[NBLUG/talk] Mepis mini-mini review

Robert Hayes rhayes at silcom.com
Mon Mar 21 21:50:45 PST 2005


Um, maybe I'm misunderstanding what you need.
I have run kicker in the past under enlightenment.
Just open a console and run kicker. From there it behaves just as if it were 
running in KDE.


On Monday 21 March 2005 07:41 pm, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> > As for enlightenment, don't forget that it is lighter, and faster than
> > either KDE or Gnome. I've used it exclusively for about 18 months now on
> > a modern full horsepowered desktop. Once you've configured it for your
> > needs, going back to KDE or Gnome feels like having to crank start your
> > car for every trip.
>
> I've actually considered using Enlightenment as the WM for KDE or
> Gnome ... Anybody played with this? Supposedly Red Hat has used
> Enlightenment as the default WM under Gnome; if so, then it must work
> reasonably well.
>
> Enlightenment.org says that Enlightenment works under KDE except that
> some programs that should run inside the kicker spawn new (tiny)
> windows instead. I briefly tried E under KDE, and even that seemed to
> work (but at the time I wasn't really in the mood to experiment
> further).
>
> BTW, I'd give up KDE entirely, but I'm still running KSetiWatch. :-)
> I'm on dial-up, so I need to manually tell Seti at Home when to
> upload/download stuff, and having the Kicker icon is the only way I
> remember to do this often enough. Anybody know of a similar client
> that doesn't need KDE? (Yes, I know you can run KDE apps outside of
> KDE; I'm not in the mood to go there.) Heck, how about one for folding
> proteins (I forget the name of the organization) instead of tracking
> aliens? That seems like a better cause to me. :-)
>
> William
>
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