are picked up
by openbox into the menu and submenus. Is there a simple app
I can add and run to pick up all of those apps into the openbox
menu? What I have read  seems confusing, as there are menu files
all over the user and /etc/xdg dir structures? Advise?


2. In the ~/.config/lxsessions/LXDE/autostart file, I have:

@lxpanel --profile LXDE
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
@xscreensaver -no-splash
seamonkey
thunderbird
@lxterminal


I have 4 differnt lxterminal sessions, each with 6 windows. I do not
see how this single line "lxtermial" can remember all 4 window locations
and the 6 tabs under each window; so how do I config this so 
ti all comes up on logout/login or and reboots?


James

Re: [gentoo-user] lxde +openbox updates

[hasufell]

On 01/24/2014 10:46 PM, James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Well, I took the plunge and put LXDE and openbox on a FX-8350
> with 32 gig of ram. KDE was just too much of a pig and I got
> tired of spending hours and hours of researching what had changes....ymmv.
> 
> So I'm lov'n LXDE _ openbox, although I do have to go out and
> parse the scant documentation available. So I'll just post what 
> I want. I set up my desktop manually, just the way I like it.
> I basically have 2 problems.
> 
> 1. All of the software I install, only a few things are picked up
> by openbox into the menu and submenus. Is there a simple app
> I can add and run to pick up all of those apps into the openbox
> menu? What I have read  seems confusing, as there are menu files
> all over the user and /etc/xdg dir structures? Advise?
> 
> 

I recommend x11-misc/obmenugen
but there are others like x11-misc/openbox-menu as well



> 2. In the ~/.config/lxsessions/LXDE/autostart file, I have:
> 
> @lxpanel --profile LXDE
> @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
> @xscreensaver -no-splash
> seamonkey
> thunderbird
> @lxterminal
> 
> 
> I have 4 differnt lxterminal sessions, each with 6 windows. I do not
> see how this single line "lxtermial" can remember all 4 window locations
> and the 6 tabs under each window; so how do I config this so 
> ti all comes up on logout/login or and reboots?
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 

You might want to have a look at x11-terms/terminator which lets you
configure complex terminal profiles.

also mind the <applications> settings in openbox rc.xml where you can
define how and where new windows are placed

[gentoo-user] Re: lxde +openbox updates

[James]

hasufell <hasufell <at> gentoo.org> writes:


> > 1. All of the software I install, only a few things are picked up
> > by openbox into the menu and submenus. Is there a simple app
> > I can add and run to pick up all of those apps into the openbox
> > menu? What I have read  seems confusing, as there are menu files
> > all over the user and /etc/xdg dir structures? Advise?

> I recommend x11-misc/obmenugen
> but there are others like x11-misc/openbox-menu as well

thanks for the fast response. For now, I'm trying to stick with
openbox/lxde. After some time, I'll try other things. 
I just emerged openbox-menu.  I would have thought that
lxde-meta would have picke this up?


thx,
James