Gnome and Enlightenment?

[venkman]

I'm running redhat 8.0 and was wondering if there was a way to change gnome's window manager to enlightenment, so that I'm running gnome and enlightenment at the same time? I used to do this in redhat 7.2, but can't seem to figure it out in 8.0. Is it still possible? What about kde with enlightenment?
Thanks,
Venkman

 

[VladTsyrklevich]

Well first of GNOME got replaced in RH 8.0 with BlueCurve so are you talking about GNOME or BlueCurve? In KDE you cant KDE has their own WM but in GNOME there in the GNOME control panel there should be a tab for window manangers and inside there if englihtement isn't an option then you probably dont have it installed. But you are probably currently running BlueCurve...

 

[venkman]

Sorry about the delay in my response. I'm guesing I'm using Blue Curve since I have not fooled around too much with the defaults. However, the help file for what I'm assuming is Blue Curve does refer to itself as Gnome. How does Blue Curve differ from Gnome 2.0? Are they very similar?
Is there way to change the WM in Blue Curve? I'm assuming the answer is no, but I thought I would ask anyways.

-Venkman

 

[Norwich]

Blue Curve is the Redhat designed group of themes that work with both KDE and Gnome (and gtk, nautillus etc) - it's set up as default theme for both so you get a 'standard' feel for whichever you choose to use.

BlueCurve itself is not a window manager or desktop env.

 

[Murple]

I really wish RedHat would ship with Enlightenment again. Not only does it not come on the CDs in an RPM, but the source doesn't seem to compile and run properly with RH8.0

This new Bluecurve or whatever desktop is horrible. I installed RH8.0 on my laptop and it totally destroyed the X setup I've developed over the years and come to love. I use a combination of Gnome and Enlightenment. I'm glad I only installed RH8.0 on my laptop and not my primary computer. I would've been very upset if I had found all my X settings replaced with this ugly and imbecilic GUI that RedHat has dumped on us. If I wanted a poorly customizable, clunky, "user friendly" system, I'd run Windoze.

If RedHat doesn't bring back Enlightenment and give users more choice in customizing their X setup... well, I'm not installing RH8.0 on any of my other systems and am evaluating other distributions now.