enlightenment boot

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-17 19:01:43

wmaker continues to boot up instead of enlightenment...

these are me' stages:

1. pacman -S enlightenment

2. nano /home/christian/.xinitrc

exec enlightenment

3. nano /etc/inittab

id:5:initdefault

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/wdm -nodaemon -config /etc/wdm/wdm-config

(wdm isn't even working... ideally I'd like to get entrance but first things first)

.. then I reboot and it comes up in the pale blue wmaker... is there a line I'm missing? and when I type exec enlightenment into the terminal it says- "another windo manager is already running" and offers to edit the start up files but it just goes back into wmaker...

thanks!

mpie · 2005-10-17 19:08:44

put inittab back to 3

try exec enlightenment from cli

no use booting to level5 if wdm is not working , try slim

its a lightweight good looking login manager but does take some more file editing to set up, its on the wiki

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-17 19:39:04

I'll take a look at slim...

but I don't know much about cli ... how would i go about exec enlightenment from cli?

thanks!

keevn7 · 2005-10-17 19:46:18

christianpurefoy wrote:

I'll take a look at slim...
but I don't know much about cli ... how would i go about exec enlightenment from cli?
thanks!

Type startx

jerrym · 2005-10-18 18:06:46

mpie wrote:

try slim
its a lightweight good looking login manager but does take some more file editing to set up, its on the wiki

cant find slim on the wiki (the arch wiki i assume). also cannot find slim in the package list on archlinux.org.

got a link?

Snowman · 2005-10-18 18:44:42

Try putting
exec enlightenment
in ~/.xsession
I dont know if it's the case with wdm, but xdm uses ~/.xsession and not ~/.xinitrc

jerrym: slim is in the [community] repo

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-18 18:48:53

okay- I've now downloaded both entrance and enlightenment 17.

I've put ''entranced'' into rc.conf DAEMONS and I've got ''exec enlightenment'' in /.xinitrc

I reboot and entrance appears! I type in my user and password (and select enlightenment, default, ... all of ém in fact!) and the entrance fades away... only to reappear again!! Enlightenment doesn't load up and I'm stuck in the neverworld of Entrance- Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn't get rid of it... what takes me back to the default?

Apart from being stuck in the neverworld of entrance, I think the problem lies in adding enlightenment to entrance's login manager list or something... but I look for nano /home/christian/.xsession and only a new file empty file comes up...

(If I type startX then Enlightenment loads up- but I'd like it to boot up immediately)

Thanks!

mpie · 2005-10-18 18:57:58

jerrym wrote:

mpie wrote:
try slim
its a lightweight good looking login manager but does take some more file editing to set up, its on the wiki
cant find slim on the wiki (the arch wiki i assume). also cannot find slim in the package list on archlinux.org.
got a link?

do you have the community repo enables...

pacman -S slim slim-themes
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … _Orphans=0

Snowman · 2005-10-18 19:16:28

christianpurefoy wrote:

Apart from being stuck in the neverworld of entrance, I think the problem lies in adding enlightenment to entrance's login manager list or something... but I look for nano /home/christian/.xsession and only a new file empty file comes up...

If ~/.xsession doesn't exist, create it.

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-18 19:25:40

hey!

What else should I put in apart from:

exec enlightenment

and will entrance automatically point to /.xsession or should I set that up to?

... and how do you get out of the entrance neverworld- even when I reboot it comes up with entrance... I can't get out! :shock:

thanks !

jerrym · 2005-10-18 19:41:14

mpie wrote:

do you have the community repo enables...
pacman -S slim slim-themes
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … _Orphans=0

ahhh that would explain it. thanks, i will check it out!

Snowman · 2005-10-18 20:52:31

christianpurefoy wrote:

What else should I put in apart from:
exec enlightenment

Any apps you want to start with your session: adesklets, xscreensaver, xterm...

christianpurefoy wrote:

and will entrance automatically point to /.xsession or should I set that up to?

It's possible that entrance uses another config file. For example, kdm is using config somewhere in /opt/kde/... Check the content of entrance package with pacman -Ql entrance. It might give you a clue what file it uses.

.

christianpurefoy wrote:

.. and how do you get out of the entrance neverworld- even when I reboot it comes up with entrance... I can't get out! :shock:
thanks !

Ctrl-Alt-F1 will give you a console. Log in and change your inittab. Ctrl-Alt-F7 will bring you back to the X-server (entrance).

mpie · 2005-10-18 21:26:51

when I have used e17 elsewhere there is usually a script to run that is used to set up entrance it makes sessions of WMs you have installed, and collates user info, just been prodding around in /opt/e17 and it is not there, there is only a default_user.edj in /opt/e17/share/entrance

the script isn't in /bin either there are no obvious tool to set it up....

not sure it can be configured the way it is ...

please correct me if I'm wrong

also see
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … c&start=90

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-18 22:03:00

hmmm... well what are the advantages of just running your WM from startx? I can only get enlightenment to run from startx if I'm in root and I've read in a couple of posts that I really don't want to start up my WM from root... :?

thanks for the ctrl+alt+F1 btw!!

mpie · 2005-10-18 22:48:58

erm did you edit /.xinitrc and /.xsession........

or ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession.....

if it was the top one that is wht as the file is in the root of the file system
the other two live in you home directory

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-18 22:58:19

the exact thing i typed in was /home/christian/.xsession

and there was no file... so I just put in

exec enlightenment

it didn't work...

mpie · 2005-10-18 23:23:12

entrance needs a user.edj file, the tools for this building one dont appear to come with the arch package....

you can edit what you want it wont really affect it as it reads the .edjs by default to know what other files to read....

http://www.get-e.org/Main/FAQs/#21

christianpurefoy · 2005-10-19 13:28:51

thanks!

I actually think I'm just gonna stick it out without entrance for the moment and get myself comfortable with startx and everything else arch has to offer-make it a lot easier to change desktops and tired of actually trying to set it up and wanna get down to the fun part!

Well, I'm set! cheers all for the help... I'm sure there'll be more questions at some point though!

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