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Enlightenment<br>
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version 0.16.0
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Topics:<br>
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_How_To_Use_Documentation(aboutdox)<br>
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_About_Enlightenment(about)<br>
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_Copyright(copyright)<br>
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_Credits(credits)<br>
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_Website(web)<br>
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_Email(email)<br>
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_User_Documentation(docindex)<br>
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_Frequently_Asked_Questions(faq)<br>
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_Interactive_Hints(INPUT.interactive.sh)<br>
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Welcome to the Enlightenment Documentation Viewer. Please select a topic from
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the list.
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This Documentation is intended to take you step by step through Enlightenment
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and its default setup, how to use it, modify settings, and put it to use for
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you. When you have finished reading each page please press the NEXT button on
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the top of this window to go to the next page, or use the Back button until you have reached the _Docs_Index(docindex)
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If you are reading this right now you have managed to get Enlightenment itself
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installed correctly and are either running Enlightenment for the first time or
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have just upgraded to a new version. Congratulations. Now it's time to take
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you on a quick tour of the desktop you will have before you.
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Please remember that if you use a theme other than the default (Brushed Metal)
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that is may look slightly or completely different to the contents of this
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User Documenation. Some behavior may also vary.
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To relaunch this Help Browser at any time, middle click on your
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_desktop(desktops) and select the "Help" Item. The documentation should come
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back up, reloading to the first page.
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You can also use the "Home" key to take you back to the introduction page at
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any time during the program.
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Enlightenment is your Window Manager. The Window Manager controls the
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appearance of the borders of your windows, their behavior and
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all user interaction with positioning, killing, resizing, moving, iconifying,
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shading etc. your windows, virtual desktops, multiple desktops, menus attached
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to windows and some root window menus and can also control the background
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of your desktop(s).
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It is a large and complex program and is by no means perfect, but it is being
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worked on and is as stable as possible. It has many advanced features as well
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as possibly missing some features. This version (0.16.0) is by no means the
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end of development and improvements, fixes and new exciting features are
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being worked on all the time. Please go and visit the _Web(web) site often,
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as new versions, fixes, patches and updates will be released.
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It is hoped you enjoy using this software and that it is of benefit to you.
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It might not be for everyone, but if it has made your day any better than it
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was it has done more than enough already.
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Copyright (C) 1997-1999 _The_Enlightenment_Development_Team(credits)
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
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deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
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rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
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sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
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IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
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CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Enlightenment has been written by:<br>
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<br>
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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)<br>
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Mandrake (Geoff Harrison)<br>
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Chutt (Isaac Richards)<br>
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Sung-Hyun Nam<br>
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Kimball Thurston<br>
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Michael Kellen<br>
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Frederic Devernay<br>
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Felix Bellaby<br>
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Michael Jennings (KainX)<br>
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Christian Kreibich<br>
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Peter Kjellerstedt<br>
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Troy Pesola<br>
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Owen Taylor<br>
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<br>
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And many others.
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A big thanks to several companies that helped support Enlightenment.
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<p>
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Red Hat Software (www.redhat.com) for allowing developers resources and time
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to work on Enlightenment.
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VA Linux Systems (www.valinux.com) for providing hardware, bandwidth, coke, and
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the patience to hire a couple of loony bin candidates to work on something we
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(and hopefully you) think is interesting.
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Xi Graphics (www.xig.com) for providing X servers to test out code on.
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Not only should these people be thanked, but the whole E community - those on
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the E mailing list, on #E on IRC on EFnet and all E users who have provided
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feedback and debugging information, bug-fixes, patches and support. A big
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thanks goes out to all of you who make a project like this possible.
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In addition people should be aware that E makes use of other projects - such
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as XFree86, Imlib, Esound, Freetype and many others, The people working on
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projects that provide infrastructure that E can use and build on should not
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be forgotten.
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For updated information on Enlightenment, development, bug-fixes, snapshots of
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development versions etc. please visit:
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http://www.enlightenment.org/
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You may want to visit this site often as it changes
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regularly with fixes and development releases -- also visiting the
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daily-snapshots section
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on the FTP site is a good idea (see the snapshots section on the website for
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more information).
