[NBLUG/talk] Enlightenment

[orsini]

Thanks for this post. I love to see unsolicited notes
from a sucessful tweak session. We're switching to Suse
at work soon and I'd love to get E working there. 

Rob

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 09:40:55PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> I got Enlightenment working.
> 
> FWIW, I thought I'd post the stumbling blocks I ran
> across and how I got past them.
> 
> Package imlib2 depends on imlib2-loader_argb,
> imlib2-loader_png, and imlib2-loader_jpeg. All three
> depend on imlib2. I was pulling out my hair trying to
> get these installed until I realized that I could run
> rpm -i followed by multiple package names, and rpm
> would figure it out.
> 
> Second, I had trouble getting SuSE's login window to
> understand that I'd added a new window manager; trying
> to run enlightenment manually resulted in it wanting
> to install itself as the default window manager and
> killing all the other window managers (if this
> happens, delete .xinitrc and .xsession in your
> directory, and you'll have your window managers back).
> 
> Here's how I got it added to the login session menu
> under SuSE: (the instructions I found on the Net were
> geared to like SuSE 6.0) open the (KDE) control
> center, click on System Administration (waaay down at
> the bottom left), click on Login Manager, click the
> Sessions tab, click Administration Mode (waay down at
> the bottom), and type "enlightenment" into the "New
> type" box, click "add", "apply", logout, and cross
> your fingers.
> 
> Now, onto Enlightenent itself. :-)
> 
> First off, a name that doesn't bring up twenty cults
> when plugged into Google would be nice. ;-) The
> impression I get after fooling with it for a few
> minutes is that it is pretty similar to WindowMaker
> (it starts at a similar speed), except 1) it's a lot
> prettier :-) and 2) the "eesh" feature mentioned on
> greenfly.org is very intriguing. A lot of new
> possibilities present themselves...
> 
> I'll get back once I've finished fooling with
> Enlightenment. :-) Though, I'm sure that some people
> who finished slogging through this post will wish I
> didn't. :-P
> 
> (Tweaking your Linux install is so much fun!)
> 
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