Hi,
First off I want to warn I have been messing around on my own with Ubuntu, however I am still extreamly new to all of this.


I use package managers to install software, and I am yet to install something from source (if someone wants to help with that also I would appreciate it ). I however like the e17 window manager and I hear it's preatty good stuff... Should some as new as I am be dealing with something like this? And if it would be no big deal could I have some assistance with install it?

Note: I have installed something from CVS either...

Thanks you for anything...

i just installed e17 today from cvs. this is a great link that tells you how to:

https://vogelweith.homeftp.net/Linux/e17_en.php

follow it exactly and you'll be running e17 in no time

Hey, thanks for the responce and sorry it took me so long to answer, I've been preatty busy.

I got he guide and it's great... It was working prefectly untill I was building emotion and it says I need Xine or Gstreamer installed for it to work. I have both installed but it would appear I'm using a version that is to old... I have tried a few things but I can't find one thats new enough... Anyone know where I can get a verion of Xine newer then 1.1.1? I know I got far enough into this that if I restart it wont come back on . Anyone please want to direct me to a repository where I can get what I need? Thank you VERY much...

I had the same issue with emotion. Go here and download http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x...b-1.1.1.tar.gz

Do a sudo apt-get install checkinstall (checkinstall is used instead of make install-it will build a deb package)

Untar xine-lib-1.1.1 cd into the untarred directory ./configure make sudo checkinstall

This will make a deb package for u and install it. For some reason it didn't work with the version from Ubuntu. After installing this emotion built just fine.

Thanks again for the help... It worked great and I got pased it. I was hoping to have the next post be WHOOOO, I DID IT... However, , I am ./auotgen.sh(ing) exlair and it's saying...

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checking for taglib-config... no
taglib-config is not in your $PATH. Please ensure it is.
Read the manual page for you shell as to how to extend your path.
configure: error: Cannot find taglib-config
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And then when I run make it says...

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make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
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Can you help me with this? I relize it's saying it can't find taglib-config, however I looked all over the place and I can't find it either... Thanks again .

P.S. As always, thanks for the fast responce, I fell asleep early yesterday and I just got home a hour or two ago today...

have u previously tried to install enlightenment. if so...there may be an outdated package causing this error. check in /usr/bin and see if there are any outdated enlightenment packages. if there are delete them and then try compiling eclair again. let me know if that's the case.

by the way...did u also see that in order to compile eclair u need these packages...

apt-get install libtag1-dev libtagc0-dev libxml2-dev libglade2-dev libsqlite3-dev

Hey, thanks again for the help and sorry sunday was crazy...

I looked and there were no enlightenment packages... Could that be the problem? I however ran the command you gave in your second post and then tried and it worked...

However when I got to evidence the folder they said to cd to was not there... I searched around a little and then I did a search through palces, search for files, and the only place it found anything from evidance was in the /cvs/e17/libs/ewl(s?) folder so I built and installed that. However when I tried to actually start E it poped up for a second and I can tell there is text and there is a box so I can tell it's not just a error message, however it crashes and the terminal closes before I can read it. I think it might have something to do with evidance being missing?

Thanks again, for all the help and sticking with me, if nothing else I learned a lot .

P.S. I don't know if it has anything to do with anything but I installed mythtv but never got it working, but now and then when I was working on this I would think I say something starting with error and I saw the word mythtv on the same line... Could this be it? Even if it's not do you know how to get rid of it? It's annoying ...

u need to edit your xsessions to get E to launch. u have everything compiled u need to get running. open up an editor and put this:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Enlightenment
Comment=Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Exec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment
Terminal=False
TryExec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment
Type=Application

[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true

save it as Enlightenment.desktop

open up a terminal and sudo mv (drag the doc u created leave a space) /usr/share/xseesions

this will place Enlightnment.desktop in your /usr/share/xsessions folder

now u can do a ctrl/alt/backspace

Enlightenment will now show up along with Gnome as one of your login choices

u need to check out evidence seperately if u want it...u don't need it

sudo apt-get install rox-filer (my fav. filer app) launch it in terminal by rox...i use this instead

Ok, thanks, I made the file and I put it in the folder however E's still not a option on log in... Also when I look at the xsessions folder with rox it shows gnome.desktop and xsessions. However nautalis shows Enlightenment and GNOME... Any idea why?


As always, thanks...

let's try again...

do a sudo gedit

then paste this:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Enlightenment
Comment=Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Exec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment
Terminal=False
TryExec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment
Type=Application

[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true



Name it Enlightenment.desktop

Go to File / Save as / Browse for other folders / /usr/share/xsessions / save

Then control alt back and see if it shows up in your options