Like all other window managers Enlightenment is designed to be used with or
without a desktop environment like GNOME running on top of it. This means
that there is some funcitonality in it which allows you to do things like
start applications, move between desktops and more.
To this end, Enlightenment provides you with menus to launch applications and
perform tasks. These menus may be used in one of two places that provide
different functionality: the desktop and any window border.
To access the desktop menus, click with your middle mouse button (or both
right and left mouse buttons if you have emulation enabled) on the
desktop. This will bring up the Enlightenment menus.
The desktop menus will provide you with various applications that you might
have installed on your system. There are some applications in the menu that
you may not have installed which the creator of Enlightenment chose to put
in the menus.
The GNOME main menu items are mirrored in the Enlightenment menus as
well. Plus you can launch the Enlightenment Configuration tool or change
themes on the fly.
IMPORTANT:
These menus may be different if the creator of an Enlightenment theme
changes them. If there are options not covered in this guide you should
check the documentation associated with the theme you are using.
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- This is a mirror of the GNOME
Main Menu applications.
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- This is a mirror of any apps
you have added to the User menu in the GNOME Main Menu.
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- These are applications that
the creator of Enlightenment or the creator of the theme you are using
decides to include. You may or may not have these applications loaded on
you machine.
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- This menu includes items that make
changes to your desktops.
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- This will rearrange the
windows on your desktop to a cleaner pattern by arranging them in a
pre-determined order. This is very useful if you are having trouble
finding an application due to the clutter on your desktop.
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- This will take you to
either the next desktop or the next desktop area you have, depending on
which is next.
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- This will take you
to either the previous desktop or area, depending on which is next.
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- If you have time on your hands
and perhaps a good sense of humor, select this item and keep a close
eye on the bottom of your screen.
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- This will search the themes
directory for any themes you have installed on your machine. You can
select any theme you have available and change the theme on the fly.
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- This will
launch the Enlightenment Configuration tool.
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- This will launch a
small window to give you more information on Enlightenment.
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- This will launch Enlightenment's Help
System
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- This will restart
Enlightenment completely. If you are using GNOME on top of Enlightenment
this is not a recommended option, instead, you should use the GNOME
Logout.
The menus that are provided on the window borders can be launched one of two
ways. If the creator of the theme you are using has included it you can use
a menu button. You might find that this is not the case for certain themes,
in which case you can use the second selection method.
The second way to get the window border menus is to press the
Alt
key and the right mouse button anywhere on the window
border or in the window itself. This will work with the default keyboard
shortcuts that ship with Enlightenment but you should check and make sure
that you have not changed this keystrokes in the Enlightenment Configuration
Tool.
The Enlightenment window border menus allow you to do specific things to the
window itself.
IMPORTANT:
These menus may be different if the creator of an Enlightenment theme
changes them. If there are options not covered in this guide you should
check the documentation associated with the theme you are using.
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- This will close the window.
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- This will kill the application if
you are having trouble closing the window.
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- This will iconify your window. If
you are using the GNOME Pager it will simply minimize the window to the
task list on the GNOME Pager. If you are not running the GNOME Pager it
will minimize it to an icon based on the applciation.
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- This will raise the window to the front
of all other windows on your desktop.
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- This will lower the window to the
bottom of all of the windows on the desktop.
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- This will "shade" a window or
unshade it if it has already been shaded. Shading a window will "draw" the
window up into the window titlebar so that all you see is the titlebar
itself.
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- This menu item allows you to
make a window visible on all desktops and desktop areas.
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- The items in this menu allows you to
move a window to another desktop area. The selections available are:
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- The items in this menu
allow you to resize your window to certain ranges. The ranges are divided
into Height, Width, and Size (both height and width). Within these ranges
you can select how you wish to resize to the ranges.
