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Enlightenmen - my window manager of choice
I would like to encourage You to use my favourite window manager -the Enlightenment. If You're using a fairly recent linux distribution, You probably have it on Your harddrive. You may not know about this still stumbling in the dark, thinking that Your only choices are KDE or GNOME. But Enlightenment is there waiting to be discovered and bring some light into Your Linx box :)
I personlly use E for over a year, and it's definately THE window manager for Linux (my road to E begun in the old days with FVWM, then I moved to AfterStep and after brief encounters with GNOME and KDE I finally found e(E)nlightenment). E is at its best when copled with Enlightened File Manger (known as EFM). Together these two pieces of software createa combination that is fast , stable (even though EFM is an "alpha, developement, unmantained" and theoreticaly not available anymore) and surprisingly functional. It is also IMHO the best looking desktop solution now available on Linux (and possibly any operating system). the freedom of choice and power thay give to the user reflect the very philosophical foundations that make Linux so great.

the current stable version of E is labeled 0.16.5. EFM is an "officialy dead" project (although most of its functionality will be integrated into E 0.17), but fortunately You can still get its source code. To run You will also need some libraries (available at the same place in source code tarballs, or at Enlightenment's Sourcefoge page): Imlib2 and edb. you will also need fam, and preferably Imon kernel module - You can get them both at SGI's open source page.

My small addition to Enlightenment project is the modification of Imlib2 library that allows it to display all glyphs present in the True type font file, specificaly notional characters from ISO encodings.

The ultimate place to look for info on Enlightenment and all it's surrounding projects are the homepages of its main authors: Rasterman and Mandrake.
ADAM KISIEL
15 Mar 2001