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hey all,

I have just compiled enlightenment-16.6 on fedora core 3 and would like to set it up to run as the window manager on top of GDM. What are the steps required to configure enlightenment to run on top of GDM? I know that it involves editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xession however I have no experience in bash shell scripting. Here is my Xsession file:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# Copyright (C) 1999 - 2004 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. This

# copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,

# copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the

# GNU General Public License version 2.

#

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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.



# redirect errors to a file in user's home directory if we can

if [ -z "$GDMSESSION" ]; then

    # GDM redirect output itself in a smarter fashion

    errfile="$HOME/.xsession-errors"

    if cp /dev/null "$errfile" 2> /dev/null ; then

        chmod 600 "$errfile"

        exec > "$errfile" 2>&1

    else

        errfile=$(mktemp -q /tmp/xses-$USER.XXXXXX)

        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

            exec > "$errfile" 2>&1

        fi

    fi

fi



if ! printenv PATH | grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin

then

        PATH="${PATH}":/usr/X11R6/bin

fi



# backward compatibility with old switchdesk directory

if [ -d /usr/share/switchdesk ] ; then

    SWITCHDESKPATH=/usr/share/switchdesk

else

    SWITCHDESKPATH=/usr/share/apps/switchdesk

fi



# Mandatorily source xinitrc-common, which is common code shared between the

# Xsession and xinitrc scripts which has been factored out to avoid duplication

. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common



# now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment

case $# in

1)

    if [ -x "$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.$1" ]; then

      exec -l $SHELL -c "$SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.$1";

    fi;



    case "$1" in

    failsafe)

      exec -l $SHELL -c "xterm -geometry 80x24-0-0"

      ;;

    gnome)

      exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH gnome-session"

      ;;

    kde|kde1|kde2)

      exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH $SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.kde"

      ;;

    twm)

        # fall back to twm

      exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH $SWITCHDESKPATH/Xclients.twm"

      ;;

    *)

      # GDM provies either a command line as the first argument or

      # provides 'failsafe', 'default' or 'custom'.  KDM will do the

      # same at some point

      if [ "$1" != "default" -a "$1" != "custom" ]; then

          exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH $1"

      fi

      ;;

    esac

esac



# otherwise, take default action

if [ -x "$HOME/.xsession" ]; then

    exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH $HOME/.xsession"

elif [ -x "$HOME/.Xclients" ]; then

    exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH $HOME/.Xclients"

elif [ -x /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then

    exec -l $SHELL -c "$DBUS_LAUNCH /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients"

else

    # should never get here; failsafe fallback

    exec -l $SHELL -c "xsm"

fi

how would I edit my Xsession file in order for GDM to load enlightenment as my primary window manager? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.