I'm running my application (GUI) in kiosk mode via LightDM. This works fine, but i'm having a hard time including openbox to it. My application simply has no borders or decorations, although i'm setting openbox as user-session
lightdm.conf:
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=openbox
autologin-user= xxxx
autologin-user-timeout=0
session-setup-script= /home/xxxx/Desktop/runapp.sh // run application
in /usr/share/xsessions there is a openbox.desktop file, so i don't know why its not working for me.
So the solution is pretty easy.
You need to create a autostart.sh file located in /home/xxx/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
If you don't have an openbox folder, just create one.
this is what my autostart.sh file looks like:
cd /home/xxx/Desktop/app //switch to folder where my app is located
./runapp // run my app
make it executable: chmod +x autostart.sh
lightdm.conf
[SeatDefaults]
user-session=openbox
autologin-user= xxx
autologin-user-timeout=0
Now, when I'm booting, my GUI application is shown correctly using the openbox window manager.