Installing wallpapers into the backgrounds folder in Enlightenment E17. Installing wallpapers with the E17 window manager is very easy, mostly like the older Enlightenment E16 window manager. You may either copy the wallpapers into the ~/.e/e/backgrounds/ folder or import them with the backgrounds settings dialog. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~/.e/e/backgrounds$ ls -hula total 43M…
Read MoreThe E17 desktop is the best alternative to the bloated MATE and Gnome desktop environments. These are good, but use a lot of resources. A good alternative is to use E17. This is light and has a lot of very good effects. Install it on Ubuntu 17 easily. sudo apt…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreHere is a link to the page hosting downloads of the Ubuntu Gnome Shell re-mix. This is a version of the Ubuntu distribution that uses the Gnome Shell desktop instead of the default Unity. This is a more customisable desktop for the Linux desktop user. Of course you can just…
Read MoreThe awesome theme that the Elive Linux distribution used is now available for the latest E17 build. I am currently using it on Debian Testing and it is the best looking theme yet. Just download the theme and import it into your theme manager and it will work out of…
Read MoreThe enlightenment E17 desktop window manager is now available for the Debian testing distribution, now all of those complex steps that were formerly required to install this window manager are a thing of the past. I have installed the enlightened window manager as it is a nice complement to the…
Read MoreThe enlightenment E17 desktop on Linux Mint 12 works a million times better than the Ubuntu packages did with 12.04. They were very unstable, but the Linux Mint 12 distribution is as stable as Linux should be. Even if it is a beta release as the Ubuntu distribution was, there…
Read MoreInstalling 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
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