[clue-tech] How do I disable entrance to prevent it from automatically starting up?

[Brian Gibson]

solved... I ended up digging through the manual and it
said to manage the process via bum (Boot-Up Manager). 
One apt-get command and a checkbox later and entrance
doesn't startup anymore.

--- Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OK I've been toying with the latest gOS 2.0 beta
> released at CES.  Since the gOS window manager is
> Enlightenment E17 they opted to use entrance (as in
> bewitch not doorway) instead of gdm as the display
> manager in version 2.0.  
> 
> (FYI the display manager is the graphical login
> screen.  Why couldn't they just call it the login
> screen manager?  It would be a lot less confusing.) 
> 
> 
> Entrance doesn't have an auto-login setting (yet?)
> so
> I decided to install gdm instead.  Unfortunately
> after
> installing gdm, selecting gdm as the default display
> manager wasn't enough to disable entrance.  Instead,
> entrance starts up on display 0 and gdm is forced to
> use the next available display.  So I figured I'll
> just uninstall entrance.  The developers of gOS in
> their infinite wisdom made the greenos-artwork
> package
> depend on the entrance-theme-greenos package which
> depends on entrance.  So by uninstalling entrance, I
> end up with the default enlightenment artwork which
> btw clashes nicely with the forest green wallpaper.
> 
> So is there a way I can uninstall entrance without
> uninstalling entrance-theme-greenos, i.e.
> break/ignore
> the dependency?  Or is there someone more familiar
> with the low-level configuration of entrance who
> could
> tell me how to prevent it from starting up.  My
> initial poking around found a /etc/init.d/entrance
> file.  Incidently, gOS 2.0 has Ubuntu Gutsy under
> the hood.
> 
> 
>      
>
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