Re: [e-users] Mouse cursor size

2023-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 13/01/2023 20:00, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:12:07 + Peter Flynn said: [...] they can. have you seen the pointer settings dialog with a slider for size? i said it has both a size AND pointer scale to scale. I managed to miss that, thank you! I've been away from e

Re: [e-users] Mouse cursor size

2023-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 13/01/2023 11:34, Carsten Haitzler wrote: [...] as below - you want a larger thing that actually starts big and zooms down to where the pointer is causing motion that your eyes follow to that point and then can discover the mouse - there is no such feature in e at this point. That is not

Re: [e-users] Mouse cursor size

2023-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/2023 20:01, Φ SNAKΣ ΣYΣZ Φ wrote: Are you aware of xmag? That does not seem to magnify just the mouse pointer (cursor). Peter ___ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [e-users] Mouse cursor size

2023-01-11 Thread Peter Flynn
On 11/01/2023 08:53, Carsten Haitzler wrote: [...] chances are that if you can't see a cursor due to visual acuity problems you can't make out other ui elements either and they all need to get bigger. The actual answer is, we don't know. I need to arrange a proper usability test in the labs in

Re: [e-users] Mouse cursor size

2023-01-10 Thread Peter Flynn
On 10/01/2023 19:20, Wido wrote: Hi Carsten! I appreciate that you always take the time to respond to users He's the best! E has its own cursors that uses the efl/e theme. if you use something else then "you're mileage may vary". efl's cursors will scale based on scale factor. there is no

Re: [e-users] Gnome Control Center missing ... something

2022-09-01 Thread Peter Flynn
On 01/09/2022 11:29, Carsten Haitzler wrote: [...] e doesn't have network manage support. the way this is done is the same as e's connman support. e sets up as a connman AGENT. that means when things like passwords are needed connman asks e to ask for a password. also e is allowed to control the

Re: [e-users] Errors during apt upgrade

2022-02-19 Thread Peter Flynn
On 19/02/2022 00:33, Ross Vandegrift wrote: [...] apt is trying to first fix the partially installed packages. You might have better luck with dpkg. Here's some ideas. Thank you so much for this. First try to use dpkg to do the removal: dpkg --remove terminology terminology-data That

Re: [e-users] Errors during apt upgrade

2022-02-18 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/02/2022 17:01, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 03:58:49PM +, Peter Flynn wrote: Unpacking terminology-data (1.12.1-0bionic0) ... dpkg: error processing archive [...] > tl, dr: Probably the easiest fix is to manually remove all of the erroring packa

[e-users] Errors during apt upgrade

2022-02-18 Thread Peter Flynn
I just dug out an old laptop running Linux Mint 19.2 and unused for six months or so, and did sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade I got the following errors: Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-N4vzQO/013-enlightenment-data_0.25.1-0bionic3_all.deb

Re: [e-users] Window controls

2021-09-05 Thread Peter Flynn
, it seems to be rather stable. Regards, Peter On 04/09/2021 15:42, Peter Flynn wrote: Many years ago I and others asked if there was a config option to move the ☒   icons (close–max–min) from the right top corner of all windows to the left top corner. At the time, the only possibility was to

[e-users] Window controls

2021-09-04 Thread Peter Flynn
Many years ago I and others asked if there was a config option to move the ☒   icons (close–max–min) from the right top corner of all windows to the left top corner. At the time, the only possibility was to decompile the theme, change thr script, and recompile. Are there any plans to implement

Re: [e-users] 4K display

2021-06-22 Thread Peter Flynn
for high resolutions. See my earlier message > Re: [e-users] Size of characters > From: Peter Flynn - 2018-07-24 23:26:16 Peter ___ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [e-users] Theme Colors

2021-05-10 Thread Peter Flynn
On 10/05/2021 14:25, john wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a theme based on default theme which uses > different colors for menus etc. > > I have updated > #define WIN_DEFAULT_BASIC 255 255 255 255 > > in colorclasses.edc but when I use the new theme the colors are > different from what

Re: [e-users] Connman

2021-02-02 Thread Peter Flynn
On 02/02/2021 15:29, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:44:04 + Peter Flynn said: [...] What does connman do that other network connection managers don't? does the same thing. like what does xterm do that rxvt does not? :) OK, cool. Just thought there might have been