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<p>
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There is an Official Enlightenment IRC channel where you can go and "hang out"
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if you want - talk to other E users, developers, get some help, drool
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together, or whatever. #E will kill me for this but get onto any EFnet irc
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server (irc.efnet.org) then join #E. An example:
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BitchX your_nick irc.efnet.org<br>
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or<br>
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irc your_nick irc.efnet.org<br>
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or use your favorite graphical IRC client.
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Please remember that it can get busy with 100's of people talking at once and
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not everyone is actually listening all the time or are in the middle of a
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conversation - be polite and patient, and have a sense of humor and you'll
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have fun.
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CVS Commit List Mail
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To receive CVS Commit mails, please go to the
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CVS Commits List mail page:
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http://www.enlightenment.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-commits-list
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This mailing list does not accept user-submissions, it is purely automatically
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generated email that is sent out whenever the enlightenment CVS server
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receives a commit. Sometimes it can generate a lot of email, sometimes it
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doesn't.
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Developer Mailing List
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If you would like to receive mail from the developer mailing list, please go
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to the E-develop Mailing List mail page:
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http://enlightenment.org/mailman/listinfo/e-develop.
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This mailing list is for discussing Enlightenment, it's development, bugs,
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feature requests, etc. It is not a general chatter list. The developers do
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read this mailing list and will often comment on subjects of relevancy.
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Documentation Index
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_Basic_Intro(tut2)
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_Using_Menus(tut3)
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_Mouse_Bindings(tut5)
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_Mouse_Configuration(mouseconfig)
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_Using_The_Window_Border(tut7)
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_The_Pager(pager)
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_Frequently_Asked_Questions(faq)
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Now that you have started Enlightenment, if you are using it for your desktop
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shell, your screen should look something like the image here on the left.
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up and down on the left and right ends. This is your desktop
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_Dragbar(dragbar) .
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On the bottom-left you'll see 3 boxes. The top box with the scrollbar attached
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will be your _Iconbox(iconbox) .
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else is your desktop background.
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Using Menus
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When you click with your left mouse button on the desktop _background(backgrounds) you will
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see an "Applications" menu appear (example displayed on the right here).
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Applications you may have installed will appear in this menu. To launch one
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of them simply select it from the menu.
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<p>
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Note: Menus in Enlightenment work like most menu systems. You can either hold
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down the mouse button and navigate with the button down, releasing on the
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selection you want, or release elsewhere to not select anything, or you can
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quickly click and release, then navigate just move the mouse, and click
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again on the item you wish to select, or elsewhere if you do not wish to
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select an entry.
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<p>
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If you wish to "stick" a menu up and leave it up so you can select items from
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it multiple times, click and hold down the mouse and release on the title of
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the menu (if it has a title) and it will remain up. You can move it and
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manipulate it like a normal window. Close the window to unstick the menu.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut4 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_settings_menu.png x=285 y=275>
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<img src=E_enlightenment_menu.png x=4 y=30>
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<p>
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You will also find that instead of using the left mouse button, you click the
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right mouse button, a menu with the title "Settings" will appear. This is
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Enlightenment's _settings_menu(settings) . From it you can select what parts
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of your desktop that Enlightenment controls to customize and make more
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amenable to your own needs.
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<p>
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When you select one of these _settings(settings) a dialog window will appear
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giving you options to configure that part of Enlightenment.
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<p>
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Clicking the middle button on the desktop _background(backgrounds) will display
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Enlightenment's main menu. You can access the other menus plus more options
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(including those to log out, restart and display Help information) from this
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menu.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut5 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Mouse Bindings
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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Of course, when you click on the _desktop(desktops) _backgound(backgrounds) of
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your screen, normally you will bring up a _menu(tut3). And of course, when you
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click on the _border(tut7) of a window, you will do various things. But these
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are not the only things you can do with your mouse.
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<p>
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In enlightenment, there are several other actions that the mouse can do by
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default. For example, by holding down the ALT key when you click the left
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mouse button anywhere in a window, you will find that you can move the window
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around the screen, just as if you had used the titlebar. You can also ALT
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middle-click in a window to resize it, or use ALT and right-click to bring up
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the _Window_Operations_Menu(windowops) .
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<p>
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You will find that holding down the ALT key whilst clicking the middle
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mouse button on the background of your desktop will bring up a menu with
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the titles of all currently active
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application windows. Selecting one of these will take you to that application.
