Enlightenment Questions

[tarzan420]

First off, does anyone have suggestions on good places for Enlightenment documentation? What is included is, well, less than satisfactory.

Next, is there a way to span a background across a virtual desktop? Eg, My virtual desktops are 2 screens wide by 1 screen tall; i want to be able to see the left side of the image on one screen and the right side on the other. Any ideas?

[trilarian]

The homepage is here (http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/main.html) . You could always take an image into gimp and crop out four equal squares. Save them to 4 different files then load each one in a different desktop. Would give the illusion of one big image.

[tarzan420]

Yeah, I already checked out the page. The document on the page consists of: use dox.

dox is good, but it lacks the information that i need. I crave detailed documentation!

The other thing is, I am talking about virtual desktops, not multiple desktops. Even If I did split up the Image, as far as I can tell there isn't a way to set two parts of one virtual desktop to have different backgrounds.

any other ideas?

[johntramp]

hey did you ever work this out?

[Uranus]

If I understand correctly - you're talking about twin view. Maybe this can help you?
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Using_multiple_monitors_with_XFree86
And here is a working XF86Config:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/t/x/txn131/linux/i5100/node12.html
If you want a different wallpaper on 2 monitors, just take to different wallpapers and use the GIMP to paste them next to each other.
You're not really clear about what you want with the desktop-thingie... Perhaps you could clarify?
HTH
Sam

[johntramp]

what I mean is I am using enlightenment with a couple of virtual desktops - not multiple desktops , and all the virtual desktops have the same wallpaper.

I am wanting to have separate wallpapers over the different desktops.

thanks

[Uranus]

Ah - I see what you mean now. Maybe wmsetbg (from windowmaker) works for you. KDE has support for that as well, maybe they have an app that you can use.
The problem is, I think, that afaik E isn't very compatible - and I don't think Esetroot has the option.
Sam

[johntramp]

yea i have found a few little annoying things with E lately, I am trying fluxbox now to see how that compares.