Installing e17

From Freespire

1 Installing Enlightenment DR 17
2 More Info

Installing Enlightenment DR 17

What is Enlightenment DR 17

Enlightenment DR 17 is a next-generation window manager for UNIX operating systems. It is known for its eye-candy desktop. It is currently in a pre-alpha stage.It is popularly known as e17.

[edit]

Update apt-get sources.list

/etc/apt/sources.list has the list of Repositories from where you can fetch and install applications in your Freespire OS.Edit this file and add the following line which is the Freespire's e17 Repository created by coolcheeze

         deb http://www.arcanelinux.org/~cheeze/freespire binary/

[edit]

Pin the Repository

Execute the following commands,

sudo touch /etc/apt/preferences
Edit the file /etc/apt/preferences and add these lines,

         Package: enlightenment
         Pin: origin www.arcanelinux.org
         Pin-Priority: 1001

[edit]

Install e17

Execute the following commands to install e17,

         sudo apt-get update
         sudo apt-get install enlightenment
         sudo apt-get install eutils

[edit]

Logging into e17

Execute the following command,

        echo 'exec enlightenment' > ~/.xinitrc

This would start e17 during startup and if you want KDE back, just move this file to xinitrc.bak. The command is,

        mv ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.bak

[edit]

Perform a quick test

Do Ctrl+Alt+F2. You would be prompt to login. Login with your default account and execute the following commands,

        sudo /etc/init.d/ldm stop
        startx

You would be taken to e17 desktop.

If you have sufficient memory, it is not necessary to stop ldm in order to start the e17 desktop. To start the desktop, use the Ctrl-Alt-Fn key combination, Ctrl-Alt-F1, for example. You will get a console. Login at the console and then give the command:

        startx -- :1
    (this assumes you have the ~/.xinitrc as shown in the above section)

To switch between the KDE and e17 desktops, use Ctrl-Alt-Fn:

  Ctrl-Alt-F7 will take you back to the KDE desktop.
  Ctrl-Alt-F8 will return you to the e17 desktop.

To generate the Freespire Menus,execute the command from konsole,

         e17genmenu

[edit]

Get Freespire Background

To get Freespire Background in your e17 desktop,open konsole, execute the following commands,

         wget http://www.arcanelinux.org/%7Echeeze/fos_background.edj
         mv fos_background.edj ~/.e/e/backgrounds

To change the background,

Do a left click --> configuration ---> wallpaper

[edit]

Install better Freespire Menu

Execute the following commands from konsole,

         wget http://www.arcanelinux.org/%7Echeeze/applications.tar.bz2
         tar -jxvf applications.tar.bz2 -C ~/.e/e
         chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` ~/.e/e/applications

Restart e17 by doing a left click in the desktop.

[edit]