1999-10-03 09:41:27 -07:00
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Welcome to the Enlightenment FAQ
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These docs should not be considered a replacement for the regular documentation
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included with Enlightenment. Read these docs first. Once you have gotten
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Enlightenment running (see INSTALL) you should middle-click on the desktop, and
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select the "Help" menu item. The Enlightenment Help Browser (dox) should
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appear.
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Q: I can't find my _Iconbox(iconbox) or change its settings.
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A: There are two possibilities here.
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1. You don't have an Iconbox on your desktop right now. Just middle-click and
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select Desktop/Create new iconbox
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2. Your Iconbox is transparent and borderless. Iconify a window and see if
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your icon appears. If so, rightclick on it to reconfigure your Iconbox.
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Q: Can't Seem To Find My Left Mouse Menu
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A: Your menu files may be destroyed. Try rerunning the program that initially
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generated them. First you'll want to remove the ~/.enlightenment/*.menu files.
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Rebuild them using the Maintenance menu.
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Q: All My Settings Are Mangled And I Can't Fix It
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A: Well, if things get really messed up, you can always remove all of
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enlightenment's automatically saved files. go into ~/.enlightenment, and
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remove the ...e_session* files, and then blow away the cached directory. If
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your theme is broken, remove the user_theme.cfg file, also. The
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next time you start enlightenment it should reset everything to the default.
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Q: I Upgraded My Theme, But The New One Isn't Being Used
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A: When you upgrade a theme that does not come with enlightenment, when you go
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into your ~/.enlightenment/themes directory, be sure to delete the unpacked
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directory version of your theme that should be sitting next to the theme, if it
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is there. Otherwise when Enlightenment attempts to start the new version it
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will use the old files, which causes this problem.
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Q: I set my window to borderless and can't set it back or move it.
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A: ALT + Right mouse button when pressed anywhere in the window will give you
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the window operations menu. ALT + Left mouse button will move the
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window and ALT + Middle mouse button will resize the window.
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Q: How can I move or resize the iconbox.
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A: As described above, ALT + Right mouse button will give you the
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window operations menu, ALT + Middle mouse button will resize the
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iconbox and ALT+left mouse button will move it.
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1999-10-22 15:45:43 -07:00
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Q: How do I set up Enlightenment to work with GNOME?
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A: By default, Enlightenment supports all of the GNOME hints. However, if you
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want to run GMC you may notice that clicking on the root window does not
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always have the desired effect (for dragging icons, GMC's root menus, etc).
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If you want to use GMC with enlightenment, there are a couple of options. You
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can use alt+leftmouse and alt+rightmouse to use the GMC root menus. Or, you
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can edit the keybindings.cfg file to remove the bindings for your left and
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right
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mousebuttons. There is a copy of keybindings.cfg that will do this for you
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that comes with enlightenment. in /path/to/enlightenment/configs/
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copy the keybindings.gmc.cfg into your ~/.enlightenment directory. When you
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restart, you will no longer have the left and right mousebuttons bound to
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enlightenment. To modify your system configuration, copy over the
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keybindings.cfg file in that directory. For your convenience, there is a
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keybindings.nogmc.cfg in case you want to reverse this change at a later date.
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NOTE: you may choose to use virtual areas instead of virtual desktops since
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GMC does not handle clicks anywhere on the root window on desktops other than
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0.
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If you want to start enlightenment from gnome-session, you should use the
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gnome control-panel to select the new enlightenment as your window manager.
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Warning: Enlightenment is slower when run from a session manager. You should
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opt to run enlightenment and have enlightenment be your session manager
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instead of running gnome-session. You can start "panel" and "gmc" by hand and
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have enlightenment relaunch them as the preferred launch method. To do this,
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once you have launched them by hand, alt-rightclick on them, select "Remember"
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and then choose "Restart Application on Login".
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Q: How do I set up Enlightenment to work with KDE?
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A: By default, Enlightenment does not support the KDE hints. You can turn them
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on easily through your settings menus, however. If you want to add support
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automatically upon launch (which can be disabled by the autosaved user
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configuration) then copy the control.kde.cfg to the ~/.enlightenment directory
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and rename it to control.cfg. If you are doing this after launching
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enlightenment for the first time, you will want to remove the line from your
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~/.enlightenment/...e_session.XXXXXX file that looks like: <br>
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1366 0
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simply remove that line and start up enlightenment again.
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If your "KDE Support" _settings(settings) panel still show KDE support
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turned on, then
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you can simply check the box there, and KDE support will remain on.
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You can launch kpanel and/or kfm from your .xsession or .xinitrc files and
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they will work correctly. If you want to edit the startkde script
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(system-wide configuration change) find the line that contains kwm and replace
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it with /path/to/enlightenment.
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1999-10-03 09:41:27 -07:00
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Q: These Docs Didn't Help, Where Can I Get More Help?
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A: Well, we obviously can't answer all of your questions just by predicting
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them, so I would try the website as well as looking at the
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mailing lists , especially the mail archives. Chances are that someone
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else has probably had the same problem that you have. And if all that still
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fails, you might try someone on the irc channel.
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Please see http://www.enlightenment.org for more details.
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