Enlightenment FC3

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:53:10AM -0500, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:54 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Fr, den 12.11.2004 schrieb Mark Farmer um 8:37:
> > 
> > > Has anyone got Enlightenment running on FC3 yet?
> > > If so, what rpm(s) did you use & where did you get them?  Looking on pbone only finds FC1 & FC2.
> > 
> > > Mark Farmer
> > 
> > http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc3/RPMS.newrpms/enlightenment-0.16.7.1-1.rhfc3.nr.i386.rpm
> > 
> > Can't say anything about it's quality.

> I've been using Enlightenment and Eterm as provided by RPMS from the
> "newrpms" site and they've been working very nicely for the past few
> days.

	I've been a long standing fan of Enlightenment.  I use both
"viewports" and "deskop" flavors of virtual desktops and Enlightement
seems to handle them the best I've seen.  I used Sawfish for a while
and then the Gnome people decided they knew best how everyone should
work and the "viewports" mode went bye-bye when they went to Metacity.
I guess it's back now, if you know where and how to hack on it, but I
haven't had much luck making it work and Enlightenment seems to work
fine for me...

	Until recently, that is, for one particular program...

	I got rather badly burned a couple of weeks ago when I suddenly
discovered that "full screen mode" for my presentations under OpenOffice
Impress would only give me a postage size window, instead of full screen.
This occured after some of the updates during October (haven't tracked
down the guilty party YET) for Fedora Core 2, but the problem also
exists in Fedora Core 3.  Took me days to figure out that it seems to
be something with Enlightenment and (I think) Imlib2 and some recent X
updates.  Prior to October, I was having no problem with Impress and
full screen presentations.  Now, it no workie.  Use a different window
manager, and Impress gives me full screen properly.  Switch back to
Enlightenment, and I get a postage stamp.  Not the sort of thing you want
to discover 10 minutes before delivering a talk...  :-(  Yes, I should
know better to always check...  Grrr...

	This is on a Dell D600 laptop with a Radeon Mobility 9000 video
system.  I haven't tested it on any of my other systems with other video
controllers yet.  The Radeon is a peculiar beast, especially when X
tries to figure out multiheaded modes (and FC3 has a serious bug there,
but that will be the subject of a different messages shortly).

> Ed

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	Mike
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