I recently installed Enlightenment DE and I'm loving the performance. I'm having a major theming problem with QT applications, specifically ones that are part of the Plasma DE. Konsole appears to be completely themed within the Enlightenment style, but nearly all other Plasma applications: Dolphin, KSysGuard, Settings, etc... All appear unthemed, regardless of what I set in the KDE System Settings. I've tried using Kvantum as well, but it does not appear to make any difference. How can I correct this? Ideally, I would like to make them match the Enlightenment theme if possible, but I would setting for my own theme choice.

I have a program which wants a GUI. It runs on Unices, Windows and OSX, so I need a cross-platform GUI; currently I'm using wxWidgets but it's not very satisfactory (each platform has a different set of bugs which need working around).

I see the EFL works on all three platforms. How usable would it be for this?

Immediate questions I can think of are:

• OSX menu bar. How?
• any weird dependencies, or can I just statically link all the libraries and have done with it?
• feature coverage on the three platforms? (e.g. clipboard, which I definitely need!)
• other?

I can't actually find any screenshots of an EFL app on anything other than Linux, which worries me a little...

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After installation of this de it worked slow and error appears 'Efreet did not update cache. Please check Efreet setup.' Please help with this.

Is it possible to use terminology without setting up an Xserver for a SSH session? I would like to use it for containers, but I keep getting errors like these:

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Hi everyone. I'm a Linux user for some time now and considering using E as my daily driver desktop. E is very feature rich while still being very lean on resources. Yet, I find some functionality missing (like the overview/mission control feature). Are there good sources which show how to write extensions, widgets, modules or whatever to extend base functionality? If I were to write such things, or even apps (maybe) on it, which languages does it support?

I know this question is (partially or not) is addressed on the website. But I find a bit hard time navigating on it, and documentation there seems to be rather scarce and kind of not up to date. Thus I came to ask a question here to get better feedback and answers.

if you can help, or better, have been developing for it for some time, your response will be very valuable.

Hello guys.

I'm a Linux user for quite a while and consider to use Enlightenment desktop as a daily driver. There are some questions that I have, since I want to make it my own (a pretty common thing here) instead of just using the defaults.

1. I did not find any practical theme for it, but from all the themes that I've seen, it seems to me that Enlightenment has a lot of potential to look really good and theming seems to be very extensible. Are there some good sources on how to write and use your own EFL theme?

2. As far as I remember, it uses Client Side Decorations (CSD's) by default. I don't want to get into another holy war about CSD vs SSD, since both seem to have its uses. But I wanted to know is there a way to tweak that and make it use SSD instead?

Any help appreciated.

Hi people,

I can't manage to make the Appimage Brave browser the default browser for EnlightenmentDE (with configuration menu).

Is this possible and how to do that ?

I'm using 0.25.4

vTT

Hello Everyone,

are there any music players, build with Enlightenment in mind or with the EFL libs? Could also be something no longer maintained.

Thanks in Advance!

Hello,

I try to make a shortcut for terminology but if I do that I get the error message "Check syntax. You should not put a whitespace right after colon in action paramns. ..".

I don't see why and if I try to make the key binding a command instead of an application I'll get "The application failed to start."

I am really confused by this. Can somebody please help me or give me a hint?

Thanks alot.

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I tend to use LxQt and XFCE desktops which work great on my Ubuntu setup, and from time to time I test my system using glmark2 to see if the kernel or desktop updates give me any gains.

I tested LxQt and it returned 7374 which is great for what I use, then I installed the latest Enlightenment from the repo's and tested again, it gave me 9842 which was a significant boost in performance.

Enlightenment 0.25-3 is an amazing desktop which has shrunk my overall memory usage from 350mb down to 285mb and given me some amazing graphical performance. 10/10 would recommend.

Hi guys I like enlightenment but I don't like the layouts chosen for the tiling mode. Is there a way to define custom layouts. Can I also assign tiling mode or floating mode for only certain workspaces.

Like 2 finger tap on the touchpad to right click?

This may sound strange but recently I did a glmark comparison on different desktop managers (XFCE, LXDE, Gnome, KDE, LxQt) and found that I gained the best speeds from LxQt for gaming.

Now I've been testing the latest Enlightenment in the ubuntu repo's and it kicked LxQt's ass in terms of optimization and my glmark score went from 7745 up to 9330 which is a huge jump, all by simply using enlightenment desktop.

I’m exploring Enlightenment wm. And I can see it has tons of potential. I wanted to know the easiest way to modify the theme.

I see that Eflete hasn’t been developed in a few years, but will it still work for E25?

Just out of curiosity, how large is the E team and what are your plans for the future? There isn't any specific feature that I'm looking for; I'm happy with E as is. I started using E recently and I'm just being curious.

Hi all I've been on Enlightenment with Arch Linux for a couple of days now and I can't find the recycle bin. I installed gvfs as written on arch wiki and I know that I can permanently delete deleted files by going to ~/.local/share/Trash but it wouldn't hurt to have a nice icon somewhere where right clicking on it brings up an option to empty said trash.

After using Enlightenment for almost a year, I'm finally taking the time to fine tune its L&F. One thing that is eluding me is how to change/disable the new window animations. I would really like to turn off the zooming in when opening a window and zooming out when closing.

The only other thing that I can't figure out how to change is how to turn off the butt ugly pulsing when hovering over an app icon in the IBar. ...it just seems so out of place, as nothing else behaves like that in the entire DE and would like to make it go away.

I'm an Arch user who recently switched to Enlightenment DE for experimentation and consideration as a daily driver. Here are some big questions I need to ask to go forward and decide:

1. Where to find good themes for it? I can dig the whole internet and not find any good theme. I tried Arc theme from AUR but it showed an error in build.And if I find, how to apply it? Is that process different from other DEs?
2. How to Customize it? Are there some extensions, menus or any other way to change the ui (aka add top bar, menu like slingshot or something like that?) Can I have an overview effect which Gnome and KDE have? If yes, how? If no why?
3. Is there a way to add users, or I need to do it using the terminal?

I found Enlightenment to be very lightweight and sleek, it has very high potential to become both beautiful, useful, lightweight and fast. But for that ricing is very needed which I'm struggling to do. It started feeling like this DE just needs more support.

Can you please help?

Which distro has the most enlightenment apps in its repos? Basically, I need a portable system, which I will be using across different computers in different places. It won't be my main os, so I need to spend the least amount of time on it as possible (incl. installing and maintaining it). So, smth like aur or git isn't an option for me, because I want to update the DE with the rest of the system with just 1 command. It's fine if some of the apps won't be available for me, I just want something more than only terminology (with the DE itself) being available in the repos (literally the situation in Arch and Void rn).

Hi All!

For Gnome / KDE one can install pipewire, and xdg-destkop-portal-xxx packages to enable screen-sharing via WebRTC on Wayland (at least for FF/Chrome). Is there something equivalent for Enlightenment?

I'm very interested in checking out Enlightenment, specifically on Wayland - but I couldn't find any information about this. Thanks!

Hi,

I'd like to use an edj wallpaper in awesomewm (I still love you, enlightenment, it's nothing personal) - is there a way to "run/execute" edj files?

On Gentoo and I've disabled all the relevant USE flags, but everytime I start E I get an error saying that I appear to be using an ACPI system, but it was unable to do anything with it.