The Enlightenment DR 0.14 demo compiles and runs fine on a Macintosh Powerbook 2400
running LinuxPPC. It looks great and has been very stable. It might become my window
manager of choice. I installed it from the sources that were listed at the FTP site
below. I went through the exercises in the README and all worked. Happy joy.
I'm running a special build of the Linux 2.1.24 kernel supporting video and other
devices of the Powerbook 3400/2400 built by Paul Mackerras. Also a special version of
the X server that has accelerated (native) video drivers for the built-in Powerbook
LCD at 800x600, 16-bit color, built by Fabio Riccardi. Before installing E, I've been
using AfterStep.
As the README suggested I installed everything before compiling imlib, then compiled
E. I improvised how to get the necessary packages installed before compiling imlib,
some came from RedHat RPMS at ftp.linuxppc.org, some weren't available there so I get
them from RedHat RPMS at ftp.mklinux.apple.com. I had no problem compiling the source
code for the three packages at the ftp site.
I had a little trouble figuring out how to get it to work at first. When following the
directions in the README, I wasn't sure how to get a terminal at first. What worked
best for me was I duplicated my "startx" script to "starte", then changed "starte" to
reference .xinitre instead of .xinitrc. Each user can then create a .xinitre file of
their liking. I created one for root, which started a couple terminals, xload and
Netscape 4.04 under E.
The other problem I had was that root doesn't normally have '.' (current directory) in
its path, so E wasn't finding any of the image widgets in the /pix directory. The
easiest way to fix this was to add '.' to my path.
Thanks for making this available. Sometimes it amazes me how source code can compile
just the same on an Intel box and a Mac Powerbook. Looking forward to the full DR14
release which is said to be around 5/28.
-Dave
At 4:29 PM 5/12/98, Hilarion wrote:
> [snip]
> I forgot to mention because I had assumed
> everybody already heard, but it's this is an e14 demo, and while it runs for
> me, it doesn't have menus and window-object tools or frills of that sort, nor
> an install script (due to its nature). But it's darn fun!
>
> I believe the magic well is located at
> ftp://ftp.labs.redhat.com/pub/raster
>
> Be sure to grab it all, coz E wants it. I've got a screenshot up at
> http://www.mnsi.net/~rhogan/e14.jpg (~180K).
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