Enlightened Gnome: The Ultimate in Ubuntu Eye Candy

[darkmatter]

pranith, what exactly is the command you are trying to issue with enlightenment_remote?

If you could give more detail as to what you are trying to accomplish, I may be able to help...

[poofyhairguy]

i have a serious problem.....

when i run "enlightenment_remote ...."

i am gettin this error

""WARNING: not a utf8 locale!
ERROR: Enlightenment_remote cannot set up the IPC socket.
Maybe try the '-display :0.0' option?""

i donno wat to do.....cud neone help me with that???

In which version? E16 or 17?

[wo.anderer]

The closest I have is:

1,RestartCommand=gnome-panel --sm-config-prefix /gnome-panel-WYG2EA/ --sm-client-id

Is there something wrong with my installation? That line isn't in the file any where.

I had the same problem. An nice alternative to editing this file is to use the gnome sessions utility in system-preferences. Follow the instructions from trilliji in this thread:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21160

The e16 enlightened gnome is nice and fast Thanks for all the help.
Though i'm still searching for a way to limit the desktop 'slide' to just the top right hand corner and not the whole right hand side of the screen. pretty annoying as default i would say.

[JimmyJazz]

I gotta tell ya I tried this with both E17 and E16 and they both looked really bad and went really slow, I may have been doing something wrong though anyways I kinda like metacity so I guess I'll stick with it.

[PMO6022]

Though i'm still searching for a way to limit the desktop 'slide' to just the top right hand corner and not the whole right hand side of the screen. pretty annoying as default i would say.

If you right click on the desktop and select "virtual desktop settings" you can increase the resistance at the edge of the screen - so the flip doesn't happen so readily. I think the default is way too low, but I never flip accidentaly after increasing the resistance.

[kittcankitt]

Um dumb question but how can I set this up so there is a seperate entry to log into gnome and E-gnome. I still want to be able to log into regular gnome. That will allow me to play around with E-16 for a while and still have gnome if I need to lol. Figure I have to make a entry with enlightenment set up with gnome. Man 10 pages already maybe you can edit the fist post with all the goodies?

I also would like to figure this one out. I tried a few things with NO positive outcomes. I have everything up and running again but if anyone has any suggestions on this it would be appreciated if you could throw out a few pointers. Thanks! Kck

[NMUrugbysteve]

Anyone want to tell me how to change the background in E16?

[varunus]

Anyone want to tell me how to change the background in E16?

Open up a terminal or nautilus, and change to the directory ~/.enlightenment (use CTRL-L in nautilus, just cd in a terminal). Put any wallpapers you want in that folder and restart enlightenment (middle-click, user menus, restart enlightenment); they'll show up in the desktop background settings now. I actually did something else; I already had a folder called Wallpaper in my home folder that I put all my wallpaper into, so I did the following:

cd ~/.enlightenment/
rmdir backgrounds
ln -s ~/Wallpaper backgrounds

Also, in E16.7, there's a nice new feature; instead of having to use the desktop background settings thing in E, the menu itself will show you thumbnails of all your wallpaper, and you can pick from there.

[poofyhairguy]

I gotta tell ya I tried this with both E17 and E16 and they both looked really bad and went really slow, I may have been doing something wrong though anyways I kinda like metacity so I guess I'll stick with it.

A: Its not for everyone.

B: the default themes do suck.

[spacemonkey]

Thanks for the great how to! Here's a screenshot if anyone is interested:

http://compy.gotdns.com/bfiser/e17.png

E17 with gnome, Ice Theme from the website mentioned in the howto, clearlooks-quicksilver gnome theme (they match perfectly). Xcompmgr isn't running because of the screen distortion thing I mentioned in one of my earlier posts. I'm using several modules from emodules.

Also, if anyone knows where I can find an enlightenment module that is an RSS reader, that would be excellent.

Thanks again for the great howto.