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ebrostig
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 Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | | @Ebrostig: If your theme still looks like [urlhttp://xcomputerman.com/pages/images/entrance_default.png]this[/url] then you are out of date, the new default theme is somewhat different... |
No, it is slightly different from that theme. I'll try to change the themes tonight when I can boot back into Gentoo.
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ebrostig
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| Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:56 am Post subject: |
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It doesn't matter which theme I'm using, I can't type in anything with any of them.
I have unmerged and deleted the cvc-source, then re-emerged it. Same result.
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BlastM
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Joined: 07 Mar 2003
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Location: Newcastle, Australia. 7487 miles south-west of America.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:56 am Post subject: |
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This has probably been answered but I can't find where, so...
How do you add window managers to the list in Entrance? Once I unmerged and re-emerged entrance, wmaker (Window Maker) was added to the list, but e17 isn't on the list. There are also Default and Failsafe options that load that godawful wm that comes with X.
How can I get rid of the "Failsafe" session, add e17 (or whatever other wm I want) and rename the session/change the icon? |
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Rosjahh
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| Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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| BlastM wrote: |
How can I get rid of the "Failsafe" session, add e17 (or whatever other wm I want) and rename the session/change the icon? |
BlastM. just use edb_gtk_ed or any other edb editor to edit /etc/endtrance_config.db . All settings of entrance go in that database. You can also edit /usr/share/entrance/build_config.sh, then run it and copy /usr/share/entrance/entrance_config.db to /etc . |
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BlastM
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:27 am Post subject: |
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Thanks.
I found editing and running /usr/share/entrance/build_config.sh and copying the entrance_config.db to /etc was the easiest way to do it.
Why are they using these binary config files? That's just not Unix. The .edb files which I think they're phasing out are some weird format based on Berkeley DB, but they're obsolete already with these new .eet files (whatever they are). Config files should be text files, and I know that edb and eet can hold binary data such as images and sounds, but so can a gzipped tarball (remember .etheme?). Text config files in E16 were fast enough for me. |
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vrln
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Rosjahh
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| BlastM wrote: | Thanks.
Why are they using these binary config files? |
I really have no idea !! It doesn't make things easier exactly. |
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mallchin
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Rosjahh wrote: | | BlastM wrote: | Thanks.
Why are they using these binary config files? |
I really have no idea !! It doesn't make things easier exactly. |
It's a lot faster reading binary configs.
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planetsheinker
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| mallchin wrote: | | Rosjahh wrote: | | BlastM wrote: | Thanks.
Why are they using these binary config files? |
I really have no idea !! It doesn't make things easier exactly. |
It's a lot faster reading binary configs. |
Why it's a lot faster???
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mallchin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| planetsheinker wrote: | | mallchin wrote: | | Rosjahh wrote: | | BlastM wrote: | Thanks.
Why are they using these binary config files? |
I really have no idea !! It doesn't make things easier exactly. |
It's a lot faster reading binary configs. |
Why it's a lot faster??? |
From Unofficial e17 docs:
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E17 uses binary config files. They have very little read/write overhead, so there is no no CPU wastage on parsing etc.
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Read more at http://lude.net/edocs/
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pmatos
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| theBlackDragon wrote: | | velox wrote: | | Why do you use entrance as a dm if you need the cpucycles? try xdm kdm gdm qingy |
Entrance barely uses cpu cycles if you switch in into gl-mode, same goes for a lot of other e17 apps (engage for example).
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What do you mean by gl-mode? |
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Dais
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using opengl instead of software rendering, but I think it's broken now, unless they fixed this since last time I checked
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pmatos
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| Dais wrote: | | using opengl instead of software rendering, but I think it's broken now, unless they fixed this since last time I checked |
Oh, ok... Yes, I think I read somewhere about the fact that's broken...  |
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theBlackDragon
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Yup, it's quite broken as rasterman states on his site, the place to be for e17 news btw 
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tecknojunky
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: |
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What is exactly what I'm doing.
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cd /usr/portage/distfiles/cvs-src
rm -rf e17
cd
emerge imlib2 edb eet evas ecore epeg epsilon embryo edje esmart emotion etox ewl entice entrance elicit e
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Hey! Thanks a lot. I've been *not* emerging Entrance since eons because it would systematicaly fail with Evas errors.
I emerge world each weekend but don't systematicaly reboot. Well, I did exactly that yesterday (wenesday) and Entrance would suddenly restart the X process Ad Vitam Eternam. Oh well, log on the console and type startx. I run a cluster at my university and, oh surprise, today Entrance restart my station constantly overthere too. So, there comes a time when you must deal with things.
Thanks to your hint, the emerge listing showed one ebuild coming from the overlay... evas-1.0.bla.pre<N>!!! Ah. ah! That's why it never got updated from the ebuilds from the main Portage tree.  After removing it, Evas got updated and I have all the confidence in the world that Entrance will too and it will fix my problem of it constantly restarting (fingers crossed).
Thanks again chum. 
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ArmpitWit
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I am also having the same problem with 'entrance' not accepting any keyboard input when it loads up. It accepts the mouse perfectly fine, just no keyboard. I can't Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or do anything with the keyboard. I ended up having to boot from cd and 'rc-update del xdm default'
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