E16 is predecessor of the current E25 Enlightenment Window Manager, which is rather complete rewrite than incremental update of E16. Although most of the current development focus goes to E25, E16 is still under independent active development and some users prefer it to E25. In this sense E16 will keep its name while incrementing the versions from 1.0.0 unlike the mainstream Enlightenment manager, which is likely going to increment its E-suffix number. This page should summarize the links related to E16.
We provide original source code "tarballs" as the canonical release of what we make. It is left up to distributions and individuals to make specific packages to their operating system. See your distribution packages for details.
There is a large [[http://themes.effx.us/e16|collection of themes]] (see [[http://ps.ucw.cz/e16/e16-themes-gallery/|gallery]]), which can be used together with E16. You can find there also [[http://themes.effx.us/eterm|themes]] for oldschool Eterm.
Untar downloaded e16 tarballs (mainly you want e16 and themes) by ''tar zxf downloaded.file.tar.gz'' and then go into the directories created. Please see the README file in this directory for each project for additional information on dependencies, configuration, etc. Just remember that all our release tarballs come with configure set up so to compile you just need to do this in the source directory:
Note that combination of lightdm + .xsession + e16 is known to work on Debian systems, while using e.g. gdm3 + .xsession was observed to cause problems with launching e16.
Note that you can build and run E16 only with local user privileges -- just provide arguments to configure such as ''--prefix=/home/user/e'' or similar and run E16 from there. How to run it varies across different systems but often putting the path to binary into ~/.xinitrc will just work.
Our source code is developed collaboratively in a pretty typical open source manner. Our master branches in git are where all new development goes into as it happens, but the main [[https://git.enlightenment.org/e16/e16.git/|E16 branch]] is generally pretty stable.
All our git repositories are in section E16 listed on: