Enlightenment...help!

infernova · 2005-08-26 09:17:12

I installed Enlightenment, and was able to run it ONLY if I go in to console mode and use "startx"

here's how my .xinitrc looks like

#!/bin/sh

#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#

exec enlightenment

However, I want to go straight to my Desktop Manager from startup or fresh reboot, hence I modify entry within my /etc/inittab to look like this.

#
# /etc/inittab
#

#  Runlevels:
#    0    Halt
#    1(S)       Single-user
#    2    Not used
#    3    Multi-user
#    4    Not used
#    5    X11
#    6    Reboot

id:5:initdefault:

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/6 linux

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/enlightenment -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon

# End of file

After restart, I'm not able to go in my Enlightenment, and there was long error that keeps on repeating, something with X server.

Care to shed any light here? I've used KDE and GNOME so far, but I want to try something different.

I appreciate the feedback.

Karma XXL · 2005-08-26 09:48:32

You shouldn't set it up like this. This way enlightenment would run as root... If it started, in the first place. Enlightenment is a Window Manager, not a login manager.

A working way is to set up GDM (or KDM, your choice) to run at runlevel 5:

x:5:respawn:/opt/gnome/bin/gdm -nodaemon

And then enable auto-login with your username. You'll have to log in once with the login manager, so it'll remember that your WM of choice is enlightenment.

Note: I like GDM because I can run X11 applications as root with su out of the box. KDM doesn't let me without setting something up first, which I didn't want to spend time solving.

infernova · 2005-08-29 03:50:12

I try using login manager to set your choice, be it KDE, GNOME or some other. The problem with KDE is that I don't see where to see it within Login Manager options.

infernova · 2005-08-29 04:00:20

Forgot to add

I've already put back the KDE as my default within /etc/inittab

In addition, I enabled auto login for my username, and when I reboot the next time, it went straightaway to KDE instead of giving me the option of which Login Manager I want.

Can someone using KDE give some advices? Thanks

infernova · 2005-08-29 04:12:00

Nvm, I found it.

jerrym · 2005-08-31 02:52:37

Karma XXL wrote:

Note: I like GDM because I can run X11 applications as root with su out of the box. KDM doesn't let me without setting something up first, which I didn't want to spend time solving.

can you expand on this? not sure i know what you mean, but would like to. sorry for getting off topic

Snowman · 2005-08-31 04:22:08

Here how I do it (I use XDM):
In the user's ~/.bashrc, put:

if [ ! -f /tmp/user.xauth ]; then
    umask 377
    /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth extract /tmp/user.xauth $DISPLAY
    umask 022
fi

In root's ~/.bashrc, put:

if [ -f /tmp/user.xauth ]; then
    xauth merge /tmp/user.xauth
fi

Karma XXL · 2005-08-31 05:28:27

jerrym wrote:

can you expand on this? not sure i know what you mean, but would like to. sorry for getting off topic

Months ago, when I was using KDM, I couldn't start any GUI apps as root with su.

I was not the only one:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … play+error

I haven't tried KDM ever since, maybe this is already resolved, but I think it was the expected behavior... I don't know.

I hope this clears up a bit

jerrym · 2005-09-04 02:28:55

ahhh, i think that is still there, but not sure if it is a problem per se
thanks for the clarification

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Enlightenment...help!

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Re: Enlightenment...help!

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