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pamdirac

November 18th, 2008, 14:31

Who is happy with enlightenment?

Show configs, screenshots and tips :)

shankerbalan

November 18th, 2008, 15:40

Who is happy with enlightenment?

Show configs, screenshots and tips :)

Happy e17 SVN user on FreeBSD! Been e user since '99. :)

billysponch

November 18th, 2008, 15:49

I use e17 on my laptop (see my config under my signature). I preferred to set e17 instead of gnome because e17 is very light. However when I work on my laptop, I use terminal a lot. I switch on the gui especially when I have to chat with pidgin or to surf on net.

ps: I'll try to put a screenshot of my desktop later but don't expect to see some eyes candy because my desktop is very simple.

kamikaze

November 18th, 2008, 17:05

This is my notebook with an external screen:
http://www.bsdforen.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=2111&d=1226570041

The icons are only there for good looks. I start all programs using ALT+ESC.

cliedo

November 20th, 2008, 17:28

I use enlightenment, for when I want a change of pace from kde or gnome

UNIXgod

November 24th, 2008, 09:39

e16 + eterm here on my laptop. been playing with compiz/gnome on another box recently but I have always preferred enlightenment.

letriste

February 4th, 2009, 17:26

Hi, I've tried installing e17 to no avail, perhaps any of you know what to do?

Thread here (http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1958).

agerardi

February 5th, 2009, 20:12

So far I like it. The only problem I'm having is figuring out how to add additonal apps like thunderbird to the panel or IBAR.

Al

agerardi

February 6th, 2009, 00:13

ok, I figured out the applications menu....still can't add to the favorite bar. I have sound in the applications...but no sound as far as the theme sounds. Is there any for any themes?

Tks
Al

pamdirac

February 23rd, 2009, 16:13

a screenshot of the laptop that I use for work

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9153/20090223160634.th.png (http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9153/20090223160634.png)

DavidMarec

April 8th, 2009, 20:23

a screenshot of the laptop that I use for work

http://user.lamaiziere.net/david/roms/capture2.png (http://user.lamaiziere.net/david/roms/capture1.png)

Here is my,
-cough -
"use for work" screen.

Aaron_VanAlstine

May 9th, 2009, 23:14

The enlightenment release schedule is really slow. It seems that E17 has been in development for ages.

TzunTzai

August 28th, 2009, 17:01

It's worth the wait!

I'm a long term user of both KDE & Gnome. I run both PC-BSD and FreeBSD 7-Stable. e17 just sealed the deal for me yesterday. I run FreeBSD on my laptop (Toshiba Sattelite m305-x) and don't want to dual boot to windows so I've looked into VirtualBox to run a WinXP guest machine. Needless to say, Gnome 2.6.x handles system resources better and feels much less bloated than KDE 3.x, but Virtualbox just performed poorly even after removing some of the bloat.

Last night I installed e17, and even with the "bling" running in the background, e17 handled VirtualBox 3.0.5.x like a charm! It felt as if I booted directly into Windows! I'm sold! stability (thus far), eye candy, custom-ability... I'll always have Gnome (and fluxbox of coarse) on my machine, but e17 is my new #1.

The enlightenment release schedule is really slow. It seems that E17 has been in development for ages.

irkkaaja

September 5th, 2009, 05:39

The enlightenment release schedule is really slow. It seems that E17 has been in development for ages.

17.0 is scheduled for release this Christmas.

Aaron_VanAlstine

September 6th, 2009, 03:01

17.0 is scheduled for release this Christmas.

Where did you get that? Nothing on the homepage about a Xmas release date.

nikobordx

September 30th, 2009, 09:43

Hi,

Yes it's true !
e17 seem to be released on chritmas, see here (http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/wiki/ReleaseSchedule)

Nicolas.

killwin

October 24th, 2009, 08:57

Yes enlightenment is light and fun. But my stepmother don't like because desktop change involuntary when mouse touch the border screen.

It's good for your C codes when you include imlib because enlightenment is programmed with imlib for fun effects desktops.

I depreciated enlightement and returned to xfce because it supports compiz-fusion.

sjakke

December 22nd, 2009, 20:38

Has anyone tried the tiling-module?

klanger

January 17th, 2010, 20:45

Has anyone tried the tiling-module?

