[wplug] Enlighten me!

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 18:16:00 EST 2005


i prefer tvtwm :)

zach


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:13:00 -0500 (EST), Brandon Kuczenski
<brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Carl Benedict wrote:
> >
> > About the same time you wrote this original thread, I had tried
> > Enlightenment as well.  I'm using Fedora Core 2 with GNOME 2.6.  I
> > installed via RPM from 3rd-party packages I found on rpmfind.net.
> >
> > I didn't have any problems with showing Enlightenment in the GDM menu of
> > session choices, but I did have this problem with IceWM.  My E installed
> > a .desktop file into /etc/X11/dm/Sessions:
> >
> 
> Somehow, gnome 2.6 on FC2 is completely (partially?) different from gnome
> 2.6 on Debian 3.  I don't have an /etc/X11/dm directory.  I do have
> /etc/X11/gdm directory, but it's just a symlink to /etc/gdm, and
> its Sessions subdirectory is empty.
> 
> Also, I installed enlightenment with apt ('apt-get install enlightenment')
> but it did NOT add itself to the GDM list of Desktop Environments.
> (Again: I thought enlightenment was a window manager and not a DE??)  Last
> week I installed Xfce and it added itself to GDM's menu without problems.
> 
> My list of startup sessions includes: Default, Gnome, KDE, Xfce Session,
> Failsafe Gnome, Failsafe terminal.  I still haven't figured out where that
> list is generated from... 'grep -iR xfce /etc/gdm/*' comes up empty.
> 
> > [cbenedic at nano cbenedic]$ which starte16
> > /usr/bin/starte16
> 
> I have no starte16 script.
> 
> I suppose it's worth mentioning that my original intent was to run Gnome
> with the simple substitution of the Enlightenment window manager for
> metacity, and not to run Enlightenment alone.  If this is ill-advised,
> please let me know.  Really, what I would like to learn is how to
> substitute one window manager for another in gnome.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brandon
> 
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