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illumin8

#! Junkie

From: Seattle

Registered: 2009-05-30

Posts: 395

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pekwm installed from source - error message at login

I installed the 0.1.11 release of pekwm last night from source.
i received no errors @ makeinstall.
I added pekwm.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions with:

[Desktop Entry] 
Encoding=UTF-8 
Name=PekWM
Comment=Start PekWM
Exec=/usr/local/bin/pekwm
Icon= 
Type=Application

and then set permissions with:

sudo chmod +x /usr/share/xsessions/Pekwm.desktop

i double checked to make sure that pekwm was in /usr/local/bin,
and double checked permissions.

Still error message @login with "no exec for pekwm."

What am I missing?

Edit:I found two references to this error in Urukamas thread on Ubuntu with two different fixes.
one was to comment out the UTF Encoding, the other was to add "try exec=pekwm" after exec=pekwm.
While i like finding a fix, i sort of want to know why....

Last edited by illumin8 (2009-06-26 20:56:52)

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jackbang

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 244

Re: pekwm installed from source - error message at login

I also compiled from source, and works for me (themes don't like my graphics card though, I can only use the default orange theme).

You don't need +x on the desktop file.
Mine is

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=PekWM
Comment=Start PekWM
Exec=pekwm
Icon=
Type=Application

Try selecting the "user script" option or whatever it is on the GDM login menu, and running pekwm manually.