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By using the CTRL key instead of ALT you will get a menu displaying all
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current desktops as sub-menus, with applications on each desktop in the
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desktop sub-menu.
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<p>
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=mouseconfig background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Mouse Configuration
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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<br>
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<br>
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Enlightenment makes extensive use of the mouse, being a graphical application.
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However, there may be some features that you may be missing because of the way
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that your mouse is configured on your X server.
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<p>
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If your mouse does not have a middle button you should have enabled
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"Emulate 3 Buttons" in your X-Server - in which case pressing both left and
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right mouse buttons at once will be the equivalent of pressing a middle
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mouse button. If this does not work this may not be turned on. Please see
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your X Server documentation to configure this.
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<p>
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This may vary from system to system. OS and XServer may also vary the method
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in which you do this, if it is possible. Not having a middle mouse button in
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Enlightenment, or for that matter X is not a good thing as it is almost
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assumed to be there, and is used by many applications, as well as by E.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut6 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_mousewheel.png x=370 y=30>
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<img src=E_mouse.png x=410 y=330>
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<p>
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If you have a Wheel-Mouse and X is configured to understand this Enlightenment
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comes equipped with wheel support out of the box.
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<p>
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Rolling your wheel up on the desktop background will take you back a
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_desktop(desktops) or by rolling your wheel downward, you will advance
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forward a desktop.
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<p>
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If this doesn't work, then it may be you haven't configured your XServer to
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understand a mouse with a wheel. If you use XFree86 you may need to edit your
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XF86Config to have a "Pointer" Section like:
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ccaacc>
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<p>
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Section "Pointer"<br>
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Protocol "MousemanPlusPS/2"<br>
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Device "/dev/mouse"<br>
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ZAxisMapping 4 5<br>
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Buttons 5<br>
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EndSection
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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You may need to modify this for your mouse.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut7 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Using the Window Border
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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When you start an application, unless it has special properties, it will come
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up on your screen with a border surrounding it that contains a titlebar and
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several control buttons.
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This border is the primary interface to controlling an application window.
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The Default setup (shown on the next page) gives adequate control but still
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retains simplicity.
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<p>
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If you click left mouse button on the titlebar and keep the mouse button down
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the window will follow your mouse wherever it moves. Respectively if you click
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your left mouse button and drag on any of the resize handles, the window will
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be resized in that direction. Clicking right mouse button on the resize
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handles will raise the windows to the top.
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<p>
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Clicking right mouse button on the titlebar or any button on the window
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operations menu button on the top-left will display a menu that has window
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manipulation options in it.
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<p>
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Double-Clicking (clicking the mouse twice in succession really fast) will
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make the Window shade or unshade (depending if it was unshaded or shaded to
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start with).
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut8 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_window_diagram.png x=16 y=48>
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<p>
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut9 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Clicking left mouse button on the iconify button will iconify the window
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and send it off to the _Iconbox(iconbox). Hitting the Maximize button will
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maximize the
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size of the application fill your screen. Hitting it again will Unmaximize,
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bringing the window back to its normal size.
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<p>
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Clicking with the left mouse button on the close button will close the window.
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If the application that owns that window does not respond to a nice request to
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exit, then pressing right mouse button on the close button to forcibly
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terminate that window. This should not be used unless the application is
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visibly "hung".
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<p>
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In addition to these methods of manipulation a window there are additional
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ways of performing these.
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<p>
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If you hold down the ALT key and hold down left mouse button anywhere in the
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window (on the border OR in the application part) whilst dragging, you will
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move this window around. Doing the same but with the middle mouse button will
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resize the window in that direction. Clicking the right mouse button anywhere
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in the window whilst holding down the ALT key will bring up the window
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operations menu.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut10 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_keyboard.png x=312 y=0>
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<p>
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Default Keybindings
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Below are the keybindings for E as it comes "from the factory"
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#112222>
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<p>
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CTRL+ALT+Home - Re-shuffle windows on screen to be Clean
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Del - Exit Enlightenment and Log Out
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+End - Restart Enlightenment
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Up-Arrow - Raise window to top
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Down-Arrow - Lower window to the bottom
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Left-Arrow - Go to the previous desktop
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Right-Arrow - Go to the next desktop
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+X - Close the currently focused window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+K - Kill the currently focused window nastily
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+R - Shade/Unshade the currently focused window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+I - Iconify the currently focused window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Tab - Switch focus to the next window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+R - Shade/Unshade the currently focused window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+S - Stick/Unstick the currently focused window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+Enter - Zoom/Unzoom the currently focused window
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<br>
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CTRL+ALT+(F1 - F12) - Go directly to desktops 0 - 11
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<br>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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(more on next page ...)
