On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:22:29 +0100 Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> said:
> I'm very new to Enlightenment so please forgive any ignorance and > stupidity on my part. > > For a while now I've been running parts of LXDE together with XMonad > on Arch Linux, but lately I've been looking around for options to > LXDE. I really like what I've seen of Enlightenment, it's quick and > still very shiny. Of course there are some things left before it's > completely production ready, e.g. I can't seem to get entrance to > actually let me log in. Anyway, I'd like to switch to E17 but so far > I haven't found a way to use it together with XMonad. Which leads me > to sending this email. Is it possible to get the "desktop experience" > of E17, but swap out its window manager and use XMonad instead, in the > same way that LXDE lets me replace Openbox? no. enlightenment *IS A WINDOW MANAGER*. it is not gnome, or kde or lde or xfce... which run maybe a dozen or more processes and the mw is just one of them... enlightenment is a single monolithic process... that is wm, filemanager, desktop manager, launcher, panel, settings tool etc. etc. all in one. it's a vastly different design and philosophy to the other linux desktops. this is one of the reasons we can do so much with so little. nb - entrance is not part of enlightenment - neither is terminology or enjoy or eve etc. - its a separate project that happens to be under our banner - you can use it, or not. up to you. you can use any other login manager you like to use. entrace has more more "integration requirements:" than e does as it needs to authenticate users and thus have pam work in compatible ways. right now it uses efreet - but efreet currently in svn isn't built for a root daemon to run and use as it requires a dbus session bus. thisis not something that has been addressed at this stage as these efreet changes are recent. you should stick to an efreet release (1.7.3) and not svn if you want things to have a hope of working for you (until we release a new version). -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
