Openbox set wallpaper issue

[GODhack]

I set openbox wallpaper with:

feh --bg-scale ~/Pictures/image.jpg &

In ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh last line.
But some kind of KDE stuff overrides it and sets default again after few seconds. I can override it again with manual command. Strange. :O
How can I set wallpaper then in openbox in proper way?

[smr54]

How do you log in--that is, do you boot up in GUI and then select openbox? I don't have that issue, but I boot up into textmode and then run startx manually.

Maybe you could put the feh line into ~/.xinitrc, but TBH, I don't know how it works if you boot into runlevel 5, there's some other files in /etc/X11 that are doing something.

Hopefully, someone with more knowledge will give a more accurate answer shortly, just threw this out here in case no one does.

[GODhack]

yes, I boot to KDM and select Openbox. Very strange because after login I see my walpaper for few seconds.

[smr54]

Is it worth the effort to you to try

Set runlevel to 3 (in /etc/inittab, edit default runlevel, changing from 5 to 3--or, change the 0 timeout of grub to 3 or something and then, add a 3 to the end of the kernel line)

Make a $HOME/.xinitrc (note the dot in front) which just contains

exec openbox-session

Then, type startx

And see if the problem disappears. I think it will, Still waiting for someone who understands the runlevel 5 with KDE installed boot process. Obviously, something gets called after autostart, but I wouldn't even know where to look.

[PabloTwo]

Before my personal computer (W2K/F12) gave up the ghost about a week and a half ago, I had been booting into Openbox for the prior 3 weeks or so. I set my Desktop wallpaper in Openbox by just opening the right-click (on empty desktop space) menu once booted into OB and selecting, if I remember correctly, "Appearance", and made my selection there. Then, when I booted into OB, my wallpaper was always set. No adding a line to the ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh file needed, though, I suppose it can be done that way also.

[GODhack]

In Fedora .../12/13 it was OK for me too.
Where can I set kdm wallpaper? It whould be the most simple override imo.

[sonoran]

I had GNOME installed in F14 before I added openbox, and I haven't had to use feh - my preferred GNOME background appears without any background specification in openbox.

In my Arch system, without anything remotely GNOME-related, I notice I have a shell script named .fehbg in my home directory which I call from autostart.sh with

(sleep 1 && /home/pcg/.fehbg) &

The .fehbg script is the single command

feh --bg-tile '/usr/share/backgrounds/grey.png'

I really don't remember why I set it up that way - maybe I read it in the docs, maybe it was the first thing that worked. My Arch system is 3 years old (love that rolling release) and my memory is fading rapidly with age.