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tut11 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#112222>
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<p>
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SHIFT+ALT+Left-Arrow - Move to the virtual desktop on the left if there is one
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<br>
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SHIFT+ALT+Right-Arrow - Move to the virtual desktop on the right if there is
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one
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<br>
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SHIFT+ALT+Up-Arrow - Move to the virtual desktop above if there is one
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<br>
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SHIFT+ALT+Down-Arrow - Move to the virtual desktop below if there is one
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Note: Zooming in and out of windows will only work if you have an XFree86
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server or one that implements the Xf86VidMode extension. You also need
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to define lots of screen modes for your display, so ensure your "Display"
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subsection of your XF86Config looks like:
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ccaacc>
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<p>
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SubSection "Display"<br>
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Depth 16<br>
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Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" "512x384" "400x300" "320x240"<br>
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EndSubSection
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Have a "Display" subsection per depth (this example is for 16 bit) and all
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the resolutions defined as above.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=desktops background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_deskstack.png x=360 y=70>
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<p>
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Multiple & Virtual Desktops
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Enlightenment supports both Multiple and Virtual desktops. There is a fine but
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distinct difference between the 2, and enlightenment treats them differently.
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<p>
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When you start Enlightenment you will by default have 2 desktops. In
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Enlightenment desktops are geometrically unrelated work areas. They are
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visually stacked on top of each other and can even be dragged down to expose
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desktops underneath.
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<p>
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The best way to imagine this is that each desktop is a sheet of paper with the
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first (desktop 0) desktop being glued in-place. You can re-shuffle the stack
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of papers and slide one down to reveal a piece of paper underneath - the only
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paper you can't slide is the first one. Each desktop (or sheet) contains your
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application windows.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=desktops2 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<img src=E_deskarray.png x=350 y=140>
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<p>
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Windows normally live on one desktop, but can be made
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to exist on all desktops - whenever you change to a new desktop the window
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will follow you and be on that desktop too. This is known as being sticky.
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if a window is sticky it will "stick to the glass of your screen" and stay
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there until it is not sticky anymore or the window is closed.
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Virtual desktops (also known as desktop areas) is a measure of how big your
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desktops are. A desktop can be a multiple of your screen size in size (2x1,
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2x2, 3x3, 4x2 etc.). That means each desktop has an AxB screen size of area
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allocated to it and you can be looking at any screen-sized part of it at any
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time. It's just like getting more sheets of paper and taping them to the sides
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of your current sheet of paper. An easy way of changing your view is by just
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sliding your mouse in the direction of a currently unviewable part of your
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desktop and as long as you have Edge Flip enabled Enlightenment will
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automatically scroll over to that part of the desktop.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=desktops3 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_virtual_desk_settings.png x=335 y=51>
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<img src=E_area_settings.png x=30 y=190>
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<p>
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To change the number of virtual desktops that you have, use the "Multiple
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Desktop Settings" dialog from the right mouse _settings_menu(settings) . You
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should see a menu that looks something like the menu to the right. You can use
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the slider bar to quickly select the appropriate number of virtual desktops you
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would like to use.
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<p>
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<br>
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<br>
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<br>
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To change the number of virtual areas, use the "Virtual Desktop Settings"
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menu. This will bring up a menu that looks something like the one on the left.
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Use the slider bars to extend the size of the virtual areas to the size that
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you best prefer. You can also use this dialog to enable/disable edge
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resistance (when your _mouse(tut5) hits the edge of an area) moving between
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virtual areas.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=desktops4 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_deskimg.png x=275 y=81>
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<p>
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Enlightenment also allows you to set a different desktop backdrop per desktop
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to help you customize your environment and differentiate which desktop is
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which.
