[wplug] Enlighten me!

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Carl Benedict wrote:

>> 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?
>

Let's start with these.  One, I'm sure I'm using gdm because - yes - it's 
set in default-display-manager.  I don't think 'gnome-session' was ever 
being run - because changing it to 'enlightenment' had no effect, I would 
guess the system is not checking my ~/.xsession file, or is overriding it.

Problem is, I don't know how I *am* starting my gnome session.  It seems 
pretty deeply entrenched (in Debian?).  DOes gdm just 'do' that?

But let's forget that for now and let me try to figure out how to run 
enlightenment ('E' hereafter) stand-alone?  It does not show up in my gdm 
window as a session option, even though I have confirmed that this works 
in other cases (i.e. with Xfce).

-Brandon