Phuah Yee Keat wrote: > Felix Breuer wrote: > >> What I would like to know is the following: >> >> * What is the standard way for a login manager to read/set the >> environment for >> a session? Are login managers supposed to go through an Xsession >> script? > > > I was just poking around the Entrance source and also the way xdm works > last week, while trying to see what can be done to solve the > Entrance+csh-as-login-shell issue. > > Well, XDM goes thru /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup as root, which login the user > in utmp, but DOES_NOT run the shell as a login shell, hence the startup > scripts are not read. > > Then XDM run the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script as the user just logged > in. And my Xsession (slackware) does have this patch > > <patch> > # Since xdm doesn't run a bash -login shell (or any other login shell) > # we should source these files to set up the user's environment. > profile=/etc/profile > userprofile=~/.profile > > if [ -r $profile ]; then > source $profile 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null > fi > if [ -r $userprofile ]; then > source $userprofile 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null > fi > </patch> > > Which loads the profile. So in this case, its not the login shell which > does it, but the Xsession script. > > I have checked kdm, and kdm use the same sessreg (although in kdm this > is a function instead), and not /bin/sh -l. > > I am still trying to see how I can change entrance to either use > /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg or the sessreg.c from kdm, instead of /bin/sh -l. > > Cheers, > Phuah Yee Keat >
I would be interested in knowing if anyone experiences previously seen issues (most notably, the eaps-disappearing bug) after doing the following: - Remove the -l option from the exec command (don't use login shell) in entrance_session.c, and recompile. - Create an Xsession entry for your distro that launches E17. On Mandriva (and Fedora/RedHat probably) you'd create a file in /etc/X11/wmsession.d; you will need to figure out how your distribution manages X sessions. - In your config, replace "/usr/local/bin/enlightenment" with the name of the Xsession you just created for E17. Entrance will use Xsession to execute a session unless the full path to the command is given. Xsession sets up many things for you that Entrance won't do (and isn't supposed to do, actually) - like read/load Xresources/Xdefaults files and stuff like that. It might even resolve environment issues like LANG, or issues with display font sizes. Regards, -- Ibukun Olumuyiwa http://xcomputerman.com "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
