Enlightenment
Enlightenment (e17)
Enlightenment is a complete desktop environment, fully configurable with the mouse and offering many themes. The version supplied by the SliTaz project is known as e17 and is still in development, this version is considered stable enough to be incorporated into the distribution. Enlightenment was designed to be deployed on systems with limited resources, as well as more powerful systems. It allows for wallpapers, menus, animated and interactive gadgets and knows how to manage virtual desktops. To install e17:
# tazpkg get-install enlightenment
Logout your current X session, type F1
at Slim login and choose
e17
to start Enlightenment.
Menu and desktop icons
Enlightenment is compliant to the Freedesktop standards.
Applications are sorted by category and icons automatically appear
if a desktop file is supplied. The (.desktop
) system files are
contained in the /usr/share/applications
directory or hidden home
~/.local/share/applications
directory. These files
have a simple syntax and are editable from the panel or with
a simple text editor. The file menus displaying categories
in the Enlightenment menu are found in the slitaz-menus
package:
# tazpkg get-install slitaz-menus
An icon on the desktop
To have an icon on the desktop launching applications, you can
create by hand a .desktop
file in your local directory
~/Desktop
. Desktop files placed in this directory are automatically
recognized by Enlightenment. A single .desktop file can
contain eight lines with respectively:- the name (Name
), generic
name, comment, the command to execute (Exec
), icon, type
and Freedesktop categories. Example of a .desktop file for Xterm icon:
[Desktop Entry] Name=XTerm GenericName=Terminal Comment=Run commands in a shell Exec=xterm -bg black -fg white -cr orange -sb -bd violet -rightbar Icon=/usr/share/icons/Tango/jwm/utilities-terminal.png Type=Application Categories=Utility;Terminal;
Additional themes can be found on the website