Re: openbox, obpager

[Niels Müller Larsen <arosano%protonmail.com@localhost>]

Thnx.
The sleep actually made it.
If you push windows out of the current workspace/desktop, they rotate into the other workspaces.
It was a nostalgia trip with openbox, from my Linuxes way back. I think I’ll stick with ctwm which I use on an openbsd device.
/niels

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:01, RVP <[rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost](mailto:On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 11:01, RVP <<a href=)> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jul 2025, Niels Müller Larsen wrote:
>
>> When I run ‘obpager &’ from a terminal after X is started, it starts nicely showing my workspaces and everthing works.
>>
>> The problem is that I don’t get the pager on the screen if I try to run ‘obpager &’ from either .xsession or .config/autostart. Nothing shows.
>>
>
> What a bizarre little program this is.
> It:
>
> a) dies if it can't locate the atoms it needs (which is only set by the WM);
>
> b) creates a separate process for each desktop it finds (yes, indeed!);
>
> c) can't handle any window already sitting where it wants to be (top LHC);
>
> d) makes any window who's left edge goes off-screen disappear from its preview.
>
> I suggest you file a PR upstream. In the meantime, try this workaround:
>
> ```
> $ cat ~/.config/openbox/autostart
> #!/bin/sh
>
> { sleep 5; obpager; } &
> xmessage -fn 10x20 -timeout 1 'Dummy window created for OBPager' &
>
> # Run other autostart programs.
> # xterm -fn 12x24 -fg Ivory -bg Black -ls &
> $
> ```