[e-users] basic setup?

David Chmelik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.enlightenment.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
After posting in an X Window System (X) newsgroup Enlightenment (E) window 
manager (WM) was again suggested to me and I know it's much faster than 
most/all desktop environments (DE) but I still have basic setup problems.  
For some reason the Linux kernel doesn't count my display ports in order 
(three display-port (DP) in one card), though UNIX/*BSD kernels likely 
count them in a proper order) and while other WMs & DEs let me move around 
taskbars to different monitors, apparently E doesn't... I have 1600x1200 
(4:3), 4K & (drawing pad/LCD) 1080p (both 16:10) and while 16:10 is main 
for classic PC, obviously 4K is newer PC main but oddly E chose shortest 
(1080p) monitor as primary and couldn't move taskbar to 4K without just 
quitting and physically moving plugs.

When I tried to move my 1600x1200 to above middle of my 4K most 1600x1200 
screen was cut off (doesn't happen in KDE/TDE nor XFCE nor even these days 
CDE & NsCDE).

The taskbar apparently has no clipboard nor night colour control (such as 
redshift or better-customizable) without which (and perhaps some other 
things, like maybe notifications and would be nice to have 'Caffeine' 
program to not turn off display when images/videos are in use... 
screenshot would also great also for bug-reporting, and is clock fully-
customizable with UNIX-type date command and improvements on it?) I simply 
still can't switch to E, despite how much faster (I have recent 32-thread 
CPU anyway).

Another thing I'm waiting for is in E one could previously (maybe no 
longer) setup (Ns)CDE-/Win3-style (they came from one IBM project)  
automatic program groups for all installed GUI programs, or if not 
automatic then like XFCE can make/update all with a script (I'd require 
automatic/script generation/updates... doing/updating several/many 
hundreds manually is a non-started).

E Settings misses things such as desktop background gradient or otherwise 
loading my own fullscreen (for each monitor) gradient images: rejected  
them, but if only tiny images are accepted then tiled, that's unusable:  
fullscreen gradients/images or can't switch to E.

Thanks for the suggestion; if there are solutions to enough of these I'll 
retry... I really hope I can eventually.
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