[CLUE-Tech] HELP - window manager

[Ed Hill]

jon b wrote:

> Hey all.  I am dropping this quick request because my Gnome/KDE 
> abilities have come to a fast halt.  I am running RH 7.1 on my IBM 
> notebook.  I installed enlightenment-0.16-4 or something like that.  I 
> then went through Gnome Control Panel and switched to Enlightenment.  
> After Enlightenment started running I noticed it was speedy.  It did 
> take away the bar for Gnome though?  Anyways I uninstalled through 
> GnoRPM after attempting many times (probably more than five) to switch 
> back to sawfish.  This should have happened fairly easily, right?  
> Nope... almost as if Enlightenment didn't want to give up the 
> installation.  Some really great fonts, colors, etc. but I am a newbie 
> and need the Gnome bar on the bottom. 
> 
>  
> 
> Now Enlightenment is uninstalled and I can't get X-server to run 
> properly because of the WM (my strong hunch).  Any thoughts?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> *Jon Buttjer*
> 
> jontheisguy at yahoo.com <mailto:jontheisguy at yahoo.com>


Hi Jon,

I'm a big fan of E and its very easy to get it working in conjunction with
the Gnome Panel or with multiple Gnome Panels.  Here is my .Xclients file:

[edhill at gamma1 ~]$ ls -al .Xclients
-rwxrwxr-x    1 edhill   edhill         93 Oct 27 17:06 .Xclients*
[edhill at gamma1 ~]$ more .Xclients
#
#
#

   /usr/bin/panel >& /dev/null &

   #  /usr/bin/gmc >& /dev/null &

   enlightenment



[edhill at gamma1 ~]$

and I *don't* use the graphical X login.  I use text terminals and run
"startx" when I want X windows.

Also note that there are lots of different ways to start programs by adding
them to your .Xclients file.  The example I gave above is just a *very*
simple one that allows for the use of a gnome panel in conjunction with E
and it works well with RH v7.2 which includes a newer version of GNOME
which does not work as well with E (they both want to set the "background"
or the root X display and there are some other minor issues).

hth,
Ed


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