Introduction

Welcome to the second part of the enlightenment computer surroundings customisation guide. This guide will display you a way to make your linux computer paintings precisely the way you want it to.

Inside the first part i showed you the way to exchange the laptop wallpaper on multiple workspaces, how to change the issues that programs use, the way to installation a new laptop subject and a way to upload transition and compositing outcomes.

If you haven’t examine the first part of the manual it is worth doing so as it introduces the settings panel which is used to get entry to most of the customisation features.

Favourite programs

Anybody has programs that they use all the time and applications which can be used extra sporadically. Accurate computing device environments offer a way for making your preferred programs without difficulty on hand.

With the enlightenment laptop surroundings you may create an ibar with a chain of icons in your favourite programs however on top of this you could also define your favored programs in order that they appear at the menu under a favourites sub-class and also at the context menu which is obtainable by means of right clicking along with your mouse.

I will cowl ibars and shelves in a future manual but nowadays i am going to show you the way to define preferred packages.

Open up the settings panel by left clicking anywhere at the computing device and selecting “settings -> settings panel” from the menu that looks.

When the settings panel seems click at the “apps” icon at the top. A new list of menu alternatives will appear. Click on “favourite applications”.

A list of all the applications installed in your computer will seem. To set an application as a fave click it till the little circle lights up. When you have completed lighting fixtures up programs on this way press either “observe” or “good enough”.

The difference among “practice” and “adequate” is as follows. Whilst you click on “practice” the modifications are made but the settings screen remains open. Whilst you click on “ok” the modifications are made and the settings display screen closes.

To check that the packages were introduced as favourites left click on the desktop till the menu appears and there ought to be a brand new sub-class known as “favored programs”. The packages you brought as favourites should appear in the sub-category.

Every other manner to bring up your preferred applications listing is to proper click on on the computer with the mouse.

Every so often the changes do not appear to have worked. If this occurs you would possibly need to restart the computer environment. This will be executed by means of left clicking on the desktop and from the menu pick out “enlightenment – restart”.

You may trade the order of the favourite applications. Click on at the order link at the top of the fave programs settings window.

Click on on every of the programs and then click at the “up” and “down” buttons to change the order of the listing.

Click “ok” or “observe” to keep the adjustments.

Default programs

This segment will display you a way to set the default applications for various document sorts.

Open up the settings panel (left click on on desktop, pick settings -> settings panel) and from the apps menu pick “default packages”.

A settings screen will appear on the way to let you pick the default net browser, e-mail consumer, report supervisor, trash application and terminal.

To set the applications click on each link in turn after which pick out the software you need to be related to it.

For example to set chromium as your default browser, click on on “browser” inside the left pane after which inside the right pane pick “chromium”. Manifestly you’ll want to have established chromium first. Inside bodhi linux you may do this by means of the usage of the app middle.

Glaringly this screen only offers with a few center packages. In case you need finer granularity so you an pick out this system to be related to xml files, png files, document documents and each other extension you may think of and likely many more pick the “fashionable” link.

From the “popular” tab you may click on on any of the record kinds in the listing on the left and partner it with an software.

How are you going to take a look at whether the settings have labored? Click on a document with a .Html file extension after putting chromium as the default browser. Chromium ought to load.

Startup applications

While i am getting to paintings within the morning there are some of applications that i begin regular without fail. Those include net explorer (sure i work with windows at some stage in the day), outlook, visible studio, toad and %.

It makes feel therefore to have those applications in the startup listing so they load with out me having to click on at the icons.

While i am at domestic ninety nine.99% of the time i need to apply the internet and so it makes sense to have a browser window to open at startup.

To do that with the enlightenment computing device surroundings deliver up the settings panel and from the programs tab pick out “startup applications”.

The “startup packages” settings screen has three tabs:

• Device
• Packages
• Order

Normally you may need to leave the system applications alone.

To start a browser or your e mail client on startup click on on the “applications” tab and pick the applications you desire to start after which press the “upload” button.

Click on “apply” or “adequate” to make the adjustments.

You may take a look at out the settings by way of restarting your pc.

Other programs displays

You may have noticed that i disregarded the “screen lock programs” and “screen unlock packages”.

I tried both of these options out and they did not do what i anticipated them to. I notion that by means of setting packages as display lock application this will make the ones programs available even though the display screen is locked.

Regrettably this doesn’t appear like the case.

Further i figured that display unlock packages might purpose programs to load after entering the password to liberate the display screen however again sadly this does not seem like the case.

I tried searching out documentation on these displays however this is fairly thin at the floor.

I also attempted asking in the bodhi and enlightenment irc rooms. The bodhi group tried to help however had no facts as to what those monitors are for however i couldn’t get any data from the enlightenment chat room.

If there are any enlightenment developers which could shed mild in this please touch me through the g+ or e-mail hyperlinks above.

Observe that there is a “restart applications” alternative inside the settings panel. Those applications start each time you restart the enlightenment computing device and the settings display screen works in exactly the same way as the “startup applications”

Summary

That is it for contemporary guide. In the subsequent part i will show a way to alter the number of virtual computer systems and a way to personalize them.