Yeah, I'm using it, and btw is there a way to turn this module off?

Not that I don't like it, just would like to have an option -> at the moment I'm stuck with tiling (gimp is a pain in this mode) :D

As a bonus, below is my screenshot (eeepc + e17, well e16.999 or something like that) :D

http://omploader.org/tM2ExbQ (http://omploader.org/vM2ExbQ)

Oh, and there is one more thing -- when using wine+MS WORD, after closing word window temp is getting very high, wine and wineserver are using over 50% CPU until I'll kill them.
Is that normal in e17? have fluxbox on the same netbook, and all works OK... Any idea?

nu2fbsd

March 1st, 2010, 06:50

I am new to FreeBSD and got it installed on my system, I know about enlightenment and chose it to be my environment but I got something wrong. Post-install of FreeBSD I wanted GUI or desktop environment so I installed enlightenment only to find that I needed to also install xorg. I do not know if there is any simple for newbies to follow instructions of how to do this. I installed the xorg-minimal. I am stuck, at a graphical login screen. I tried to follow the instructions in handbook on installing X11 and configuring it but I think I blundered somewhere. I tried rebooting into safe mode and single use mode to try to reconfigure but editors are not found and I can't proceed, then I booted from the USB to try to use fixit but I do not now how to use that. What should I do? DO I HAVE TO REINSTALL FBSD?

klanger

March 1st, 2010, 08:17

Try to deinstall Xorg-minimal and install Xorg and other stuff that are in Handbook (Xorg-configure etc) before installing E17.

Before E17 you can always install dwm or wmii or any other light WM (fluxbox) just to have a WM to be able to boot into. Also add an entry to your (user /home) ~/xinitrc file exec fluxbox (eg. for fluxbox).

nu2fbsd

March 1st, 2010, 18:21

I re-installed FreeBSD and then Xorg. I did the Xorg -configure too. Then I could not wait so I went ahead and executed the command
pkg_add -r enlightenment
which gave me unable to fetch by URL, so I had to compile it from source with
cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/enlightenment && make install clean
This worked and enlightenment was compiled from source.
Now when I execute
/usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start
I get Enlightenment Error
Enlightenment cannot initialize its X connection
Have you set your display variable?
E17:Begin shutdown procedure!
SHUTDOWN
So I am still stuck. I executed pkg_add -r xdm which installed xdm and now I am back to graphical login screen but when I login no Enlightenment window manager I am back to the login screen. So where have I gone wrong?

DutchDaemon

March 1st, 2010, 18:29

startx
xinit
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html (examples for e.g. kde/xfce using .xinitrc)
And see post before yours (.xinitrc)

nu2fbsd

March 2nd, 2010, 04:54

So if I understand correctly I have to do this

after fetching and installation I add the line in my .xinitrc file and voila I should have my graphical desktop?

klanger

March 2nd, 2010, 06:53

First read this -> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html
Whole chapter!

Then follow the instructions that are there.

Also it is easer to setup FBSD on laptop if you follow instructions dedicated to specific brand (eg. asus eeepc wiki -http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee.

Then install what ever WM/DE you want, and with a help of handbook add an entry to your .xinitrc) or download PC-BSD-8.0 and tweak it a little to have E17 and not KDE as your WM.

nu2fbsd

March 2nd, 2010, 19:42

After reading the above chapter on x11 I found myself at the x.org site since I was getting fatal error for which it was suggested that I do $ startx -- :1
When the system boots and ends at the graphical login I execute Ctrl+Alt+F1 which gets me to virtual console 0, then I login and execute Ctrl+Alt+F2 which takes me to virtual console 1, I login and execute startx -- :1 which gives me graphical desktop, if fluxbox is in .xinitrc I get that if enlightenment_start is in .xinitrc I get that. But this is a long process. I am not being able to get from the graphical login into window manager.

klanger

March 2nd, 2010, 20:17

I don't really get it, but never mind that :)

Either edit your gdm config file, or set manually your session at login (is it Fn1 like in Slim ?... not really sure, I don't use a GUI login manager) or remove gdm and simply use startx command to launch X's - in your case E17 (or what ever you have in your xinitrc file).

