No icons with autostart in openbox

[keiem]

When I autostart xlunch in openbox, I don't have icons on the desktop although xlunch is running. When I do a killall xlunch and start it again with xlunch -dnq then everything works as expected.

It's acustom install on manjaro linux. I have also compton and tint2 started in my autostart configuration.

[PMunch]

Hmm, could you try writing xlunch messages to a log file so we can see what happens? Something like xlunch 2>/tmp/xlunch.log.

[keiem]

I tried this but the log is empty.

[PMunch]

Hmm, that should mean it doesn't have anything to complain about. Can you confirm that xlunch is running on your machine, or did it stop? Do you see the background image/colour you set, or just your regular background image? It might be some race condition where it is faster to start than something it depends on, or something that draws over it.

[keiem]

Xlunch is running as I can kill it. I also see the background from xlunch, but no icons. My first idea was it loads to quick, so I added a sleep time off 4 seconds (maybe to short). 2nd thought was it was conky so I removed it from the autostart as it doesn't fit together with xlunch. My last idea is tint2. I have it also started in my autostart file but I didn't change anything yet cause I'm on little time lately. Point is when I start xlunch manually after tint2 is already running, it works. So tint2 and xlunch can run on the same time. Myabe I should remove xlunch out of my autstart and make a user systemd instance for it. Op di 5 mrt. 2019 om 09:03 schreef PMunch <notifications@github.com>:

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Hmm, that should mean it doesn't have anything to complain about. Can you confirm that xlunch is running on your machine, or did it stop? Do you see the background image/colour you set, or just your regular background image? It might be some race condition where it is faster to start than something it depends on, or something that draws over it. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#105 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Aj4vBIWpB7j3e9pzzeFB7rK8gUfOUpt_ks5vTiTJgaJpZM4azzrb> .

[PMunch]

Ah now that I think about it this might be related to another issue. See this comment, I think it's the same issue.

[fredx181]

Ah now that I think about it this might be related to another issue. See this comment, I think it's the same issue.

Yes, that's probably it, for me also no icons show when running xlunch from openbox autostart.
Fix is to specify input e.g. -i /path/to/entries.dsv
Or use something like:

[ -f $HOME/.config/xlunch/entries.dsv ] && ENTRIES=$HOME/.config/xlunch/entries.dsv || ENTRIES=/etc/xlunch/entries.dsv
xlunch -i $ENTRIES .... ..... ....

[PMunch]

Closing this as a duplicate of #91