[SOLVED] Openbox: Terminal not working

[Tarkus]

Hello to everyone ! I'm new to Linux world and I've chosen Arch Linux as my first distro. After several days of fight, I could finally make my wireless modem, my video card and my audio card work (and I'm freaking proud of it xD). Also, I've installed Openbox, but I have the following problem with the terminal (which is xterm, by default):

Everytime I launch Openbox the terminal gets opened (labeled as "login") and if I close it Openbox gets closed. This is weird as when I installed it in VirtualBox this didn't happen (I haven't seen this on any YouTube video either). Also, there is no response when I enter a command in it (the only thing that seems to do is to give some information about the active programs -for example: "Conky: window type - desktop"). This happens when I open Openbox as the root user as well as a normal user.

I want to mention that I've searched for this issue a lot, so this is my last plan (I don't really like to abuse of forums help). I hope someone can give me a hand with this issue. Thanks in advance!

Happy new year !

Note: I'm not an English native speaker, so excuse me for the mistakes :P

[reed9]

How are you starting openbox?

EDIT: If you're using .xinitrc post the contents here.

[Tarkus]

How are you starting openbox?

EDIT: If you're using .xinitrc post the contents here.

Thanks for the quick reply reed9! I'm starting Openbox by entering the following command:

xinit openbox

Also, I can use:

xinit openbox-session

But I don't know what's the difference between both.

The content of my .xinitrc is:

#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs


if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
	for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*.sh ; do
		[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
	done
	unset f
fi

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

I found this file in the /etc/X11/xinit directory, notice that its name does not start with a dot (that means that it's not hidden, right?).

[reed9]

By default, xinit will run the following unless told otherwise

xterm -geometry +1+1 login -display :0

When starting a WM with xinit, the full path is required, ie

xinit /usr/bin/openbox

Without the full path, xinit ignores what follows and runs the default xinitrc script (or with no xinitrc the above mentioned default). In your case that xinitrc ends with

exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

Which is the xterm you're seeing.

When the xinit script quits, X will end, hence when you close the xterm window, you exit the GUI.

You'll want to override the default with your own settings.

If it doesn't exist, create a file in your home directory, .xinitrc and use that as your start script

echo "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session" >> ~/.xinitrc

(The ck session and dbus part assume you may want to run dbus aware applications, and be able to do things like automount external drives.)

Start your session with

startx

openbox-session v. openbox runs the script ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh or /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart.sh at start, so if you have programs you want to start along with openbox, they can go there.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox

[Tarkus]

Hey reed9! Forgive my delay in replying, that worked perfectly

Thanks a lot for your time, your explanation was very clear!

Cheers