HOWTO: Install and tweak E17 Enlightenment

[smoon]

Hi Smoom,

Yes the work no problem at all to get E17 installed and running; This the best and the furthest I have been able to get witht the instalation. now I can get 'entangle to work, well at least it will start but it will not let me add any dir just gives me a solid line???

I have managed to get other thems and icons working, even the CPU hungry 'layered_sky' background, and boy does that look impressive

thanks for all your work it is a great help, maybe one day I will learn as much as you guys

thanks again

clinton

PS if you have any tip on how i could get my Ibar edited with more icons and change some I would appriciate it
thanks

Entangle is in an early stage of development and dies on me regularly. Just don't use it . Instead you can follow the guide on http://get-e.org about "Editing the menu, IBar and Engage the manual way" at the middle at this page http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English_pages/3.3.html. You can also try to configure IBar using drag and drop - tried it, but only got entries removed, nothing added. Maybe you've more luck.

[clb137]

Entangle is in an early stage of development and dies on me regularly. Just don't use it . Instead you can follow the guide on http://get-e.org about "Editing the menu, IBar and Engage the manual way" at the middle at this page http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English_pages/3.3.html. You can also try to configure IBar using drag and drop - tried it, but only got entries removed, nothing added. Maybe you've more luck.

hi there,

Yes I have managed to get it all working now, I just re-built the packages that i downloaded with your script and now it works a treat, the only thing that I have not yey figured out is how to 'remove' form the barr with Entange,

Yes i agree the maual method is good and it works,

Thanks for all your help, I do like this E17 it is the way to go, look forward to helping out when and where I can

clinton

[Fingel]

Im suing Hoary, there seems to be a dependency problem with libc6 (enlightenment wouldn't be the first) I cant seem to get around,

[clb137]

Im suing Hoary, there seems to be a dependency problem with libc6 (enlightenment wouldn't be the first) I cant seem to get around,

google search for it down load from debian and force the install if required



clinton

[Seti]

I just installed e17 (on MiniSlack 1.1, not Hoary) and have to say it was easier than I expected, after the time I tried to install in Hoary. Just downloaded the tarballs and used pkgtool. Done.
Enlightenment is definitely a DE that is going places. I think it is absolutely beautiful! Check my screenie of it here
I really liked using it, even if some stuff was a bit strange. Like I couldn't figure out how to edit the menu. Plus, it didn't want to play nice with xcompmgr, which I had to disable.
Otherwise, I was impressed by how light and fast it was, despite being so heavy on the eye-candy. All those little openGL tricks really make it sparkle.
In a couple of days I have some spare time; I'm gonna get it working right on Hoary this time.

[kamstrup]

I finally got e17 working using smoons (Kudos to you! You da man!) .debs. My first impression was "wow", but digging in quickly revealed some rough edges. To some extend expected - of course - since this is in-develpment software, but also things more concerning.

My primary concern being the fact that the "dropshadows" are not real dropshadows. Windows does not shade each other. This looks a bit wierd when you have overlapping windows. It gives a somewhat "hackish" impression of e17 if you ask me...

[clb137]

I just installed e17 (on MiniSlack 1.1, not Hoary) and have to say it was easier than I expected, after the time I tried to install in Hoary. Just downloaded the tarballs and used pkgtool. Done.
Enlightenment is definitely a DE that is going places. I think it is absolutely beautiful! Check my screenie of it here
I really liked using it, even if some stuff was a bit strange. Like I couldn't figure out how to edit the menu. Plus, it didn't want to play nice with xcompmgr, which I had to disable.
Otherwise, I was impressed by how light and fast it was, despite being so heavy on the eye-candy. All those little openGL tricks really make it sparkle.
In a couple of days I have some spare time; I'm gonna get it working right on Hoary this time.

Hi Seti,

To edit the Ibar and other menus just follow this link

http://get-e.org/User_Guide/English_pages/3.3.html

If you want to see what E17 can really do have a look at this link and scroll down to the *.AVI files download them and have a look

http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=Files

good luck,if you need any help i will try for you

clinton

[clb137]

I finally got e17 working using smoons (Kudos to you! You da man!) .debs. My first impression was "wow", but digging in quickly revealed some rough edges. To some extend expected - of course - since this is in-develpment software, but also things more concerning.

My primary concern being the fact that the "dropshadows" are not real dropshadows. Windows does not shade each other. This looks a bit wierd when you have overlapping windows. It gives a somewhat "hackish" impression of e17 if you ask me...

Can you post an example?????

[clb137]

HI,

A couple of shots of E17 in action for you to look at

[ndhiet]

Hi,

I'm newbie in Ubuntu, and know I've got trouble to apply your advice below:

Using synaptic, install the following packages:

[CODE]
enlightenment 0.17.0_pre10-0cvs20050216
enlightenment-data 0.17.0_pre10-0cvs20050216
eutils 0.0.1-0cvs20050215[/CODE]

E17 should now be available as a session from the gnome login screen.

when I type synaptic in terminal mode, it will proceed to Synaptic Package Manager (graphical), but when in SPM, I cannot impeletement your advice..
Can you give me more details guide?? step by step I hope...

Thanks in advance,
ndhiet