[Buildroot] wmctrl fails on Xorg with openbox

Laurentiu-Cristian Duca laurentiu.duca at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 13:32:58 UTC 2019


It works, it was my fault because I thought openbox starts by default,
but I had to run it manually in order wmctrl to work.

Thank you
and Kind regards!

On 6/21/19, Laurentiu-Cristian Duca <laurentiu.duca at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello buildroot community,
>
>   I am facing the following problem on Raspberry Pi
> when using buildroot with Xorg and openbox window manager:
>
> # wmctrl -m
> Cannot get window manager info properties.
> (_NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK or _WIN_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK)
>
> # wmctrl -l
> Cannot get client list properties.
> (_NET_CLIENT_LIST or _WIN_CLIENT_LIST)
>
>   This happens with Xorg running while the wmctrl command is launched:
> - it happens from an xterm window
> - it also happens when launching wmctrl from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
>
>   I have also tested wmctrl
> on a Ubuntu 18.0 system and works perfectly.
>
>   Any ideas on how to get it work?
>
>
> Thank you,
> L-C. Duca
>


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