[wplug] Enlighten me!

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Carl Benedict wrote:

> 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.
>

Figured it out.  On my system the relevant directory is 
/usr/share/xsessions.  Thanks for your tip: Enlightenment will now enter 
the grueling qualification process to determine its fitness as a WM.

The 'official' answer on the gnome lists for changing window managers 
*seems* to be "killall currentwm && newwm &" as they got rid of the GUI 
tool for changing WMs that was available in Gnome 1.4.

>>> [cbenedic at nano cbenedic]$ which starte16
>>> /usr/bin/starte16
>>

Thanks for providing your listings of enlightenment.desktop and starte16 
- they should be very helpful.

-Brandon