On 6/6/05, Juan Ignacio S�nchez Lara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > I've tried not only default but enlightenment and kde (the WMs I > have). None worked. I've checked that the database entries correspond > with /etc/X11/Session files. > > > > > 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. > e17 is the first Enlightenment release I install. > > > > > 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 > > Thanks for the reply, anyway... >
Hey Juan, Entrance uses its own config file, /etc/entrance_config.db You'll need to use edb_gtk_ed or some other db editor to edit the file and manually add the sessions to it. Your rc.conf looks fine, but that only tells xdm to launch entrance rather than xdm, kdm, or gdm. HTH Eric > > > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > > > > > > > -- > Juan Ignacio S�nchez Lara > Ingeniero T�cnico en Inform�tica de Sistemas > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Eric Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
