Enlightenment
The
Enlightenment ("E) window manager is a robust, flexible, highly
configurable, graphically rich yet unobtrusive desktop enviroment for
the X11 windowing system. It is
fully themable and easily configured. There are a wide range of
configuration options to suite any taste.
Enlightenment focuses on pushing the limits of existing
technologies while remaining lightweight, flexible, and beautiful.
One of the aims of the window manager is to be as configurable
as possible. It includes customization dialogs for focus
settings, window movement, resizing, grouping and placement settings,
audio, multiple desktop, desktop background, pager, tooltip and
autoraise settings. It also includes a special effects dialog,
including a desktop 'ripple' effect.
Enlightenment is sometimes used as a substitute for a full
desktop environment.
Enlightenment can automatically run user scripts or
applications during startup, restart, and shutdown. This facilitates
the loading of system tray applets, rss readers, screensavers, and
other daemons.
Features include:
- KDE
and GNOME
integration
- Built-in file manager
- Built-in composite manager
- Multi-program sound support
- Iconification
- Sliding Desktops
- Docking
- Epplets
- Xinerama support
- Snapshoting pager
- Fully themable
- Multiple Desktops
- Virtual Desktops
- Window grouping
- Sound effects for window operations
- Special effects for window, desktop, and menu animation
- Ability to change window borders (or remove borders and
title bars completely)
- Modular design - can dynamically load external modules.
Modules include:
- Pager - Switching between different virtual desktops
- iBar - Launching applications
- iBox - Holding minimized applications
- iTask NG - A dock similar to the Mac OS X dock
- Dropshadow - Provides a drop-shadow for every window
- Battery - Monitoring a laptop battery
- CPUFreq - Monitoring a laptop CPU
- Temperature - Monitoring laptop temperature
- EESH - the Enlightenment Shell allows complete remote
control of the window manager and scripting
- Session Scripts
- Keyboard shortcuts for nearly 80 actions, such as window
handling, desktop navigation, or cursor movement
- eDox help system
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