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For all of you E17 and Fedora fans, this how-to will walk you through the steps of installing E17 on Fedora 15. The first thing we need to do is to add a couple additional RPM repositories to our list for some additional packages we will need to complete this. Open your favorite terminal and issue both commands below to add the RPMFusion-Free and RPMFusion-Non-Free repositories: su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ (more…)
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If you use kdm and you want E17 to show up in the KDM login screen, you’ll need to do the following.  First as root user type: touch /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/23Enlightenment.desktop Then again as root user, open up that file in your favorite editor.  I’ll use vi for this example: vi /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/23Enlightenment.desktop Then you’ll want to add the following lines to the above mentioned file: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Enlightenment Comment=Enlightenment TryExec=/usr/local/bin/enlightenment_start Exec=Enlightenment_start Icon= Type=Application Save the file as you always would and then when you restart and boot back to your KDM login screen, Enlightenment-17 should be listed.
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For those that use Mandriva and wish to use Xtart and have E17 show up in the menu of window managers, here is a short how-to to enable that. This how-to assumes you have installed and compiled E17 from CVS into it’s default directory which is /usr/local/bin/enlightenment First thing you need to do is to install the Xtart app.  You can do this by making sure you have online sources from EasyUrpmi for Main, Contrib and Updates.  If you meet those requirements, then perform the following command: urpmi xtart    or   urpmi Xtart Now we need to make a file in our /etc/X11/wmsession.d directory that can be read by Xtart.  You will need to be root user to do this. touch /etc/X11/wmsession.d/23Enlightenment-17 Now you need to open that file in your favorite editor, as root user, and add the following
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