Small Windowmanager Enlightenment DR 16-7
Puppy-Menu for e16:
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I updated the screenshots in thefirst message.
After installation, simply click it in ROX.
The first run takes some seconds, as it converts several icons.
Later you can run it again from the enlightenment-menu, for example after you installed a new Dotpup (Puppy - e16 - reload Puppy Menu).
Mark
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I updated the screenshots in thefirst message.
After installation, simply click it in ROX.
The first run takes some seconds, as it converts several icons.
Later you can run it again from the enlightenment-menu, for example after you installed a new Dotpup (Puppy - e16 - reload Puppy Menu).
Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:37, edited 1 time in total.
I just wanted to post a couple of screenshots so you can see how good Puppy can look if you want. I still really like jwm as the window manager since it simply works well. However, I know some people have complained that Puppy is "too plain looking" to catch on with the mainstream users and that it needs a snazzy wallpaper, but after you see Puppy with Enlightenment it is one of the best looking (and more importantly, running) OS's out there. I know that Enlightenment doesn't exactly fit Puppy's goals of being a simple, somewhat minimalist distro, but that is the great thing about it...you can customize 'til your heart's content.
Notice the wonderful transparency on the menus.
Notice the wonderful transparency on the menus.
Visit the Puppy Linux Video Tutorials @ http://rhinoweb.us
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I believe the current web-vernacular is "awesome"Rhino wrote:I just wanted to post a couple of screenshots so you can see how good Puppy can look if you want. I still really like jwm as the window manager since it simply works well.
I have to agree I use JWM (even though some questions recently as to its xvesa compatibility) quite happily
Of all the Wmangers I have tried in Puppy this Enlightenment seemed the one with the most tinkering potential
Maybe if we can simplify the dotpups needed into one script more people will try it . . .
This to me is Puppy at its best.
You follow Marks instructions. You create something really quite unique and you have fun with it. All the time you are aware that Puppy is fast and stable.
maybe we need to update our screenshots here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PedigreePuppyP2
and here:
http://puppylinux.org/user/photogallery.php
Rhino, that looks great!
How did you get the menu transparent?
Here is another theme, I had to modify it (replace fonts, add epplet-classes).
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Big screenshot: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... ive-mu.jpg
Mark
How did you get the menu transparent?
Here is another theme, I had to modify it (replace fonts, add epplet-classes).
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Big screenshot: http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... ive-mu.jpg
Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:38, edited 3 times in total.
To make the menus transparent just right click on the desktop...Desktop Background Settings.. and down at the bottom is the theme transparency settings. I have mine a 152. This tool also does a magnificent job of resizing images to perfectly fit the background in the Background image scaling and alignment.
If you right click on the desktop...Special Fx Settings, you can get some neat ripple and wave effects on the bottom of your screen. [/quote]
If you right click on the desktop...Special Fx Settings, you can get some neat ripple and wave effects on the bottom of your screen. [/quote]
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[Much cheering and excited yelping]MU wrote:Lobster, I willmake a "all in one"-Dotpup next week.
First remove some minor bugs (wrong fonts in some themes),and add some scripts for easier handling.
When that is done, I'll throw all together
Good news
It is time Puppy started looking less like Vesta (a sort of prepacked Microwave OS from Microphoney) wannabe
and more like the future OS it surely is
Smaller, Simpler, Faster
Woosh
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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):
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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):
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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):
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Mark
Big Screenshot:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/WindowManager ... nob-mu.jpg
Download (250 kb):
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Mark
Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Apr 2006, 04:40, edited 1 time in total.