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Enlightenment

Postby notlurking » Jan 3rd, '24, 19:04

Hello to all. I downloaded Enlightenment but it does not open. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby sturmvogel » Jan 3rd, '24, 21:00

Which package did you install? -> You need to install task-enlightenment.

And what does "it does not open" mean? -> logout and chose Enlightenment


Also see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_9_Rel ... ightenment
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby notlurking » Jan 5th, '24, 18:11

I installed Mageia 9 classic installation. Then like you said I installed task-enlightenment. I then went to the log in screen and logged out and chose Enlightenment. Enlightenment desktop does not open and instead goes back to the log in screen. This keeps happening over and over. When I choose KDE that opens up. Strange.
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby morgano » Jan 5th, '24, 20:05

Please open a bug in our Bugzilla, and we take it from there, engaging our enlightenment maintainer.
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby notlurking » Jan 6th, '24, 04:51

Hello. This problem happens with all other desktop or window managers. The only 2 desktops that I can switch are KDE and TDE. KDE was the original desktop I installed.
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby morgano » Jan 6th, '24, 13:08

Aha, so not specific to Enlightenment then.
I guess you use SDDM as display manager?
What happens if you change to another DM, some simple like XDM or LXDM?
Install package xdm and/or lxdm, and then you can choose them in
https://doc.mageia.org/mcc/9/en/content ... ml#drakedm
and reboot.
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby Germ » Jan 6th, '24, 15:25

I assume you added the Trinity repo according to these instructions?

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Mageia_ ... structions
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby niftybottle » Jan 7th, '24, 10:16

It seems like the various display managers are only configured for specific desktop environments (at least out of the box). Presumably SDDM only boots to KDE and related DEs. I’ve experienced similar problems with GDM and LightDM - I had to dig around in recovery mode to find a desktop LightDM would boot to (MATE). This does not seem optimal. I’m not sure which display manager you should use to boot into Enlightenment - I know GDM won’t do it.
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 7th, '24, 16:05

niftybottle wrote:Presumably SDDM only boots to KDE and related DEs.

Not at all. Every DM boots any Desktop Environment, although you already added third party repos so this is not a regular installation anymore.

You would need to check your logs why Enlightenment does not starty normally.
It would be helpful if you could run
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journalctl -ab > /tmp/journal.log
as root after a fresh boot, after you tried to login to Enlightenment and then later attach /tmp/journal.log here.
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Re: Enlightenment

Postby PerfMonk » Jan 7th, '24, 19:00

From the Arch wiki:

If you prefer to start Enlightenment manually, enter startx /usr/bin/enlightenment_start in the console.
To try the Wayland compositor, enter enlightenment_start instead.


To switch to a console from the SDDM login screen type ctrl-alt-Fn where n would be between 3-6 (avoid 1,2,7 in case of conflict with sddm and xorg).
Then you will see any error messages if Enlightement is not starting correctly. If it start, then it's SDDM or you didn't choose the correct desktop in the login menu.

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