For many days I wanted to try Enlightenment after reading and seeing many screenshots about it. Yesterday in the LUG meeting I saw it live and was impressed by E. Enlightenment is an open source window manager for X Window system which can be used alone or in conjunction with GNOME or KDE. It has extensive theming support and advanced graphics without sacrificing system performance. This window manager is fully configurable making it the best one out there
The latest stable version is 0.16.8.5 but the development release 0.17 also called DR17 is pretty usable and nice. I have installed DR17 on my Edgy. Here are the steps.
First you have to add a few repositories to your sources.list.
In terminal type sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following repositories to the file
## E17 repository "edevelop.org"
deb http://edevelop.org/pkg-e/ubuntu edgy e17
deb-src http://edevelop.org/pkg-e/ubuntu edgy e17
You can replace edgy with dapper if you are using Ubuntu 6.06.
Then type the following lines to download the gpg keys and to add it
wget http://lut1n.ifrance.com/repo_key.asc
sudo apt-key add repo_key.asc
After the repositories are added, do a sudo apt-get update to update the packages list.
Then finally install e17 by issuing this command. sudo apt-get install e17
You have successfully installed e17 and can now logout of GNOME and again login by changing the session as Enlightenment.
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Excellent instructions, this has save me hours of frustration. Thanks
Is E17 stable enough for everyday use, will i be putting work at risk while using it?
This worked great both on my notebook running Dapper and on my tower running edgy. Thanks for the fantastic step-by-step guide.
It is stable for normal work that I do.
But currently I am using Beryl. Gotta write a post on installing beryl on edgy.
Unfortunately, http://lut1n.ifrance.com/ is now “Under Construction,” so I’m not able to get a couple of components for E17 and being a total newbie, I’m up the proverbial creek. If you can update this, it would be wonderful. Thanks for your efforts in any case.
@Jozsef
You just need the GPG keys from that server. I think just doing a
wget http://lut1n.ifrance.com/repo_key.asc and then
sudo apt-key add repo_key.asc will work.
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