I've downloaded some themes for E and have some obscure errors appear when I try to use them. I get messages like: ****************** Warning: unable to determine what to do with the following text in the middle of current Text Definition: (or WindowMatch) _FILL RULE _SCALE (this is sometimes blank) will ignore and continue... ****************** There are 3 choices ignore, exit, and restart window manager. Selecting ignore brings up similar errors and the theme tries to start but only partially loads? I'm stumped anybody know what is causing this? RH6.0, PII400, 128M, 17.5G-IDE ATI-RagePro Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
I'm stumped anybody know what is causing this?
Yep, it means that the version of E that you're running is too old for the theme. Often the themes on http://e.themes.org/ are designed for the bleeding edge version of enlightenment (currently DR16-cvs). At the moment, enlightenment's theme language is changing rather quickly, so these themes from DR16 can't be understood by DR15 and DR15.5. All I can suggest is that you download a few more and keep trying - *most* of them should work in DR15.5 from what I can tell. Paul [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Paul Russell wrote:
I'm stumped anybody know what is causing this?
Yep, it means that the version of E that you're running is too old for the theme. Often the themes on http://e.themes.org/ are designed for the bleeding edge version of enlightenment (currently DR16-cvs).
At the moment, enlightenment's theme language is changing rather quickly, so these themes from DR16 can't be understood by DR15 and DR15.5. All I can suggest is that you download a few more and keep trying - *most* of them should work in DR15.5 from what I can tell.
Yep, e 0.15.5 should be considered the 'stable' release in terms of theming right now. I have a 0.16 theme which, bar two errors, works perfectly. Check the version number for the individual theme on e.themes.org before download. FWIW, I'm running nIx on DR15.5 very nicely. I do have my own question though: the E Pager is featured in all the screenshots as having one Window to every screen, whereas my own (standard) has all four screens in the one Window. How do I change this? James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Russell <Paul.Russell@uea.ac.uk> To: <alug@stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [alug] Themes for E?
Yep, it means that the version of E that you're running is too old for the theme. Often the themes on http://e.themes.org/ are designed for the bleeding edge version of enlightenment (currently DR16-cvs).
I'm being thick again, what are cvs files is it some sort of packaging like rpm?
At the moment, enlightenment's theme language is changing rather quickly, so these themes from DR16 can't be understood by DR15 and DR15.5. All I can suggest is that you download a few more and keep trying - *most* of them should work in DR15.5 from what I can tell.
The version that ships with RH6.0 is version 0.15.5 (development) so some of the themes should work. The particular theme I wanted to try is Absolute E which I saw on I think your machine Paul at ALUG2. Which release of E are you using to enable this? Is my problem anything to do with my distribution (can't really see that being the cause though). Do I dump RedHat and install Debian? Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 08:24:03AM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
I'm being thick again, what are cvs files is it some sort of packaging like rpm?
"CVS" is an acronym for the "Concurrent Versions System". CVS is a "Source Control" or "Revision Control" tool designed to keep track of source changes made by groups of developers working on the same files, allowing them to stay in sync with each other as each individual chooses. Source: http://gille.loria.fr:7000/cgi-bin/faqomatic/faq.pl So, for ordinary users, CVS can be a way to get at the very latest development version without waiting for a tarball to be made. MJR [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
Hi yas -
The particular theme I wanted to try is Absolute E which I saw on I think your machine Paul at ALUG2. Which release of E are you using to enable this?
I'm using DR15.5 in debian. Absolute_E does through two errors on startup, but is fine after that. I've got a feeling that debian have tweeked their copy of 15.5, because it's got the pager, which in theory only goes live as of DR16. I *wouldn't* recomend getting enlightenment on CVS unless you're fairly confident about what you're doing. It'll break package dependancies for a start, meaning that you will probably have to compile anything that relys on enlightenment, imlib, esound, stringlist etc from sources, which (a) takes ages (b) is a major pain in the bum, and (c) is prone to errors unless you're very confident about managing libraries etc. Put it this way - I won't be running the CVS version, or at least certainly not under debian (although I'd consider it under slackware, because there isn't any package management to speak of). Paul PS - please excuse poor grammer/spelling - I'm feeling lazy ;-) [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Paul Russell wrote:
Hi yas -
The particular theme I wanted to try is Absolute E which I saw on I think your machine Paul at ALUG2. Which release of E are you using to enable this?
I'm using DR15.5 in debian. Absolute_E does through two errors on startup, but is fine after that. I've got a feeling that debian have tweeked their copy of 15.5, because it's got the pager, which in theory only goes live as of DR16.
BJ, Paul, I just downloaded the latest abosolute_e from e.themes.org. No problems whatsoever with it, not even those two FILE_RULE errors. Just dowbload it, su into root and mv them into /usr/local/enlightenment/themes or wherever you keep them, restart e to make it recognise the new theme, and select it. Using the E15.5 source tarball. wrt the pager: iirc it was introduced shortly before 15.5 was released. As such, the control to switch it off at startup and practically everything else pager-y is in 0.16. Search the gnome-list archives around the time of 0.15.5's release for the line in the source code to switch it off (all fyi). Suggestion: try out http://e.themes.org/sqlgal.cgi?themeid=931490804 (minEguE). Woa, this absolute_e sure has strange border-handling! James. - he says as his terminal slides across the screen ("...damnation!") [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver@stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]
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