Re: [gentoo-user] Still struggling with starting X and enlightenment desktop

[Alan McKinnon]

On 25/03/2017 18:23, Mick wrote:
> After years of running KDM to start various desktop environments flawlessly
> (KDE, fluxbox, enlightenment, plasma) I had to replace it with SDDM.  With the
> arrival of x11-misc/sddm-0.14.0-r2 I am still able to start a session with
> enlightenment, but I am getting access rights errors, for example my user is
> unable to mount a USB stick.  Also, when I log out it logs me back in the
> first time and then logs out normally the second time I try to log out.  I am
> guessing something which should be sourced, is not, but I don't know how to
> fix it.
>
> For years now I have had the following files in place to control what desktop
> manager starts:
>
> $ cat /etc/env.d/90xsession
> XSESSION="enlightenment"
>
>
> $ cat /etc/X11/Sessions/enlightenment
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent ]; then
> 	  eval "$(/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon)"
> fi
>
> /usr/bin/enlightenment_start
>
>
> cat ~/.xsession
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent ]; then
> 	kill $(ps ux | awk '/gpg-agent/ && !/awk/ {print $2}') >/dev/null 2>&1
> fi
>
> if [ -x /usr/bin/gpg-agent ]; then
>   eval "$(/usr/bin/gpg-agent --daemon)"
> fi
>
> if [ -x /usr/bin/urxvtd ]; then
>         /usr/bin/urxvtd --opendisplay --fork --quiet
> fi
>
> /usr/bin/enlightenment_start
>
>
> I keyworded x11-misc/sddm-0.14.0-r3 and discovered enlightenment complains it
> can't run the compositor with OpenGL.  I tried starting a X session from the
> console without DM, with 'startx /usr/bin/enlightenment_start' but I also get
> similar symptoms, including inability to run compositor with OpenGL.  I get
> errors like this in ~/.xsession-errors:
>
> ERR<5100>:eina_safety lib/efreet/efreet_ini.c:299 efreet_ini_string_get()
> safety check failed: ini->section == NULL
>
> (gkrellm:5117): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_box_reorder_child: assertion
> 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (child)' failed
> ERR<5141>:eldbus lib/eldbus/eldbus_proxy.c:818 _props_get_all() Error getting
> all properties of
> org.freedesktop.UDisks2/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/s
> da1, error message: org.enlightenment.DBus.Canceled Canceled by user.
>
>
> I also tried entrance from bar overlay (it has not been updated in a while and
> has a dependency on an obsolete package), slim (won't log me in) and lightdm.
> When I run lightdm there are no such problems, enlightenment starts with
> OpenGLcompositor, I can mount USB disks, but lightdm installed and is running
> much more than what I really need for my desktop.
>
> Is there a way I can start enlightenment without running into all these kind
> of errors?  Can you see something wrong in my file contents above?

Your files look OK to me so I have no idea why you get those erro.

You also say lightdm wrks correctly, so lookee here:

alan@khamul ~/gitwork/ansible $ equery size lightdm
  * x11-misc/lightdm-1.21.5
          Total files : 119
          Total size  : 1.91 MiB
alan@khamul ~/gitwork/ansible $ equery size sddmdm
!!! No installed packages matching 'sddmdm'
alan@khamul ~/gitwork/ansible $ equery size sddm
  * x11-misc/sddm-0.14.0-r2
          Total files : 192
          Total size  : 4.78 MiB

The on that works is smaller and lighter than the one that doesn't.

I say dump sddm and stick with lightdm which works :-)


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Alan McKinnon
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