e17 does work on gentoo!! yayyyyyyyyyy!

Message

Snake007uk · Post by **Snake007uk** » Mon May 12, 2003 1:27 pm

hey guyz whats soo good about "E" anyway ??? just curious ? and nice screen shots ?

Snake

idl · Post by **idl** » Tue May 13, 2003 6:36 pm

Whats the current CVS like? anyway near stable?

Swishy · Post by **Swishy** » Tue May 13, 2003 6:39 pm

I doubt it ...raster is currently rewriting alot of the base code to implement xcb support to the backend of evas etc, which will result in the rest of the dev team rewriting subsequent apps to adapt to the new base ...id say cvs will be up and down for a while yet .....however the final product should be damn good

Cheers
Dale.

uxbod · Post by **uxbod** » Wed May 14, 2003 11:31 am

Okay the ebuild installed fine and I have been able to fire up E17

It does look very nice and as other people have said performance is good.

Now a couple of questions :

I tried to use both elogin and entrance instead of GDM. The screen comes up fine both I have found that elogind on occastions has gone mad and spawned 100s off processes - ideas ?

When I minimize a window it just disapears and I am unable to get it back - ideas ?

Cheers.

Swishy · Post by **Swishy** » Wed May 14, 2003 1:06 pm

uxbod wrote:Okay the ebuild installed fine and I have been able to fire up E17 It does look very nice and as other people have said performance is good.

Now a couple of questions :

I tried to use both elogin and entrance instead of GDM. The screen comes up fine both I have found that elogind on occastions has gone mad and spawned 100s off processes - ideas ?

When I minimize a window it just disapears and I am unable to get it back - ideas ?

Cheers.

Middle mouse click brings up minimised apps ...

Cheers
Dale.

DanBUK · Post by **DanBUK** » Fri May 16, 2003 12:03 am

I'm in the middle of the build from the portage of the cvs copy at the moment, I hope it works.

DanBUK · Post by **DanBUK** » Fri May 16, 2003 12:48 am

Well It built/emerged first time!

Now its time to switch window managers, hope it works...

Snake007uk · Post by **Snake007uk** » Fri May 16, 2003 7:52 pm

ive just emerged e17 but how do i configure and run it ??

i dont have any DE insatlled im just testing this out ??

Snake

DanBUK · Post by **DanBUK** » Sat May 17, 2003 8:37 am

Sure this is posted elsewhere but:
On a system wide windowmanager setting, near the end of /etc/rc.conf
for 'XSESSION=wmaker'
and on a per user basis by a file in thier ~(home) directory called .xinitrc, mine looks like

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh

exec fluxbox

Also you can place other things in this file to start when you load X like 'exec xterm'

As you can see most users would get wmaker, but I get fluxbox.

Valid settings for wmaker/fluxbox/gnome/kde/e17 can be found in the /etc/X11/Sessions folder.

Hope this is understandable and helpful.

Kind Regards,
Daniel.

hanzotutu · Post by **hanzotutu** » Sat May 17, 2003 11:00 am

Hi, guys,

I met problem to use e17.
Before I emerged e17, I had Gnome installed. In the /etc/rc.conf

Code: Select all

DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"

I emerged enlightenment-cvs, and succeeded.
Then I changed the DISPLAYMANAGER to "entrance"

Code: Select all

/etc/init.d/xdm restart

entrance's graphic greeting appeared. At the top right corner,
there is a list of Xsessions. However, e17 is not in the list. I can
only choose Gnome. What should I do to make e17 running?
Thanks.

DanBUK · Post by **DanBUK** » Sat May 17, 2003 11:56 am

Can you post

Code: Select all

 of you gdm config files. And rc.conf

get a better idea then.

Dan.

Swishy · Post by **Swishy** » Sat May 17, 2003 12:30 pm

hanzotutu wrote:Hi, guys,

I met problem to use e17.
Before I emerged e17, I had Gnome installed. In the /etc/rc.conf
Code: Select all
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
I emerged enlightenment-cvs, and succeeded.
Then I changed the DISPLAYMANAGER to "entrance"
Code: Select all
/etc/init.d/xdm restart
entrance's graphic greeting appeared. At the top right corner,
there is a list of Xsessions. However, e17 is not in the list. I can
only choose Gnome. What should I do to make e17 running?
Thanks.

Have a look in /etc/X11/Sessions ..open one of the files there in nano vim or whatever to get an idea on what to do , and create one named e17 with the appropriate path details and all should be go

Cheers
Dale.

hanzotutu · Post by **hanzotutu** » Sat May 17, 2003 8:01 pm

I have e17 file in /etc/X11/Sessions

Code: Select all

hanzo@April Sessions $ pwd
/etc/X11/Sessions
hanzo@April Sessions $ ls
e17  Gnome  kde-3.1.1a  Xsession
hanzo@April Sessions $ cat e17
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/enlightenment-0.17
hanzo@April Sessions $

In the /etc/rc.conf

Code: Select all

# What display manager do you use ?  [ xdm | gdm | kdm | elogin | entrance ]
DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance"
 
# XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start
# default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit.  The default behavior
# is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the
# value that XSESSION is set to.  The support scripts is smart enouth to
# look in all bin directories if it cant find a match in /etc/X11/Sessions/,
# so setting it to "enligtenment" can also work.  This is basically used
# as a way for the system admin to configure a default system wide WM,
# allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his .bash_profile, etc.
#
# NOTE: this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession exists
#       for the particular program run ( ~/.xinitrc for startx, ... ).
#
# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome-session
# kde-<version> - will start startkde (ex: kde-3.0.2)
# Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps
 
XSESSION="e17"

Which gdm config file should I post?

