Re: Openbox update

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I did find out during my reading that openbox is basically
unmaintained now.  You should definitely mention that in the article
up front.  I don't think the Magazine should cover dead technology
without warning users.

https://github.com/danakj/openbox
https://github.com/Mikachu/openbox

Paul

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 05:18:56PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Hi William,
> 
> This was the exact problem I ran into, but it no longer seems to be a
> problem now.  I tried on both F26 and F27 and now Openbox shows up for
> me on the GDM screen, *after* I kill GDM (or reboot).  So you may want
> to advise about that, and then go ahead.
> 
> Don't advise switching from GDM to LightDM, doesn't appear necessary.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:03:21PM -0600, William Moreno wrote:
> > Hi Paul I have doble checked and the install instructions work fine but GDM
> > in Fedora Workstation do not show the entry for openbox after the install,
> > the Plasma sddm and light in the Mate spin show the option to login with
> > openbox.
> > 
> > Do you think ins fine to provide the instruction to swich from GDM to
> > LightDM in the post?
> > 
> > *William Moreno Reyes*
> > Colaborador Proyecto Fedora | Nicaragua
> > IRC:  williamjmorenor Canales: #fedora-latam ; #fedora-ni
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Williamjmorenor
> > 
> > 2017-10-19 6:45 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > > Hi William,
> > >
> > > Are you able to work on that Openbox post over the weekend?  We are
> > > hoping to publish it next week if you can help figure out the
> > > instructions to make it work properly on a fresh install.
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