Dan D Niles wrote: > I am looking for a window manager to use with gnome, because metacity is > horrible. I'm currently giving enlightenment a try, but have hit some > stumbling blocks. > > Many of the actions defined for the root window do not work when > nautilus is running. For example, the scroll wheel does not cycle > through desktops, and the left mouse button menus do not work. The > middle mouse button menus work fine. If I kill nautilus, they all work > fine. Is there any way to get root window events to work in the desktop > context? > No, the root button actions will not work when you have nautilus covering the root, but you can get the root menus with Ctrl-Shift-F1/2/3.
> I was working on making my own keybindings, and had it working for a > while. I didn't know what the possible actions were and couldn't find > any docs. I installed e16keyedit and played with that for a while. I > didn't care for it so I removed it. But now enlightenment won't listen > to my keybindings. I can change, add, or remove keybindings in my > ~/.enlightenment/keybindings.cfg but they will not change. I tried > restarting enlightenment and logging out and back in. If I put an error > in the file, it complains about it though. My theory is that e16keyedit > did something that is overriding my keybindings. Any idea how to fix > it? > You seem to be using e16 0.16.7.x. It has some issues in that area. The only way to fix it is really to remove ~/.enlightenment/...e_session-XXXXXX, losing most of your settings. > I use the gnome workspace switcher to manage my desktops. I use 10 > desktops in a 5x2 arrangement. Gnome has functions for going to the > desktop left, right, above, or below the current one. I cannot find a > way to do that with enlightenment. With fvwm, I can fake it by using > 'GotoDesk -5 0 0 9' to go to the desktop above the current one. I could > write a shell script that uses eesh to get the current desktop, > calculate where to go, and then set the desktop. That seems like the > hard, and slow, way to do it. Is there any way to do this cleanly in > the keybindings.cfg file? > There should be default keybindings for that (Alt-Shift-Left/Right/...). > Lastly, is there any documentation on the language used in the > keybindings.cfg file? I wasn't able to find any. I had to poke around > in the source to find some things out, but I don't feel like I have a > complete grasp of what is possible. > If you want to use e16 I suggest you upgrade to e16 0.16.8.x and take a look at README-0.16.8 and bindings.cfg. /Kim ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
