Re: October GNOME Desktop

[bill helke cp Novartis com]

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 13:38:44 -0500 (EST) Jason A. Pfeil (pfeil@nu.cs.fsu.edu)
wrote:
" This is a "feature" from enlightenment which believes that only E should
handle the clicks on the  root window. The key is to delete the cached E
keybindings file (~/.enlightenment/cached/cfg/<path to
enlightenment>.config.keybindings.cfg.preparsed) and copy the keybindings
file from <path to enlightenment>/config/keybindings to your
~/.enlightenment and edit it to reenable the mouse clicks on the desktop to
not be handled by E."
in response to Joshua Pruitt's original: 
"I apologize if this has been asked before...  I'm running Red Hat 6.1,
October GNOME, Enlightenment 0.16, etc. on an x86. 
So I decide to upgrade to October GNOME. I unload my current GNOME
distribution, download the RPMs, install 'em, zap .gnome/ and friends,  and
fire it up. 
Everything works beautifully, except for one small thing.  The best I can
explain it - my desktop functions seem a bit  non-functional. For example, I
cannot click'n drag to select and move desktop icons, and a right-click on
the desktop does not pull up a GNOME context menu. Nada. I would like to get
that functionality back. 
 For what it's worth, I upgraded enlightenment at about the same time,  but
I'm not sure that has much to do with it - this doesn't work when I  run
Window Maker with GNOME either.  
Any ideas? "

Here's an even better idea.  Live within the framework of enlightenment and
love it.  Just use "Alt" with your right mouse button to bring up your GNOME
root window menu.  No GNOME support in the root window has been removed with
enlightenment DR16, you simply have to get used to e's mouse bindings in the
root window.  I would also suggest that you leave the root window help popup
on until you get used to these mousebindings.  I know it's annoying to see
this help popup every time you let your mouse sit idle in the root window,
but you will pick up other mouse binding information quickly if you read
this popup carefully.

William F. Helke
Chemical Synthesis - Development Resources
Greensboro  Ext. 7213