getting entrance to start

[corefile]

I can't figure out how to get entrance to start on boot. If I start it from the command line it works just fine with enteranced. How ever I can't figure out how to get it to start so that I boot and entrance start automatically like gdm or xdm. There is no start up script in /etc/init.d like with gdm or xdm. Also I have choosen "entrance" as the displaymanager in /etc/rc.conf but when I do echo $DISPLAYMANAGER it does not show up. Any help here would be appreciated.

[venkat]

when i used have entrance a while ago, i just added "entrance" to DISPLAYMANAGER in rc.conf. i left xdm to start in default level. that worked fine. but it was one hell of a thing to configure entrance. i had to edit a database file (?) using a strange editor.

[corefile]

Yea I got it working, I created a startup script and put it in /etc/init.d and added it to the default start up. I did have to edit the db as well but it was pretty easy and I now have entrance starting up automaticaly and enlightenment starting up from my entrance login. now if E17 would just hurry up!!

[ikaro]

Thats great that you guys got ir working and all.
I dont use entrance or anything, but i think it would be a good thing if you guys could describe the solution for the problem for the next person asking help about it.

not just " i have this problem .. " & "nevermind i fixed it"

Thanks.

[corefile]

I just copied the /etc/init.d/xdm file to /etc/init.d/entrance

then I edited it and changed everything from "xdm" to "entranced"

then I did 'rc-update add entrance default'

That is what did it for me

[jacksonscottsly]

but when i was following corefile's method, i noticed that the ENTRANCE* displaymanager variable was already accounted for in the xdm script, so, I simply made sure that my /etc/rc.conf file had the displaymanager variable set to "entranced" and then did an "rc-update add xdm default". It worked like a charm...I'd recommend doing it this way rather than creating a new entrance script because it's easier to keep track of editing to change the displaymanager later (always edit only the rc.conf file), and I think it is the way the scripts were intended to work.

[corefile]

totally agree, I did a second install on my computer and did it that way as well. The first one was a kludge to make it work cause I can't follow directions!!

But yes you are correct its much better to use the xdm script as is, and just make the changes in rc.conf to use "entrance"