Hi all, after installing and rebooting on Silverblue with the command rpm-ostree install openbox, I can not select it from the GDM menu, does someone knows why?
Thanks.
I’ve tried a multitude of things (Reconfigurating Wayland files, checking and editing session files and all that jazz) to get it to show up but none of them seem to work. This seems to be an issue that is exclusive to Silverblue. The only thing left to do is booting into TTY and manually starting Openbox. IMHO, It is not worth the effort, unless someone finds a solution.
I’m still very new to this, so take it with a huge grain of salt. The answer might be much simpler
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Hi Arabella,
I really appreciate all your efforts. I’m looking for a window manager or a temporary solution that takes up minimal space to run an application in full screen, while preventing user interaction with the mouse to close it. (Gnome shell has the activities button so It’s very easy to bypass this with the mouse)
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks again; your help means a lot to me as this is very important.
Openbox is an X11 window compositor and we removed X11 by default from Silverblue. You will likely have to overlay that as well. There is another thread discussing that somewhere here.
Hi, thanks, do you have any alternative that is similar to Openbox (WM) that will work on wayland?
I just need to set it on gdm and that’s it.
Thank you
I use Sway WM. I like it. It is the Wayland replacement for i3 WM and uses the same config and keybinds.
rpm-ostree install sway
You can enter fullscreen with mod+f where it is not immediately obvious how to close the window.
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As @theprogram already mentioned, you can use Sway WM. I would also recommend Cage. It only manages a single fullscreen application, making it a bit more lightweight (although the difference is not really noticable in my experience). I would recommend you try both of them and see what works best. Both are based on wlroots anyways.
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Thank you all for your suggestions, I will try them 
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