Gregory Kriehn wrote:
> I noticed this conversation regarding not being able to get entrance to
> work with FC5. Well... I just installed FC5 about a month ago, and I've
> solved the problem. Someone is going to have to make some changes to
> the scripts/config files to get this to work permanently though.
>
> BACKGROUND:
>
> 1.) Configuration for /etc/entrance_config.cfg
>
> Currently, entrance is setup for a system that still uses X11R6 from
> "X.org" instead of the new X11R7 files. You can check this with the
> following command:
>
> sudo ecore_config -c /etc/entrance_config.cfg -a
>
> Look at the last line. If will say:
>
> /entranced/xserver string "/usr/X11R6/bin/X -quiet -nolisten tcp
> vt7"
>
> Because of this, entrance will not launch successfully. It certainly
> tries, as can be verified by checking your /var/log/messages file, but
> fails because "X.org" uses X11R7 under FC5. Notice the release notes of
> Fedora Core 5. See the third point, in particular.
>
> -----
>
> The following list includes some of the more visible changes for
> developers in X11R7:
>
> * The entire buildsystem has changed from imake to the GNU
> autotools collection.
>
> * Libraries now install pkgconfig *.pc files, which should now
> always be used by software that depends on these libraries,
> instead of hard coding paths to them in /usr/X11R6/lib or
> elsewhere.
>
> * Everything is now installed directly into /usr instead of
> /usr/X11R6. All software that hard codes paths to anything in
> /usr/X11R6 must now be changed, preferably to dynamically
> detect the proper location of the object. Developers are
> strongly advised against hard-coding the new X11R7 default
> paths.
>
> * Every library has its own private source RPM package, which
> creates a runtime binary subpackage and a -devel subpackage.
>
> -----
>
> As you know, this has caused many headaches for people (including
> myself), because developers for particular packages have not had time to
> change their source code before the release of FC5. Specific to
> entrance, notice that it looks for "X" in "/usr/X11R6/bin" instead of in
> "/usr/bin", where everything is now installed. But this can easily be
> fixed. Simply run the command:
>
> sudo ecore_config -c /etc/entrance_config.cfg -k /entranced/xserver
> -s "usr/bin/X -quiet -nolisten tcp vt7"
>
> Now run:
>
> sudo ecore_config -c /etc/entrance_config.cfg -a
>
> The last line should now say:
>
> /entranced/xserver string "usr/bin/X -quiet -nolisten tcp vt7"
>
> You are now capable of running entrance in FC5. But only if
> the /etc/entrance_config.cfg file is not changed again. It would be
> good to set this up so that when entrance is installed on FC5, it points
> to the proper directory automatically.
>
> 2.) Location of the Xsession file.
>
> Previously in FC4, "Xsession" could be found in only one location:
> "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession". With FC5, things have gotten a bit more
> complicated. There are now two locations: "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" and
> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession". Both "gdm" and "kdm" (when launching a gnome
> or kde session, respectively) are pointed to look at
> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession", which is where the old "Xsession" file from
> FC4 is now located (with some minor changes). "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession"
> contains a new file that is specific to only "xdm" and is very sparse.
> However, when entrance launches an enlightenment session, it still looks
> for configuration info in "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession", not
> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession". Check "/var/log/messages" to verify this.
> For enlightenment, this causes problems because dbus (the messagebus
> daemon) information will not be configured due to the major differences
> between the two files, among other things.
>
> Theoretically, we could just copy "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" to
> "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.bak" and then force a soft link from
> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession" to "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession", but this is a
> hack, and a poor one at that. It would be much better to have entrance
> set up so that it looks at "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession" instead for FC5.
> Then entrance and enlightenment can both be launched properly.
>
> Can one of the developers perhaps update the "configure" script for
> entrance to reflect the new changes so that it will work robustly with
> both X11R6 and X11R7?
>
> Thanks!
> Greg
>
At last, a fellow FC5 user that is also running E17.
Your procedure was very helpful for reconfig entrance to look in
/usr/bin using ecore_config. Worked fine for me.
for Xsession issue I did something different:
[1] in /etc/sysconfig/desktop change from "GNOME" TO "E17"
[2] in /etc/X11/prefdm edit as follows:
========
# Run preferred X display manager
preferred=
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then
. /etc/sysconfig/desktop
if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then
preferred=/usr/sbin/gdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/kdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then
preferred=/usr/bin/xdm
elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = E17 ]; then
preferred=/usr/local/sbin/entranced
elif [ -n "$DISPLAYMANAGER" ]; then
preferred=$DISPLAYMANAGER
fi
========
note addition of E17 items.
[3] in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession edit as follows:
========
# now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment
case $# in
1)
if [ -x "$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.$1" ]; then
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.$1";
fi;
case "$1" in
failsafe)
exec -l $SHELL -c "xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0"
;;
gnome)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH gnome-session"
;;
Enlightenment)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH enlightenment"
;;
kde|kde1|kde2)
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH
$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.kde"
;;
twm)
# fall back to twm
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH
$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.twm"
;;
*)
# GDM provies either a command line as the first argument or
# provides 'failsafe', 'default' or 'custom'. KDM will do the
# same at some point
if [ "$1" != "default" -a "$1" != "custom" ]; then
exec -l $SHELL -c "$SSH_AGENT $DBUS_LAUNCH $1"
fi
;;
esac
esac
fi
=======
note addition of Enlightenment items.
On reboot these changes brought up entrance for login rather than gdm.
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