The Unofficial Enlightenment User's Manual
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[edit] General Information
[edit] What is Enlightenment?
Enlightenment, commonly referred to as e, is an open source software X window manager primarily for Unix-like computers. Enlightenment focuses on pushing the limits of existing technologies while remaining lightweight, flexible, and beautiful. The project has a long history; the current stable version is e DR (development release) 16, and the unstable developer version is e DR17. See wikipedia articles on Enlightenment and the w:Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, the project's website, or the project's sourceforge page for more information.
[edit] What is "The Unofficial Enlightenment User's Manual"?
The Unofficial Enlightenment User's Manual is the document you are now reading. It is a community-created guide to help enlightenment users and potential new enlightenment users quickly and coherently understand how best to install, customize, and use the Enlightenment window manager. It is an editable w:wikibook released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[edit] Who might want to use this document?
Anyone looking for tips, tricks, help, and information on setting up and using the Enlightenment window manager.
[edit] Who should contribute to this document?
Anyone can edit this document, and we encourage you to add any tips, tricks or information about using Enlightenment! This document is created by Enlightenment enthusiasts for Enlightenment users, and it can always use relevant information. If you have never edited a wikimedia page before, we encourage you to read through the Howto for page editing, the Wikibooks policies guide, and the Wikibooks Manual of Style; after that, dive in and start editing! If you have questions or concerns, please visit the talk page.
[edit] Getting Started
[edit] A note about different enlightenment versions
[edit] A note about different operating environments
[edit] Other places to look for information
- the Unofficial Enlightenment DR17 Users Guide is an excellent source for information on installing and configuring e17 for different linux distributions.
- the Official Enlightenment Website contains useful information on enlightenment and its components as well as news updates.
- edevelop.org contains recent information about the development versions of enlightenment and the EFL as well as personal blogs from the developers.
- The Official Enlightenment Forums can be helpful for troubleshooting or just chatting with other e users.
- the #e channel on freenode IRC is where many users and developers chat.
- the official mailing lists provide useful information on enlightenment releases and development.
- forums for your operating system or linux distribution, or linux forum sites such as Linux Questions.org might also help with your enlightenment installation or troubleshooting.
- A wikibook on creating themes for enlightenment DR17 is also being constructed.
[edit] enlightenment DR17 installation guide
Installing Enlightenment 16.999 (also known as E17 or DR17) is a snap in suse. You just use YAST and it is all done for you. After the progress bar is finished you then log out. When you look at the sessions available at the login screen, Enlightenment is now available. I am using open suse 10. How you get to yast and all the other programs through enlightenment, I don't know!
There is a quickstart guide for E17 in Suse at http://arun.wordpress.com/2006/06/15/how-to-enlightenment-17-in-suse-10/
A HOWTO for Gentoo can be found at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_e17
Check out the following link to install DR17 in Suse Linux : http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16231.html
[edit] enlightenment DR16 configuration guide
Enlightenment is extremely configurable - that is you can alter to your our design almost any feature of the window manager. THe only downside is that to get a really cool environment, you have to do the work. Or download a theme someone else has done for you.
[edit] Simple configuration
You should by now have a folder titled ".e16" in your home directory. This is the configuration point for enlightenment.
It has a layout as follows:
backgrounds/ cached/ e_config--0.0.backgrounds e_config--0.0.buttons e_config--0.0.cfg e_config--0.0.ibox e_config--0.0.snapshots icons/ menus/ themes/
Lets start with menus Left click anywhere on the desktop, and up comes a menu titled "User Menus" Straignt off this is the "User Application List". This is a list of commands that can be configured by you to run as children of the process running enlightenment.
edit .e16/menus/user_apps.menu
Add the following line to the bottom
"Clock" NULL exec "xclock"
now save and try left-clicking again. You should see a menu option for the clock, selecting that option and you have just configured your desktop.
Now, how do we make it really configurable.
