.xintirc not always starting openbox

Question

Hi,
till now I managed to fix all problems with arch by investigating and reading but this one drives me crazy.
After I launch the "Your .xsession" from Qingy, Openbox starts if I am lucky but never if I use Qingy to start this session at startup.
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp &
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && echo "$f" >> ~/.xinitrc.log && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
exec /usr/bin/openbox-session
But if I change my .xsession so this:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xsession
# Executed by xdm/gdm/kdm at login
exec openbox-session
#/bin/bash --login -i ~/.xinitrc
Openbox starts always for me.
Does anyone has a clue for me, why I see this behavior from my netbook?
Regards,
Dominik

Answer 1

Inxsible wrote:Maybe something under your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d is holding it up. Everything that you run from the .xinitrc should have a & at the end to background it sorta. If something gets held up, your
exec /usr/bin/openbox-session will not be executed.
Sorry, I didn't mention that I commented out the part of .xinitrc that calls the files in xinitrc.d. The only thing in there is dbus. So the only thing that I suspect is /bin/bash --login -i ~/.xinitrc not working but I have no clou about how to debug that.
Thank you for your input, it helped me think things over an I now go and check if I missed some thing.
Regards,
Dominik
edit:
I did some more testing and it didn't gave me more info but I think qingy and bash --login in combination are my problem because if i login first to a shell and startx all is well.
Last edited by slalomsk8er (2011-04-15 20:52:55)