The year of the Linux desktop seems to be getting further and further away, the Linux/UNIX operating system is a super-secure alternative to the leaking and insecure Windows operating system. The powers that be want to make all computers an appliance instead of remaining a fully-fledged desktop workplace. Sure, the tablet computers are very popular, … Read more
The Enlightenment E17 window manager is very, very good. This is a nice alternative to the bloated Gnome desktop interface. It has its own file manager and utilities such as a sound mixer. There are multiple desktops by default as well as desktop gadgets and looks very nice indeed. Below is a screenshot of the … Read more
The Enlightenment desktop window manager that has been in development for over 12 years has finally been officially released! This desktop that started with the old Enlightenment E16 and the even older E15 desktop is a window manager that aims to provide eye candy on the desktop whilst being light on resources and a desktop … Read more
The Enlightenment E16 desktop I have setup on my computer is a very good example of a simple computer interface, the layout of the desktop with the iconbox and virtual desktop pager at the bottom of the screen, the clicking on the desktop to access the root menu and the overall eye candy aspect is … Read more
The Enlightenment E17 desktop window manager is very unstable when I use the packages supplied with the Ubuntu 12.04 release. I have installed the Enlightenment E16 window manager using a source tarball from this website and after installing the libimlib2-dev package I installed the source thusly. ./configure ; make ; make install And then I … Read more
Installing E17 on Ubuntu Installing the E17 Enlightenment desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 is very easy, just type this command in a terminal emulator window. sudo apt-get install e17sudo apt-get install e17 And then all the packages will be installed. You will need to convert old themes into the new format for them to work with … Read more
The Enlightenment E17 window manager is now available for the Debian testing distribution. This window manager is now easier to install now that you are not required to install it with a CVS or GIT repository or with other complex commands. This is what my /etc/apt/sources.lst looks like, I have added the Debian Testing repository … Read more
To add Enlightenment E17 in Debian 6.0, just add the Debian unstable repository to the bottom of your /etc/apt/sources.list. As shown in the example below. |{~}-{Fri Mar 11 21:13:04} -{shoggoth@Lorien } $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ – Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20110205-18:15]/ squeeze contrib main deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main … Read more