[e-users] Connman

2021-01-31 Thread Peter Flynn
I'm installing a variety of recent OS releases on a sacrificial machine to evaluate them, and that includes installing their repository versions of enlightenment and terminology. Each time, e pops up a warning that connman is not present, although it seems to accept the network connection

Re: [e-users] Getting a "just right" font from gnome-terminal (making the font more narrow)

2020-05-02 Thread Peter Flynn
On Fri, 1 May 2020 19:39:53 -0700 Marc MERLIN said: Ok, I have a pretty confusing situation. I've spent hours on it and gotten nowhere. After playing with dpi settings and font sizes on a 4K laptop, I'm trying to get the perfect font that isn't too small and not too big, but that's actually

Re: [e-users] Quick translation question

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 16:15, Carsten Haitzler wrote: [...] it isn't actually necessary. evas's textblock parser is super-forgiving. it's just that its a tag that doesnt need a closing tag. so you dont do Right, just like the original HTML, you could always omit because it was SGML and them's the

Re: [e-users] Quick translation question

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 16:24, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] this is not html. this is textblock markup. it is html-like but it is not html. OK, thanks. I thought it might be some other markup language. ps literally maps to: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2029/index.htm

Re: [e-users] Quick translation question

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 14:56, waterbeare...@gmx.com wrote: [...] OK, to clarify a badly formed question on my part: What is the difference between the leading and trailing slashes in the tab, if any? The trailing slashes () appeared in E23. However I have just noticed that some of the strings about

Re: [e-users] Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.24 Release

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 14:39, Stefan Schmidt wrote: [...] == Copy and Paste rework == [...] Since Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop is mostly about display protocol we have a huge amount of platform depending protocol code, this code is placed in the ecore evas modules of the corresponding platform. In

Re: [e-users] Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.24 Release

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 14:39, Stefan Schmidt wrote: http://download.enlightenment.org/rel/libs/efl/efl-1.24.0.tar.xz b3b96e443c5e36a93e5fe443304ecb661a4707ef921385bf7d9ff24c9e980cfa To say nothing of the work that went into making the URI the same length as the md5sum :-) P

Re: [e-users] Enlightenment Foundation Libraries 1.24 Release

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 14:39, Stefan Schmidt wrote: After eight months of development work we are proud to announce the release of version 1.24 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries. In these eight months we got almost 1900 commits from 54 authors. Great job everyone! That's a wonderful

Re: [e-users] Quick translation question

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Flynn
On 29/04/2020 12:06, aguador wrote: I am in the process of updating the Spanish translation for E24 and am curious about the "ps" tag. There is no such element in HTML. It may be a proprietary add-on. When I updated for E23, I saw that most tags were replaced by , That is probably an

Re: [e-users] competitors to E?

2020-04-15 Thread Peter Flynn
On 15/04/2020 07:26, Marc MERLIN wrote: I'm upgrading from a thinkpad P70 to a P73 (both have 4K 17" LCDs). I upgraded last year to a HP Envy 17" and unfortunately e was causing problems. At the time I switched to cinnamon (as I'm using Mint 19.2) because I was under serious time pressure.

Re: [e-users] Enlightenment Developer Days call for proposals

2019-10-22 Thread Peter Flynn
On 22/10/2019 08:04, Stefan Schmidt wrote: [...] I missed the announcement: can you point me at details (date/location)? https://sourceforge.net/p/enlightenment/mailman/message/36762315/ Thank you very much! It links to

Re: [e-users] Enlightenment Developer Days call for proposals

2019-10-21 Thread Peter Flynn
On 21/10/2019 16:35, Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello. As we are approaching roughly one month before EDD I missed the announcement: can you point me at details (date/location)? Peter ___ enlightenment-users mailing list

Re: [e-users] End-user doc

2019-06-19 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/06/2019 08:29, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:27:46 +0100 Peter Flynn said: [...] >> Thank you. Unfortunately that doesn't cover my immediate problem, which >> is that my new machine has a very high-resolution screen, so normal >>

Re: [e-users] End-user doc

2019-06-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/06/2019 18:07, aguador wrote: [...] > Welcome back! I don't know about a wiki, but there is a compendium of > configuration options here that may give you what you're looking for: > > https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/e_configuration_options_compendium/ Thank you. Unfortunately that doesn't

[e-users] End-user doc

2019-06-17 Thread Peter Flynn
I'm just getting back into using E having got a new laptop, but I've lost the documentation for end-users. https://www.enlightenment.org/docs/start is restricted to developer doc. In https://www.enlightenment.org/contrib/docs/start.md it mentions the DokuWiki but there are no links to the wiki

