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ripley
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 Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 6:57 am Post subject: emerged xfce4 but got no entry in /etc/X11/Sessions/ |
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hi,
i emerged xfce4 last night but it didn't put an entry into /etc/X11/Sessions/ as it did on my other machines.
"startxfce4" works right though.
any suggestion how to fix this ? |
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Markrian
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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The file in /etc/X11/Sessions would literally contain nothing more that "startxfce4". For me, I believe the file is /etc/X11/Sessions/XFCE-4 or something, but that name of the file doesn't really matter. Make sure you make that file with the same ownership/permissions as other files in that directory.
I am wondering why that file wasn't created though. Odd.
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darkarchon
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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when i emerged xfce4 it did not create one for me either. so i manually created one as follows:
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#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/startxfce4
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since i was using gdm as display manager i also created an ~/.xsession file that had the above contents....
as a side note, i never could get entrance to work with xfce4. so i switched over to gdm. if you have better luck with entrance do let us know how so....
if you have problems, make sure to check out your .xsession-errors file.
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ripley
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject: gonna try tonight |
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i will fix this tonight as i have access to my other gentoo-boxes then.....
is entrance worth the effort ? (i guess i try anyway as this one is a vmware-guest -> try -> reload snapshot)
i'll post any results.... but it might be in the middle of the night 
thx so far |
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darkarchon
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: gonna try tonight |
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| ripley wrote: | | is entrance worth the effort ? |
not for me. since i could never get it to work with xfce. there is an issue with entrance opening up display 0 and xfce being unable to connect to display 0. i posted this matter and another user reported the same problem:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=168807&highlight=
i was using kdm before and then tried entrance. now i am with gdm. gdm is nice since it has themes and you can get many themes from:
http://www.themedepot.org/
the gdm themes are at:
http://www.themedepot.org/showarea.php4?area=11
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