DanBUK · Post by **DanBUK** » Sat May 17, 2003 8:38 pm

hanzotutu wrote:I have e17 file in /etc/X11/Sessions

Code: Select all

hanzo@April Sessions $ pwd
/etc/X11/Sessions
hanzo@April Sessions $ ls
e17  Gnome  kde-3.1.1a  Xsession
hanzo@April Sessions $ cat e17
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/enlightenment-0.17
hanzo@April Sessions $

Looks ok up to the line /usr/bin/enlightenment-0.17 in e17 that line should start with a exec /usr/bi...

Which gdm config file should I post?

Actually you don't need to post one, try doing man entrance cause thats being used instead. And see if there is a config file mentioned.

Cheers,
Dan.

PS. The rc.conf Looks ok to me

hanzotutu · Post by **hanzotutu** » Sun May 18, 2003 4:38 am

DanBUK wrote:
Looks ok up to the line /usr/bin/enlightenment-0.17 in e17 that line should start with a exec /usr/bi...

No luck after I add "exec".

Actually you don't need to post one, try doing man entrance cause thats being used instead. And see if there is a config file mentioned.

Cheers,
Dan.

PS. The rc.conf Looks ok to me

no manual for entrance.

bsolar · Post by **bsolar** » Sun May 18, 2003 8:19 am

I had to run 'build_config.sh' somewhere in the /usr/share/entrance (and/or elogin) directory to get the correct entries.

hanzotutu · Post by **hanzotutu** » Sun May 18, 2003 9:56 am

bsolar wrote:I had to run 'build_config.sh' somewhere in the /usr/share/entrance (and/or elogin) directory to get the correct entries.

It works. Thank you.
However, after I login, there is nothing in there except a wallpaper.
Right click can get some menu, but nothing can be runned. Need to
read more for further configuration.

geekX · Post by **geekX** » Tue May 20, 2003 7:50 am

hanzotutu wrote: It works. Thank you.
However, after I login, there is nothing in there except a wallpaper.
Right click can get some menu, but nothing can be runned. Need to
read more for further configuration.

I have the same problem. I log in, get a background. click.. get a menu. click a menu-option, nothing happens.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a 'kickstart to e17' doc somewhere? What config files should I edit? What do I do?!

Help!

srpnt · Post by **srpnt** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:46 am

i emerge'd E today, but when i login to it, i get the wallpaper, and nothing else. i get a menu when i left click, and another when i right click, but its not clickable.

hmm ... i'll be reading the rest of this thread to see if there is a solution to it, but if its not covered i hope someone tells me. either way.

bsolar · Post by **bsolar** » Thu May 22, 2003 11:54 am

srpnt wrote:i emerge'd E today, but when i login to it, i get the wallpaper, and nothing else. i get a menu when i left click, and another when i right click, but its not clickable.

I had some issues with fam that caused something similar. Are you sure it's running? If not try:

Code: Select all

# /etc/init.d/fam start

before starting the session. You also might want to add it to the default runlevel with rc-update.

srpnt · Post by **srpnt** » Thu May 22, 2003 12:11 pm

k thanks . will try that

Lovechild · Post by **Lovechild** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:16 pm

Why is this thread sticky? - there might have been a reason once upon a time but now I see no reason.

bsolar · Post by **bsolar** » Thu May 22, 2003 1:24 pm

Lovechild wrote:Why is this thread sticky? - there might have been a reason once upon a time but now I see no reason.

Good point and I agree, I've unsticked it.

Post by **pjp** » Thu May 22, 2003 5:09 pm

Lovechild wrote:Why is this thread sticky? - there might have been a reason once upon a time but now I see no reason.

Because there were numerous people incapable of doing a search to find this thread, resulting in many duplicates.

edgarsparingly · Post by **edgarsparingly** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:20 pm

I'm still having problems getting lots of stuff working, but I found a way around what most people said was a problme with just getting the background.

As far as I can tell this is to do with Efsd not running, which in my case was down to 2 things...

1) Running as root user.
2) Not having FAM set up to run on startup.

Make sure you're not running as root user when you want to use e17, run as root 'rc-update add fam default' which will make fam run on startup, then rebot and e17 should log in properly. You may also want to add esd in your e17 session script.

e17 does work on gentoo!! yayyyyyyyyyy!

I'm hopeing...

Well

Either

Can you post your gdm

Getting just background