> Several questions: > > Are you selecting a specific WM from the drop-down menu, or are you just > using "Default"? I am not certain that Entrance has/uses a "Default" > setting, wherever it may come from. You'd think from /etc/rc.conf, but > heck, GDM doesn't use that to set its default (it asks you, so it has > its own config for this somewhere), so maybe Entrance doesn't either > (although it never asked me about setting anything as default). > > Do you have any other WMs installed and listed, and have you tried > logging into them instead? Do any of them work, and which ones do not? I've tried not only default but enlightenment and kde (the WMs I have). None worked. I've checked that the database entries correspond with /etc/X11/Session files.
> > If Enlightenment itself is the one that doesn't work, did you previously > have e16 installed? I did, and even though e17 very kindly moved the > previous enlightenment.desktop item in /etc/X11/Sessions to e16.desktop, > neither the e16 entry appeared in the list, nor did choosing > Enlightenment start e17. e17 is the first Enlightenment release I install. > > This turned out to be because the exec line in the Enlightenment.desktop > entry was still pointing to /usr/bin/enlightenment, whereas the binary > for e17 is named something like enlightenment-0.17 (to distinguish it > from the e16 binary). So I changed the exec line in the script, and then > it was fine. > > However I uninstalled both e16 and e17 (I may reinstall e16, which I > liked much better), and switched to fvwm anyway. But e17 sure is pretty, > can't argue with that. > > Hope this helps, > > Holly Thanks for the reply, anyway... Here's my rc.conf (someone asked for it): # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/rc.conf,v 1.22 2003/10/21 06:09:42 vapier Exp $ # Use KEYMAP to specify the default console keymap. There is a complete tree # of keymaps in /usr/share/keymaps to choose from. This setting is used by the # /etc/init.d/keymaps script. KEYMAP="es" # Should we first load the 'windowkeys' console keymap? Most x86 users will # say "yes" here. Note that non-x86 users should leave it as "no". SET_WINDOWKEYS="yes" # The maps to load for extended keyboards. Most users will leave this as is. EXTENDED_KEYMAPS= #EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="backspace keypad" # CONSOLEFONT specifies the default font that you'd like Linux to use on the # console. You can find a good selection of fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts; # you shouldn't specify the trailing ".psf.gz", just the font name below. # To use the default console font, comment out the CONSOLEFONT setting below. # This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/consolefont script (NOTE: if you do # not want to use it, run "rc-update del consolefont" as root). #CONSOLEFONT="default8x16" CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16" # CONSOLETRANSALTION is the charset map file to use. Leave commented to use # the default one. Have a look in /usr/share/consoletrans for a selection of # map files you can use. #CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni" CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-15_to_uni" # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as # Greenwich Mean Time). If your clock is set to the local time, then set CLOCK # to "local". This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/clock script. CLOCK="local" # Set EDITOR to your preferred editor. #EDITOR="/bin/nano" EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" #EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs" # Set PROTOCOLS to the protocols that you plan to use. Gentoo Linux will only # enable module auto-loading for these protocols, eliminating annoying module # not found errors. # # NOTE: Do NOT uncomment the next lines, but add them to 'PROTOCOLS=...' line!! # # Num Protocol # 1: Unix # 2: IPv4 # 3: Amateur Radio AX.25 # 4: IPX # 5: DDP / appletalk # 6: Amateur Radio NET/ROM # 9: X.25 # 10: IPv6 # 11: ROSE / Amateur Radio X.25 PLP # 19: Acorn Econet # Most users want this: PROTOCOLS="1 2" #For IPv6 support: #PROTOCOLS="1 2 10" # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ] DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" #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: 1) this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc exists, and startx # is called. # 2) even if a ~/.xsession exist, if XSESSION can be resolved, it will # be executed rather than ~/.xsession, else KDM breaks ... # # 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="kde-3.3.2" > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Juan Ignacio Sánchez Lara Ingeniero Técnico en Informática de Sistemas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
