How to install the Enlightenment E20 Desktop on Ubuntu 15.10 | Linux Today

How to install the Enlightenment E20 Desktop on Ubuntu 15.10

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Till Brehm
Dec 6, 2015

The new Enlightenment E20 Desktop has just been released. The Enlightenment project consists of the Enlightenment Window manager (which was started in 1996), the EFL library that contains graphic, widget, network, and other basic desktop functions and some applications that are based on EFL like a terminal emulator, a video player, and an IDE. Nowadays the project has put its Fokus on a Desktop environment for Mobile, wearable and TV devices. New in E20 is the support for the Wayland compositor, X1 is still supported. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the E20 Desktop on the current Ubuntu 15.10.

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Till Brehm

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