[Tech] locking out openbox

[Michael Paoli]

Hmmm, ... I'd guestimate there's probably a better way to achieve
that functionality?

Renaming the files may cause issues/problems, e.g. upgrades,
possibly even including security fixes, may fail, or may
quietly undo your changes.  I might suggest (in not
necessarily precisely this order):
o check the documentation
o research (e.g. search the fine web)
o ask on relevant list(s) (e.g. *buntu, lubuntu, lubuntu desktop config)
Maybe even someone here on this list will cover that.

Anyway, glad to hear you at least found a solution that's working
for the time being.

> From: "Christian Einfeldt" <einfeldt at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tech] locking out openbox
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:26:14 -0700

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to let this list know of the solution to a problem that we had
> been having at one of the homeless shelters that we are serving.
>
> The problem is that the residents were clicking on a button on the top
> right hand corner of the login screen under Lubuntu 14.04, and then
> choosing openbox, which would start an openbox session, rather than a
> lubuntu session, which in turn resulted in the machine being not useful
> until it was rebooted.  The button looks like the Lubuntu symbol, like this:
>
>
> ?
> The login screen is the screen where you chose which user you want and
> entering the password for that account.
>
> The solution to the problem was to just rename the offending files which
> start openbox and Lubuntu netbook., which means that the only remaining
> visible option was the regular Lubuntu session.  Here is how I did it on my
> own computer, just using the simple mv command:
>
> cje at beast:/usr/share/xsessions$ ls
> Lubuntu.desktop  Lubuntu-Netbook.desktop  openbox.desktop
>
> cje at beast:/usr/share/xsessions$ ls
> Lubuntu.desktop  Lubuntu-Netbook.desktop.bak  openbox.desktop.bak
>
> Here's where I got the idea for this solution:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2248685
>
> I will implement these changes soon at the Crosby.  Thanks for reading.
> :-)
>
> --
> Christian Einfeldt