Well, I have heard about this Enlightenment before, so I have downloaded
it (and modified Xclients again to allow for its selection). Tell me, what
does it do besides look good and have a penchant for Beethoven. It's
icons are pretty undecipherable, I can't tell how you are supposed to
maximize a window, it doesn't seem to know where it's own "eterm" program
is, etc. Perhaps it inspiring if you work as a graphic designer for a
computer games shop, but how do you use it for real work.
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Tom Carlile wrote:
> Bah!
> Be a man and use Enlightenment.
> http://www.enlightenment.org
> http://e.themes.org
> The screenshots should win you over.
> I have some personal screenshots at uts.cc.utexas.edu/~phobos/
>
> In my opinion E looks much better than any of its competitors.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Simon Hill wrote:
> >
> > > Apparently X doesn't save prefs the way that Windows and MacOS have
> > > trained me to expect...
> > >
> > > When I change the background color in any of the window managers
> > > supplied with RH5.1,
> > > then restart the manager or the machine, it switches back to the
> > > default. I'm guessing I need to
> > > edit some Xinit type stuff.
> >
> > You might be happier with a desktop manager rather than a window
> > manager...
> >
> > Try KDE: http://www.kde.org
> > or XFCE: http://linux-kheops.com/pub/xfce/en/index.html
> >
> > Both have Red Hat Rpms.....
> >
> > I have both of them installed under Red Hat 5.1. KDE is quite Win 95, but
> > with four desktops wtih seperately configurable backdrops. Has a bunch of
> > its own apps, such as CD player, simple editor, etc. You will probably
> > have to add items to it's menus, though, which is not as easy as it should
> > be.
> >
> > XFCE has a much lighter footprint. Looks like CDE, but I think just
> > implements a subset. Doesn't really have it's own apps, but it is supposed
> > to be very configurable, as to backdrop, colors, sounds (yes, it make
> > sounds like win 95).
> >
> > Anyway, both of these are more easily configured than fvwm and its ilk.
> > I have a modified Xclients which checks for KDE or XFCE in .wm_style and
> > does the proper invocation.
> >
> > Simon Hill
> >
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