You can install it from this ppa https://launchpad.net/~hannes-janetzek/+archive/enlightenmen... .

  $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn
  $ sudo apt-get update
  $ sudo apt-get install e17

Logout and choose Enlightenment before login. Have fun!

Also try out terminology, the new E17 terminal. It has an awesome look and feel. Once it supports tabs i'll use it fulltime :)

Thank you. It's on my TODO-list but not on top priority. I'm mostly working on compatibility issues these days. If you found some, please open a bug report or contact me about them.

Oh great, one thing i noticed weeks ago (and apparently it's still behaving that way):

When you maximise the terminal and mark everything with the mouse the CPU goes crazy. efreet_icon_cache is taking up 100% CPU and the laptop becomes very noisy.. I guess it's not supposed to take up all CPU for that good looking marked text thingy :)

I can reproduce your issue. Please don't mark everything with your mouse for the time being :)

I came here from google search for a problem- I missed HN the day this thread came on. I 'discovered' enlightenment last summer and found it to be a wonderful solution for my netbook. I was traveling alot and pretty much have my netbook as a full development 'travel rig.'

The problem is that I want to have gnome installed side-by-side-- which seems to mean that the network manager (EConnMan I think you call it) doesn't work.

I know there was a way to do it but I forgot (that's what brings me to this page).

So, my comment: If this could sit easily and seamlessly next to gnome- that is, whatever hack is needed for EConnMan (and perhaps other 'gotchas') were built in as shortcuts, for example, I think you would win a lot of people over. It's excellent for being an out-of-the way work environment.

I also think it helps show off the linux world when you can quickly and easily switch between work environments. My $0.02.

EDIT: So I'm now logged in on E and obviously remembered the network hack: start nm-applet from the terminal. It will at least connect to a known network.

EDIT #2: The only other issue I've had on the netbook is getting the control-bar-menu gizmo out of the way of the windows so I can use the screen real estate I have for my editors and such. You have to turn this on in settings.

Just tried this out and all I can say is WOW. Extremely fast, responsive and more eye candy than any other terminal emulator I've seen. Could this be the year of the E17 desktop?

I've never understood why Ubuntu takes a couple seconds to open a terminal window. I don't have a fast computer, but... it's a terminal window.

Try some lightweight terminal like sakura (my current preference) :)

Could it be your .rc files?

.rc files are default. Unless the defaults are what make it slow?

Or your .bash_history might be very large.

Is there a way to change the TERM variable. It is by default set to xterm, while it should be set to xterm-256color because it supports 256 colors.

It was doing more harm than good, but XTERM_256_COLORS is set to 1. I hope we'll change TERM to xterm-256color soon.

I just went through

http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=download

Grabbed the EFL libs and did a bunch of tar -xzf , ./configure, make, sudo make install

Then did the same for the tarball for the alpha.

I had run various incarnations of e17 in the past which left a bit of odd setup. I removed ~/.e/e so I started with a fresh start on the alpha.