On Sunday 01 May 2016 18:20:24 Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> This time, I stuck with the defaults for everything, including the
> focus "whenever the mouse enters a window" option .
>
> But this does not work.
> First, right clicking on the desktop produces a blue glow around the mouse
> cursor, no menu .
I beg your pardon, I should have said Left Click. Right click brings up the
Favourites menu, which unless you have already set your favourite
applications, will be empty.
> When I left click on desktop, the menu appears, but if I select the
> Settings -> Settings Panel ,
> ONLY THE FIRST LEFT BUTTON CLICK TAKES EFFECT ,
> so if I click on the "Windows" tab, its icon stays selected,
> and no further left button mouse clicks seem to have any
> effect within that window, so it is impossible to make
> any configuration changes within it.
This means that something is amiss with your build. Left click on any
elements within the Windows tab should open a new pop up with sub-options
within it.
> It wasn't like this the first time I installed Enlightenment - things
> worked well for a few days until I played around with the focus settings.
It is not like this here, so it may be worth either reinstalling just in case,
or trying with a test user account?
> This situation is persisting after removing :
> ~/.e and ~/.elementary
> and restarting, choosing either of the
> focus "when a window is clicked" (my preference) or
> "when the mouse enters a window" (the default).
>
> Are you sure there are NO other config files written by Enlightenment ?
Not that I know of. Have a look here for the various settings, but if your
installation is corrupted you may be better off starting afresh:
https://phab.enlightenment.org/w/e_configuration_options_compendium/
> What encoding / encryption / format is used for Enlightenment's *.cfg files
> ?
Have a look here for some guides, until a dev drops by with specifics.
> On 01/05/2016, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 May 2016 16:54:27 Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> >> Please, could anyone advise how to regain use of my left mouse button
> >> in Enlightenment ?
> >>
> >> After removing my ~/.e ~/.elementary and ~/.esd_auth files,
> >> and getting the initial setup menu at startup , and choosing
> >> the option that said something like 'click on windows to focus'
> >> ( because I found the default of focusing on mouse hover really
> >>
> >> annoying ),
> >> now I cannot click on any buttons or internal window contents
> >> at all - I can only click on window Border buttons or menus ;
> >> clicking on them does work with the left mouse button; but
> >> If I click the left mouse button on any content INSIDE a window
> >> (not menu or border) the event seems to be ignored.
> >> Obviously, the windowing system is rather unusable in this state.
> >
> > Hmm ... something must have gone sideways.
> >
> >> Please, can anyone advise how to regain control of the mouse in
> >>
> >> Enlightenment?
> >
> > The easier way is to shutdown enlightenment, remove ~/.e and restart
> > enlightenment, which will recreate a default setup.
> >
> > After it all starts up with a fresh configuration, right click on the
> > desktop
> > and select Settings/Settings Panel/Windows/Windows Focus/Focus and
> > experiment
> > until you get a setting that suits your needs.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Mick
>
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