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Topic: EvilWM problem

So I am a pretty new crunchbang user, and I really like the look of evilwm and I really like minimalist window managers. I installed it with apt-get but it does not show up on the list of WM's to use under session. I have searched around forever but cannot find out how to add it to the list. Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: EvilWM problem

@strum4h
If you are using #! Statler, you have to create the evilwm.desktop file first, and put it in /usr/share/xsessions to make the GDM display the evilwm session.
the file content is similar like this.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=XSession
Exec=/usr/local/bin/evilwm.sh
TryExec=evilwm
Name=evilwm

While the evilwm.sh that located in /usr/local/bin is my own config about what apps that should be loaded on evilwm session.
this is mine:

nm-applet &
conky &
xbindkeys &
sleep .3
evilwm -term urxvt -fg white -bg black

while xbindkeys is used for dmenu and gmrun in my case. but the choice is yours.
good luck. let us know if there is something wrong, we'll try to help as hard as we can.
Cheers!!!

Last edited by muzieca (2011-07-20 05:43:03)

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Re: EvilWM problem

Thanks I will try that.

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Re: EvilWM problem

So I made both of those files and it showed up as one of the options but whenever I login it says "Xsession: Unable to launch "/usr/local/bin/evilwm.sh" X session --- "/usr/local/bin/evilwm.sh" not found; falling back to default session. I made the evilwm.sh file and put my own config in there, pretty much the same as yours but without conky.

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Re: EvilWM problem

@strum4h
You should make the evilwm.sh executable. go to the /usr/local/bin as root, right click the file, go to properties, in the permission tab, check the box that said "Make the file executable".
or

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/evilwm.sh

that should do the trick. Sorry i'm forgot to mention about this on the previous post. smile

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Re: EvilWM problem

Ok so now it logs in but it is just a blank screen with mouse cursor, no terminal pops up and return doesnt make a terminal pop up. Sorry if I am a lot of trouble lol, this has just been the hardest wm to install so far.

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Re: EvilWM problem

Do you have the rxvt-unicode terminal installed? If not, either install it or change the urxvt for terminator in your evilwm.sh

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Re: EvilWM problem

yeah i use rxvt-unicode, i tried switching it to terminator also to see if that was the problem but it didnt work.

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Re: EvilWM problem

that's strange, because by pressing ctrl+alt+enter bring the terminal up. it is the default keybinding. smile
is the xbindkeys working to bring the gmrun or the dmenu? or it is not working too?
btw, if you want to have wallpaper, just add:

nitrogen --restore &

in your evilwm.sh  smile

Last edited by muzieca (2011-07-21 03:41:26)

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Re: EvilWM problem

Thanks for all the help smile it works, I just need to tweak it a lot.

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Re: EvilWM problem

glad to know that it works. Evilwm is quite simple, all you have to do is to getting used to it. big_smile

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