Juan Ignacio S�nchez Lara schreef: > Hello, > > I've followed the instructions at > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_emerge_e17 to install Enlightenment and > Entrance, but I can't open a desktop session. xdm opens Entrance, but > when I input my user and pass it goes black for a moment (as if it > were changing the resolution) and goes back to entrance login without > prompting a word. > > What can go wrong? > > Thanks
I had a similar problem with Entrance (although I fixed the issue, I've since stopped using it and gone back to GDM). Several questions: Are you selecting a specific WM from the drop-down menu, or are you just using "Default"? I am not certain that Entrance has/uses a "Default" setting, wherever it may come from. You'd think from /etc/rc.conf, but heck, GDM doesn't use that to set its default (it asks you, so it has its own config for this somewhere), so maybe Entrance doesn't either (although it never asked me about setting anything as default). Do you have any other WMs installed and listed, and have you tried logging into them instead? Do any of them work, and which ones do not? If Enlightenment itself is the one that doesn't work, did you previously have e16 installed? I did, and even though e17 very kindly moved the previous enlightenment.desktop item in /etc/X11/Sessions to e16.desktop, neither the e16 entry appeared in the list, nor did choosing Enlightenment start e17. This turned out to be because the exec line in the Enlightenment.desktop entry was still pointing to /usr/bin/enlightenment, whereas the binary for e17 is named something like enlightenment-0.17 (to distinguish it from the e16 binary). So I changed the exec line in the script, and then it was fine. However I uninstalled both e16 and e17 (I may reinstall e16, which I liked much better), and switched to fvwm anyway. But e17 sure is pretty, can't argue with that. Hope this helps, Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
