Openbox and D-Bus

I have a couple of questions regarding D-Bus usage. I am currently using Openbox as WM and i don't need/use consolekit. I run D-Bus as daemon from rc.conf and also during my user session via dbus-launch in my .xinitrc just before openbox-session.
a) Currently in my system i have avahi, qt and xfconf depending on D-Bus. That means that i need to have D-Bus running as a daemon for these applications to run propely or i just need to have D-bus only installed to satisfy the dependancies?
b) As far as i know beside running D-Bus as a daemon, it should(?) be running from .xinitrc too. I have seen that apart from running it by dbus-launch, it can be run by
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
that actually invokes /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus script that i assume that also runs D-Bus. Which method from the above is the proper to invoke D-Bus in user session?

a) I'm pretty sure you'll need D-Bus to be running (daemon in rc.conf).
b) I'd say use that little script in your .xinitrc rather than just dbus-launch.

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Last edited by patrickmaciel (2014-07-26 22:07:58)

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Sorry for my english
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Last edited by emeres (2014-09-21 00:33:57)

Openbox and window focusing

I'm having some problem with Openbox not focusing the windows as it should, if someone post a link on IRC and I click it in XChat then Firefox will load the url and will be moved to front just like it should. However the focus isn't shifted from XChat to Firefox, so any keyboard input will still be sent to XChat which is quite annoying if I want to close the tab (CTRL+W) as it will close the currently active tab in XChat instead of Firefox. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be?
In ObConf I have the option "Focus new windows when they appear" checked, however, my Firefox is always running so it's not a new window and thus this one should be irreleveant.
Versions (in case it should matter):
$ pacman -Q firefox xchat openbox
firefox 2.0.0.7-1
xchat 2.8.4-1
openbox 3.4.4-1

fivre wrote:Is anyone familiar enough with whatever changes Openbox and Fluxbox have made to the *box theme spec to explain me the major differences?
http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Themes
thayer wrote:The next major version of Openbox is also said to be doing away entirely with the X resource style themes. Themes will be written in pure XML.
afaik there is a small script which "translates" existing themes automatically to xml.
ps: but i´m not finding it right now...
Last edited by DonVla (2008-08-08 23:57:23)

Openbox and AWN Dock

Hey guys
i noticed this post in the ubuntu forums by "Ringi" page 27
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? … 07&page=27
http://ompldr.org/vZGo5ag - picture
Hes got a lovely AWN setup. with a popup menu with apps and everything.
I was wondering. would it be possable to get AWN working with openbox and looking like that. and if so, how. along with the transparency and menu, would you have to use XDG to get the programs listed. or does AWN read installed packages. like would you need a menu system

I have some problem...
If compiz deactive an use compositing feauture in metacity this shadow don't apear again..
I hope master archlinux can reply this problem

ThinkStation S30 SM bios and SM bus installation?

Hey there,
I can't imagine that I'm the only one deploying Windows 7 with automated BitLocker encryption to an S30, so here's my problem:
When activating the TPM chipset without the physical presence check using tpm_activate_cmd.exe we had to integrate the SM bios and SM bus drivers using "psainst.exe -install" (for SM bios) and "i2cinst.exe -install" for SM bus before actually being able to use tpm_activate_cmd.exe
However, with the S30 only the SM bios integration (psainst.exe) works and the SM bus from the latest Client Security Solution available for the S30 throws me a nasty message:
Copyright Lenovo 2005-2008, all rights reserved.
Windows ThinkVantage Technoligies SM Bus driver installer Version 5.1018
No Chipset support for this PC.
So, has anybody successfully integrated the SM bus drivers in conjunction with tpm_activate_cmd.exe yet?

Hi jdeb
Thank you for the reply. I will check your hint, even if they describe a different situation.
They were able to install but not to boot (Error 1962: No operating system found.)
Our problem is different. We aren't able to finish the installation because it aren't able to detect the hard disk during the installation. It stops when it tries to make the partition: no disk found.
Anyway I will try to follow what they did to figure out if it can work also for us.
Thank you
Regards
Fab

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