Change session from Gnome to Openbox?

[ponder]

When you login you have an option to change your session type to Openbox (if installed & it is) but this does not seem to work in Ubuntu 10.10?

Really must get Arch back on my desktop, so much easier to fixed stuff (which would not have been broken in the first place) than in this hellishly customised Ubuntu thing.

 

[Grim147]

well if you from arch , then i dont know what would make you decide to go to ubuntu . solution go back to arch , or you could just add a desktop entry into /usr/share/xsessions copy the one that you currently use(change the exec to openbox-session) .i personaly would use slim and setup a .xinitrc file much easier to manage

 

[ponder]

well if you from arch , then i dont know what would make you decide to go to ubuntu . solution go back to arch..

I had to do a quick install the one day (can't remember what went wrong but it was HDD related) and just installed Ubuntu which I had, I needed a working system like NOW and not a couple of hours later. This was after using Arch for about 3yrs, Ubuntu is not my precious by a long shot

I see you are into S&M (Gentoo)

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

When you login you have an option to change your session type to Openbox (if installed & it is) but this does not seem to work in Ubuntu 10.10?

Really must get Arch back on my desktop, so much easier to fixed stuff (which would not have been broken in the first place) than in this hellishly customised Ubuntu thing.

Teach you ... only reason why I went back to Ubuntu from Arch was time. I enjoyed my two months on Arch and learnt more about Linux with Arch than 5yrs with Ubuntu / Debian. Will go back to Arch in two years time when I'm finished with studies - its so damn addictive.

 

[ponder]

Ok, it's working but I changed nothing. For some odd reason it decided to boot into openbox now which it did not do the previous time I rebooted. Go figure.

 

[ponder]

Teach you ... only reason why I went back to Ubuntu from Arch was time. I enjoyed my two months on Arch and learnt more about Linux with Arch than 5yrs with Ubuntu / Debian. Will go back to Arch in two years time when I'm finished with studies - its so damn addictive.

Thing is Arch is so simple. Once you get the hang of it it is pure
After 3 yrs of use everything else just feels wrong or restrictive. You know the simple Arch config files off by heart and if you need help the wiki sorts you out 99% of the time and after that there is the forums if needed, these things alone make it a great distro.

Typing this I feel like

 

[Grim147]

I see you are into S&M (Gentoo)

over gentoo, been on arch for awhile now , will never go back