[NBLUG/talk] Re: Enlightenment

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Fri Jul 30 18:48:41 PDT 2004


re GKrellm:

And while you're at it, set the borders for 'borderless'.
Along with that tell have it remember it's location, and make it sticky. That 
way it will appear on all your desktops.

You are using the launch buttons in GKrellm to launch all your apps, aren't 
you?



On Friday 30 July 2004 02:22 pm, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:17:48PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> > > ~   If you're looking to run Enlightenment on SuSE,
> >
> > the > easy way to do
> >
> > > it is to have the Professional edition
> > > (Enlightenment is included in
> > > the distro),
> >
> > I have SuSE 9.0 Professional ... But I'm in the dorm
> > room at Berkeley with my laptop, and my SuSE CDs are
> > at home in Santa Rosa. :-P
> >
> > I'm not sure whether I'm ready to replace KDE with
> > Enlightenment on the desktop at home, but on this
> > laptop with 256Mb, I'd say it's a step up over WM. :-)
> > (Yes, KDE runs on it, but swaps a little more often
> > than I like once I start any serious multitasking.)
> > Minimizing windows in WM is a little clunky IMHO, and
> > having a list of open windows appear when I press
> > alt-tab is great. And, I just love making my windows'
> > title bars see-through. :-)
> >
> > I installed the OS X and lcars themes, and found them
> > awkward to use, but I'm keeping them handy for when I
> > run into Mac-heads or Trekkies, hehehe. (I'm now using
> > the "Blue Steel" theme.)
> >
> > Two issues that Google hasn't resolved for me:
> >
> > I want Gkrellm to start when I open Enlightenment. I
> > absolutely can't find a startup script to put it in.
> > I've been eyeing some of the tweaks to add session
> > management to Enlightenment (virtually the only
> > feature I miss from WM), though, and I may eventually
> > use that instead.
>
> Enlightenment has absolutely the best session management of any window
> manager, and it is the reason I continue to use it. Right click on the
> titlebar of your window (or in the case of gkrellm alt-rightclick somewhere
> in the window) and then select "Remember..." This will show you all the
> window memory settings you can choose. It's fine-grained so you can
> remember as much or as little about your window as you want, and it will
> remember next time it starts. One of the options is also to remember to
> start the application at next startup.




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