Anyone have any secret tips for getting CDE running? I have installed it but I cannot get my EndeavourOS system to log with it.
Thanks,
-Jonathan
Check to make sure there is a .desktop file for CDE installed in /usr/share/xsessions.
As for the login screen, you probably need to select CDE from a pulldown. Depending on the DM, the pulldown is probably an icon either on the title bar or next to your username.
The AUR package hasnāt been updated for 23 months; there are a couple of comments on the AUR page that might give you a bit of help, or possibly a bit of despairā¦
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cdesktopenv/
cheroveobosco commented on 2021-12-16 19:11
Missing file /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin makes it unviable to start the display manager. Referenced in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=270606
Kadzi commented on 2021-08-02 09:53
Hi, file startxsession.sh doesnāt have execution bit set after installation. You install it with āinstall -Dm644 ā¦ā at the end of PKGBUILD.
The Arch wiki page on CDE mentions that it can be started with startx:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Common_Desktop_Environment
CDE can be directly launched with
startx(install xorg-xinit):$ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/dt/bin $ export LANG=C $ startx /usr/dt/bin/Xsession
dtlogin is CDEās own display manager. It should be possible to start CDE from lightdm or even gdm.
Hopefully.
Man, the last time I saw CDEā¦it was Unix, and the late 90s.
So you got my curiosity up and I decided to install CDEā¦ and initially got to about where you did.
As near as I can tell, the ācdesktopenvā package from the AUR is somewhat broken. It builds but it seems like some executables are missing.
The ācdesktopenv-gitā package is even more broken as the author has not been able to make it work with changes in the way CDE is now built.
All is not lost, howeverā¦ Following the directions at the CDE wiki, it is possible to build and install CDE on EndeavourOS.
Youāll need to install the ārpcsvc-protoā package prior to building CDE. (I donāt think itās listed as a requirement, but it should be.) Also youāll need to install ārpcbindā and do a āsystemctl enable rpcbind.socketā.
Just as a side note though, I got it working real quick on FreeBSD just to try it out and Iād say its not worth trying to use it for much at this point. Itās outdated. If they would get it to have more of the features and functionality that modern DEās have I might use it full timeā¦ but itās kinda cumbersome as it is.
There is a project call NsCDE which recreates the look-and-feel but with more modern components. I havenāt gotten around to really trying it, however.
Oh, cool! Thanks for the info!