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The enlightenment window manager has gone from pushing the limits on graphics to a now all encompassing e environment with supporting libaraies, APIs of all sorts, and a rapidly growing feature rich window manager in e17.

The enlightenment window manager has gone from pushing the limits on graphics to a now all encompassing e environment with supporting libaraies, APIs of all sorts, and a rapidly growing feature rich window manager in e17. A new channel has been created at LXer for enlightenment related announcements, tutorials and articles. To get things rolling, a quick look at enlightenment related websites and some shortcuts to documentation regarding enlightenment 17.

First and foremost, e16 (the previous version of enlightenment) is still under active development; mostly maintenance, however, several features have been added over the last few years such as easier configuration and built in eapp transparency. Most Linux distributions and BSD systems have packages for e16. Otherwise, check out the sourceforge repository to download e16.



E17 has three methods of installation, some Linux distributions are unofficially tracking it:





As noted on the enlightenment website these are development snapshots and as such may have problems.

There is also the download area of enlightenment.org which has their own development snapshots.



The third method for installing e17 is via source. Instructions can be found on the e CVS page. There is a script at rasterman's website called get_e.sh which has the build order at the top of the script and can be used to kick off a checkout and build of e17.



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The enlightenment group has a variety of resources such as websites and the #e channel on freenode:



  • Enlightenment.org - main website
  • Rasterman.com - Raster's website. If you crawl around in the news and files sections there is a lot cool stuff to play around with.
  • Get-E.org - Hosts e themes, ETK themes, some documentation, backgrounds (some of which are animated), one off eapps and other fun stuff.
  • EliveCD - a LiveCD Debian distro with e17 built in for those who would like to test drive first.

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Comments (7)

An awesome WM - if they ever finish it

herzeleid ·
I love look and feel of e17, found it almost breathtaking in fact, and would love to make e17 my default WM. But alas, it seems stuck in a permanent dev stage, last I checked anyway. Please, do send me an async callback when it's ready. Til then I'll muddle through with other WMs

-- KDE/SuSE 10.2 - Unix since 1984, Linux since 1993, SuSE since 2004 Linux 2.6.23-rc7-default #3 SMP Wed Sep 19 20:20:53 PDT 2007 i686
techiem2 ·
I always thought e was a nice wm. Not the best for me right now (hooray for fluxbox), but definitely one of the nicer ones. I remember being quite disappointed back in the days when I used gnome when they dumped e as the default wm for it.
gus3 ·
They dumped e in favor of Sawfish (nee Sawmill), which I still run. Who'da thunk you could build a window manager in LISP?

Aside: I can't stand Metacity. It's too simplistic in it's "but of course, you want to do that THIS way, right?" approach. Many reasons for which I revile MS Windows also apply to Metacity.

hey you forgot installing it using elive

uptownboozer ·
I love e17 and found that the easiest way to install it was using the elive GEM CD. Perfect install. Recognized my nvidia card with the driver - dunno if that's legal - I ain't complaining.:) And then it was apt-get via synaptic...you know the drill. And now sheer envy from all my friends.

I nearly beat one of them to death when he said, " You know it looks like Vista." Of course, I forgave him and helped him install it. He used the Ubuntu version. It sucks a bit because it doesn't have epanel. I tried telling him about Mark Shuttleworth's forking, etc. But he was happy anyway.:) Why are the little ubuntus discriminated against when it comes to cutting-edge code?

Ah, time for that glass of draft! Can't save the world but at least my desktop is cool...
herzeleid ·
Looks like vista? ugh. Maybe he means vista on a good day looks a wee bit like a crippled enlightenment Shucks, enlightenment has been around since the 90s, and we know microsoft always tries to copy the cool stuff from the actual innovators.

I remember the first time I saw expee, I knew I'd seen that theme in icewm some years earlier.
azerthoth ·
I was just reading the license for elive and ran across something interesting. The distribution is licensed under the creative commons license, even though it is a derivative work of Debian which is not. Am I confused i thinking that they illegally relicensed Debian? The package repositories point right back to and use the standard Debian repo's, yet from the way the license reads, those repos are covered under the CCL as well by intent of the license.

Someone with more knowledge of this want to take a shot at explaining it to me *cough* dino *cough*.
azerthoth ·
I went ahead and grabbed the elive GEM 1.0 iso out of curiosity. All I knew is that is was Debian based and used Enlightenment, I know Debian but have never touched Enlightenment.

What has been found out?

elive is Debian, it does pull from the Debian repo's with the elive repos added in.

After install: No network interfaces - I had to go into /etc/network/interfaces and define them before I could start the ndiswrapper dance.

No CPU scaling - default CPU speed was 798 Mhz on a 1.6 Ghz laptop. The modules weren't present to load (this is common for me with Debian). Luckily I hammered the wireless into submission prior to dealing with CPU scaling, so the fix was pretty easy. Install powernow and load the powernow_k8 module, CPU scaling works.

After all is said and done though, it is very pretty and very nice and will probably live on my laptop until the Sabayon 3.4 mini comes out (sometime in the next few days according to IRC chatter). Nice installer, replaces the Debian one, probably one of the best installers I have seen. To bad it has the same piss poor hardware set up that Debian base has.

If your capable of going in and fixing module and network issues give elive a whirl. If you cant ... run away, run very far away.

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