-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Rene Funck wrote: > Hello Users > > I have a virgin installation of Jessie v.8.2 and i want to run Openbox > without other desktop environments. So my situation is almost identical to > Dwijesh Gajadurs who posted to this list yesterday. > > I followed the advises to Dwijesh: Installed Xorg, installed Openbox (my > own idea, hope i didn't ruin anything, ha ha!), logged in as a regular user > and executed > > *startx.* > It looked like the video-mode changed (probably from text to graphic) and > then i had a working mouse-pointer on black screen. > > Please help!
Hm. It seems the window manager isn't set up in your X session. What's the file /usr/bin/x-window-manager? (I'd expect it to be a symlink to /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager, and this one to be a symlink to your window manager, probably /usr/bin/openbox or something similar). What does the command update-alternatives x-window-manager say? Perhaps you could fix it with sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager or with sudo update-alternatives --set x-window-manager /usr/bin/openbox (please, double-check the path to the openbox executable). Aditionally you might want to have a display manager (xdm, gdm or whatever) if you want to have a graphical login instead of issuing "startx" from the console. Before all that, you could try starting the window manager from a (Linux) console like so: DISPLAY=:0 openbox & (so you can check whether all of the above might work). HTH - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZDUCAACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZJ+wCfdF8S6DNsxy6W9N9VBGuOC23Z VmMAn0PgyWWyJroMba6B8iW8K/bHy463 =MeRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
