From: A. S. B. <enl...@so...> - 2003-11-25 17:09:57
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Thus spake Hall Stevenson: [snip] > Ahhh, it seems you left out a key thing from your original post, that is, > assuming you're running E as your window manager. If so, you do NOT launch > epplets from your .xsession or .xinitrc file. epplets will automatically be > set up to re-start with E each time WITHOUT YOU HAVING TO DO ANYTHING. I didn't have epplets loading from .xsession or .xinitrc before, only since I did the --disable-auto-respawn. The reason for this is that since recompiling, none of the epplets appeared at all. To clarify, the set up I had BEFORE (which didn't work) was with GDM as the login manager and the following .xinitrc: #!/bin/sh enlightenment & pid=$! /usr/local/bin/sonypid >/dev/null 2>&1 & Eterm --foreground-color white --background-color black --geometry 150x48+95+85 --title "Main Terminal" --resize-gravity & sudo /usr/bin/tpconfig --tapmode=0 xset m 8 wait $pid (The pid thing is just for historical problems with the fluxbox pager -- never got round to removing it when I changed to enlightenment). Now it is as follows: #!/bin/sh enlightenment & pid=$! /usr/local/bin/sonypid >/dev/null 2>&1 & Eterm --foreground-color white --background-color black --geometry 150x48+95+85 --title "Main Terminal" --resize-gravity & E-Clock.epplet & E-MoonClock.epplet & E-Biff.epplet & E-Biff.epplet & E-Cpu.epplet & E-NetFlame.epplet & E-ScreenSave.epplet & sudo /usr/bin/tpconfig --tapmode=0 xset m 8 wait $pid > > The reason for this --disable-auto-respawn, or one of the reasons, was > because Gnome users were having both Gnome *and* E remember what apps were > to be re-started, hence people getting multiple instances of apps. Why ?? > Because Gnome restarts them and E restarts them. > > Let us know how soon your problem comes back. :-) You can count on it! Thanks again, Al |