E17 is coming?? (Part 3)

H-Dragon · Guru Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 547

i get this

atrus123 · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 6:15 am Post subject:

I didn't have your problem with the weather module, but I will say that once I activated it, the thing drained significantly more resources than it should have. It just be my build, but it seems to me that the weather module needs much more work before it will become useful. Has anyone else had a similar problem with this?

J.
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nixnut · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject: E17 is coming?? (Part 3)

Continued from E17 is coming?? (Part 2).
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DarkWeaver · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 32

Wow, I'm the first post in the continuation! Yay.

Erm, yeah. Basically, I've just emerged e17, and ran into a bit of trouble with evidence (which was last in the emerge anyway). I've taken a look around, and I guess that all I can do is wait a while, as it seems that evidence is not on the new anon cvs. Basically, I was wondering if anyone could suggest something similar, ie. which filer do e17 people prefer. Preferably one which looks good with e17, and is fully functional. Yeah, I know my question is kinda ambiguous, but that's me, sorry.

Or, if anyone can provide me with the latest cvs version of evidence, that'd be even greater! I'm getting the 'unrecognised auth response' error from cvs, evidence is still on sourceforge.

Cheers, DarkWeaver.

Telexen · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 189

I'm having problems with edje...it looks like it's having trouble downloading the file from the server...anyone else have similar issues? I've been trying for around the last 24 hours

djpharoah · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:40 am Post subject:

thats the reason im laying of E17 as its still very much buggy and i believe its still beta.

when i tried it..to many things would not work..however what little would work..pure eye candy..
will give it a try when it gets released.

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jxn · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 327 Location: south dakota

@DarkWeaver:
the new e17 cvs mirror is only for the enlightenment project; evidence maintains a separate sourceforge project page and therefore a separate unmirrored repository. Just use the standard (in portage) evidence-9999 ebuild (masked with -*) to get evidence. it works fairly well for me, and would be my favorite file manager if it was slightly more stable and it rendered huge directories faster (which hopefully will be improved at some point). If you're looking for an alternative filemanager for e17, e is now (with current cvs) is including a very small/light/pretty/feature-deprived file manager in the window manager itself... compile everything brand new and you can access it by clicking on "files" in the root menu on the desktop; pretty neat. There is also a file manager called "entropy" available which uses the EFL, but it has proved the least stable and most awkward for me so far (though, it is the youngest and perhaps most ambitious of all three, I believe). Anyway, those are your options.

@djpharoah: yes, e17 is buggy (not "still in beta" -- it hasn't even hit beta yet!), but it's been pretty stable for me -- running as my default WM on 3 different machines since roughly last march (or whenever raster put the code in cvs)). There are features missing, quite a few bugs to squash, etc -- but all-in-all, it's very, very usable for my purposes and has been for some time. I've only ever had one WM crash so far, which is outstanding considering it's cvs... still, if you're not out to test/help-develop the software, there's probably not too much need for you to worry about the inconsistencies of cvs code.

@Telexen:
Have you tried the *new* cvs repository mirror? the sourceforge server sometimes has problems. It is possible to override the default mirror for the ebuilds... i think there are details on http://www.get-e.org, but I'll have to check. edit: no, it doesn't say anything about that, but all you have to do is type

Telexen · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 189

Sweet that worked great...thanks

I'm personally not out to do much testing with e17...I just saw it and thought it looked really good - I figured that if I could get it installed I'd try it out and decide if it was stable enough for me to just play around in...otherwise I can wait.

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krazykit · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 91

Well, I've been playing with e17 for a few months now, but I have yet to figure out how to make my media keys do stuff. I have them mapped with xmodmap, but I don't know how to make them run commands. Specifically, I want to make the play button do "mpc play" and so forth. Is there a way to do this?

DarkWeaver · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 32

To make my media keys work, I use xbindkeys, works fine for me. Alternatives include hotkeys and lineak. xbindkeys was the easiest to setup and get working imo, and it lets me use modifier keys along with my buttons, to add even more functions!

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dhasenan · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2005 Posts: 41 Location: NYS

And do you know how to make Alt+F4 do "close window"? It's the one thing I most miss from other WMs.
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ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

javisaman · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 64

How should we install the modules available in the http://www.get-e.org/Resources/Modules/index.html website?

Thanks

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Drysh · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:42 am Post subject:

I'm having a small bug in E-17... When I kill a application, the window stays, and I cannot close it. I know the program closed, the window is not draw anymore, but the decorations (borders) are still there, and no matter what, I can't make them go away. It's not fatal, but it's annoying.
Does anyone know what's causing this?

jxn · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 327 Location: south dakota

Telexen · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 189

I guess I'm not understanding this...From what I gather, Engage is a somewhat seperate app-launcher/dockbar/sys-tray module that I can load...so I use the command "enlightenment_remote --modules-load engage" ... but it gives me the following error:

Acoc · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is an option in enlightenment_remote to get e17 to switch focus to the window below, when the middle mouse button is clicked on the title bar. This used to work with the default theme, but a couple of months ago they changed it to shading up.

John
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Varean · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:26 am Post subject:

I am having some trouble installing the Evolume module. When I type in

jxn · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 327 Location: south dakota

@Varean
you have to be root when you do "make install"
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Varean · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:27 am Post subject:

Alright, i was able to install it, But I cant load the module with enlightenment_remote, its says that there is no such module when i type in

jxn · Guru Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 327 Location: south dakota

@Varean:

the manual method installs the module to a different path... so you'll need to include the full pathname to get the module to load. Try this: