Problems with left-click in enlightenment

[tvisher]

Hey all!

Thanx for all the help so far with unix and X11, everyone is really awesome here!

So, I've got enlightenment all installed now and when it installed itself it told me that it was going to have to do some stuff to my .xinitrc file which I thought was fine being that I didn't have it highly customized or anything. The problem is that (and I really have no idea if this has anything to do with the .xinitrc file or not) that when I'm in X11, it says that I should be able to left-click on the desktop and have a User Menu appear with applications in it.

I was using twm before this and left-click worked fine, now nothing comes up when I left-click it. X11 does recognize the left-click because if I click on an existing window (say, the virtual desktop manager) I can move it and all that.

Do I need to do something to configure the User Menu so that it will appear?

What's going on!?

[WillyT]

You will have to set up multiple desktops. (or run fullscreen rooted) Clicking on the Mac Desktop doesn't work.

Its possible the menu files are damaged. Control click to get the middle button menu. Select help. The help browser should come up. Look at the FAQ. There is more info about the left mouse menu.

I'm using a theme called Aqua. I modified my copy to remove Enlightenment's menu bar. It was blocking the Gnome menu panel. All Themes are user customizable text files.

[buyo]

I am having the same problem.

I load enlightenment full screen and cannot left click (thus being unable to load any programs). Here is my .xinitrc:

source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec /sw/bin/enlightenment

I have also tried this:

source /sw/bin/init.sh
xroot -display :0 -geometry 100x25+0-0 -color gray &
exec /sw/bin/enlightenment

Neither of which worked. However, fvwm2 with left click works just fine.

Any help?

How do the people who use enlightenment do it?

Thanks in advance.

[buyo]

Problem fixed!

I found out that I was missing the following two files in my ~/.enlightenment/

file.menu
user_apps.menu

file.menu controls what appears when you left-click in enlightenment

"User Menus"
"User Application list" NULL menu "user_apps.menu"
"KDE" NULL menu "kde.menu"
"GNOME" NULL menu "gnome.menu"
"GNOME User Menu" NULL menu "gnome_user.menu"
"Enlightenment Epplets" NULL menu "epplets.menu"
"Restart Enlightenment" NULL exec "/sw/bin/eesh -e 'restart'"
"Log Out" NULL exec "/sw/bin/eesh -e 'exit'"

user_apps.menu controls the applications that can be run from the menu

"User Application List"
"Eterm" NULL exec "Eterm"
"XTerm" NULL exec "xterm"
"RXVT" NULL exec "rxvt"
"KTerm" NULL exec "kterm"
"Gnome Terminal" NULL exec "gnome-terminal"
"Netscape" NULL exec "netscape"
"TkRat" NULL exec "tkrat"
"Netscape Mail" NULL exec "netscape -mail -no-about-splash"
"Balsa" NULL exec "balsa"
"Exmh" NULL exec "exmh"
"Electric Eyes" NULL exec "ee"
"The GIMP" NULL exec "gimp"
"XV" NULL exec "xv"
"GQView" NULL exec "gqview"
"XMag" NULL exec "xmag"
"XawTV" NULL exec "xawtv"
"Imlib Settings" NULL exec "imlib_config"
"X-Chat" NULL exec "xchat"
"XMan" NULL exec "xman"
"TkMan" NULL exec "tkman"
"GnomeICU" NULL exec "gnomeicu -a"
"eMusic" NULL exec "emusic"
"X11Amp" NULL exec "x11amp"
"XMMS" NULL exec "xmms"
"FreeAmp" NULL exec "freeamp"
"Civilization" NULL exec "civctp"
"Myth 2" NULL exec "myth2"

The easiest way to create these files is to delete the .initialized file from the /.enlightenment directory and go to "regenerate menus" with middle-click!

Note:
NULL can be replaced with pictures of the applications. The recommended size is 16x16 of .png type images.

Cheers.