There is no need to jump around virtual consoles to login to X.

With out gdm, it should look like following:

Press power button -> press ENTER to boot to FBSD (default) or just wait for 9 sec -> enter your user name -> enter your password -> type startx -> you're in X (E17/fluxbox or what ever you want).

You can always boot directly to X without login in (autologin) without login manager but that is another issue.

nu2fbsd

March 3rd, 2010, 06:18

First of all thank you for all the guidance you have given me so far and for staying with me on this, hang in there just a little more and then I should have my desktop like it should be.

That is exactly what I thought would happen when I first installed Xorg and rebooted. I got right up to the twm after login and statx. Then I added Enlightenment as my wm since it is light. Now you have advised to edit my gdm config file. I do not know where that file is. What am I to edit? What am I to add or remove?

klanger

March 3rd, 2010, 07:04

Why don't you reinstall (if you have time) FreeBSD and then follow Handbook step-by-step.
I would recommend to install first - any light WM (eg. fluxbox) and setup your system from there.

Then add E17 from ports.

Do not use "short cuts" any more ;)

nu2fbsd

March 4th, 2010, 06:00

I did not have to re-install. I found the solution :) There was no line in .xsession to give me wm. So I just added fluxbox saved it and voila, after my graphical login I was into fluxbox. Hallelujah!!
Then I removed fluxbox and added /usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start and voila once again, I got my enlighenment.
How come the .xsession file was blank?

psycho

March 4th, 2010, 10:35

we should ask you that question :D

pandaroux

July 12th, 2010, 14:48

rabfulton

July 17th, 2010, 00:12

Here is a nice guide to install e17 from source. Worked nicely fpor me on amd64 8.0:

http://www.bendug.org/howto:build_e17_from_source_on_freebsd_8

rabfulton

July 17th, 2010, 00:24

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3722/201007170018521920x1200.th.png (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/201007170018521920x1200.png/)

A screenshot of my current e17 setup.

klanger

July 17th, 2010, 06:49

very nice E17 setup :)

How can I change themes - most downloaded (well all) crash E17 or can't be loaded...

I'm using E16.999.

Here is a nice guide to install e17 from source. Worked nicely fpor me on amd64 8.0:

http://www.bendug.org/howto:build_e1...e_on_freebsd_8

Is there similar guide for i386?

rabfulton

August 4th, 2010, 16:28

To install themes simply put them in ~/.e/e/themes.

You can switch any aspect of a theme in settings -> themes, and hit the advanced button.

Remember that many older unmaintained themes will be at least partially incompatible with recent builds.

xor0

December 15th, 2011, 23:31

I know this is an ancient thread, but I am an avid E17 fan and would like to promote FreeBSD/E17 as a complete OS solution for Desktop and Server applications... I really hate needing to use multiple operating systems and have been working towards a BSD only workflow for myself for some time. My most recent adventure involves my Win7 laptop that I used for Android development getting a trojan and being rootkitted.... as a response I am working to install Gentoo/E17 in a Qemu instance on my FreeBSD 8.2 desktop so that I can run the Linux version of the Android SDK. I would have pursued the BSDroid avenue but it is clearly not stable on amd64 and I'm unwilling to live within 4GB of ram.

The reason I'm telling you this is I plan to this and two other features working on my desktop (sound and printing) and then I will be 100% Windows free, and only dependent on GNU licenses for my Gentoo instance and my compilers (CLANG is on my todo list at some point too).

I think it's important that some folks pursue the use of FreeBSD as a desktop operating system so as to fight it becoming compartmentalized to servers; something I believe has hurt this codebase already. And although I appreciate the efforts of the PC-BSD team; I do fancy the idea of there being one highly configurable distribution that can handle all use cases.

I plan to post in seperate threads any findings I have regarding this effort, but wanted to say here that E17 is a wonderful and stable WM that is BSD Licensed, so for anyone considering trying it, please do, and if possible let's all try to contribute something to it so that there can continue to be a stable, elegant, and truly free GUI to use with out stable, elegant and truly free OS.