Re: [e-users] On-screen keyboard for touch-screen usage

2019-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 14/01/2019 00:24, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 15:47:17 +0000 Peter Flynn said: [...] >> I don't know if they work in Linux at all, let alone E. Aren't they all >> proprietary Windows-only drivers? > > every single one i've seen works on l

Re: [e-users] On-screen keyboard for touch-screen usage

2019-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 13/01/2019 02:18, Daniel Kasak wrote: > Hi all. > > I just got a new laptop ( yay! ) I'm in the market. What did you get? If you don't mind saying. > which has a touchscreen. I don't know if they work in Linux at all, let alone E. Aren't they all proprietary Windows-only drivers? P

[e-users] Dual monitor

2018-12-29 Thread Peter Flynn
I have just added a second monitor to my test system running E19 from ppa:niko2040/e19 under Mint 19. It SIGSEGVs immediately on login. I logged out and logged back in using Cinnamon, and used their GUI for Displays to configure it: the primary monitor is landscape and the secondary monitor

Re: [e-users] xdg-open troubles

2018-11-04 Thread Peter Flynn
On 04/11/2018 13:14, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] > it'll pick one of whatever app says it can open that mime type... > whatever comes first that it finds, That was my understanding also. But it doesn't: * /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache says (simplified)

Re: [e-users] xdg-open troubles

2018-11-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 03/11/2018 18:28, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 05:19:13PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: >> On 03/11/2018 11:49, Peter Flynn wrote: >> [...] >>> That seems to be clean, but /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache >>> isn't. Can I just delete it

Re: [e-users] xdg-open troubles

2018-11-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 03/11/2018 11:49, Peter Flynn wrote: [...] > That seems to be clean, but /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > isn't. Can I just delete it manually, or is there a procedure to flush > it out? I just edited it and removed the bogus association for GIMP. All working fine (but of

Re: [e-users] xdg-open troubles

2018-11-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 03/11/2018 09:04, Jérémy Zurcher wrote: > Hi, > > you should first debug xdg-... > > XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-mime query default 'text/html' OK. > XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-mime query default 'bad/wrong' -> to see what > files are read Now *that* was enormously useful, thank you.

Re: [e-users] xdg-open troubles

2018-11-02 Thread Peter Flynn
On 02/11/2018 21:05, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 07:21:36PM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote: >> xdg-open calls enlightenment_open to open a file with its nominated >> handler. On my system, PDFs open with GIMP for some unfathomable reason, >> and all my b

[e-users] xdg-open troubles

2018-11-02 Thread Peter Flynn
xdg-open calls enlightenment_open to open a file with its nominated handler. On my system, PDFs open with GIMP for some unfathomable reason, and all my browsers are incapable of calling Thunderbird to open mailto: links. How does enlightenment_open work? I must presumably be able to set each

Re: [e-users] Battery indicator

2018-09-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/09/18 09:05, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:08:00 +0100 Peter Flynn said: > >> The battery indicator in my shelf/bryce is stuck on max. I've been using >> this laptop all morning, and it still says I have a fully-charged >> bat

Re: [e-users] Battery indicator

2018-09-10 Thread Peter Flynn
On 10/09/18 15:02, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > [...] It works back again after resume if I restart E. Found it. In the menus, where it should be. P > Il 10 settembre 2018 15:08:00 CEST, Peter Flynn ha > scritto: > > The battery indicator in my shelf/bryce is stuck on max.

Re: [e-users] Battery indicator

2018-09-10 Thread Peter Flynn
t E. Logout and login? Ctrl-Alt-BackSp doesn't seem to work. > Instead, the battery indicator in the shelf always works, even after resume. OK, many thanks. ///Peter > Il 10 settembre 2018 15:08:00 CEST, Peter Flynn ha > scritto: > > The battery indicator in my shelf/bryce is st

[e-users] Battery indicator

2018-09-10 Thread Peter Flynn
The battery indicator in my shelf/bryce is stuck on max. I've been using this laptop all morning, and it still says I have a fully-charged battery, which is obviously incorrect. It's a Dell XPS 15 running Mint 18 and e 0.22.3 from the ppa:niko2040/e19 repo. I don't know what the indicator tests,