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<p>
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An easy way of having Enlightenment automatically pick up any pictures you have
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is to make a directory in your ~/.enlightenment directory called
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backgrounds and then fill that with your favorite backdrops. Enlightenment
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will automatically discover this and index them for you allowing you to
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select them and change their settings. More on this topic is explained in the
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_Desktop_Backgrounds(backgrounds) section.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=changedesk background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Changing Desktops
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<p>
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There are seveal ways that you can change your current desktop - let's go over
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a few of them here.
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<p>
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You can use the _Keybindings(tut10) alt-F1 through alt-F12 for the first 12
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desktops.<br>
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You can use the _Keybindings(tut10) ctrl-alt-left and ctrl-alt-right to
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navigate to the next/previous desktop.<br>
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You can use the _Keybindings(tut11) shift-alt-directional arrow to change
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virtual areas in a given direction.<br>
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You can use the _Pager(pager) to quickly navigate to the desktop/area you want
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by clicking on the desired area.<br>
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You can use the _Dragbar(dragbar) to quickly navigate to a particular
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application or a particular desktop by using the middle and right mouse
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buttons<br>.
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You can also use external applications such as the GNOME panel's pager or the
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KDE panel's pager to navigate desktops and/or applications. You will need to
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enable _Desktop_Support(deskenv) for these to work.<br>
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=dragbar background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_dragbar.png x=10 y=345>
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<img src=E_dragging_desktops.png x=315 y=20>
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<p>
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The Dragbar
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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If you look along the top of your screen, you will notice a long thin bar that
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looks something like the bar pictured below. This is called your Dragbar. It
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gets its name from its primary purpose, which is dragging desktops around.
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<br>
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If
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you are on any desktop except desktop 0, you can pick up and move that desktop
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in another direction. _Desktops(desktops) documentation has more information
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on how to change desktops. Once you have dragged a desktop down, you can
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proceed to move windows between desktops this way, instead of using the
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_pager(pager) .
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<p>
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You can also use the Dragbar to retreive windowlists. Use the middle mouse
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button to retreive a windowlist, and the right mouse button for a
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windowlist sorted by desktops.
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1999-08-17 15:56:46 -07:00
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=pager background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_pager.png x=320 y=70>
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<p>
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The Pager
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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The Pager (as seen to our right) to those of you new to the concept of
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virtual and multiple desktops
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may be a foreign concept, but once gotten used to is highly useful in being
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able to manage your application over multiple screens that you might not
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necessarily be able to see.
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<p>
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The pager lets you see your desktop screen area in miniature. It lets you click
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on a certain desktop to "visit" it, click and drag windows around in the pager
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itself to move them about the screen quickly, or between _desktops(desktops) .
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In this example, we have two virtual areas. You can see the current area (the
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one with the windows in it) is also highlighted.
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<p>
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Dragging a window from
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one area of a pager to another will move it there, or to another desktop.
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Dragging it out onto the actual desktop will drop that window right there.
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You can also drag a window into the _Iconbox(iconbox) to iconify the window.
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<p>
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1999-09-04 09:21:00 -07:00
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=pager2 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_pager_settings_menu.png x=8 y=30>
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<img src=E_pager_settings.png x=208 y=180>
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<p>
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Pressing right-mouse button over a blank portion of the pager gets you the
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pager menu, allowing you to change settings. This will allow you to
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set a couple of quick options, as shown on the left. For more available
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options, you can select the "Pager Settings" item, and another dialog will pop
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up, that looks like the one below.
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<p>
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This dialog box will allow you to set all sorts of additional parameters, many
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of which can increase the performance of enlightenment on your system.
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Disabling high quality snapshots and/or snapshots in general as well as
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continuous updates can seriously improve performance - these features are
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intended for high end machines.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=pager3 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_pager.png x=320 y=220>
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<p>
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<br>
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<br>
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<br>
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<br>
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You can resize the pager to make it the size you'd like (hint - hint. hold down
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ALT and use the middle-mouse button to resize the pager in any direction. using
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left-mouse button whilst holding ALT and dragging will move the window. Holding
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down ALT whilst pressing right-mouse button, just like any normal window will
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get you a window operations menu).
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<p>
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In the default theme clicking the tab on the right side of the pager with the
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arrow pointing right will shade and unshade the pager window horizontally,
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allowing you to hide and unhide the window easily.
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<p>
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The striped area above this tab on the pager's border is a handle that will
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allow you to move the pager about, just like the titlebar of any window.
