On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:45:30 -0000 (UTC) David Chmelik <dchme...@gmail.com> said:
> After posting in an X Window System (X) newsgroup Enlightenment (E) window > manager (WM) was again suggested to me and I know it's much faster than > most/all desktop environments (DE) but I still have basic setup problems. > For some reason the Linux kernel doesn't count my display ports in order > (three display-port (DP) in one card), though UNIX/*BSD kernels likely > count them in a proper order) and while other WMs & DEs let me move around > taskbars to different monitors, apparently E doesn't... I have 1600x1200 you don't "move" them. you delete the shelf and add another on another screen and configure it how you like. a shelf is just a container for holding gadgets along a screen boundary - so add shelves to screens - as many as you like, then add gadgets to the shelves - as many gadgets as you like. :) > (4:3), 4K & (drawing pad/LCD) 1080p (both 16:10) and while 16:10 is main > for classic PC, obviously 4K is newer PC main but oddly E chose shortest > (1080p) monitor as primary and couldn't move taskbar to 4K without just > quitting and physically moving plugs. for screens are orders as zone 0, 1, 2, 3. e doesn't really have a primary. it doesn't care. it just has zone 0, 1, 2, 3 etc. - and zones are sorted by the screen priority. that priority is a slider in the screen setup dialog. highest priority (e.g. 100) becomes zone 0 etc. -0 given some careful tweaking of priority you can have zone 0 either stay fixed on screens or it can migrate around e.g. you have a laptop, then plug in a large external monitor and you want your screen too migrate to the external one. i.e. zone 0 moves to the external screen and internal becomes zone 1. maybe you don't want this. it's up to you. choose priority accordingly. > When I tried to move my 1600x1200 to above middle of my 4K most 1600x1200 > screen was cut off (doesn't happen in KDE/TDE nor XFCE nor even these days > CDE & NsCDE). can you share your config (like screenshots of randr config per screen and a screenshot of everything in one)? > The taskbar apparently has no clipboard nor night colour control (such as correct. e doesn't come with a clipboard or "night color" stuff. (redshift).. > redshift or better-customizable) without which (and perhaps some other > things, like maybe notifications and would be nice to have 'Caffeine' > program to not turn off display when images/videos are in use... e has other settings like "don't blank with fullscreen windows" for example. you can also bind keys (or mouse buttons) to actions and some of those actions under screen can toggle blanking or forcibly enable blanking or disable it, so no need for a plugin or special tool - just bind some key(s) to do what you want. > screenshot would also great also for bug-reporting, and is clock fully- main menu -> take screenshot right there. also "printscreen" does this out of the box. you can crop, select a screen, window, save, share (upload screenshot) and even draw arrows, text blurbs, speech bubbles and so on right in the shot editor. it's built in. > customizable with UNIX-type date command and improvements on it?) I simply > still can't switch to E, despite how much faster (I have recent 32-thread > CPU anyway). right click to see settings. no - it doesn't have any format you like because the layout is not done as a printing of a string. it's done by the theme (well the numbers and am/pm are). the date string is provided in code and there are a few options in the settings. you could send patches to support some new ones you'd like. :) > Another thing I'm waiting for is in E one could previously (maybe no > longer) setup (Ns)CDE-/Win3-style (they came from one IBM project) > automatic program groups for all installed GUI programs, or if not > automatic then like XFCE can make/update all with a script (I'd require > automatic/script generation/updates... doing/updating several/many > hundreds manually is a non-started). they are not automatic - almost no one i know of wants a win3.1 like gui (except you) BUT.. you can achieve what you want - create directories and put .desktop files in them (or symlink them to the system ones). make some script to do this for you any way you like. :) > E Settings misses things such as desktop background gradient or otherwise just draw a gradient in gimp, save it, and then set that. there isn't a lot of point adding lots of specialised runtime background handling when it can be done via a powerful paint tool like gimp already. > loading my own fullscreen (for each monitor) gradient images: rejected > them, but if only tiny images are accepted then tiled, that's unusable: > fullscreen gradients/images or can't switch to E. eh? any image will work. unless you made images so big they exceed the maximum texture size of your gpu.... but even then the background import tool will generate multiple mipmap copies of the wallpaper in the same edj file so will load the appropriate resolution for your screen on the fly. you did use the import tool, right? in the filemanager - just right-click on any image file or in wallpaper settings "import file". > Thanks for the suggestion; if there are solutions to enough of these I'll > retry... I really hope I can eventually. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
