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Philippe Jean Guillaumie edited this page Oct 10, 2024 · 12 revisions

Post-install hints & tips

Enlightenment's most useful key bindings:

  • Alt+Escape to launch Everything

  • Alt+Tab to switch between windows on the same desktop

  • Ctrl+Alt+End to restart Enlightenment

Run enlightenment_remote -help in a terminal to display E's hidden commands (enabling “DBus Extension” in Module Settings -> System is a plus).

Useful edge bindings:

  • Settings Panel -> Input -> Edge Bindings (Settings) -> “Add” and select the left vertical edge of the miniature view, then “Apply”

  • Scroll down the Action pannel and click on “Flip Desktop Left”, then “Apply”

  • Add another binding (select the right vertical edge) to flip desktop right

Localized (Main) Applications menu: Settings P. -> Menus -> Menu Settings -> Applications -> Lxde (Applications)

Settings P. -> Preferences -> Elementary Config -> More -> Rendering -> select OpenGL/OpenGL-ES then restart Enlightenment

Settings P. -> Apps -> Startup Applications -> System -> Select NetworkManager Applet -> then “Apply” and restart Enlightenment (logout then login again if it doesn't show up in the shelf)

Advanced users may also need to autostart additional services like:

  1. Certificate and Key Storage
  2. Secret Storage Service
  3. SSH Key Agent

Look and feel of Qt applications:

  • Install qt5ct, qt5-style-plugins and libcanberra-gtk-module

  • Run Qt5 Settings then select “gtk2” in Appearance -> Style

  • Settings P. -> Advanced -> Environment variables: Add QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE in the first box and qt5ct in the next one

  • Settings P. -> Advanced -> Environment variables: Also add QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME in the first box and qt5ct in the next one

Preferred fonts: Settings P. -> Look -> Fonts -> Fonts Settings -> Noto Sans

Preferred theme: Settings P. -> Look -> GTK Applications -> Arc-Dark

Preferred icons: Settings P. -> Look -> Icons -> Papirus-Dark

Settings P. -> Look -> Compositor -> Composite Settings -> General and tick “Don't fade backlight”

Extra | Awesome fonts for Terminology and coding tasks: sudo apt install fonts-firacode

Xephyr can be useful for testing and debugging purposes, or simply to access Enlightenment if you're not able to do it otherwise. To use xephyr, open a terminal and cd to your enlightenment source folder. Two little scripts are available: Just run ./x-ui.sh or ./xdebug.sh.

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