I really loved Enlightenment WM in the old days sort of pre 13.x if I remember correctly in the days of Mandrake, not that anything is wrong with the current maintainer, I thought I'd give it a try since we seem to be caught in barbed-wire (sorry should be a quagmire) with Gnome3, Unity and the like. I sort of like e17 but soon found it wanting in that no Alt F2 to run commands without accessing the menu.
Here's a fix if you have that problem;
We are going to install gexec and bind the Alt F2 keystroke to that command so here
goes:(Actually this seems to give you g3 + uni T functionality) nah g3 does more.
If you don't already have gexec installed just type agi gexec (agi stands for apt-get install a short cut/alias you should add to your .bashrc see my previous posts with loads of other apt-get short cuts/aliases you can add to your /root/.bashrc unless you want to mod them and add a sudo in front of all the aliases in your $HOME/.bashrc Once gexec is installed, from your terminal run gexec notice the other options funky huh? or was that fun key, ok ok that wasn't funny. I was only trying to get you to notice the 'run in terminal' and 'run as root' options, back to the prg.
Key
-> = goto
From your menu -> Settings -> Settings Panel That should start your Settings (App)lication
In the Scrollable menu options at the top of the Settings App select Key Bindings
In the left pane (Key Bindings) Scroll Down to Alt + F2
In the right pane (Action) scroll down to Launch then Select Command
(just below Launch)
then at the bottom of the right hand pane you will see Action Params
delete whatever is in that field and type in the location of your freshly installed gexec which in my case was /usr/bin/gexec. To find yours at the terminal type which gexec return, that will give you the location.
This seems simple enough in one of the very early Linux Window Managers hopefully this procedure is not limited to Enlightenment might be slightly different in the other Window Managers.
Hope this helps or keeps you happy whilst they make their minds up about Gnome3/Unity/?!?.
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