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shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

This is Enlightenment E17, built from the CVS snapshots available on enlightenment.freedesktop.org. It is an extremely beautiful window manager, wonderful to look at. You can use it by saving the squashfs file in your home partition, rebooting, fixing your .xinitrc (see below), closing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and then typing:

rarsa

Thank you for preparing the sfs file.

The instructions are quite right, my only sugestion would be to put the rest of the .xinitrc script after launching enlightenment under an else statement.

Good news

MU · Posted: Sat 17 Feb 2007, 15:45 Post subject:

mirror:
http://puppyfiles.org/puppyfiles/Enlightenment17/

save it in /mnt/home if you run Puppy from CD or a frugal installation.
If you use a newer Puppy than 2.12, rename it correspondingly.
If you use Puppy 2.14, rename it to:
e17_214.sfs

Preview of the screenshot with XDG menus and the Exposé icon::

Another theme:

I disabled the gadgets for battery/cpu/temperature monitoring on it.
Fullscreen pictures in the download-link.

Mark

MU · Posted: Sat 17 Feb 2007, 17:02 Post subject:

Works fine in Muppy 007.
It uses Muppys XDG menus automatically, but sorts them different.
As Muppys menus use Rarsas XDG files, it should work too in Puppy, if you install those.
Puppy 2.14 already includes them.

You must get a bit used to it, but all configuration can be made with the mouse (this was different in my August2005 snapshot).

Very nifty.
One thing you must get used to, is to use the windowlist (middle click on desktop).
Or use ALT-TAB Smile

I simply added "expose2now" to the ibar (is included in Muppy).
Now I can see all open windows even if they cover each other.
You can reduce the delay to snapshot them to
delay="50000";
as E17 has a very fast window-management.

updated expose dotpup:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=14453#14453

Here is another tool:
iconify all visible windows with a click on an icon in your ibar (= "Show Desktop Button"):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=6850

Thanks for sharing this nice wm with us in such an easy to use way Smile

Mark

rarsa · Posted: Sat 17 Feb 2007, 18:22 Post subject:

MU · Posted: Sat 17 Feb 2007, 20:49 Post subject:

this is cool, animated backgrounds Smile

Enter this in a consolewindow:
ln -s /root/.e/e /root/e17

Like this the hidden folder becomes visible.

Now download one here:
http://www1.get-e.org/Backgrounds/Animated/

Save in /root/e17/backgrounds/

Click on your desktop -> configuration -> wallpaper -> personal

Then enjoy Razz

http://www.get-e.org is a great resource for enlightenment.

Mark

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Rarsa and MU,

Thanks for the points regarding XDG menus and the pinboard - will try them. Any clues on how one goes about using the XDG menus - just download the pupget and install it?

I haven't modified anything in the sfs file, but in my own installation I've changed the number of desktops, focus mode, key bindings and a few toher things (shelf configuration etc.) and have had no problems whatsoever. Have used a few of the themes from get-e.org as well, again with no problems. Looking now for an RSS feed reader module, but it looks like it isn't complete yet. So it really looks like what they say about e17 being as stable as a new release is true Smile

.

MU, thanks for mirroring!

I can't get over how beautiful this window manager is! Smile

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Does anyone know how to get additional modules for E17? I can't seem to figure it out from the documentation, particularly because references are made to using cvs, which commands don't seem to be included in Puppy.

I'm particularly interested in the Engage module....

Dougal · Posted: Mon 19 Feb 2007, 12:10 Post subject:

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Here's some modules for E17, attached as a dotpet that should - if I've done this right - install into the directory /root/.e/e/modules (this assumes you already have E17 up and running, but of course these modules would be totally useless if you don't). These are compiled from the e_modules package in the T2 repository that Dougal linked to above, package dated January 26th, 2007.

To use these modules, do three steps:

1. In a terminal window, type the following:

polux · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Switzerland

Is there any chance that this dotpet e17 modules package can be ported to a dotpup package?

There are a lot of users that arent using the latest Puppy Wink

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

Awesome work!!

I love the default theme and will probably stick with it.

Great Job!!

Full Size

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

MU · Posted: Mon 26 Mar 2007, 15:47 Post subject:

http://puppyfiles.org/dotpupsde/dotpups/WindowManagers/Enlightenment-DR17-alpha/

I think the .pet was packaged wrong.
It had as basefolder:
/root/

But I think it must be
/e17_mod/root/

So following this rule:
/PackageName/root/

I made an old Alien Package of it.
You can download/install it with PSI or download in your webbrowser and install in PupGet as alien package.
Mark

shankargopal · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 295

Yes, correct, my mistake. Thanks for correcting it, MU.

By the way, are their compact guidelines available anywhere for creating dotpets / dotpups? I used Barry's online instructions but they didn't mention this bit...