Please, could anyone advise how to regain use of my left mouse button in Enlightenment ?
After removing my ~/.e ~/.elementary and ~/.esd_auth files, and getting the initial setup menu at startup , and choosing the option that said something like 'click on windows to focus' ( because I found the default of focusing on mouse hover really annoying ), now I cannot click on any buttons or internal window contents at all - I can only click on window Border buttons or menus ; clicking on them does work with the left mouse button; but If I click the left mouse button on any content INSIDE a window (not menu or border) the event seems to be ignored. Obviously, the windowing system is rather unusable in this state. Please, can anyone advise how to regain control of the mouse in Enlightenment? Otherwise, I'm wiping it - I'll try LXQT next . Regards, Jason On 01/05/2016, Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day enlightened ones - > > I just successfully built and installed all the source tarballs on : > > EFL 1.17.0 > Elementary 1.17.0 > Emotion Generic Players 1.17.0 > Evas Generic Loaders 1.17.0 > Python-EFL 1.17.0 > Enlightenment 0.21.0-beta > Terminology 0.9.1 > Rage 0.1.4 > Econnman 1.1 > Epour 0.6.0 > Enventor 0.8.1 > EFL Edje Theme Editor 0.6.1 > Enlightenment IDE 0.3.0 > > on a Linux From Scratch (LFS) + BLFS 7.9 x86_64 system , with > gcc-5.3.0, glibc-2.23 , binutils-2.26.20160125 ... - full package version > list available on request, as are all the build logs from the builds of the > above software . > > I basically really like the enlightenment desktop environment - at first, > it worked flawlessly , and has a really nice look and feel, and an > impressively small list of build dependencies . > > I am looking for a replacement for KDE , which I've used for over 10 years > now but has just become too bloated and flaky for general purpose use IMHO > . > Enlightenment certainly seems like a refreshing change from KDE ! > > But then I began playing around with configuration settings and tried > installing > some GTK themes (only the default was installed before) and now > Enlightenment > appears to be broken , and I am beginning to have second thoughts about it > .... > > At first install, I had set the Compositor -> Rendering -> OpenGL setting > - > Enlightenment restarted OK and the setting took effect . > > I have mesa-11.2.0 built & installed which provides all the > /usr/lib64/libGLES* > libraries and I have libdrm-2.4.67 which provides drivers for my graphics > hardware : > > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen > Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > [AMD/ATI] Neptune XT [Radeon HD 8970M] [1002:6801] > > this is a modern 4th gen Intel i7 laptop with Hybrid Graphics - the > laptop's > built-in display is connected ONLY to the Integrated Graphics (IGP) card, > not to the discrete GPU Radeon card , and there is no MUX for vga_switcheroo > - > the Radeon card is meant to be usable via XServer PRIME GPU offloading ... > > Enlightenment DID definitely at first initialize with OpenGL Rendering > enabled. > > But, since I installed a few GTK themes , and played around with my > ~/.local/share and ~/.config/ directories, it now seems to be broken : > o It will no longer allow the Compositor -> Rendering -> OpenGL option > to be selected in the GUI / desktop environment settings dialog. > o Things are running VERY slowly, and the laptop's fan is working > overtime > (ie. it has now stopped using OpenGL rendering, and now thinks that the > same > Xorg xserver 1.18.3 does not support it .) > > I have tried removing all the E configuration files in my home directory: > ~/.e ~/.elementary ~/.esd_auth > and restarting, and I do get the initial configuration dialog, but still no > way of selecting OpenGL rendering . > Also there now seems to be problems with using the Synaptics touchpad > mouse in Enlightenment - transiently, the left mouse button stops working. > So I'm not sure whether Enlightenment is not letting me select the OpenGL > rendering option or if I just can't emit a left mouse button press event . > > I had a few days of flawless behavior from Enlightenment, > now I've messed up the configuration , and urgently am seeking > a way to completely wipe all configuration data it may have written to > my hard disk . Please can anyone advise a quick way of doing this ? > > Also, I notice ALL the configuration files written under > ~/.e ~/.elementary > are binary / encrypted in some way. Is there a compile > / runtime option to disable use of binary / encrypted > configuration files ? > > I am really against using them on principle , mainly for the > reason it is very difficult to workaround situations like > this (broken configuration) without being able to read > the configuration files. > > Is there a complete list of all the configuration files written by all > the Enlightenment packages listed above available anywhere , > or any script to remove them all / completely reset all Enlightenment > configuration to defaults ? > > Also, is there any way of adding scrollbars and support for > <PageeUp>/<PageDown> key scrolling to Terminology ? > The Synaptics touchpad slider is very tedious and difficult to > use , so I end up never using Terminology, only xterm, which > at least responds to PageUp / PageDown keys and has a scrollbar. > > Also, is there any way of adding the GB keyboard layout to the > keyboard switcher ? Its 'Add...' dialog displays 0 entries, and is > stuck on the default USA keyboard - I am constantly needing to > do 'setxkbmap gb' . > > Any help advice on above greatly appreciated before I spend time > diving into the code to answer the above questions for myself ... > > Is there any developer design overview documentation for Enlightenment > online? > > Generally, thanks for an excellent desktop! > But could do with some help ... > > Regards, Jason > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. 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