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(a)gmail.com>:
> >
> > > 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.