Can't start enlightenment from xinitrc

[graudeejs]

Hmm how to start enlightenment correctly from xinitrc?
I tried with enlightenment_start, but it complained about DISPLAY environment variable not set.
I've set it, but it still complains...

I was able to start with only xterm, and then launch enlightenment from xterm
Looks impressive

XDM authorization key matches an existing client! [0.00011] - signals done
ESTART: 0.00022 [0.00010] - determine prefix
DYNAMIC DETERMINED PREFIX: /usr/local
ESTART: 0.00043 [0.00021] - prefix done
ESTART: 0.00050 [0.00007] - eina init
ESTART: 0.00085 [0.00035] - intl init
ESTART: 0.00090 [0.00005] - parse args
ESTART: 0.00090 [0.00001] - arg parse done
ESTART: 0.00094 [0.00004] - ecore init
ESTART: 0.00199 [0.00106] - ecore_file init
ESTART: 0.00224 [0.00025] - more ecore
ESTART: 0.00225 [0.00001] - x connect
<<<< Enlightenment Error >>>>
Enlightenment cannot initialize its X connection.
Have you set your DISPLAY variable?
E17: Begin shutdown procedure!

Ye, I tried to set DISPLAY in xinitrc, but it doesn't work.... weird

 

[JokerBoy]

exec enlightenment

doesn't work?

 

[graudeejs]

No, it tells to use enlightenment_start

 

[sk8harddiefast]

exec enlighnment_start on .xinitrc worked for me. If you tell exec enlightenment will complain about display but with enlighnment_start should work.

 

[UNIXgod]

you should have full paths in xinitrc

 

[graudeejs]

you should have full paths in xinitrc

That worked until I logged out. After that I wasn't able to start enlightenment again (Without restart).
Note: I'm using XDM

 

[graudeejs]

exec /usr/local/bin/ck-launch-session /usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start

did the trick

 

[quamenzullo]

thanks

Thanks for the tip! I could shorten it this way:

exec /usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start

 

[Miftosauron]

... installed from ports, because i really liked enlightenment back in the days, and effectively i was unable to start it!
but this line added to my .xinirc started it:

exec e16

i had found some more themes online, tried some... well, a lot of them, until enlightenment started to behave, maybe because i tried to check too much themes, and some of his internals crashed, making him partly unresponsive, especially mouse menus... so, alt+f2, log in, and pkill xorg! )

there's a manual in html format, i checked it, and deleted those autogenerated files to have it back clean... and now i will try to cope how to change themes, mainly, their fonts sizes, because most of them are 8 or 10 points, and they're mostly unreadable in my current resolution, 1366x768, according to xrandr... those themes looks like they was made for 1024x768, 4:3 ratio, the current resolution and ratio in 2010-2012...

all the start lines mentioned here doesn't work, because there's no enlightenment_start file anywhere... i discovered after some internet searching, and checking some random posts there, too, i can use "exec e16", and this had worked...

i really consider trying to compile the last available enlightenment sources from the main site, version 27... but this will be something to do in a really rainy day!

unless the package maintainer will decide to do this before i'll do...