enlightenment

Update: August 2019 _

I have switched to i3wm (for some time now) exclusively due to its speed and lightweight. I'll have to write a post about that experience some time.

e20 _

enlightenment has been my window manager of choice for a very long time maintly because of its speed. I used to run window maker and then fluxbox before I made the switch to enlightenment (0.16 at the time iirc).

e20 - feb2016 _

enlightnement 0.20 caused all sorts of graphics problems

i tried a bunch of different things, like hardware and software rendering without luck

the problems I had were many

• chrome kept freezing which only began happening in the new e. I managed to work around it by disabling GL in chrome
• pidgin systray icon went away
• sluggish UI after hours of usage
• while using hardware rendering, windows would just render bloack
  • no matter what I did, restart e, minimize/shade/move window, etc
• while using software rendering
  • really high cpu usage
• under both hardware and software I would see windows flickering all the time
  • windows would not redraw properly quite item
  • notably xterm which is just not acceptable

This is an attempt to keep an ongoing document that describes the issues and fixes i've encountered.