Re: enlightenment: no program to see

[John LeMay <jlemay njmc com>]

You know, I was just thinking the same thing. That brings up a couple of
suggestions.

* Try starting the app from a console and setting DISPLAY first

* Any other virtual desktops around? If you have a pager running, is the
window represented on the pager?

--
John LeMay
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC

On 5 Aug 2002, Travis Saling wrote:

> > > > under gnome and enlightenment, I can open programs  but I do not see them
> > > > on the screen. With sawfish, I see the programs, so the problem seems
> > > > really to be enlightenment. I tried different
> > > > enlightenment-configurations, but I did not find the solution.
> > >
> > > Do you mean they dont start?  I tried E and the apps ran but they do not
> > > show up in the task list of workspace applet, but they do work.
> >
> > The apps work, but I can't see them, they are like transparent and don't
> > appear on the screen.
>
> I'm wondering if E is positioning these windows off-screen for some
> reason.
>
> A way to check this is in your
> ~/.enlightenment/...e_session-XXXXXX.snapshots.0 file. You must do this
> while Enlightenment is not running. Look for entries pertaining to those
> files (they'd be in there if you've told E to remember location, border
> type, etc.). If (for the apps in question) there are lines that start
> with "WH" or "XY", try removing them - then start Enlightenment and try
> running the apps.
>
> An example section for the application "panel" might look like this:
>
>      NEW: panel_window.Panel
>      NAME: panel_window
>      CLASS: Panel
>      RES: 1400 1050
>      XY: 0 4 0 0
>      BORDER: SHADERIGHT
>
>
> If you edit this file while E is running, it'll get overwritten with the
> previous values as soon as you exit; so that won't do you any good.
>
> --
> Travis Saling
> Webmaster, UW Electrical Engineering
> trav u washington edu / webmaster ee washington edu
> (206) 543-8984
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-list mailing list
> gnome-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
>