Tell me more ×  I want to be able to run openbox as my window
manager while running GNOME.  If I install openbox, I get the
additional choices at the GDM login window of a 'GNOME/Openbox'
and an 'openbox session'. If I log in with the 'openbox
session', it starts openbox successfully. However, if I log in
using the 'GNOME/Openbox' session so that I can run GNOME but
just replace metacity with openbox, I find that openbox does not
start, and that metacity is managing my application windows.  It
looks something is not working in the GNOME/Openbox session in
10.04 (and possibly other versions of Ubuntu).  I know that I
can manually replace metacity with openbox by typing 'openbox
--replace', but I want to know the correct way of starting
openbox in a GNOME environment automatically at logon.
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down vote accepted  The GNOME/Openbox session will work if you
edit the file /usr/share/applications/openbox.desktop and add
the following line:   At the next lo