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~~Title: About Enlightenment~~
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# Enlightenment #
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Enlightenment is the next generation of graphical desktop shell from the Enlightenment project. It resembles a traditional UNIX/X1 style desktop by design but has a range of add-ons, as well as a different core design philosophy.
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Enlightenment is the next generation of graphical desktop shell from the Enlightenment project. It resembles a traditional UNIX/X11 style desktop by design but has a range of add-ons, as well as a different core design philosophy.
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Enlightenment manages windows and files. It's a compositor and is also capable of launching applications, handling the user interface and even system settings.
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If Enlightenment is already available for your current OS, make sure the version you download is up to date. If not you can compile it yourself. To get started [download](/download) Enlightenment and the *Enlightenment Foundation Library (EFL)* components. You can find more details about software dependencies below.
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## Key features of E ##
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* Complete environment including centralized configuration of most settings.
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* Very low memory requirements (about one third of [Xfce](https://xfce.org/)).
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* Supports both X11 and Wayland display servers.
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* Supports both X11 and Wayland display servers (Wayland is considered experimental).
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* Uses 'Modules' : pluggable pieces of code that add various functionality to the window manager itself. Users may be able to interact with modules visually through 'gadgets', which can be run outside Enlightenment.
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* Configurable themes.
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* Compositing can be done quickly even on older machines without GPUs.
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* Support for multiple languages and operating systems.
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### Mixer controls with VU meters ###
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Enlightenment has a mixer module that can control Pluseaudio (or with more limited features pure ALSA) or Pipewire (if you use the pipewire-pulse compatibility support).
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It has a full mixer to let you control individual outputs, inputs and streams which will display VU meters per output or monitor/input stream to let you know what the audio levels are like.
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You will even find mixers appear in your titlebars if Enlightenment detects that that application has a matching pulseaudio output stream and you can then modify the volume of that application specifically via this in-titlebar volume slider directly.
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Mpris2 support to control your favorite media players is there too. It even have work-arounds for Spotify to fix bugs originating from the Spotify client not providing correct URLs to album art.
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A clock with a popup calendar to let you know what the time and date are now.
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Backlight controls for your laptop and even for your Desktop monitors (as long as you install ddcutil-libddcutil and your monitor support DDC controls). Just place a backlight gadget in the shelf on each monitor you have and that gadget will control the backlight on that monitor (allowing every screen to have a different level if you want).
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Packagekit support to allow for listing of package updates you are missing and installing them when you want to with a few clicks of a button. Packagekit is an abstraction around various packaging systems like apt, pacman, yum, dnf etc.
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Bluetooth controls (front-end for BlueZ 5). Pair devices, power your Bluetooth adatpers on and off, connect or disconnect paired devices and even set paired devices to be "lock devices" that when they stop being contactable make your screen auto-lock (and auto-unlock when they come in range again and start responding again). Set your phone or earbuds to do this and know when you walk away from your desk with these devices with you that your machine will lock automatically without waiting for a timeout and will unlock when you come back again.
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A start menu with everything you need from Enlightenment available from that menu or something that this menu can open. Click the Arrow icon in the Shelf or click anywhere on the desktop background to get this menu.
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Fingerprint unlock support directly if you have libfprint/fprintd running. Enlightenment's lock screen will display a fingerprint icon to let you know you can use your device to unlock. There is also a GUI setup tool included to configure your fingerprints.
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A palette selector and editor to select and edit simple color schemes of your own that will affect the theme you use. Create new palettes of your own and switch between them.
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A settings panel to launch all the settings dialogs you could want to access.
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Power controls to power off, reboot, suspend, hibernate or log out.
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Temperature sensors. Create as many as you like in your Shelves and configure each to monitor a different sensor device. Monitor both your CPU and your GPU easily this way.
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A pager to show all your virtual desktops, their backgrounds and contents in miniature so you know what is going on even if the windows are hidden on another desktop. Switch between desktops at a click, drag and drop windows between desktops or even drag and drop entire desktops around (middle mouse button drag and drop) to re-arrange everything.
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Status notifier protocol support to get icons and control menus for many modern applications like Steam, Zoom, Teams, Discord and more.
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Many loadable modules that extend the basic Window Manager (in fact almost all of the nice features in Enlightenment come from modules). There is even a Tiling Module for those that like auto-tiling of windows. You can write your own modules to extend Enlightenment too.
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## A Brief History of Enlightenment ##
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