Enlightenment in KDE
 

HOw can I use Enlightenment in KDE? Everytime I try to do it, It says I need to restart x. How do I restart X?

*****Colonel Panic******

Logout, select "restart", log back in.

Where "restart" (or "reboot") is will depend upon your distribution and how you install it. For instance, I am running Red Hat 7.1; When I installed, I selected GNOME as my default desktop (although my user account is set up to use KDE as default, so if I just log in, I get KDE)--With GNOME selected, "restart" is in the menu at the top of the login screen. With KDE selected as default (as it was last time I installed RH 7.1), it's in the bottom right-hand corner. I can't remember where it was in Mandrake 7.2, and I don't think the option even existed in Corel 1.2. I know nothing about Slackware, SuSE, etc.

simple answer: you can't use two windowmanagers at the same time.

both kde and enlightenment are windowmanagers - they control the look, feel, and much of the behavior of the windows in XF86. Enlightenment is made to be a desktop shell, which means that it just controls the windows, and doesn't come with any applications specifically for enlightenment. KDE, on the other hand, is an entire desktop suite, with desktop shell, games, helpful applications, and other programs, like KDE office... ect. if you want to run enlightenment, or any other windowmanager, then you need to get out of kde first.

Thanks for the help. I knew that Enlightenment wasn't a desktop. It only controls the 'look and feel' of the desktop (sort of), as you've said. What I wanted to do is be able to use Enlightenment while in a KDE session. I can use it in GNOME, and I wanted to know how to use it in KDE. By the way, my distro is RedHat 7.1. Thanks for the help!

*****Colonel Panic*****

well... you can't use enlightenment while in kde. typically, kde includes the kde windowmanager, kpanel, and some other programs. what you can do is start enlighenment instead of kde, and use the kde programs that you want to use while in enlightenment. enlightenment isn't made to be kde-comliant tho...

the developers for enlightenment made it to be gnome-compliant. gnome isn't really a windowmanager - it's more of a collection of useful programs. check out the www.gnome.org site - gnome doesn't run alone on X - it runs on top of other windowmanagers, like sawmill or enlightenment. when you start enlightenment in gnome, enlightenment takes over the windowmanaging. in kde however, the kde windowmanager is already running, and enlightenment can't start.

if you want to find out more, check out www.enlightenment.org