I've just recently started exploring E17, although I've been an enlightenment fan since '99.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with your 'super dated' comment about e16. To me it falls more on the scale of a minimalistic window manager such as fluxbox. e16 can do composite rendering for hardware accelerated video cards. If enabled the pager shows active content in other desktops (I can continue watching a movie going on in another desktop without any lag). As far as I've seen that's something that E17 doesn't even do (at least yet).. Application windows can be set to a specific transparency percentage for both 'active' and 'non-active' windows as well. Granted it doesn't have bouncy menus or windows (like E17), for a 10+ year old window manager it holds it's own. Thanks Kim for maintaining it! As for the issues Charlie is having... The documentation is *sometimes* distributed in a separate package. You'll have to check the Ubuntu repositories again and see if that's the case. The documentation hasn't been updated in a while but it does cover the basics. Changing your desktop back to GNOME should be as simple as selecting it from your login menu. Seems like an Ubuntu glitch if that's not happening. Try taking a look at ~/.dmrc and see which session is being used. Possibly try deleting that same file to revert to a system default session. - Don On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:18:22 -0500, Jeff Hoogland wrote: > E16 is super dated at this point - I would highly recommend trying a > current version of E17 (bodhi linux, sabayon, and pclinuxos all > provide one in LiveCD form). > > Your display/login manager controls which desktop log into. If you > are using the default display manager in Ubuntu 10.04 then it is GDM. > Simply log out and select the gnome session from the options at the > bottom. > > ~Jeff Hoogland > > On Thu Jun 2 2011 03:01:50 PM CDT, Charles Warner > <cwarner.cw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I recently decided to give Enlightenment a test drive, and >> downloaded e16 >> from the Ubuntu Software Packages repository in a *.deb package, and >> installed successfully on my Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit machine. Seems to >> be >> functioning OK, although I have some specific issues that I need >> help >> with: >> >> 1. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to navigate through all >> the >> various links from your web site to try to find user documentation. >> Apparently, the documentation may have been included in the original >> installation on my machine, but I can not access it. From the >> command >> line, "edox" yields the following: "Edoc_dir /usr/share/e16/E-docs >> does >> not contain a MAIN file". I have essentially reached a dead end. >> Is >> there an easy pointer you can provide me with that will take me to a >> simple introductory guide that will tell me how to use the system, >> how >> to access documentation, etc.? >> >> 2. I have a number of applications that rely on the Gtk+ platform, >> and >> others that like Qt. There appears to be a compatibillity issue >> with >> some of these applications. Specifically, LibreOffice Calc v.3.3 >> seems >> to have trouble rendering plots- not something I noticed under >> Gnome. >> When I try to switch to put Gnome from the e-Gnome option by logging >> out >> and changing preferences, the system ignores me completely and >> returns >> me to Enlightenment (my original choice was e16-Gnome). Other than >> uninstalling Enlightenment, is there any way to get back to my >> original >> Gnome desktop? >> >> Charlie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
