Whoops!!! Enlightenment help?

[Jomboni]

Ok, I'm running RH 7.2. Yesterday, I downloaded Enlightenment (the rpm). Installed it, everything seemed to be going ok so far.

I'm using Gnome, so I go into the window manager settings, and switch from sawfish to enlightenment. It changes over... but it looks pretty much the same. I mean, the window borders look "cooler", and there was a document viewer above my Gnome panel, and it had that annoying scrolling desktop feature (which I plan on disabling), but otherwise I didn't see any difference. I just figured that maybe I had to do some manual configuration of it. Not having the time for this then, I switched back to sawfish for the time being.

I logged out, and logged back in, and the scrolling desktop and stuff were still there! I checked to make sure I was really in sawfish, and the Window Manager settings said I was. Hmm...... so, I used my failsafe method (which I'm quickly learning is failsafe in Windows, but not Linux) and deleted enlightenment! Big mistake. As soon as I did this, my panel disappeared and I couldn't do anything, I had to do a hard reboot.

I logged in as root, and root's desktop was fine (as it should be) and after trying to figure out what the problem was, I just decided to erase the other user, delete his home directory, and re-create it. This solved the problem, but if I had had anything important there it would have caused about 23462367345 more problems.

Any idea what I did wrong? And yes, I did read the documentation, but I suppose it's always possible for me to miss something!

[nerrollus]

This is the problem I ran into. I ended up totally reinstalling RedHat without Gnome or KDE. Basically you have to move around in the console until you get Enlightenment compiled / RPM installed and go from there. Took me all night to finally get it all in and installed, but it taught me a lot about Linux not having those goofy desktops. ;) I'm sure one of the experts around here have an easier way to work around it, but that's how I did it. hehe

[error27]

well instead of deleting the user you could just delete the config files that were set.

rm ~/.enlightenment/ -rf
rm ~/.gnome/ -rf (this command will delete some other configs too unfortunately)

This is still a pain in the behind.

You have to understand that enlightenment guys and gnome guys had a tiff a couple years ago and so gnome doesn't try to integrate enlightenment at all. They wouldn't even offer enlightenment probably except that it used to be the default and so people are used to it.

Also gnome configuration is a pain the butt all on it's own without any help from enlightenment. :P

So the solution I would use is to switch back to enlightement. Run enlightenment configuration tool. Then with that you can switch configure the settings for multiple desktops.

Then you can switch back to saw mill.

That's not fun at all to do. The solution for gnome is to not offer enlightenment as a wm. And they should redesign their configuration tool because it is utter crap.

[error27]

btw I use Enlightenment and feel it is the best wm there is on any platform. However the Gnome guys should/do have their own wm that they should use.

I use gnome applications and I love them.

But the gnome panel and gnome configurator are crap and I don't use those.