Enlightenment on *ubuntu

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All of a sudden, Enlightenment seems very stable :slight_smile: I downloaded Elive 0.5 last night and gave it a spin and it didn’t crash once. Likewise, Enlightenment on Ubuntu is a much nicer affair then it was even a few months ago.

Enlightenment is a desktop environment like KDE and GNOME. But Enlightenment is more about art and eye-candy, rather then functionality. Believe me when I say that no screenshots do Enlightenment justice! The only way to witness the beautifal eye-candy is to install it.

If you want to install it in *ubuntu, do the following:

Add the following repository to your sources.list file:

deb http://edevelop.org/ubuntu dapper e17

Import the key by typing:

wget http://lut1n.ifrance.com/repo_key.asc
sudo apt-key add repo_key.asc

Then:

sudo aptitude update

Then:

sudo aptitude install e17

If you want to uninstall Enlightenment, type:

sudo aptitude remove e17
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I cant say i was overly impressed by the defualt install…

what am i missing mega?

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The default theme wasn’t to my taste but there are others out there and more will come as it reaches 0.17 release.

An important thing to note about enightenment is it does not use hardware acceleration, purely software. You would think this is a bad thing but in fact e17 is the FASTEST window manager ever built and without the aid of a high-end gfx card. You can run this on a system with an integrated video card and it will fly. :smiley:

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Impy, if you want to use e17 to it’s full extent, you should download Elive 0.5

The ubuntu repo version of e17 needs some tweaking before it’s perfect.

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Too bad. It works great without any modification on freeBSD although its better to build from source.