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What is enlightenment?Enlightenment is a Window Manager for the X Windowing System (a GUI system that runs over unix). It is written on a very simple premise - the user should maintain control of his desktop at all times. Why should you have to change window managers every few weeks when you need some new feature? You should be able to embed the feature into it yourself (or be able to find someone else who can do it or has already done it). Look and feel of your hand-crafted desktop should be left to you, while you're given an infinite number of options through a highly customizable configuration set. Everything from the simple desktop pattern to the border decoration styles surrounding the various windows on your desktop (or lack thereof) can be defined and modified until you are satisfied with the graphical look and behavior of your system. No other window manager offers you this possibility (without throwing all concern for speed out the window). Enlightenment, has ben written completely from scratch, and thus hold none of the code many other window managers do from FVWM.
A note to those whose interest was perkedYou should be aware at this point that Enlightenment is still in the early ALPHA stages of development. It has come along way since the early FVWM-xpm days (having been rewritten entirely from scratch as of 0.1) but we aren't satisfied enough with it yet to declare a 1.0 release. If you're not ready to tackle with your box on occasion or have the rules of the game turned over a few times, occasionally see big huge and nasty bugs, or have to cope with your system occasionally cutting out on you, then Enlightenment isn't for you (yet - remember we're still in ALPHA here!). However, if you're like me and live on your PC, and CRAVE for your desktop to do the things YOU want it to do and LOOK how YOU want it to look, I don't know how you can go to the extreme more than with Enlightenment. By the time we've reached 1.0, you'll never be able to look at another window manager or GUI the same way.
Enlightenemnt is available for Download from the
download page, so go there to fetch anything you
need.
Copyright and Free SoftwareEnlightenment is copyright the respective owners under the GPL. If you don't believe in free software, you really should. If it wasn't for free software, you wouldn't even have any of this cool stuff to play with in the first place. E is freeware and that none of the authors take any responsibility for your computer growing limbs and mutilating cattle in your neighborhood nor anything else that could happen as a result of the installation / usage of the software (unless it happens to make you popular or rich and famous, in which case we've got no problem taking all the credit and anything that comes from it.
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