Re: Enlightenment

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

I think I must have really screwed up one of my posts. The problem I am
having isn't that I want to run Enlightenment, it's that I can't get
anything else to run anymore. I don't want to run just Enlightenment. I
would like to be able to choose which window manager I am going to use
when typing startx if possible. Thanks very much for the help. I am very
greatful for your instructions explaining how this works. I do have some
books on Linux, though I don't think they cover unix programming much.
I'll have to get another book for that.

Aaron 

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 
> Ok Aaron, you showed us the standard /etc/X11/xinitrc here.  Remember I
> said how that works?  Look at the lines
> 
> if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
>     exec $HOME/.Xclients
> elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
>     exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
> 
> This looks for .Xclients in your home directory (in case you didn't
> realise, $HOME/ and ~/ is an alternative to /home/username/ i.e. your home
> directory).  If it finds it, it executes it, otherwise it runs
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.  So, what you need to do is
> 1.  Get rid of ~/.xinitrc if there is one.
> 2.  Create ~/.Xclients and put
> 
> exec /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment 2>/dev/console
> 
> in it (that assumes /usr/local/enlightenment/bin is the actual path, I've
> never actually installed it myself).
> 
> Once that file is created, startx will use it.
> 
> Do you have any books on Linux, Aaron - as Linux is at the moment you
> really can't get a lot done without learning how to use shell scripts.
>  Don't think that's going to change soon.  If you can manage a DOS batch
> file, shell scripts aren't much more complex (at least, they don't _have_
> to be).
> 
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