Re: [e-users] Removing gadgets from desktop

2018-08-24 Thread Peter Flynn
On 24/08/18 11:24, Mick wrote: > On Friday, 24 August 2018 10:40:43 BST Peter Flynn wrote: >> I didn't think that any Linux worked with touch screen devices. I looked >> last year, as I was in the market for a new laptop, and I reckoned it >> would be 4–5 years before the har

Re: [e-users] Removing gadgets from desktop

2018-08-24 Thread Peter Flynn
On 23/08/18 02:12, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] > you hit one of the usability problems. it needs hidden bindings to use it (not > obvious/srtandard way of accessing the controls). I should have deduced Alt earlier, though. It's pretty standard... > to change size of a bryce you

Re: [e-users] Removing gadgets from desktop

2018-08-22 Thread Peter Flynn
On 21/08/18 03:30, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:02:33 +0100 Peter Flynn said: Two recent annoyances: 1. I accidentally clicked on the Luncher Grid in Add Widgets to Desktop so it's sitting in the middle of my screen and I can't get rid of it: none

Re: [e-users] Removing gadgets from desktop

2018-08-20 Thread Peter Flynn
On 20/08/18 00:02, Peter Flynn wrote:> 1. I accidentally clicked on the Luncher Grid in Add Widgets to Desktop > so it's sitting in the middle of my screen and I can't get rid of it: > none of the mouse buttons do anything meaningful and DEL doesn't delete > it. How

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-24 Thread Peter Flynn
On 24/07/18 05:06, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:31:16 +0100 Peter Flynn said: > >> On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: >>> I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). >>> Characters are very smal

Re: [e-users] Size of characters

2018-07-23 Thread Peter Flynn
On 23/07/18 07:44, Pierre Couderc wrote: > I have many problems with "big" screens (in pixels 1920x1080). > Characters are very small. It is easy to change this in e itself > using "scaling". > > But I have problems with many applications, vlc,thunderbird for > example. Maybe it is because I

Re: [e-users] Moving between desktops

2018-06-05 Thread Peter Flynn
On 05/06/18 01:26, eric wrote: > On 06/03/2018 11:47 PM, Simon Lees wrote: >> >> >> On 04/06/18 06:35, Peter Flynn wrote: >>> On 03/06/18 00:32, eric wrote: >>> [...] >>>> In the enlightenment menus you can go to settings - settings panel -

Re: [e-users] Moving between desktops

2018-06-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 03/06/18 04:54, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > [...] It's compounded by the >> fact that the pointer automatically goes to the centre of the new >> desktop instead of the edge where it entered, making it tedious to move >> back. > > ummm it should be going to the opposite edge not

Re: [e-users] Moving between desktops

2018-06-03 Thread Peter Flynn
On 03/06/18 00:32, eric wrote: [...] > In the enlightenment menus you can go to settings - settings panel - > edge bindings and adjust the settings for left and right edges.  Thank you...it's under Input, not where I would have looked at all. > You cna > change the time delay or set to click on

[e-users] Moving between desktops

2018-06-02 Thread Peter Flynn
I have four desktops configured and I use Ctrl-Alt left/right to navigate between them. I can also do it by sliding the mouse off the right or left edge, but that's very rare for me. At the moment it's far too easy to accidentally go to the next desktop if the pointer hits the edge of the current

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-22 Thread Peter Flynn
On 22/04/18 14:26, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] Everything is working fine. then explain the meson error you pasted. I already have, about three times. It was because I typed the wrong package name. id meson install? can you install it? Yes, once I retyped the apt

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-22 Thread Peter Flynn
On 22/04/18 06:12, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] our job is to provide the source code that gets compiled, so out instructions will be for that. :) the general instructions on our download page where the downloads are source at any rate. :) Yep. I used to rely on it in the days

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-21 Thread Peter Flynn
On 21/04/18 06:37, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: you didn't even have to install meson if it's already compiled binaries. meson is needed to compile terminology and enlightenment Right. I was installing meson because the web site said so. But it turned out (thanks to your help) that

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-20 Thread Peter Flynn
On 20/04/18 07:00, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] > umm but: > > meson : Depends: ninja-build (>= 1.6) but it is not going to be installed > > that says that there should be a ninja-build package. the meson package you > are > installing depends on it... where is that meson

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-19 Thread Peter Flynn
On 19/04/18 10:40, maderios wrote: > On 04/18/2018 09:32 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: >> Sounds good. I've avoided Arch because last time I tried it, it broke >> Emacs, and was several versions behind on a few key (for me) packages. >> But if that's changed I should look at it a

