Yes, actually I did look at Greg's suggestions. Your thread is what spurred me to try and act on the entrance issue.
CentOS is a free binary distribution of freely available Red Hat EL source. So I thought your FC solutions may help, but no such luck. FC is more bleeding edge. CentOS is still using X116. Thanks SHS On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 23:21 -0500, Laurence Vanek wrote: > Steven H. Smith wrote: > > Can anyone point me to a solution for running entrance on CentOS release > > 4.3? > > > > I've changed: > > > > /etc/sysconfig/desktop to reflect DESKTOP="E17" > > > > /etc/X11/prefdm to reflect > > > > elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = E17 ]; then > > preferred=/usr/local/sbin/entranced > > > > > > > > but no entrance on start. > > > > Thanks > > > > SHS > > > Im not familiar with your O/S but did you try Greg Kriehn's suggestions, > perhaps they will help. We > are dealing with FC5 where X is at /usr/bin/X & the Xsession file > resides in /etc/X11/xinit Is that your case? > > from Greg's post: > > > BACKGROUND: > >>>> > >>>> 1.) Configuration for /etc/entrance_config.cfg > >>>> > >>>> Currently, entrance is setup for a system that still uses X11R6 from > >>>> "X.org" instead of the new X11R7 files. You can check this with the > >>>> following command: > >>>> > >>>> sudo ecore_config -c /etc/entrance_config.cfg -a > >>>> > >>>> Look at the last line. If will say: > >>>> > >>>> /entranced/xserver string "/usr/X11R6/bin/X -quiet -nolisten tcp > >>>> vt7" > >>>> > >>>> Because of this, entrance will not launch successfully. It certainly > >>>> tries, as can be verified by checking your /var/log/messages file, but > >>>> fails because "X.org" uses X11R7 under FC5. Notice the release notes of > >>>> Fedora Core 5. See the third point, in particular. > > ----- > >>>> > >>>> As you know, this has caused many headaches for people (including > >>>> myself), because developers for particular packages have not had time to > >>>> change their source code before the release of FC5. Specific to > >>>> entrance, notice that it looks for "X" in "/usr/X11R6/bin" instead of in > >>>> "/usr/bin", where everything is now installed. But this can easily be > >>>> fixed. Simply run the command: > >>>> > >>>> sudo ecore_config -c /etc/entrance_config.cfg -k /entranced/xserver > >>>> -s "usr/bin/X -quiet -nolisten tcp vt7" > >>>> > >>>> Now run: > >>>> > >>>> sudo ecore_config -c /etc/entrance_config.cfg -a > >>>> > >>>> The last line should now say: > >>>> > >>>> /entranced/xserver string "usr/bin/X -quiet -nolisten tcp vt7" > >>>> > >>>> You are now capable of running entrance in FC5. But only if > >>>> the /etc/entrance_config.cfg file is not changed again. It would be > >>>> good to set this up so that when entrance is installed on FC5, it points > >>>> to the proper directory automatically. > > > 2.) Location of the Xsession file. > >>>> > >>>> Previously in FC4, "Xsession" could be found in only one location: > >>>> "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession". With FC5, things have gotten a bit more > >>>> complicated. There are now two locations: "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" and > >>>> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession". Both "gdm" and "kdm" (when launching a gnome > >>>> or kde session, respectively) are pointed to look at > >>>> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession", which is where the old "Xsession" file from > >>>> FC4 is now located (with some minor changes). "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" > >>>> contains a new file that is specific to only "xdm" and is very sparse. > >>>> However, when entrance launches an enlightenment session, it still looks > >>>> for configuration info in "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession", not > >>>> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession". Check "/var/log/messages" to verify this. > >>>> For enlightenment, this causes problems because dbus (the messagebus > >>>> daemon) information will not be configured due to the major differences > >>>> between the two files, among other things. > >>>> > >>>> Theoretically, we could just copy "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession" to > >>>> "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.bak" and then force a soft link from > >>>> "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession" to "/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession", but this is a > >>>> hack, and a poor one at that. It would be much better to have entrance > >>>> set up so that it looks at "/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession" instead for FC5. > >>>> Then entrance and enlightenment can both be launched properly. > >>>> > >>>> Can one of the developers perhaps update the "configure" script for > >>>> entrance to reflect the new changes so that it will work robustly with > >>>> both X11R6 and X11R7? > > >
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