Installing and Configuring Enlightenment E16 | Linux Today

Installing and Configuring Enlightenment E16

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 16, 2008

“Say, for example, you want to limit your users to certain
applications – only have those applications in the menu and leave
out any terminal window entry in the menu so they can’t configure
their user_apps.menu (more on that in a bit.)

“But let’s not jump ahead of ourselves. Before we get to the
actual configuration let’s first take a look at Enlightenment
(version E16 which is the stable version).

“As you can see Enlightenment has a lot of neat tricks up its
sleeve. On the above screenshot you can see The Gimp open, a
Firefox browser shaded to only show its title bar, the aterm
terminal will full transparency running the top application, the
iconbox (bottom right) which is where applications are minimized,
and the pager (bottom left).”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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