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List:       enlightenment-devel
Subject:    Re: [E-devel] looking for some info about elogin
From:       Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt () polytechnique ! org>
Date:       2003-01-21 21:58:53
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* Ibukun Olumuyiwa (ibukun@computer.org) wrote:
> Traditionally elogin should be started using elogind (installed in
> PREFIX/sbin at the moment). Just typing "elogind" at the command line
> should fork elogin to the background and start a new X server etc etc.
> 
> As far as using your initscripts, the problem is that your /etc/X11/prefdm
> file is probably tailored to use either KDM, GDM or XDM as a last resort,
> since nobody knows about elogin. ;) So your best option would be to hack
> that file (which is what I did). You can look at
> http://speedstar.xcomputerman.com/files/elogin/prefdm as an example. What
> I have done is to modify it so that you can specify "Elogin" or
> "Enlightenment" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, and it will launch elogind as a
> result.
> 
> If your system does things a little differently, then you probably want to
> take note of the fact that starting elogind with the -nodaemon option will
> prevent it from forking to the background, which is probably the behavior
> you want. I'm not sure but I believe there is also a file in the
> data/init.d directory that allows you to add an elogin service to
> /etc/init.d.
> 
> Hope all this is helpful.

Thanks a lot. As soon as I get it working (I sent another message about
some weird behavior), I'll hack my prefdm.

Alan

-- 
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