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-19 Thread Peter Flynn
On 19/04/18 03:37, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: [...] > anyone can get write access. sign up an account there. it's a wiki. I'm not a developer, just an end user, so I don't think I would be in any remote way qualified to add anything myself. > but please note that that page is

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-18 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/04/18 21:19, Massimo Maiurana wrote: [...] > On debian buster (testing) there is no package named ninja, you should > remove it from the apt command line. Meson should carry out ninja-build > automatically as it's one of its dependencies. Interesting, so it does. Perhaps someone with

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-18 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/04/18 20:32, Peter Flynn wrote: > On 18/04/18 09:56, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:11:33 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: >>> I know meson is terribly fashionable these days, but I have tried >>> to get it to wo

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-18 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/04/18 09:56, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:11:33 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: >> I know meson is terribly fashionable these days, but I have tried >> to get it to work on at least five Linux distros and it's never >>

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-18 Thread Peter Flynn
It's not too hard. Though there is an annoying focus bug present in the latest version, which you may want to avoid until a point release is done. Cheers, dave.k In the year 2018, of the month of April, on the 17th day, Peter Flynn wrote: Sorry, this failed to send earlier. On 17/04/18 12:12, Peter Flynn wrote: [.

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-17 Thread Peter Flynn
Sorry, this failed to send earlier. On 17/04/18 12:12, Peter Flynn wrote: [...]> 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > E: Internal Error, No file name for terminology:amd64 > > Does anyone know where I can get it

Re: [e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/04/18 14:59, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:12:24 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: > [...] >> Does anyone know where I can get it in a .deb form that won't vanish at >> an update? > > perhaps remove the pkgs ful

[e-users] Terminology deleted by update

2018-04-17 Thread Peter Flynn
I recently installed Mint 18 on a desktop system, and added e and terminology like this: sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:niko2040/e19 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install enlightenment terminology All working nicely. Then this morning I ran my weekly update: peter@oimelc:~/$ sudo apt update

Re: [e-users] xdg-bs

2018-03-07 Thread Peter Flynn
On 07/03/18 01:07, Simon Lees wrote: [...] > Thanks as the maintainer of xdg-utils in a major distro i'll have a look > at this and get it fixed, i've contributed most of the xdg-utils code > for enlightenment, the bug is now tracked here > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084236 so

Re: [e-users] xdg-bs

2018-03-06 Thread Peter Flynn
> On Monday 27 Mar 2017 20:47:29 Peter Flynn wrote: >> On 03/27/2017 07:56 PM, Mick wrote: >>> On Monday 27 Mar 2017 19:39:21 Peter Flynn wrote: >>>> On 27/03/17 00:47, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 16:55:

Re: [e-users] Replicating e bryce/luncher

2018-03-05 Thread Peter Flynn
On 05/03/18 23:28, Simon Lees wrote:> On 06/03/18 06:57, Peter Flynn wrote: >> Now that my configuration has settled down and I have migrated all my >> machines to Mint Cinnamon with Enlightenment, I need a way to replicate >> the bryce/luncher setup from my laptop onto a

[e-users] Replicating e bryce/luncher

2018-03-05 Thread Peter Flynn
Now that my configuration has settled down and I have migrated all my machines to Mint Cinnamon with Enlightenment, I need a way to replicate the bryce/luncher setup from my laptop onto all the other machines. They're all running the exact same versions of everything. Is there a ready-made way to

Re: [e-users] Persistent images in Desktop

2018-02-08 Thread Peter Flynn
On 08/02/18 10:42, Mick wrote: > Have you logged out/in, or Ctrl+Alt+End to see if the dekstop content is > refreshed? Yes, my first reaction was to log out and back in. No change. Then reboot. No change. On 08/02/18 11:53, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > efm still thinks they are

[e-users] Persistent images in Desktop

2018-02-08 Thread Peter Flynn
I used the default location (~/Desktop) to save some screenshots (by pressing PrtScr). Once I had edited and used them, I deleted them, but their icons are still on my desktop even though they are no longer in ~/Desktop. See screenshot at http://oimelc.ucc.ie/desktop-screenshot.jpg Right-click