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1999-08-17 15:56:46 -07:00
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=iconbox background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_iconbox.png x=300 y=90>
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<p>
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The Iconbox
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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The iconbox is the place the icons for all your iconified windows go. It is
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one method of recovering _minimized(minimized) applications. Whenever
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you iconify or minimize a window it will go into an iconbox and have an icon
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displayed for it there. Clicking on the icon again will de-iconify it.
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<p>
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You can have as many icon boxes on your desktop as you want to. You can create
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more by using the Middle Click _Menu(tut3) - select Desktop->Create New Iconbox
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and a new Iconbox will pop up on your desktop. Each of these Iconboxes can
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have individual configurations, as detailed on the next page.
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<p>
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You can _move(movemode) the Iconbox around the screen using alt-leftclick
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on the window, and then moving it to the desired location on the screen. You
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can _resize(movemode) the Iconbox by alt-middleclicking on the window and
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then adjusting the size as described in the _Mouse_Bindings(tut5) section
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<p>
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=iconbox2 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_iconbox_menu.png x=300 y=20>
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<img src=E_iconbox_settings.png x=10 y=200>
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<p>
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Clicking the right-mouse button anywhere in the Iconbox will bring up a menu
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to configure that iconbox. This menu will look a little something like the one
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here to the right. This menu allows you to also close the Iconbox or open up
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an additional Iconbox.
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<p>
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To change the settings of an individual Iconbox, we'll use the right mouse
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button _menu(tut5) and select "This
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Iconbox Settings" - this should get us a dialog that looks something like the
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one to our left. You can change the orientation, icon size, scrollbar
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options, display policy, base image, and many more options of the Iconbox
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from this dialog. You may choose to change the anchor of
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alignment for resizes - play with it until it resizes appropriately for your
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Iconbox location.
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1999-09-29 23:42:02 -07:00
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=minimized background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=rothwell/25 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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Recovering Minimized Applications
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<p>
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There are several ways to recover an application once you have minimized it.
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The most obvious way is to use the _Iconbox(iconbox). Of course, you might
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have had some applications in your Iconbox when you accidentally closed it. Or
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maybe you minimized some applications and forgot you didn't have an Iconbox.
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Or maybe you don't like the Iconbox and usually use KDE or GNOME's panel to
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recover them and forgot to launch them. Never fear. You can always
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middle click on the _Dragbar(dragbar)
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and get a _menu(tut3) that will allow you
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to recover them. You can also alt or ctrl middleclick on the desktop to get
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the same menus. (in case you don't have a Dragbar anymore)
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<p>
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Remember, at any time you can always create a new _Iconbox(iconbox) to catch
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your applications as they minimize, if you want to re-enable it. Unfortunately
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you'll have to reconfigure it since each Iconbox can have its own
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_settings(settings)
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=properties background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<img src=E_remember_settings.png x=320 y=50>
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Remembering Application Properties
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In the _window_operations(windowops) menu of every window you will see an
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entry labeled
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"Remember...". If you select this it will bring up the "Remember" dialog for
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that window (note: only one of these dialogs can be active at any one time), as
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shown to our right.
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This dialog lets you selectively snapshot certain attributes of that window at
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that time and have Enlightenment remember them. you may chose to only remember
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some of the attributes, and possibly not have the application started
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automatically for you. Chose what you want Enlightenment to remember about that
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window and hit "Apply" or "OK" if you don't need the dialog anymore, and
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Enlightenment will, the next time that instance of the application is run,
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apply the current location, size, border style or any other attribute to
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that window. Enlightenment can also launch the application for you upon startup
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if you so wish.
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Settings
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When you click the right mouse button on the desktop background you will pop
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up the Settings menu. From here you can select an aspect of Enlightenment to
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configure to your liking. There are too many settings to actually document
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fully right now, but the likelihood is if you want a particular behavior from
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Enlightenment, it is achievable by merely playing with these options.
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Combinations of options are often required to get the effect you want, so some
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experimentation may be required. Do not be frightened. Nothing you can do
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can't be undone by simply changing the options back to how they were and
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clicking on Apply again.
