openbox/Xorg

[coreplayer2]

I must say openbox is very attractive
 
Anyhow, when starting openbox from the terminal according to this message libXinerama does not satisfy the requirements for Xinerama,  or does Xinerama need enabling in the Xorg config file somehow?

tc@box:~$ openbox
Obt-Message: Xinerama extension is not present on the server
tc@box:~$ tce-load -i libXinerama
libXinerama is already installed!
tc@box:~$

[curaga]

Yes, you need to specifically enable it in xorg.conf.

Note that you likely don't want to enable it. It's the old solution for moving windows across screens, it disables any acceleration.

[gordonselfish]

pressing control and F1
gives me a heap of error messages but I selfishly ignore them until lxde arrives

In the meantime, you may like a link to a good guide?
http://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/

[andyj]

I've also found openbox and lxterminal to be the best solution for a VM with Xorg and open-vm-tools. No video corruption, widgets work, and 3d apps like Google Earth flight simulator and Youtube videos (in Google Chrome) are smooth. I have openbox.tcz in onboot.lst. Wouldn't you want it available when X starts, rather than trying to change WM after it's already up?

[coreplayer2]

curaga thanks for the info.  Am sure acceleration is better unless you have multiple screens,  I was curious why the error message was all. 

Adding a window manager to the onboot.lst and allowing their start script to set the WM at boot is the normal way of starting a WM, and is how I start my favorite new and improved Fluxbox WM.   

I wasn't trying to change my WM after boot, but starting tc without a WM then loading and executing openbox helped to identify the source of the error messages.