Enlightenment and gnome panel

[White Shadow]

I am using enlightenment and I have to manually start the gnome panel everytime I log on. Is there any way to autostart the gnome panel. I know in KDE there is a folder called autostart is there a folder like that in enlightenment.

Thanks,
WS

[evil_roy]

In your home dir create a file called .xinitrc

In it have

exec enlightenment &
exec gnome-panel

That should do it. If not change second line to exec gnome-session

[White Shadow]

Thanks I'll try that when I boot back into linux.

Thanks,
WS

[White Shadow]

Ok I tried it and it didn't work. my .xinit file was a symlink to my .xsession file in my home dir. So I edited my .xsession file. Saved it. Viewed it again (to make sure changes where there). Logged off then back on. Nada. It replace my .xsession file with the old one and named the one I edited .xesssion.old. My .xsession look like this

#!/bin/sh
# Execute enlightenment. ALWAYS make sure this is at the end of this
# startup file - and ALWAYS run things before it with an & at the end.
# For example:
# xterm &
# kpanel &
# It is suggested to use Enlightenment's Remember dialog for having apps
# spawned automatically on login.
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment

I then edited it to this

#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/panel (this is the file for gnome panel)
exec /usr/bin/enlightenment

and it did as above stated.

It is really ticken me off. All I want is for the freakin panel to start automatically.

I tried the remember feature but for gnome panel it doesn't give you the option of restart at login like it does with other apps like gmc. I'm running Drake 7.2 if that helps any.

It's almost time to get the BIG hammer out.

Thanks,
WS

[evil_roy]

I'd still create the .xinitrc file .If it all goes to hell then redo it as a symlink to .xsession.

Here's a tip for messing with this stuff. Create a test user on your system and play around. That way when you really stuff it up you can still get things done in your normal account whilst you try to sort it out. Hopefully you will get the setup you want in the test account - just copy the settings over and you are done.