Re: [e-users] Projector weirdness

2018-01-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/01/18 04:47, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:23:02 + Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: This is (seemingly) not an Enlightenment-specific problem; it's just that I was running E when it happened. It appears to happen with XFCE and Cinnamon as well, but if anyo

[e-users] Projector weirdness

2018-01-16 Thread Peter Flynn
This is (seemingly) not an Enlightenment-specific problem; it's just that I was running E when it happened. It appears to happen with XFCE and Cinnamon as well, but if anyone has a clue, please email me off-list. My Dell XPS 15 plugged into a classroom projector only displays the wallpaper

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 13/01/18 06:43, Carsten Haitzler wrote: [...] bryce (now gadget bar) is the same as shelf, For all practical (user) purposes it's identical, just slightly bigger icons and a more robust operating procedure. Plus the option for many more gadgets in the future. stephen is right. it's far

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-13 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/18 23:48, Stephen Houston wrote: Can you file a ticket on phab.enlightenment.org and tag it enlightenment-gadgets with this exact info? [...] I'll reboot later on just in case it's this Dell touchpad. I rebooted and it's fine. I don't trust Dell hardware any more. P

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/18 22:16, Stephen Houston wrote: I don't think you get it - luncher is the application launcher - what was bryce and is now gadget bar is what holds the luncher (which is a gadget as well as any of your other gadgets - wireless, pager, temperature, cpumonitor, netstatus, etc.., etc..,

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/18 21:32, Stephen Houston wrote: Glad to hear it -- The effect is there, just not as gaudy as you said. though it definitely last long enough for me to see the icon explode - it doesn't quite pulse the way the ibar did -- It's a somewhat simpler/smoother effect. I know different people

Re: [e-users] Temperature gadget

2018-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/18 21:39, Massimo Maiurana wrote: That'd would be great, thanks. Seeing a percentage as temperature value is counterintuitive to me :) Well, °C *is* a percentage, if you restrict it to the freezing—boiling range :-) P

Re: [e-users] Temperature gadget

2018-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/18 21:22, Stephen Houston wrote: the percentage is calculated in the rage you set. You set a low temperature and you set a high temperature. 30 celsius and 80 celsius is default so what percent is 34 between 30 and 80? 8%. This is the processor temperature, right? Or the ambient

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 11/01/18 22:14, Stephen Houston wrote: A bryce has a luncher which is where application icons sit. Found it. It actually offered it as a gadget. Is that meant to be launcher or luncher? the gadgets available for your shelf are not the same as gadgets available for bryce. But there is

Re: [e-users] Temperature gadget

2018-01-12 Thread Peter Flynn
On 12/01/18 12:02, Massimo Maiurana wrote: Reading the thread about gadgets I decided to try using a bryce in place of a shelf. Nice :) I see that the thermal gadget doesn't display the temperature value and I don't know why, maybe I'm missing something. Clicking in the gadget it shows a bar

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-11 Thread Peter Flynn
On 11/01/18 21:39, Stephen Houston wrote: https://git.enlightenment.org/enlightenment/gadgets/wireless.git/ You can get it here. However, this is a new gadget so it uses the new scheme which you have previously mentioned you are not interested in. Only because it wasn't clear that it

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-11 Thread Peter Flynn
On 11/01/18 21:37, Stephen Houston wrote: Why would you still be holding down your trackpad after alt+right click? Good point...but I had assumed that after clicking, I would need to move the pointer to the place where I could click on Remove, which would mean keeping it pressed while I

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-11 Thread Peter Flynn
On 11/01/18 00:06, Stephen Houston wrote: If you aren't using connman, I'm not, mainly because NM is working perfectly, and I'm not aware of the reasons why I might want to change. Is connman better or faster? I know it was unusable when I first started using E many years ago, because it

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-11 Thread Peter Flynn
On 11/01/18 00:05, Stephen Houston wrote: Alt+right click lets you remove them. I'm sure it's meant to. The first time I did it, there was indeed a little "Remove" button, but as both my hands were occupied (one holding the Alt key, the other holding down the right-hand corner of the

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-10 Thread Peter Flynn
On 10/01/18 22:16, Stephen Houston wrote: They are designed for the new gadget system that is the replacement for shelves and contents. Left click on the desktop, Add Gadgets to Desktop or Add Bryce. That's where they are hiding. Aha, thanks. Can I add gadgets to the Shelf not the desktop?

