[CLUE-Tech] Enlightenment

[Kurt Sturm]

Hello again Ed, got that script down but my concern is that you are
speaking of Redhat and I am running on Mandrake 8.2. In another of your
emails you make mention of the following directory.........

# run E with the Gnome panel..  (comment)
/usr/bin/panel >& /dev/null &   (seems to be calling on this direc.
				 redirecting to background and sending
				 to the bit bucket)
enlightenment

My concern is that I looked for /usr/bin/panel and there is no such
thing on my system.

Maybe I am paranoid, just don't want to botch anything up. Thinking at
worst might just throw an error message and can always go back in and
delete code that I add to xinitrc file.

Any thoughts on this? Also please qualify further down below where i
comment on the code you gave me.........


On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 17:55, Ed Hill wrote:
> 
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> The "~/.Xclients" file doesn't exist unless you create it.  With Red Hat
> distros, the startx command (I generally login from a text terminal but
> this may also work from a graphical login) program will execute a bit of
> shell code (see [1] below) from your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file.  So
> what this code does is, if you have a /home/your_name/.Xclients file, it
> will execute it and otherwise it will use the system default file.
> 
> Many Unix commands have such a configuration structure.  That is, many
> programs have a system-wide default resource (or configuration) file
> that can, in part or whole, be overridden by a resource file in the
> user's home directory.
> 
> hth,
> Ed
> 
> ===
> 
>  [1] Exerpt from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc:
> 
> 
> if [ -f $HOME/.Xclients ]; then
>     exec $HOME/.Xclients
> elif [ -f /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients ]; then
>     exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
> else
>        # failsafe settings.  Although we should never get here
>        # (we provide fallbacks in Xclients as well) it can't hurt.
>        xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
>        xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
>        if [ -x /usr/bin/netscape -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ];
> then
>                netscape /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
>        fi
>        if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 ]; then  (understand entire script until
						we get to the netscape
						part. Why is this? )
>                exec fvwm2
>        else
>                exec twm
>        fi
> fi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 17:32, Kurt Sturm wrote:
> > Ummm.... Hey Ed.... Don't mean to sound like a newbie but..... where
> > might I find this almighty Xclients file??
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 16:43, Ed Hill wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 16:10, Kurt Sturm wrote:
> > > > Thanks xclock is a tad primitive but gets the job done, one cannot ask
> > > > for to much more that that, right?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > You can get a number of cool little Gnome-panel-applets with E if you
> > > run the Gnome-panel.  And you *don't* have to run all of Gnome!  This is
> > > the setup that I use (just Enlightenment with the Gnome panel).
> > > 
> > > To do it, put the following in your ~/.Xclients file:
> > > 
> > > # run E with the Gnome panel...
> > >   /usr/bin/panel >& /dev/null &
> > >   enlightenment
> > > 
> > > 
> > > hth,
> > > Ed
> > > 
> > > 
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