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spockstar
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 Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject: enlightenment installed ,help with the eye candy |
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i have completed a stage 1 install on my laptop ,i have enlightenment installed and running ,configured usb mouse and sound etc so now its time to spice up enlightenment with some eye candy.i iread about gdesklets and i like the look of them i tried to emerge gdesklets but with no luck , if i install a different theme for enlightenment what will this change from the base theme after install ? thanks for any help
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apeitheo
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject: Re: enlightenment installed ,help with the eye candy |
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| spockstar wrote: | | i have completed a stage 1 install on my laptop ,i have enlightenment installed and running ,configured usb mouse and sound etc so now its time to spice up enlightenment with some eye candy.i iread about gdesklets and i like the look of them i tried to emerge gdesklets but with no luck , if i install a different theme for enlightenment what will this change from the base theme after install ? thanks for any help |
Installing a new theme will change the borders around all the Windows, and perhaps give you more options to choose from in the 'Desktop Background Settings" dialog. If you want theme transparency, as shown here, http://nightgrave.computed.net/view.php?screen=desk2.jpg You need the latest masked verion of Enlightenment:
(First make sure you have the latest version of portage) then add
| Code: | | x11-wm/enlightenment ~x86 |
(change ~x86 to your arch, if it's different)
and then do:
| Code: | | # emerge enlightenment |
The latest version is current Enlightenment-0.16.7-PRE4 which is what I'm running in that screenshot. That'll give you transparency, which you can turn on/off in the "Desktop Background Settings" dialog at the bottom.
Currently I am running FVWM (Which is another WM, Enlightenment was based on this) here is a screenshot of that, http://nightgrave.computed.net/view.php?screen=fvwm02.png it gets me about 30 more fps in glxgears when I'm in it, haha, not that big of a deal. Although for a laptop it might be better. It's quite hard to set up though, the config file I have right now for it, is over 850 lines.
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spockstar
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thanks for your help.so where would i add this(x11-wm/enlightenment ~x86) to my make.conf file.does the ~86 allow me to install masked ebuilds or just the latest version of the software.i ask as i cannot install gdesklets to get my desktop looking respectable.
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| spockstar wrote: | | thanks for your help.so where would i add this(x11-wm/enlightenment ~x86) to my make.conf file.does the ~86 allow me to install masked ebuilds or just the latest version of the software.i ask as i cannot install gdesklets to get my desktop looking respectable. |
You add
| Code: | | x11-wm/enlightenment ~x86 |
to the /etc/portage/package.keywords file (Something to do with portage, they no longer want people to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" when emerging something, what this will do, is enable you to type:
| Code: | | # emerge enlightenment |
and have it emerge the masked version.
As for your gdesklets question, I do not know since I have not used it. Good luck [/code] |
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