Hello from a new e-user:
I've always used kde. Never could stand gnome (too much emphasis on
knowing where to right-click...) I've been hearing enough ranting
about kde4 that I decided now would be a good time to see if there was
a good alternative WM that I could stand...
I found a description of enlightenment that said it was possible to
set-up the keybindings in such a way as to run enlightenment with the
keyboard... (since there are no words in the languages of men, elves,
orcs nor most likely even klingons to adequately describe my distaste
for "point n click" as the PRIMARY control method) I immediately used
package management tools to install it from the linux distribution
repositories for both my Kubuntu 8.10, and my OpenSuSE 11.0
installations. {That is zypper & apt-get.}
In both cases I got e16... Which is fine by me.
After a bit of poking around I figured out that if I set up an
~/.xinitrc I could get startx to boot e16 and preload some
applications... Then I learned that if I copied and edited a couple of
files from /usr/share/e16 to ~/.e16 I could both get font sizes in
the menus I could actually see without a magnifying glass, and wonders
of wonders set the keyboard shortcuts to something that works for me.
those files being bindings.cfg & fonts.cfg.xft Then I settled in and
played with e16 long enough for my lady to get mad at me...
I think I like it almost as much as kde 3.x and a bit more than
kde 4.x... There are a few things I don't quite get however. So here I
am.
a few questions:
1) In bindings.cfg there is a section for global keybindings where
(in the modifier column) an S = shift, C = ctrl, and A = alt...
But is there a way to specify the windows key as a modifier
here???
2) I miss the run prompt that kde usually has mapped to <alt>+<F2>.
Is there an application to do this for e16??
3) I'm not sure what you call that feature that when I try to grab
a scroll bar near the right hand side of the screen I'm likely
to accidentally cause the whole desktop to slide to the left
leaving me with space to open another full sized window. But is
it possible to link this to a keyboard binding???
AND prevent the mouse from ever doing this again???
( my mouse pointer coordination is poor. So I keep scrolling
the desktop by mistake...)
4) When using an ~/.xinirc such as this:
xterm -bg WhiteSmoke -fn 12x24 -geometry 83x27 &
xterm -bg black -fg green -fn 10x20 -geometry 95x20 &
oclock &
e16
Is there a way to put some of these applications on a desktop
other than the first one???
I mean the above causes one of the xterms to cover the clocks
face. But if I could specify which desktop to open an
application in I could make a much more useful .xinitrc...
5) I've noticed that most of the messages on the list seem to have
[e-users] in the subject... Is that part of the netiquette here?
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