Ok, here's the deal. I installed entrance (an advanced replacement of xdm, gdm, kdm) by doing emerge -av entrance. entrance installed without a hitch. As per all the howto's I found I then changed my display manager in rc.conf to 'DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance"' and also ran 'rc-update add entrace default'.

When I reboot I get the entrance log in screen and can log in no problems. I can even log into openbox. Where my trouble lies is that openbox doesn't seem to run the ~/.xinitrc file if booted via/through entrance. As a result I don't have my wallpaper, dock-apps nor startup programs.

Does anyone know of a way that I can force the ~/.xinitrc file to be read and used when openbox starts? It works fine when I'm not using entrance.

Thanks for your time.

Gsee

maybe you are looking for some kind of entrance.conf file.