Enlightenment (E24) Issues
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Built-in file manager sometimes freezes the whole system when generating icons/pictograms when connecting large (USB) disks or opening directories for a first time. The built-in manager is below par compared to Thunar.
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Lightdm login screen gets ever darker due to screen dimming by compositor. It has to be disabled otherwise eventually the login screen will become unworkable.
- On my machine, when the mouse hits the screen edge it moves to the next (virtual) screen.
This is overly sensitive and makes the desktop extremely "jumpy" when I don't know where my pointer is.
So I disabled it by simply removing all the edge bindings here:
Hah, peace and quiet.
- The Elive start-up scripts are not enabled by default (yet) so if you want those you'll have to add them yourself through "settings panel", "apps", "startup applications".
- The Connection Manager icon in the iBar does not show anything useful unless "connman-gtk" is manually installed.
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Network-manager and connman don't play nice together. Disable network-manager with "
sudo systemctl disable network-manager.service"
after rebooting connman will work as it should. -
If encountering a troublesome, sensitive touchpad, setting the touchpad-configurator will not be remembered and "syndaemon" will not be set and you will have to do it yourself or add "touchpad-configurator" to your startup-applications.
If you want to know whether (and with what settings) syndaemon is running use:
"ps -ef |grep syndaemon"
and it should show something like:
trianta+ 4143 1 0 20:58 ? 00:00:00 syndaemon -d -t -K -R -i 1.0
trianta+ 7212 6612 0 20:58 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto syndaemon
If you get an error about acpid
not being started, run sudo systemctl enable acpid.service --now
. If you want to test it first, run sudo systemctl start acpid.service
and to see what it's up to; run sudo service acpid status
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https://i.imgur.com/MpVqmvq.png
TIP
To keep all your E24 settings and tweaks when upgrading your Elive system with i.e a flashdrive:
- Add "enlightenment" and "enlightenment-data" to "/etc/elive/packages_to_maintain_installed" before upgrading.
- Boot into E16 (it's the default) and copy or rename the directory (and everything in it) ~/.e-old-your-previous-version to simply ~/.e
- Log out of E16 and into Enlightenment as it was before.