enlightenment and gnome
 

Is there a way to use enlightenment as my window manager under gnome. I like gnome but I think it would be cool to have the graphical display of enlightenment. On a side note, before I switched to linux I saw a lot of screen-shots where people were using transparency on some windows, I thought that was really cool and was thinking it would be easy to setup but I can't figure it out. I tried to set it up in KDE but it tells me that its not supported and gives me a warning message when I restart KDE. Thanks for the help and so far I am loving linux.

I gues another question would be what version of enlightenment should I use, DR16 or DR17?

DR16 has many many more themes. By the way, gkrellm is that cool little applet with graphs of all the system processes. You may have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list to include the universe repository. I see you have Ubuntu, install whatever comes back from:

There are four basic themes, E and don't forget Eterm.
And after the install, there should be an enlightenment.install script that comes down with it. Looks like you missed that. It changes your ~/.xinitrc to exec enlightenment by default.

What I have done to bring KDE functionality into E is opened an Eterm and typed:

Which will give you the taskbar. E has this feature to "Restart App on login". So CTRL+Right Click Kicker and go to Remember... It should be in there, I'm on a Mac right now. This way, your KDE menu starts every time.

I only use E, look at it as bringing KDE or Gnome functionality into E, because when you login, startx, or whatever, E will be the first thing that is started, then other graphical engines.

e.themes.org

OOPS, I didn't realize this was the SuSE forum, you can install apt4rpm, though: http://apt4rpm.sourceforge.net/