Re: Using Openbox with Wayland

Dana,

That is what I read (on Fedora's webpage about wayland) also. Does that mean that Anthony's suggestion will eventually stop working? 

Thanks also to Anthony for the detailed instructions. I will try them out for now.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

On Sun, 18 Dec 2016 23:00:47 -0500 Dana Jansens <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is currently a transitional period where you can run X under wayland,
> in which you can of course run a WM. One day most apps will be ported to
> wayland and everyone will run them natively with the wayland compositor as
> the WM. At least this is my understanding of where things are/going.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > I am currently using openbox on fedora 25 ... no problems,
> > Though it switched to a XOrg server (on tty2) for my session, rather than
> > run under Wayland (on tty1)
> >
> > I run openbox from the 'orginal' scripted Xsession/XInitrc setup.
> > Which I launch by installing the package  "xorg-x11-xinit-session"
> > That lets me select a "User Script" session from the login screen (on tty1)
> >
> >
> > I don't know the mechanics of how it does this switch, but it worked
> > 'out-of-the-box',  mostly as all my normal packages was installed.
> >
> > I installed Fedora 25 into a new 'root' partition while running fedora 22.
> > As such I had all the packages I wanted installed even before I first boot
> > the system!
> > This was the first time I did it this way and after some experimenting it
> > worked great.
> > My notes on how to install (not upgrade) a new release, while running a
> > old release is in
> > http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/usage/fedora_
> > on_new_partition.txt
> >
> > WARNING: That update worked for EXT4 but I am missing something with grub
> > for handling a XFS root partitions. If anyone know what I missed please
> > contact me.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Jim Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> >>
> >>   Thanks again to both Dana and Ian! This will be quite a problem for me
> >> to
> >>   leave Fedora since I have spent over 13 years on it, and have been a
> >>   contributor also. But I will ask on Fedora's mailing list about what the
> >>   options are, since I also do not want to get tied down by an unnecessary
> >>   DE.
> >>
> >> I too have avoided using a DE. Every time I try one it seems to just get
> >> in
> >> the way. But the world is headed in that direction.
> >>
> >> I've had good luck with Arch. It's modular enough that you can add just
> >> Xorg, add a WM if you want, or add any of the popular DEs if you want. I
> >> suspect you can still do this with Fedora; you could last time I tried.
> >> But
> >> it's probably easier with Arch. I have even installed Ubuntu with just
> >> Xorg
> >> and Openbox, and that wasn't too hard.
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