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Window Groups
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Sometimes you have a number of windows on your desktop that logically go together,
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like for example the pager windows. Enlightenment allows you to group windows
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together, so that whenever you change a property of one window in a group,
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the change is reflected on the other group members. If you have a group whose
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members span multiple _desktops(desktops) , changing a property will show effect only on
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the current desktop.
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The properties that you can change for an entire group include setting the window
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border, iconifying, killing, moving, raising/lowering, sticking and shading of
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a window.
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To define what properties are applied to a group by default, you go to the
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_settings(settings) menu and pick the "Group Settings" option, which will give
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you a dialog window in which you can configure the settings.
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There are two different ways for manipulating window groups. First, there's a
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comprehensive submenu available in each window's operations menu
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called "Window Groups".
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Here you can also toggle an effect that is called "mirroring" of group properties:
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Enabling this will force all properties that can be in two different states (like
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shaded/unshaded, sticky/unsticky etc.) to be the same one for all group members.
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The second way is the window titlebar, which has the most important options
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directly available for convenience. These are shift-clicking for starting a group,
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ctrl-clicking for adding a window to the youngest group (also referred to as the
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"current" group) and shift-ctrl-clicking for destroying a group. You can also click
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the middle mouse button for visualizing the group(s) of a window. Click again for
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returning to the previous borders.
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<p>
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Note that a window can be in multiple groups at the same time, so for a number of
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these options you have to indicate which group you are referring to. You can do
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this by selecting the appropriate checkboxes (showing the group members' titles)
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at the top of the dialog windows.
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Selecting and Adding backgrounds
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Often you will want to change the background of a particular desktop. There
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are several ways you can do this. But of course, to change your desktop,
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you'll need to give enlightenment some graphics to play with. A theme may add
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a background or two to your selection, but most users tend to have lots of
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backgrounds that they like to use anyways. To add backgrounds to your
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selection, simply make a backgrounds directory under your home directory. To
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do this using most shells you can simply type
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mkdir ~/.enlightenment/backgrounds
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<p>
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once you've done this, you should restart enlightenment - this can be done
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quickly and easily by simply hitting the ctrl-alt-end key combination. When
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enlightenment starts up, it will rescan these directories, and add new files
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into the background selector.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=backgrounds2 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<img src=E_backgrounds_menu.png x=163 y=107>
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<p>
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<br>
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<br>
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Once you have added your backgrounds and restarted enlightenment, you should be
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able to go to the root menu desktop selector. To get to this menu, middle
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click on the desktop, select "Desktop",
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and go to Backgrounds. You should get something that looks similar to the
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image on the right. From here you will be able to navigate the backgrounds
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menus.
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<br>
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<br>
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<br>
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<br>
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(Click next for more information)
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=backgrounds3 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_backgrounds_menu_view.png x=3 y=84>
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<br>
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Once you have opened up the backgrounds menu, you should see something similar
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to the image below. From here, you can put your mouse over any of the images
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there, and it will change the desktop background of the current desktop to the
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image that you have selected.
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<p>
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<br>
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<br>
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Enlightenment will attempt to choose the best
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settings for a particular background, but if it gets it wrong you can always
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change the settings by hand. By bringing up the settings menu with the right
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mouse button and selecting the "Desktop Background Settings" item, you can
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bring up a dialog that looks something like the one on the next page . . .
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=backgrounds4 background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<font face=aircut3/12 color=#ffffff>
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<img src=E_backgrounds_settings.png x=0 y=0>
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<p>
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<br>
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<br>
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You can use this dialog to change your background also, as well as fine-tune
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all the various settings for each individual background available.
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1999-09-29 16:14:09 -07:00
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=tooltips background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<p>
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Tooltips
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<p>
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Tooltips are, like, cool.
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1999-09-29 23:42:02 -07:00
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=audio background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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Audio
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<p>
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Audio is, like, cool.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=fx background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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<p>
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Special FX
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Special effects are, like, cool.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=focus background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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Focus Settings
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Focus Settings are, like, cool.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=movemode background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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Moving and Resizing Windows
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Moving Windows is cool.
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=windowops background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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The Window Operations Menu
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=deskenv background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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Setting up E to work with KDE and GNOME
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=placement background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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Window Placement and Autoraise
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huhuhuhuh he said butter
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<page columns=1 padding=16 name=faq background=Edoc_bg.png linkcolor=#88dddd>
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Frequently Asked Questions
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