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Openbox workspace settings are ignored

Bug #435638 reported by Susanne Schlensog
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gdm

I've set up 3 desktops (workspaces) in openbox. After re-login, only one shows up (on tint2 panel). This is not happening with slim display manager so I'm sure it's a problem with gdm.

gdm: 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
openbox: 3.4.7.2-4
tint2: 0.7.svn.rev174-1 (from killeroid ppa)

It happens with tint2 from ubuntu repo, too. I just installed a newer version to find out, if it was a tint2 problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 24 06:13:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.35-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

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Susanne Schlensog (sschlensog) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, what do you think it's a gdm issue exactly? gdm only runs your sesion

Changed in gdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Susanne Schlensog (sschlensog) wrote :

I think so because the problem doesn't occur with another display manager (tested with slim).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

gdm just call the command in the openbox desktop file, it's either the session file from openbox worng of an openbox bug

affects: gdm (Ubuntu) → openbox (Ubuntu)
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Bruno Michel (brmichel) wrote :

I've the same problem: when I logged in, Openbox shows only one desktop instead of the 4 configured in rc.xml.

I'm on Ubuntu karmic with OpenBox 3.4.7.2-4 and gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu6.

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Susanne Schlensog (sschlensog) wrote :

The problem occurs als well under 32bit version. Any news on this? Shall I file a bug against openbox?

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Bruno Michel (brmichel) wrote :

I've found a workaround on http://<email address hidden>/msg1707794.html :

put the following in openbox autostart.sh or similar "xprop -root -remove _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS -remove _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES -remove _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP".

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Susanne Schlensog (sschlensog) wrote :

Wow, that does the trick! And at least I was right that this was a gdm issue. Hope it gets fixed...

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dsyates (dsyates) wrote :

I think this is being caused by the new version gdm using metacity.

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Iakov Davydov (iakov-davydov) wrote :

I confirm this bug.

Changed in openbox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Pedro Soria-Rodriguez (pedrosoriarodriguez) wrote :

I can confirm this bug too (single desktop in openbox, despite a configuration of 4 desktops)

My set-up is:
  gdm: 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  openbox: 3.4.7.2-4
  (not using tint at all)

Indeed, this problem did not happen in Ubuntu 9.04. I only experienced it in a fresh install of 9.10.

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horstlleno (horstlleno) wrote :

what Bruno Michel is correct, but you have to make sure to run openbox by running
$ openbox-session
and not
$ openbox
itself. Only with openbox-session the .config/openbox/autostart.sh will be executed. Also see http://icculus.org/openbox/index.php/Help:Autostart

Bruno Michel suggested to include
"xprop -root -remove _NET_NUMBER_OF_DESKTOPS -remove _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES -remove _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP"
in the autostart.sh

i'm writing this cause I invoked openbox directly without the session script

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JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann) wrote :

*raising a hand* to tell: also affects me ;-)

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JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann) wrote :

upgraded from a fresh install of 9.04 to 9.10 , 32bit. using: openbox-3.4.7.2-4ubuntu1

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Nobu (benjo316) wrote :

Just came from reading bug #400301. Comment 10 in that bug pointed me to a bug which suggests this issue is related to GDM. In that bug, according to comment 4 and following comments[0], it appears that this bug is related to GDM.

[0] http://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4040#c4

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Nobu (benjo316) wrote :

Actually it would probably be good to read that whole bug, and maybe the redhat bug that's linked to in comment 2.

It would be nice to know if this has been reported upstream or not, also.

I'm on 64-bit karmic, btw.

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stimuli (rustyvespa) wrote :

I can confirm this is an issue on Lucid. Thank goodness for the hack-fix!

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in openbox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Mateusz Łukasik (mati75)
Changed in openbox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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