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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 1st, 2009
- Comments: None
Enable Composite for Window Transparency in Enlightenment
Ghacks Christmas Giveaway: WinSnap And WindowSpace
Only three days left before the first Ghacks Christmas Giveaway ends. We have got two software programs and five licenses for each today. WinSnap and WindowSpace are both developed by NTwind who are known for their free Taskswitch XP application.
WinSnap is also known as the Windows Snapshot Maker, a screenshot application that is available as [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 15th, 2008
- Comments: 10
Installing and Configuring Enlightenment E16
Over the 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 [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Dec 9th, 2008
- Comments: 6
Get To Know Linux: Desktop Environment vs. Window Manager
Ever since the inception of GNOME and KDE there has been confusion among new Linux users which is which and which is best to use. The former question is fairly simple to answer. The latter question, however, is a bit more complex due to user-specific needs/wants.
With that in mind let us begin by illustrating the [...]
