Something changed:
I wasn't sure if this was an E17 issue or something specific to Sabayon
Linux. {So far the only Distribution where I've encountered this problem}
where the behavior changed after a recent system update.
But I've had no response to my Sabayon forum post, so I thought I'd find
out if anybody here knows what changed...
I have a strong preference for booting to console. And then, when and if
I'm ready for GUI, I run startx as a normal user... At which point, my
~/.xinitrc feeds a few applications to X that I expect to find running on
certain specific desktop areas when E17 {Enlightenment} starts. I've used
Enlightenment almost exclusively ever since I ran away from kde4. But one
of the places my kde roots show is a strong preference to use Konsole as my
"xterm" of choice.
I have two bash scripts that I expect to find running in their on Konsole
windows with specific --profile settings. One which runs my console based
email client {alpine} I expect to find on desktop area "1,0". The other is
a script that runs mc via a call to "su -c" so that it sits there waiting
on desktop area "3,2" for my root password to start the root mc session.
I also have two E17 keyboard shortcuts defined to recreate these windows on
demand, in the event I close them or {in the case of the 2nd script} If I
might need more than one root mc session open.
Since Enlightenment doesn't "restore" a saved DE session like I used to do
with kde3, I learned to use it's "Window Remembers" function to recreate the
parts of the session I care about. And pre-Launch the ones that Enlightenment
doesn't "Start on Login" correctly. Like for example It would start two
Konsole sessions, But I couldn't get it to use the assorted options needed to
load the correct executables within them, nor to use the specific konsole
profile and {window}name definitions...
Thus I use my ~/.xinitrc to initialize them with the desired options.
This has worked well for years. I use the same method on all the Linux
distributions that I run. (I have 5 of them installed on this PC)
Currently my ~/.xinitrc contains:
xdaliclock -12 -noseconds -builtin1 &
konsole --workdir /home/jtwdyp/STUFF/ShuttleStuff --name F12crap --profile
BlackYellow -e medosumc &
yakuake &
konsole --workdir ~/mail --name F2alpine --profile BlackGray -e alpine &
/usr/bin/enlightenment_start
A key component of which is the "Unique" strings assigned to the "--name"
flag that has for years reliably identified these two very different
konsole instances from any other Konsole instances.
Today however, after I ran "equo upgrade" The "name" value stopped working
properly with the ~/.xinitrc invoked instances of konsole. Sometimes they
both wind up named "F2alpine", and sometimes they both wind up named "F12crap"
But after logging out and rerunning startx about 20 times (half of which
were full reboots) Not once did the each wind up with their own discretely
unique "names" within my Sabayon installation since my last:
equo update && equo upgrade
(which I do about once a month.) I note however that any instances of them
that I fire up with the keyboard shortcuts still consistently wind up with the
correct command defined name value. It is only the two instances that
Enlightenment inherits from the ~/.xinitrc that this value fails to get
correctly assigned. And It might be worth mentioning that ALL the other option
flags do work correctly. Even the ~/.xinitrc initialized konsole instances do
wind up with the correct working directories, as well as the correct konsole
profiles, and with the correct executable running within them.
Now however, in order to get E17 to place them in the correct desktop
areas, I need to uncheck the "Window name" option in the "Remember using"
dialog box, and rely instead on the "Title" option, and just hope that it's
value continues to use the current format of "${A}: ${B}" where A equals
the value assigned via the --workdir option, and B equals the value assigned to
the -e option. (I note that A is not the same as $PWD because "~/mail" is not
rendered as "/home/jtwdyp/mail")
Does anyone know what changed? Or whether this is more correctly an
Sabayon Linux issue, or perhaps even an kde thing???
Or if you happen to know how to make sure that the window Title will always
be rendered as "${A}: ${B}" {see above} I'd appreciate a clue.
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