Enlightenment

wolffmanl7 · 11-22-2002, 02:43 PM

Okay I just downloaded the tar balls for enlightenment and fnlib, freetype and imlib. copied them to / and ./configure and make and make installed them, now how do I get enlightenment up and running after all of that. i am running redhat 8.0.

NSKL · 11-22-2002, 03:12 PM

put
exec enlightenment &
in your .xinitrc and then issue a startx (From a console)
That should start E, make sure to comment out with a # line in .xinitrc that starts your previous winow manager, for ex, if you are running KDE you would comment out line "exec startkde &" and put a line to execiute E, such as:
#exec startkde &
exec enlightenment &
Or you might try
startx enlightenment
but it doesnt work on all distros.
HTH
NSKL

chrismiceli · 11-22-2002, 04:49 PM

i gnome i know you can type "switchdesk" as a bash command.

wolffmanl7 · 11-25-2002, 03:08 PM

Can someone give me more detail on this step because I guess I am not doing something right, because it still will not work. I am kinda new at this so any help will be greatly appreciated. I am running RedHat 8.0

wolffmanl7 · 11-26-2002, 10:06 AM

I downloaded the enlightenment tarballs copied them to /. Then ./configured the fnlib, freetype, and the enlightenment tarballs. Then ran make then make install on them all. What do I need to do from there. I know you guys told me to edit some files but those files are pretty large. Exactly what do I need to put and where do I need to put them in the file. I am a newbie so the more detailed you can be the better off I will be, I would greatly appreciate any help. I am trying enlightenment on Red Hat 8.0.

m0rl0ck · 11-26-2002, 10:24 AM

If you compile enlightenment it installs itself in /usr/local/enlightenment/bin

so if you put this as the last line in your .xinitrc:

exec /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment

that should work.

wolffmanl7 · 11-26-2002, 01:32 PM

Okay I will try that!!! Thanks

neo77777 · 11-26-2002, 09:06 PM

If you boot straight to X then running pure enlightenment requires more tinkering with /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession and it requires you to put a file into /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions called Enlightenment with following contents

Code:

#!/bin/bash -login

/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession enlightenment

now go to /etc/X11/xdm and edit file Xsession, you'll see a case statement so just add the following entries to that case statement

Code:

enlightenment)
                exec enlightenment
                ;;

next time you login you'll have Enlightenment entry in the pull down menu of GDM.
If you use KDM (defaults to KDE) then the steps are a bit different
You shoud add enlightenment into the list of SessionTypes in kdmrc file. To find that file use find
find / -name kdmrc -type f -print
and edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xsessio file as described above