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Old 01-19-2014
First I should have stated I did try to set DISPLAY=:0.0 before the previously mentioned try:

Code:
$ export DISPLAY=":0.0" 
$ openbox-session Openbox-Message: Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable. 
$ echo $DISPLAY :0.0

I should have also stated that X is already installed and works with KDE. I was following a page from OpenBSD's support at the link below:

OpenBSDsupport -- Quick steps to an OpenBSD Desktop

However, some of the steps did not seem to work:

Code:
# sysctl -w kern.machdep=1 sysctl: second level name machdep in kern.machdep is invalid

Bakunin's suggestions did get me thinking though. I tried starting X in the background and then starting OpenBox:

Code:
$ xinit  &

X.Org X Server 1.12.3
Release Date: 2012-07-09
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: OpenBSD 5.3 i386 
Current Operating System: OpenBSD leviathan.my.domain 5.3 GENERIC.MP#58 i386
Build Date: 27 February 2013  04:00:52PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.28.0
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan 19 03:25:26 2014
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
mtrr set d5000000 e00000 failed: Invalid argument

Code:
$ openbox-session
Obt-Message: Xinerama extension is not present on the server
which: hsetroot: Command not found.
which: esetroot: Command not found.

It looks like Openbox may be looking for some things that art not installed. As X starts, but no Openbox. I found that there are packages for both hsetroot and esetroot with Linux, but nothing for OpenBSD:

Code:
# pkg_add -r hsetroot
Can't find hsetroot
# pkg_add -r esetroot 
Can't find esetroot

Perhaps someone knows where to find these.
 
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