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| Synopsis: This page talks about the desktop environment Enlightenment. For other desktop environment see our Desktop Environments page.
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Introduction
Enlightenment is one of many desktop environments available in Mageia.
For more information about it please consult the Enlightenment home page
Installing
To install Enlightenment, please install task-enlightenment. It is then available in the desktop login menu.
In Mageia 9
The Enlightenment task package in Mageia 9 provides E25.4 and Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) 1.26.3. The major 0.25 release features a completely new, flat theme with both preconfigured alternative colour palettes (including a light theme) and the ability to edit the colours. In addition, there is another Mageia-branded theme, m-Dimensions, based on the older desktop theme, updated with all new features except the colour palette. Other important changes include the addition of touchpad configuration options, improvements to the sound mixer and a significant change in default settings: edge binding are now turned off by default. For more details on this version, see https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2021-12-26-enlightenment-0.25.0.
Of course, Mageia includes E's Econnman UI for the connman connection manager (if enabled - default is systemd-networkd.service with the Netapplet), along with four EFL-based applications: the Terminology terminal emulator, the Ephoto image viewer, the light-weight Rage video player and the Evisum system monitor. Ecrire, a basic EFL-based text editor, is also available as a recommends. Note that Ecrire's UI and font settings do not work properly with the m-Dimensions theme.
For those new to E, startup applications and processes (such as the Mageia Online Applet for update notifications) are not automatically picked up from /etc/xdg/autostart, but can be enabled at startup by going to Main menu > Settings > Apps > Startup Applications and adding the desired applications and system processes. Applications (only) to be loaded on restarting the DE are handled separately from a list available via Main menu > Settings > Apps > Restart Applications.
Enlightenment's system tray, which uses SNI appindicator notifications, is a separate module that must be loaded (Main menu > Settings > Modules) and added to a shelf (panel), where the Mageia Online Applet and Netapplet will be displayed (when enabled) along with others.
Currently, one issue has been observed: Restarting E sometimes results in a warning that the Efreet cache was not updated. In general, this can be ignored as it results from a time-out which still seems to be too short for some systems.
