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Get Vertical Titlebars in E16 Themes

I bet you didn’t know that you could change the placement of your Enlightenment titlebars. Although not necessarily pracitical, it does make for some impressive desktops, and it allows you to quickly differentiate between windows. Say, for example you have aterm and rxvt both open and are using one for admin work and one for [...]

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Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Enable Composite for Window Transparency in Enlightenment

If you have played around with the Enlightenment window manager you know it is, for such a lightweight window manager, pretty impressive. But if you’ve not enabled compositing, you have yet to see how much you can do with transparency. Although compositing in Enlightenment will require the necessary hardware (a video card capable of using [...]

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Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Installing and Configuring Enlightenment E16

Over theĀ  years I have used countless Linux desktops and window managers. But no matter how amazing a desktop (read: Compiz-Fusion) I always seem to wind up going straight back to Enlightenment. Enlightenment is one of those window managers that has a very small footprint yet offers enough eye candy to impress. But the appeal [...]

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Categories: Knowledge, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

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