Enlightenment (DR-16 and DR-17)

[dmitry_serpokryl]

2wehrmacht:

just didn't thought that so many people would rush to get the iso...

And in general - all acknowledgments go to the great Enlightenment Development Team:


Enlightenment Contact


THANKS!

[dmitry_serpokryl]

Here is an instruction/how-to for proper installation of 'Enlightenment LiveCD' to other media (harddisks or flash/USB sticks):

Instruction for Enlightenment-LiveCD installation on harddisk and/or flash/USB_stick. How-to.

But if you like my LiveCD (http://sda.scwlab.com/), then just add missing repositories for your OpenSUSE and enjoy the same apps. It's easy!

[azuriel]

I just installed the e17 packages from your repo; let me say a big thank you! I used to compile this from CVS manually, this is a far easier process

I have one pretty major problem though that's preventing me from switching from KDE4: screen locking doesn't work. I type in my password and hit enter, and it fails to let me back in. I did some googling, which turned up this mail from two years ago:

'Re: [E-devel] e17 screen lock' - MARC

It's exactly the problem I'm having, and it does seem to be Suse specific. Can anyone else replicate this, and is there some workaround?

[dmitry_serpokryl]

Originally Posted by azuriel

I just installed the e17 packages from your repo; let me say a big thank you! I used to compile this from CVS manually, this is a far easier process

I have one pretty major problem though that's preventing me from switching from KDE4: screen locking doesn't work. I type in my password and hit enter, and it fails to let me back in. I did some googling, which turned up this mail from two years ago:

'Re: [E-devel] e17 screen lock' - MARC

It's exactly the problem I'm having, and it does seem to be Suse specific. Can anyone else replicate this, and is there some workaround?

yep, 100% headshot. it works eventually, but not always unfortunately. here's a way to avoid it:

1) install the package 'xlockmore'
2) adjust your screenlock settings to use external locking tool:



as you see i've got enabled 'Use custom screenlock' option and screenlock command is:

> xlock -mode julia

you can explore the 'modes' of xlock and find yours

thanks!

P.S. don't forget that you can install .src.rpm files and rebuild EFL/E manually anytime you wish. here's the EXAMPLE of a bash-script for it (the way i'm using right now)

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/src/packages/SPECS


export components="eet edb evas ecore embryo efreet edje epeg epsilon esmart emotion engrave ewl etk exml enhance imlib2_loaders imlib2_tools etk_extra e_dbus E17 eclair  emphasis entrance exhibit ephoto estickies elicit elitaire expedite emprint evfs exquisite edje_editor extrackt entropy rage e_modules itask-module E16 ethemes e16keyedit edox-data"


sudo mkdir -p ../RPMS/i586.old
sudo rm -rf ../BUILD/*
sudo cp -r ../RPMS/i586/* ../RPMS/i586.old/
sudo rm -rf ../RPMS/i586/*

for a1 in  $components ; do
rpmbuild -bb $a1.spec  || { echo "STOP! Look at the errors above!" && read a2 && exit 1 ; } 
echo "INSTALLING NOW!"

if [ "$a1" == "e_dbus" ] ; then
   sudo rpm -U --force ../RPMS/i586/*edbus*.rpm || { echo "STOP! Look at the errors above!" && read a2 && exit ; }
else
   sudo rpm -U --force ../RPMS/i586/*$a1*.rpm || { echo "STOP! Look at the errors above!" && read a2 && exit ; }
fi

done

sh /home/sda/bin/rebuild_enlightenment_exalt.sh

last string starts the 'exalt' components upgrade

P.P.S. i'm working on solution to avoid locking issues, but no guarantees yet...

[azuriel]

Thanks for the quick response Dmitri, I saw the option for the custom lock command but was hoping that the e17 lock worked :-/ if you need any help with testing that feel free to shoot me a message.

The src rpm thing is interesting, thanks for the little script Everything is working for me right now though, so I probably won't be updating until I have a good reason to.

[dmitry_serpokryl]

Attention: it's my fault (in general) but the last update of Enlightenment could be performed in a wrong way. i changed versions generation schema and an old packages may left on your PC. sorry.

Solution 1: reinstall all you have from the Enlightenment repo. if alias of this repo is 'Enlightenment' (just type 'zypper lr' in console to find it out) then the simple script below could help you to do the trick:

export a1="`sudo zypper se -r Enlightenment | grep i\  | awk -F\| '{ print $2 }' `"  && sudo zypper in -f -r Enlightenment $a1

Solution 2: reinstall only outdated and obsolete packages.

please ignore any messages that you're 'downgrading' - they're wrong. since now versions system won't change any more (I hope so) and there should be no such issues any more.

thanks.

[dmitry_serpokryl]

Hello,

recently we successfully transfered OBS Enlightenment repositories to the svn (from an old cvs) base, compiled new packages and released the new version of our Enlightenment LiveCD where all things are work "out from the box" (yes, you're even welcome to open FF, go to the apple.com and watch brilliant ads to get the idea why only Apple is good enough. looks like we'd have something similar or at least learn the way of a building proper Public Relations/Propaganda routines).

you're welcome to 'digg' our LiveCD if you wish:
Digg - openSUSE Enlightenment 17 Live

original Lizards post:
openSUSE Lizards » Enlightenment

download page:
http://sda.scwlab.com/soad_linux.html

the core info about our LiveCD is stated in the Welcome.pdf:
http://sda.scwlab.com/Welcome.pdf


Think E, use OpenSUSE, be happy!

[dmitry_serpokryl]

heh, congratulations to all. looks like we've reached the distrowatch....

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[dmitry_serpokryl]

Welcome to discuss our small contribution to the Wiki:

Enlightenment for openSUSE - openSUSE

Thanks!

P.S. please, if you wish to modify and article use the 'Discussion' page to offer Your improvements.

[dmitry_serpokryl]

The repos are updated to the current svn. Changes:

1) Exalt (Network Manager) is now split into the two packages - 'exalt' and 'exalt_gui_etk'. Please remove all the old ones

2) EFM (Enlightenment File Manager) now can drag'n'drop files on the Desktop and you can organize this files in the way you like (no strict align to grid).

3) Huge improvements/optimizations for E17.

4) 23Oz theme is improved (sliders are glowing now).

5) A lot of minor improvements and adjustments.

Enjoy.

P.S. Soon we'll make an updated unofficial Enlightenment LiveCD and there gonna be hell of a lot improvements!