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Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and basic "Desktop
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Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and basic "Desktop
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Shell". It replaces your environment that runs your day to day GUI
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Shell". It replaces your GUI environment that runs your day to day
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Desktop. It includes a built-in file manager, Launcher, Shelves,
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graphical Desktop. It includes a built-in File Manager, Application
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Settings dialogs, Menus, Audo Mixer controls and much much more.
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Launcher, Shelves, Settings Dialogs, Menus, Audio Mixer Controls, Network
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Control front-end (for Connman), Battery Monitoring, CPU Frequency
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Controls, Screen Blanking and Backlight controls, Screenshotting and
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editing, Clock and Calendar, Temperature Guages, Mpris2 Music Controls,
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Packagekit Update Front-end, Bluetooth controls for BlueZ 5, Screen
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resolution and layout controls and much much more.
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It is primarly developed for X11, but does have an experimental
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Enlightenment is one of the lowest resource environments around
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Wayland mode
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relative to its featureset.
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Enlightenment is primarly developed for X11, but does have an
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experimental Wayland mode that will have issues, so only try it if
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you are adventurous or willing to work on it.
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For more information please see
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[Enlightenment's About Page](https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enlightenment).
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![Screenshot 2](/data/readme/screenshot2.png)
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![Screenshot 2](/data/readme/screenshot2.png)
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![Screenshot 3](/data/readme/screenshot3.png)
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![Screenshot 3](/data/readme/screenshot3.png)
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```
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**NOTE:** Once Enlightenment is started by `enlightenment_start`, all
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output logs are put in `~/.e-log.log`. The previous log for the
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previous execution of Enlightenment will be moved to `~/.e-log.log.old`.
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**NOTE:** If you install enlightenment to the default compile prefix
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**NOTE:** If you install enlightenment to the default compile prefix
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(`/usr/local`) then you might want to ensure the session file is
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(`/usr/local`) then you might want to ensure the session file is
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accessible to your login manager (assuming you use one) by doing
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accessible to your login manager (assuming you use one) by doing
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exec /usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start >& ~/.xsession-errors
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exec /usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start >& ~/.xsession-errors
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```
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```
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You may also want your `~/.xsession` file ot be the same, so make a
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(`exec` tells the shell to replace itself with the following command
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link:
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and this ensures all output is logged to the ~/.xsession-errors).
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You may also want your `~/.xsession` file to be the same, so make a link:
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```sh
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```sh
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ln -s .xinitrc .xsession
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ln -s .xinitrc .xsession
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```
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This assumes `/usr/local` as well ans just modify based on your
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This assumes `/usr/local` as well and just modify based on your
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install prefix location.
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install prefix location.
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If you do not use a login manager you can just log into a text console
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If you do not use a login manager you can just log into a text console
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system integrators to match your policies and scripts/tools. This also
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system integrators to match your policies and scripts/tools. This also
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applies to `system.conf` in the same directory.
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applies to `system.conf` in the same directory.
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**NOTE:** To enable Wayland support (still considered experimental and not for
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**NOTE:** To enable Wayland support (still considered experimental and not for
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regular end users) use the meson -Dwl=true option. To run Enlightenment in
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regular end users) use the meson -Dwl=true option. To run Enlightenment in
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Eayland mode, just log on on any text VT and run enlightenment_start. If you
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Eayland mode, just log on on any text VT and run `enlightenment_start`. If you
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wish to debug and see all the output try using something like screen then
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wish to debug and see all the output try using something like screen then
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attaching to the remote screen session by sshing in etc.
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attaching to the remote screen session by sshing in etc.
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