(SOLVED) Openbox PCmanFM not loading

[NCboy]

After the latest PCmanFM update ( original was from 2010-11 openbox iso), right-click on desktop to open file manager, and nothing happens as signed in  as user.

Open a terminal, su to root, and key in pcmanfm, and will open with some errors attached below.


(pcmanfm:13375): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(pcmanfm:13375): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

(pcmanfm:13375): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
** (pcmanfm:13375): DEBUG: unable to load icon . GThemedIcon application-x-cd-image gnome-mime-application-x-cd-image application-x-generic


How do I get pcmanfm back to working in the menu?

[Neal ManBear]

In a terminal execute pcmanfm %U as user, not as root. Does PCManFM launch? Do you get any feedback from te terminal? If so, what? Exactly.

Also try pcmanfm %U /home/NCboy. If NCboy isn't your username, replace it with your username.

[NCboy]

When I try pcmanfm %U get error- No such file or directory. Pcmanfm does not launch.

Try pcmanfm %U /home/username get the same error, but then pcmanfm does launch.

[melodie]

In a terminal execute pcmanfm %U as user, not as root. Does PCManFM launch? Do you get any feedback from te terminal? If so, what? Exactly.

Also try pcmanfm %U /home/NCboy. If NCboy isn't your username, replace it with your username.

Hi Neal,

With all due respect, last year I have explained to you that theses options are not terminal commands and gave you a link to the freedesktop documentation that explains it.

NCboy,

The latest pcmanfm don't support being started as daemon to manage the desktop and also being started after as file manager. The solution is to remove the option "-d" in /home/user/.xsession. You have to remove it from there, from the .xinitrc that is also in the home directory, and in the /root directory (there, as root).

In the full Openbox it's probably in /home/user/.config/openbox/autostart.sh, though.
To perform this, you may edit the file with geany, or with mcedit.

The pcmanfm line must look like this, in any of theses files:

pcmanfm --desktop &

and not anymore like this:

pcmanfm --desktop -d &

If you possibly need to create new users one day, or remaster to reinstall, you will also have to edit theses files under /etc/skel : /etc/skel/.xsession, and so on, same as under /home/user.

[Neal ManBear]

Hi Neal,

With all due respect, last year I have explained to you that theses options are not terminal commands and gave you a link to the freedesktop documentation that explains it.

I was looking for the feedback from the command, Melodie. I didn't say anything more than that.