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Enlightenment ist eine vollständige Benutzeroberfläche, die allein mit der Maus konfiguriert werden kann, wobei viele Motive („themes“) zur Auswahl stehen. Die mit SliTaz ausgelieferte Version ist als e17 bekannt und noch in der Entwicklung, wird aber als stabil genug angesehen, um in die Distribution aufgenommen zu werden. Enlightenment war für Systeme mit geringen Betriebsmitteln vorgesehen, aber auch für besser ausgestattete Systeme. Sie ermöglicht Hintergrundbilder, Menüs, bewegte und interaktive Spielereien und kann mit virtuellen Benutzeroberflächen umgehen.

Enlightenment (e17) kann auf SliTaz mit

 # tazpkg get-install enlightenment 

installiert werden.

Melden Sie sich ab, drücken Sie im Slim-Anmeldefenster die Taste F1 und wählen Sie e17 um Enlightenment zu starten.

Enlightenment erfüllt die „Freedesktop“-Standards. Anwendungen sind in Kategorien eingeteilt und Symbole erscheinen automatisch sobald eine Datei mit der Endung .desktop vorhanden ist. Die Dateien des Systems mit der Endung .desktop befinden sich im Verzeichnis /usr/share/applications, die benutzereigenen im Verzeichnis ~/.local/share/applications. Diese Dateien haben eine einfache Syntax und können über ein Menü oder mit einem Texteditor bearbeitet werden. Die Definitionen der Kategorien des Enlightenment-Menüs befinden sich im Paket slitaz-menus:

 # tazpkg get-install slitaz-menus 

Ein Symbol auf der Arbeitsfläche zum Starten einer Anwendung kann manuell erzeugt werden, indem eine Datei mit der Endung .desktop im Verzeichnis ~/Desktop eingerichtet wird. Die Syntax der Einträge solcher Dateien ist bei Recognized desktop entry keys beschrieben. Dateien mit der Endung .desktop in diesem Verzeichnsi werden von Enlightenment automatisch erkannt. Eine Datei mit der Endung .desktop kann acht Zeilen enthalten mit dem Namen (Name), generischen Namen, Kommentar, dem auszuführenden Kommando (Exec), dem Bild, dem Typ und den „Freedesktop“-Kategorien. Es folgt ein Beispiel für ein Xterm-Symbol:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=XTerm
GenericName=Terminal
Comment=Run commands in a shell
Exec=xterm -bg black -fg white -cr orange -sb -bd violet -rightbar
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Tango/jwm/utilities-terminal.png
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;Terminal;

Weitere Motive („themes“) findet man bei http://exchange.enlightenment.org/

Joe's window manager, in C geschrieben, ist schnell, einfach, fehlerfrei, stabil und effizient. JWM proposes a taskbar, a menu of icons and a pager for the management of virtual desktops. The taskbar can also act as a dock. In addition it is easily configurable with a single text file that can change the menu, fonts and their sizes, and different colors. To install jwm on SliTaz:

 # tazpkg get-install jwm 

Logout your current X session, type F1 at Slim login and choose jwm to start JWM. To make JWM your default Window Manager, just type: tazx jwm.

The application of Joe's Window Manager is very fast. To view the menu just click somewhere on the desktop. You can resize a window through the edges or corners, minimize or pass a virtual desktop to another via a pager. You also have configurable keyboard shortcuts for faster access to the applications that you often use. On SliTaz the system configuration file is /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc. Apart from this file, each user can use its own configuration file hidden in ~/.jwmrc. This is a text file using XML syntax, it can edited with a simple text editor - lines beginning with: <!-- are comments that let you understand what each tag does.

To facilitate the customization of the desktop, SliTaz automatically copies at the launch of the first (graphical) session, a system configuration file to the root directory of the user. You can directly modify this file and test without risk. To edit with your favorite text editor:

$ geany $HOME/.jwmrc & 

To retrieve an original configuration file, you can copy the system configuration file and rename it .jwmrc in your home directory:

 $ cp /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc $HOME/.jwmrc 

The tag RootMenu corresponds to the menu displayed by clicking on one of the (three) buttons on the mouse. To add a category, you must use the tag: Menu - this contains entries for various programs. Any entry in the JWM menu can fit on one line. Example using the GQview image management application:

 <Program icon="gqview.png" label="GQview">gqview</Program> 

There are still many opportunities to configure RootMenu according to the mouse buttons; the choice of method to move windows, create groups, etc. The Manual is available online at the official website of the project. To view a list of command-line options, just type jwm -h in a terminal.

Creating your own graphical style with JWM is relatively quick and easy, the tags are clear and the attributes possible are given in the comments. When preparing your work, you can see your amendments by restarting the window manager from the menu or via the jwm -restart command. In the configuration file, style tags start after the <!– Visual Styles –> comment. To begin, here is a short list of the main style tags with a short description:

• Background manages the wallpaper. This tag supports the solid, gradient, image or tile attributes, to respectively: use a solid color, create a gradient, display a resized image or tile an image.
• BorderStyle controls the windows border.
• TrayStyle controls a taskbar. The taskbar may, among other things, be automatically hidden or only fill a part of the screen with the width attribute.
• TrayListStyle controls the style of the list of open windows on the current desktop.
• PagerStyle controls the pager displaying different virtual desktops (4 by default).
• MenuStyle defines the menu style.
• The icons are defined by the IconPath tag, you can use your own personal icons by specifing the full path to the directory that contains them. Note that you can specify more than one path, if you want, you can use your own icons and those contained in the /usr/share/pixmaps and /usr/share/icons system directories. SliTaz uses the Tango theme icons: tango.freedesktop.org for the menu, these are 16×16 and are stored in /usr/share/icons/Tango. You can add, edit, delete these… If you want to install new icons in your user space, we advise you to use ~/Picture/Icons (set as default) or a hidden directory ~/.Icons.

The colors can be defined by their name or RGB number such as #3A4956. To use colors in their gradient mode, you must specify the two colors separated by a colon, example #6C0023:#3E1220. You can change fonts and their sizes by using the Font tag. There are still some other small things that you can change to customize your desktop: such as the name of a menu item and its icon. Before restarting JWM with your new configuration file, you can check its syntax by using the command: jwm -p. To explore further, the official handbook describes all the tags, options and valid attributes. You can view it online at the JWM website.

• Bei der offiziellen Internetpräsenz von Joe's Window Manager findet man Neuigkeiten und ein ausführliches Handbuch.
• #jwm on irc.freenode.net - The JWM IRC discussion channel on Freenode server.

Dokumentation

Dokumentation

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It replaces the default OpenBox and PCManFM, and is also based on GTK+.

To install Xfce, select the 'xfce4' meta-package from the Package Manager. This will install all the related packages.

To use Xfce, ensure you have the correct command for Xfce in the Slim (log-in manager) configuration. Do this by appending xfce4 to the sessions line of the /etc/slim.conf file - note that you will need root permissions to modify the file:

sessions            openbox,e17,jwm,xfce4, 

You can then select Xfce by pressing F1 at the log-in screen, as you enter your user-name and password.

Extras are available at Xfce Goodies, including plug-ins, artwork and bindings.

To remove Xfce, use the following command as root user:

for PKG in xfce4 xfce4-session xfce4-panel xfwm4 libxfcegui4 xfce-utils libxfce4util thunar thunar-volman xfconf ; \ 
do yes y | tazpkg remove $PKG ; done