Installing Enlightenment on slackware 9.1 (from source)

[templest]

Oooooooooh.... I've always used Enlightenment for one reason, It's SOOO AMAZING!... I can customize it to look like ANYTHING. Err... This was with Mandrake though (gotta love those RPMs). Now that I'm using slackware 9.1... There are no slackpacks (at least not for 9.1, there is for 8.1 though), and then there's the source. I downloaded... filled the dependancies and compilied it. did a "make install", then what? :confused: I typed "xwmconfig" but there is not an option to choose Enlightenment, and I have searched far and wide for a forum helping me fix this (by far and wide I mean a couple Google searches all returning nothing). I just need to know how to start up the damned thing! Any help please? It would be very appreciated (ps: the "INSTALL" and "README" files provide no help WHATSOEVER on the matter). I have to sleep. After watch Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. I'm sorta sleepy.. dunno why. I'll check posts in the morning!

Again! Thanks for the help,

Templest

[JusKickNit]

startx /usr/bin/enlightenment

[voidinit]

Piece of cake. Put the attached file in /etc/X11/xinit/ , reneame it /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.e and then remove the /etc/X11/xinit/xinirc symlink, and recreate it so it's pointing to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.e. Restart X and enjoy!

I also use enlightenment, and I've sort of half-*** followed their project. They've got me worried! Currently they only support fnlib 1.2 which is outdated. The new version 2.0 is not backward compatable with 1.2. This is going to lead to problems when 1.2 is depreciated. The E project has been talking about revamping their codebase forever, but just can't seemed to get organized enough to do it. In the meantime I'm looking for a suitable alternative, but I just don't think there is a subsitute for e.

[serz]

Edit your ~/.xinitr file and add the following:

exec enlightenment

[templest]

They've got me worried! Currently they only support fnlib 1.2 which is outdated.

I realized that. :eek: aren't they working on a e17 though? :confused:

Anyways... Thanks for the help! Voidinit I decided going w/ ur method. :-) But hey, thanks everyone. Ohh, serz I might use that if this doesn't work. Ohh, and justkickNit, I like only typing startx. none of that other stuff. :L-) Thanks though.

I'll edit this post if it works.

[templest]

false alarm... voidinit, didn't work. serz... it says enlightenment not found. :(

Any idears? I did "make install" and everything. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[JamminJoeyB]

The bad thing about enlightenment is the project seems to be almost dead. I love the elightenment also and was sad to see Slackware drop it out of the distro.

I'll check my xinitrc in my EE install when I get home and post it. Maybe that will help you get it going. EE is pretty much a modified slackware so it may help you out.

[templest]

Thanks. :)

If anyone else has any suggestions I would love your input aswell. ;) It's nice to see people helping each other out. Reminds me of a movie I saw recently. :cool: hehe...

[voidinit]

Originally posted by templest
false alarm... voidinit, didn't work. serz... it says enlightenment not found. :(

Any idears? I did "make install" and everything. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I'm running just about the same setup as you, in /etc/X11/xinit I have :

xinitrc --> xinitrc.e*
xinitrc.e*
xinitrc.blackbox*
xinitrc.twm*
xinitrc.gnome*
xinitrc.kde*

If I change the symlink to point to any of the other xinitrc.* files that is the window manager that starts under the default option in gdm, or if I init 3 and startx.. All I did when I installed enlightenment was to edit xinitrc.twm and change the bottom lines of the files to not start anything else but exec enlightenment. Then I saved that file as xinitrc.e and linked xinitrc to it.

[templest]

That's all fine and dandy but it says "Enlightenment not found" Therefore, I think it's an installation or compilation error. :mad:

I'll try compiling it and installing it again and then doing what to told me to do again. See if it works this time. I'll post if it works.

[saturn-vk]

$ whereis enlightenment

?

[voidinit]

Originally posted by templest
That's all fine and dandy but it says "Enlightenment not found" Therefore, I think it's an installation or compilation error. :mad:

I'll try compiling it and installing it again and then doing what to told me to do again. See if it works this time. I'll post if it works.

Doh!!!!

Is the enlightenment binary in your path??? Because the xinitrc script I posted doesn't specify the full path to enlightenment, of course....on my machine enlightenment is in /usr/bin/.

[templest]

2 points to voidinit for his un-matched slickness.

Doh!!!!

Is the enlightenment binary in your path??? Because the xinitrc script I posted doesn't specify the full path to enlightenment, of course....on my machine enlightenment is in /usr/bin/.



I did a search for Enlightenment and came up with the line:
/usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment
so I typed "exec /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment" instead of just "exec enlightenment" and it's aaall "fine and dandy". Thanks for the help. :) It's nice to know there's always a kind and helpful nerd out there at JL.com to help you out when you're in need. :D :cool: