Small Windowmanager Enlightenment DR 16-7
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I was all geared up to install it, but I think I too will wait until the finished all-in-one dotPup is available. I still can't wait, though...
I think we should put together a Puplet called PuppyEnlightened, which features the Enlightenment desktop. I agree with Lobster - this is what Puppy should look like.
I think we should put together a Puplet called PuppyEnlightened, which features the Enlightenment desktop. I agree with Lobster - this is what Puppy should look like.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast
you already can install now.
Now with the inbuilt menu it is quite easy to use.
And the dotpups all register to pupget,so you can remove them later easily (and delete /root/.enlightenment).
I added them all to the first message (except the last theme).
It would be good, to get a " feedback/todo -list", as some minor things are not ok.
For example the menu-editor seems not to be able to create new submenus. It can handle existiing ones, but just create no new ones.
If you open "files.menu", you see it adds "exec" instead of "menu".
So a small tool or patch might be needed to workaround that.
And some themes use fonts not available/usable in Puppy.
So default-fonts are used, which are too big for the epplets.
In the last creative-theme, I replaced all font-entries with Vera/6 to Vera/8.
Vera is the font of the default-theme "Winter".
So I symlinked the Creative-folder /ttfont to /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/winter/ttfonts
Like this that theme can use the Vera- truetype font.
This also will allow to keep the themes smaller, as I can remove nonworking fonts.
So a lot of small details.
modifiying themes
A theme works like this:
You put a themexyz.etheme in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/
This is just a .tar.gz that automatically extracts to /root/.enlightenment/themes when it is chosen first time.
Then you can modify those files.
If everything is corrected, you make a new .tar.gz from the files inside /root/.enlightenment/themes/themexyz/
Then you rename it to themexyz-new.etheme
Not every theme you can download at http://freshmeat.net follows these rules - several were built for older versions.
So I had to repackage them to get them working in 16-7.
Mark
Now with the inbuilt menu it is quite easy to use.
And the dotpups all register to pupget,so you can remove them later easily (and delete /root/.enlightenment).
I added them all to the first message (except the last theme).
It would be good, to get a " feedback/todo -list", as some minor things are not ok.
For example the menu-editor seems not to be able to create new submenus. It can handle existiing ones, but just create no new ones.
If you open "files.menu", you see it adds "exec" instead of "menu".
So a small tool or patch might be needed to workaround that.
And some themes use fonts not available/usable in Puppy.
So default-fonts are used, which are too big for the epplets.
In the last creative-theme, I replaced all font-entries with Vera/6 to Vera/8.
Vera is the font of the default-theme "Winter".
So I symlinked the Creative-folder /ttfont to /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/winter/ttfonts
Like this that theme can use the Vera- truetype font.
This also will allow to keep the themes smaller, as I can remove nonworking fonts.
So a lot of small details.
modifiying themes
A theme works like this:
You put a themexyz.etheme in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/
This is just a .tar.gz that automatically extracts to /root/.enlightenment/themes when it is chosen first time.
Then you can modify those files.
If everything is corrected, you make a new .tar.gz from the files inside /root/.enlightenment/themes/themexyz/
Then you rename it to themexyz-new.etheme
Not every theme you can download at http://freshmeat.net follows these rules - several were built for older versions.
So I had to repackage them to get them working in 16-7.
Mark
That is a nice wallpaper, Cygnus. I also like the simple row of icons at the bottom.
How resource intensive is Enlightenment compared to the small Window Managers like IceWM or JWM? How can you tell?
At what specs would this Window Manager become too slow?
How resource intensive is Enlightenment compared to the small Window Managers like IceWM or JWM? How can you tell?
At what specs would this Window Manager become too slow?
Visit the Puppy Linux Video Tutorials @ http://rhinoweb.us
Theme-mix of Azteker2000/Azteker, heavily overworked.
Big Screenshot: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... 000-mu.jpg
The launchbar on the left is part of the Theme, I "puppyfied" the entries.
Download (500 kb):
*removed*
Mark
Big Screenshot: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... 000-mu.jpg
The launchbar on the left is part of the Theme, I "puppyfied" the entries.
Download (500 kb):
*removed*
Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:39, edited 1 time in total.
fixed BlackE_nob -theme
Big Screenshot:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... nob-mu.jpg
Download (250 kb):
*removed*
Mark
Big Screenshot:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... nob-mu.jpg
Download (250 kb):
*removed*
Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:40, edited 1 time in total.
Aqua-Theme
Big Screenshot:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... qua-mu.jpg
Download (1.1 MB)
*removed*
This made some problems.
As the windows have no border, it just looks good, if you activate shadows for your Xserver.
But then you got a "corrupted" Top-bar with the original theme from freshmeat.net.
You could see, that the menu was made up of small grafics, each dropping shadows.
So I removed the menu from the Topbar.
But tobe able, to keep the round corners on the top-bar, I had to use 1 picture of fixed witdh - so this just looks good with a resolution of 1024 pixel width.
For other resolutions you must edit
/root/.enlightenment/themes/Aqua-mu/buttons/images/macos-logo.png in mtpaint or Gimp.
I also get some small artifacts with shadows enabled.
Mark
Big Screenshot:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... qua-mu.jpg
Download (1.1 MB)
*removed*
This made some problems.
As the windows have no border, it just looks good, if you activate shadows for your Xserver.
But then you got a "corrupted" Top-bar with the original theme from freshmeat.net.
You could see, that the menu was made up of small grafics, each dropping shadows.
So I removed the menu from the Topbar.
But tobe able, to keep the round corners on the top-bar, I had to use 1 picture of fixed witdh - so this just looks good with a resolution of 1024 pixel width.
For other resolutions you must edit
/root/.enlightenment/themes/Aqua-mu/buttons/images/macos-logo.png in mtpaint or Gimp.
I also get some small artifacts with shadows enabled.
Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:41, edited 1 time in total.
I updated these 3 themes.
*removed*
Aqua-mu.pup
azteker2000-mu.pup
darkone-mu.pup
Changes to all:
fixed Display-errors when shadows are activated.
New in Azteker:
A "Puppy-Button".
It can display the tasklist, the main-menu, or toggle the visibility of the launchbar.
I also changed the menufont, as though the old one looked cool, it was difficult to read.
Mark
*removed*
Aqua-mu.pup
azteker2000-mu.pup
darkone-mu.pup
Changes to all:
fixed Display-errors when shadows are activated.
New in Azteker:
A "Puppy-Button".
It can display the tasklist, the main-menu, or toggle the visibility of the launchbar.
I also changed the menufont, as though the old one looked cool, it was difficult to read.
Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:42, edited 1 time in total.
yes it didn't help...
i am starting over by uninstalling the old packages and installing the updated ones also..
lets see how it goes
the most bothersome stuff is that i've to reinstall also puppy menu that went blank after deleting .enlightenment and didn't show up anymore even with menu regeneration..
i am starting over by uninstalling the old packages and installing the updated ones also..
lets see how it goes
the most bothersome stuff is that i've to reinstall also puppy menu that went blank after deleting .enlightenment and didn't show up anymore even with menu regeneration..
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How do you change the font size in the different themes? The menu fonts seem small and hard to read for these old eyes.
I am currently running the shade theme and it seems the mods are endless with enlightenment!
Great....more hours trying to figure out another toy
http://www.trapster.com/enlighten.jpg
I am currently running the shade theme and it seems the mods are endless with enlightenment!
Great....more hours trying to figure out another toy
http://www.trapster.com/enlighten.jpg
trapster
Maine, USA
Asus eeepc 1005HA PU1X-BK
Frugal install: Slacko
Currently using full install: DebianDog
Maine, USA
Asus eeepc 1005HA PU1X-BK
Frugal install: Slacko
Currently using full install: DebianDog