Enlightenment as wm for KDE - does it possible?
 

How to get it working?

apt-get install enlightenment
echo exec enlightenment > ~/.xinitrc
(restart X)

But it won't be the window manager for KDE, Enlightenment will be used instead of KDE.

However I have some success with script

xxkb & #Keyboard layout indicator
gkrellm & #no comment
acme & #multimedia-keys handling daemon from gnome
gnome-settings-daemon & #loading defaults for gnome2/gtk2
kdesktop #KDE desktop with icons
kicker #Kde panel
exec enlightenment

I dont think you can. In KDE you have to use Kwin.

I believe in GNOME though, you can use whatever WM you want.

Enlightenment
 

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I believe in GNOME though, you can use whatever WM you want.
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Yes. I have used both Gnome and KDE through several release of each. At one time I used Enlightenment with Gnome and I currently use Sawfish. Somewhere in Gnome's configuration files there is the option to specify which window manager you want to run.

With KDE I have never seen the option to switch window managers. Does Bogdan's script run KDE with Enlightenment?

It runs enlightenment, kdesktop and kicker. On it's first run kdesktop launch KDE daemon, dcop server and so on:

374 ? S 0:00 kdesktop
376 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: Running...
379 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide
382 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: klauncher4
384 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kded
391 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: kio_file file

So all KDE application that I need starting nearly as fast as in KDE. Sure, some features like kicker's task bar will not work. But it is not KDE now :)

Sounds interesting, could you maybe post up a screenshot of it?

http://www.atval.com/~atval/E&K.jpg - Enlightenment and KDE both have aqua-like skins -how do you like it?

It's cool, thanks a lot.

Hmm... I find one bit easy way - it possible to get same result by

export KDEWM=/usr/bin/enlightenment
/usr/bin/startkde

But it does not working for now :(
E 16.5 hangs up nearly at 78% of loading (by progressbar of my theme)
AFAIK, it dies when executing executing

kwrapper4 ksmserver --windowmanager /usr/bin/enlightenment

If I will get it working, I'll have kde with enlightenment with no hack at all.

Now I have simple script to launck enlightenment as KDE window manager :)


acme &
xxkb &
gnome-settings-daemon&
gkrellm &
export KDEWM=/usr/bin/enlightenment
startkde

I start one bit slowly then my prev. ButI like it more.