Re: Openbox update

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I made the updates to the post, please let me know if you have any
aditional comment, even if openbox in not a very active project is one of
the classic desktop enviroments in Linux and I think a good started guide
can help people to use it in fedora.

Regards

*William Moreno Reyes*
Colaborador Proyecto Fedora | Nicaragua
IRC:  williamjmorenor Canales: #fedora-latam ; #fedora-ni
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Williamjmorenor

2017-10-24 7:21 GMT-06:00 Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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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