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Welcome to
Equinox Desktop Environment is a small and powerfull graphical environment for X Window System. It is built on eFLTK (extended FLTK), heavily
modified FLTK 2.0 library. Comparing to other desktop environments, Equinox is very fast (even on slow machines)
and has a low memory footprint. EDE is not just a window manager! It provides things like multiple desktops, nice workpanel, wallpapers, theming support, icons, front end for your usual tasks. Also
there is Xft (font anti-aliasing) support and various GUI effects.
Components of the EDE package are:
- edewm: a ICCCM-compliant window manager
- eiconman: the "desktop"
- eworkpanel: containing taskbar, main menu, clock and many other applets
- econtrol: a desktop control panel with several useful applets
- einstaller: program (package) installer
- efinder: file search program
- emenueditor, etimedate etc.
Tune in to EDE, because it is becoming better every day.
Getting help
If you require further assistance, we advise you to visit:
The latter web site also contains forums, bug report tool and mailing lists.
Get EDE!
EDE is improved daily! So if you have problems, it is very possible that they are already fixed.
To get the latest EDE version, visit our homepage.
You can get EDE from:
- distribution-agnostic binary packages (RPM) - it should be possible to
install these packages on any distribution produced since January 1st, 2001.; on non-RPM
distributions you can install the rpm software or use a tool called "alien"
- distribution-specific binary packages - contain optimizations for a specific Linux distribution
- source code packages (tar.gz) - you should be able to compile them on any *nix
system, including FreeBSD and Solaris; just unpack and use commands
./configure; make; make install
- anonymous SVN access - use the following commands to download the latest development
version of EDE from our SVN server:
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ede/trunk/efltk
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ede/trunk/ede
After these commands compile first efltk then ede. Use "autoconf" to produce the configure script, then proceed as usual.
When you are updating EDE be sure to use the matching version of eFLTK! eFLTK is developing together
with EDE, also many bugs are really caused by eFLTK problems, so it is critical that you update eFLTK
together with EDE or you might have errors and other problems.
$Revision: 1738 $
Copyright (c) 2000-2006. EDE Authors
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