In the FAQ as usual! :-) Thanks Greg. http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/faq_e17.html
-- With kind regards, Didier. ------------ Yum/apt repository for DR17/EFL: http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe Didier F.B Casse PhD candidate, Singapore Synchrotron Light Source (SSLS) National University of Singapore. On 7/19/06, Gregory Kriehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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