E17 User Guide/Configuration

Enlightenment is very configurable. Nearly everything about the appearance and behavior of the environment may be changed through the Configuration Panel, which is handily available in the Main menu under Configuration, and reachable by clicking any point on the desktop. Also available in the Configuration menu are a few shortcuts to most common Configuration Panel items.

Enlightenment configurations are stored in the ~/.e/e/config/ directory, which may be safely deleted to restore your installation to a default configuration profile.

The Appearance category provides straightforward "paintjob" type configurations.

• Wallpaper
• Theme
• Colors
• Fonts
• Borders
• Icon Theme
• Mouse Cursor
• Transitions
• Startup
• Dropshadow

Enlightenment follows the freedesktop standard of using ./desktop files to control how programs are executed and presented. The Applications category allows you to easily create these files from your installed applictions, add them to the IBar module, and control when they are run. More information about how Enlightenment implements this standard can be found on the Efreet pages.

• New Application
• IBar Applications
• Restart Applications
• Startup Applications

Changes to the dimension and behaviour of your screen are available from the Screen category.

• Virtual Desktops
• Screen Resolution
• Screen Lock
• Screen Saver
• Power Management

Customizing keyboard and mouse bindings and behaviours is done through the Keyboard & Mouse category.

• Key Bindings
• Mouse Bindings
• Mouse Acceleration

The Windows category provides options for changing how to interact with and manipulate windows.

• Window Display
• Window Focus
• Window Manipulation
• Window List

The Menus category allows the behaviour and contents of menus to be changed.

• Favorites Menu
• Menu Settings
• Client List Menu

Language and input settings can be changed from this category.

• Language Settings
• Input Method Settings

Changes to Enlightenment's internal behaviours and resources can be made through the Advanced category.

• Dialogs
• Interaction
• Performance
• Run Command
• Search Directories
• Profiles
• Engine

External modules may require custom configuration, which is provided through the Extensions category. The list of Items which appears for this category may change based on loaded modules.

• Modules
• Shelves
• Pager
• Itask NG

The File Manager included with Enlightenment has some of its own configuration items, which are accessible from this category.

• File Manager
• File Icons