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-10 Thread Peter Flynn
On 10/01/18 20:51, Stephen Houston wrote: The wireless gadget will tell you which network you are connect to and signal strength when you hover on it. The netstatus gadget will give you realtime network throughput Aha. Thank you. Where do I find these? If I right-click on an existing gadget

Re: [e-users] Creating Enlightenment Gadgets

2018-01-10 Thread Peter Flynn
On 10/01/18 20:38, Stephen Houston wrote: Hello, I would like to point everyone to a new wiki page we have that details developing gadgets for Enlightenment using the sandbox method. https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/e/sandbox_gadgets Feel free to use the guide to create cool new gadgets

Re: [e-users] Finding the cursor

2017-12-19 Thread Peter Flynn
On 19/12/17 01:19, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:54:39 + Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: Is there a configuration option in E to let the (say) Ctrl key flash the cursor so you can find it on a laptop screen? And I can't find the configuration option t

[e-users] Finding the cursor

2017-12-18 Thread Peter Flynn
Is there a configuration option in E to let the (say) Ctrl key flash the cursor so you can find it on a laptop screen? And I can't find the configuration option to make the cursor/pointer BIG Is it still impossible to make applications honour the cursor/pointer size? ///Peter

Re: [e-users] E on Bodhi and Mint (was: Re: New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-12-18 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/12/17 19:12, Stephen Houston wrote: The wireless gadget shows connection strength. The netstatus gadget will show traffic. Wireless gadget is available at enlightenment/gadgets/wireless.git and the netstatus gadget comes with E. Connman is always going to be a replacement for nm, right?

Re: [e-users] E on Bodhi and Mint (was: Re: New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-12-18 Thread Peter Flynn
On 18/12/17 15:30, Stephen Houston wrote: The wireless gadget also supports network manager, at a basic level, now. It certainly does, or I wouldn't be writing this :-) I was just curious to know if connman offered anything more, like an indicator showing traffic or connection strength.

Re: [e-users] E on Bodhi and Mint (was: Re: New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-12-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/12/17 14:47, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 12:56:18 + Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: [...] If I try to add ninja-build to the install command, it says The following packages have unmet dependencies: ninja-build : Conflicts: ninja but 0

Re: [e-users] E on Bodhi and Mint (was: Re: New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-12-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/12/17 14:10, Philippe Jean Guillaumie wrote: [...] Yes, this is the right way to get the latest meson version in Ubuntu. Works flawlessly in 16.04 LTS and 17.10. Alas not in Mint, apparently. To remove locally installed meson use: pip3 uninstall meson first (you don't need sudo). Then

Re: [e-users] Error compiling EFL on Mint 18.3

2017-12-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/12/17 00:58, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:51:50 + Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: for now with efl you may want to add: --disable-cxx-bindings as our eo/eolian and binding work is in flux. OK, thanks. Makes sense. But it's not going to be usefu

Re: [e-users] E on Bodhi and Mint (was: Re: New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-12-17 Thread Peter Flynn
On 17/12/17 00:56, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 22:50:36 + Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: [...] 2. Build from source using Meson; never used Meson, and it won't install: Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in

[e-users] Error compiling EFL on Mint 18.3

2017-12-16 Thread Peter Flynn
Using git clone https://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git and then autoconf.sh and make, I am getting CXX bin/eolian_cxx/bin_eolian_cxx_eolian_cxx-eolian_cxx.o bin/eolian_cxx/eolian_cxx.cc: In function ‘bool eolian_cxx::types_generate(const string&, const eolian_cxx::options_type&,

[e-users] E on Bodhi and Mint (was: Re: New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-12-16 Thread Peter Flynn
[Sorry, I should have made this a new thread long ago.] On 29/11/17 00:27, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:49:55 +0000 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: > >> On 28/11/17 00:05, Carsten Haitzler wrote: >>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:38:30 + Pet

Re: [e-users] New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-11-28 Thread Peter Flynn
On 28/11/17 21:42, Jérémy Zurcher wrote: I think the best way to go is to clone efl and e from git.enlightenment.org, compile and install them in another prefix so that you don't break your Bodhi distro. just follow the steps here https://www.enlightenment.org/docs/distros/debian-start Yes,

Re: [e-users] New applications -- menu/ibar entries

2017-11-28 Thread Peter Flynn
On 28/11/17 00:05, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:38:30 + Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: [snip] Does anyone have suggestions. I can't find a page describing how to replace Moksha with E22. looks like it needs a newer efl install. apt-get -f install ? or remo

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