* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi;
> I recently installed the newest version of E, I think 0.16.3-1.
> Then tried a few of the themes from http://e.themes.org.
> Everything was fine until using one of the DL'd themes. The problem was that
> mouse buttons would not respond on the desktop.
> At this point I had to pull up the application bar (not sure about terminology,
> but this the bar horizontally at the bottom of the screen), to use it, to exit
> Gnome. At this point from the command prompt I deleted the offending theme, and
> logged on Gnome again it gave the message that the themes being used is not
> correctly formed, an it went back to the default theme.
> Now I noticed that the pager window had a border, like the border that was used
> for the bad theme that I deleted.
> Thinking that there may be a bug in the Gnome, I went to their sit and got the
> newest Gnome installed. Logged out, and back into Gnome.
> The border around the pager still was there. I switched to other themes, that I
> had used and knew were good, to no avail. The border was still there. BTW, the
> same border was around the icon box, but in this case when I closed, and then
> recreated it the border disappeared. I tried the same thing with the pager, but
> it had no effect.
> At this point after switching to an older themes that came with the first
> version of E. Logged off X(Gnome) deleted the directories under
> /root/.enlightenment/themes, logged back on the border still was there. Tried a
> few other themes the border remained.
> Now I uninstalled 0.16.3-1, then reinstalled, the boarder remained.
> Although this by no means has any effect on anything else, on the way to
> correcting it I am learning the basics of Linux OS.
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Any and all would be appreciated.
>
> On an aside the help for E mentions that it is better to run the new E as the
> session manger instead of Gnome, because it runs faster. It has terse direction
> as how to do this, which , because of being new to all this, I did not
> understand. If you have done this, would please give a few pointers?
>
> Sorry for being long winded.
You seem to have tried everything except telling the pager to use it's
normal border :)
The pager remember what border it last used, unless instructed
otherwise. The bad theme set a dodgy border, that's all.
Hold ALT and right-click on the pager, go to "Border Style", and
change it to "PAGER", or whichever you prefer. That is all :)
If you wish to stop using gnome session management, find the file in
your home directory which loads gnome-session. It will either be:
.xinitrc
.xsession
.Xclients
Edit the file, and find the line:
exec gnome-session
Replace this line with
exec enlightenment
and restart X.
If you have none of these files, create a .xsession and make it
executable (chmod +x .xsession) and put that line in it.
An unrelated point, from reading your mail. Don't run as root. Create
a user account and use that. Then use "su" to become root only to
conduct priviledged tasks. Trust me :) Running as root is a *massive*
security violation, especially on a machine connected to the internet,
and also exposes you to the danger of catrastrophic mistakes with
the unrestricted access of root :)
Tom.
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