On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:37:58 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> said:
> Robin wrote: > > 2009/8/14 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]>: > > > >> I suspect it will be a PITA to set X for e17 sessions > > It wasn't, but it was incommodious to do it, now GDM and all WMs/ DEs > are using the same wanted resolution. Running e17 I launched 'sudo > displayconfig-gtk' and edited the wanted settings, then I logged out and > the settings become broken. I started a GNOME session, the settings were > still broken. Running 'sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf' and for three > lines changing only the broken resolution, to the wanted resolution, did > the trick. There were 3 lines with wrong data, 'modeline', 'Virtual' and > 'Modes'. The problem is, that Ubuntu's xorg.conf doesn't look by default > like a common xorg.conf and after a reconfiguration by > 'displayconfig-gtk' it only will be fine for one session, for following > sessions the settings will be broken and can't be set by > 'displayconfig-gtk' any more. this is between you and X. it's not e's job to go configure x. if gdm is coming up in the wrong res - thats because it's using whatever x uses by default. entirely not e's problem. e can change resolution with xrandr - and there is a checkbox "restore on login". e will take care of it when it runs - but gdm is entirely not its problem. also there not being an enlightenment session option is a problem of gdm - it doesnt look in other dirs other than /usr/share/xessions. that means any extra software installed in /usr/local will be skipped as e will have installed its enlightenment.desktop in PREFIX/share/xsessions - perfectly correct, but the default for PREFIX is /usr/local - which is standard for all compiled+installed software. you can make symlinks to work around this but this is a gdm deficiency for deailign with software not installed by packages (which are normally in /usr nor /usr/local thus the files are where expected). > >> I'm missing the flashy environment I know from the past, at the > >> moment it's odd. > > I found themes at http://exchange.enlightenment.org/theme, but had no > time to install a new theme. > > > For the E17 desktop go to Settings - Settings Panel, maximise the > > resulting window. Look for Files, select File Manager and click on > > Behaviour tab, adjust to your liking, then select Hal tab and do the > > same. > > > > Thank you Robin :) in addition to installing and then launching by user > 'gconf-editor', by apps > nautilus > desktop unchecking 'volumes > visible' by a GNOME session, I did what you mentioned. Then I run a > GNOME session again and as user 'rm ~/Desktop/*' to delete an invalid > 'HOME' link, a going '/tmp' link and a going '/' link. > > Everything is fine now, as soon as possible I'll set up my e17 SVN > installation. e puts those .desktop files there for its filemanager. they are shortcuts/links to devices and/or bits of the filesystem. yes - nautilus will show them and display them oddly. to be honest, this doesn't bother us, because you are expected to be using e, not nautilus. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
