I have been an enlightenment user for about 2 years now. And although
I really really like it I have seen some pretty damageing memory leaks
in a few versions.
When I first tried enlightenment I was happy with fluxbox and just
trying out other options, but enlightenment is so configureable and
easy to script that it makes it worth the issues I have run into.
My script for enlightenment that shades all windows.
#!/bin/bash
for window in `eesh -ewait wl | awk '{ if ($3!="0") print $1 }'`
do
eesh -ewait "wop $window shade ?" | grep on || eesh -e "wop
$window shade"
done
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:31:32 -0600, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying out Enlightenment again and I'm impressed by it's speed on
> modest hardware, quality and organization. There are plenty of places to get
> screen shots on the web, so I'm not going to put any of mine up today but I
> will share what I liked here.
>
> My first exposure to the Enlightenment desktop was through Red Hat 5.x on 150
> MHz MediaGX with 64MB of RAM and no third mouse button. My screen resolution
> was a dismal 800x600 too. It was not very useful to me that way, though
> enjoyed eterm for years.
>
> I just tried it again with Sarge on a 233MHz PII laptop with 196MB of ram and
> was very impressed. A little extra screen real estate, memory, processor
> speed and patience go a long way towards usability. The default burshed
> metal is still a little clumsy looking but Blue Metal, Ganymede and Shiny
> Metal are beautiful and don't take up much screen. WM, KDE and Gnome
> applications play well with it, though konsole's transparency did not work
> for me.
>
> One of things I liked best is the pager and desktop/workspace configuration.
> You can expand your workspace to multiple screens within each desktop and
> edge flip though each screen. You switch between desktops by clicking on the
> pager or the bar on top. The pagers, which are not always on top, show this
> as one huge workspace with a box around the current space. The pagers also
> show a nice thumbnail of the application and you can move the application
> from one screen to another by drag and drop.
>
> Enlightenment will work well for organizing multiple projects the way I do it.
> I've typically dedicated single desktops to specific computers and projects.
> For instance, I'll have a ssh -X session to my wife's computer on a desktop
> called "pooh", her computer's name and a desktop called 7530 for my shielding
> class. If there's an application I need for shielding from another computer,
> I call it up and move it to the shielding desktop. Sometimes, I start to
> feel crowded and that's where Enlightenment's multiple screens will come in
> handy. I'm not going to feel crowded with six desktops. To get the same
> effect with other window managers, I might have to make the virtual desktop
> larger than the screen size. Enlightenment does this out of the box and it's
> edge flipping and pager controls make getting to the other desktop faster.
> Getting more desktops is easy with the GUI configuration tools.
>
> I'm going to be working with it on the laptop for a few weeks to see how it
> goes.
>
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