[wplug] Enlighten me!

[Carl Benedict]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 18:13, Brandon Kuczenski 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.
> 

I'm really not surprised at this, but I thought it was worth a shot
since it worked for me.

> 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.
> 

I'm running E "stand-alone" - not via gnome-session.  I'm still using
GNOME apps though.  Are you sure you are using GDM?  Any reference to
GDM in /etc/X11/default-display-manager?



> Thanks,
> Brandon


Carl Benedict
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