I'm using the entrance X login manager. I insert DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance" At boot I get: which: no entranced in (/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3:/opt/ati/bin:/opt/Acrobat5:/opt/stuffit/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/jre/javaws:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/sbin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/usr/kde/3.1/sbin:/usr/kde/3.1/bin) entranced is at /usr/local/sbin/entranced, which is in the PATH searched by which at this point. After not finding entranced,xdm will boot the ugly default X display manager. If I simply switch to a VT and log-in with root and do: '/etc/init.d/xdm restart' Entrance will start fine. I don't understand why entranced is not found at the first start of xdm but is found when I restart xdm. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Entrance 2. Set rc.conf DISPLAYMANAGER="entrance" 3. Reboot. Actual Results: which displays warning. Default X display manager starts. Expected Results: Started entrance.
use the entrance in portage
It works at this point, I'm not sure what the problem was. Somewhere along with all the system changes I've made it was fixed.