Re: Enlightenment problems

[Andy Komonchak Jr <ark sleepyhollow com>]

First, thanks for the really quick reply.
	I don't have a .xinitrc for the account that I am using to fire up startx.
I did change the .Xclients file as recommended at
http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_rh.shtml so that it looks like this

#!/bin/bash
  gnome-session
## 

This worked until I added all the files listed on that page as Additional
Gnome Packages.

I suspect that the problem is related to the fact that to get the
additional packages to RPM properly I had to update some libraries and I
think I broke some references. I may have tried to jump to too advanced of
an update (I went from my original install of Redhat 5.0 to the versions on
rawhide.redhat.com). But keep in mind that it was actually working until I
went to install those Additional Gnome Packages.

As far as versions, I installed enlightenment-0.15.4-1 and
gnome-core-1.0.1-6. I got most of my files off of rawhide.redhat.com or one
of its mirrors.

OK. I tried like you said and made a local .Xclients file with the
following in it.

#!/bin/bash
 panel &
 /usr/bin/enlightenment
 ## 

And it works. At least I get handles and other enlightement things. So I am
now suspecting that gnome-session may be the culprit. I'm not sure how to
fix that.

Also for some reason none of the help stuff works. Once I got out of X,
there was an error message in the console window that said Gdk warning.
Whatever that is.

At 04:27 PM 3/18/99 , you wrote:
>
>What does you .xinitrc (etc) look like?  You need to start
>E before you start GNOME (my opinion anyway).  Once E is
>running then you kick in all the GNOME goodies.  So, as
>a test, you may want to get rid of .Xclient and .xsession
>and edit a fresh .xinitrc reading simply:
> 	exec enlightenment
>See what happens.  (well, just edit the one you've got keeping
>a back up.)  You also may want to copy your .xinitrc into
>a message and post it to us so we can see.
>
>  What version of E and GNOME are you using?
>
>benr@slip.net
>
>
>On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Andy Komonchak Jr wrote:
>
>> I am having problems with enlightenment and gnome. When I run startx the
>> desktop comes up but none of the windows have handles and the root window
>> is not clickable. I can click on windows once they are open and I can use
>> the tray at the bottom but the default programs don't start up and the
>> window manager configuration program will not run. The error I got the
>> first time I ran startx (after adding the non-essential gnome programs) was
>> that it couldn't find a gnome compliant window manager. Yet, if I go into
>> the gnome config tool to the window manager settings it has enlightenment
>> listed as the current window manager. I had it working at one point, when I
>> had installed everything but the additional gnome programs. After
>> installing them it stopped working. I suspect that when I rpm-ed some
>> library I wiped out some reference and that is causing the problem. My
>> question (finally) is, is there a logfile that I can check that might tell
>> me what library calls are failing so I can put a symbolic link to the new
>> library? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
>> 
>> Andy 
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