Frequently Asked Questions

1. EDE Related

1.1. What is EDE

EDE is shortuct for Equinox Desktop Environment. For the details, see AboutEde.

1.2. EDE looks like win9x

Many desktop environments look like or resembles Win9x look in some way. As you probably noticed there are two popular standards in desktop environment look: Win9x and MacOS. Everything else is variation of those two (not counting NeXT variants and environments with experimental concepts).

1.3. I would install it if it does not look like win9x

We often find posts like this or something like no invention. People who sais this have no idea how much companies spend time and money on research for usable and good UI design. If users wants invention, let as know for your ideas, and they will be implemented. No invention is only contentless phrase. Give us the content.

1.4. I downloaded FLTK, but EDE won't compile

You can't compile EDE 1.x with FLTK. This EDE version uses eFLTK, a modified FLTK version.

1.5. How do I add EDE to my GDM/KDM

This differs among various Linux distributions. Here are instruction for some most popular distros:

• Debian (and derivations): In directory /usr/share/xsessions/ create a new file named ede.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=EDE
Comment=This session logs you into Equinox Desktop Environment
Exec=startede
TryExec=startede
Type=Application

• RedHat (and derivations): In directory /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ (replace kdm with gdm if necessary) create the file named 99EDE.desktop with the same contents as above.

• Mandrake (and derivations): In /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ create a file named 99EDE with the following content:

NAME=EDE
ICON=
DESC=Equinox Desktop Environment
EXEC=/usr/bin/startede
SCRIPT:
exec /usr/bin/startede

• Suse: Do the same as for RedHat. Then edit file named --- - you will notice a list of window managers. Add startede to this list.

1.6. I am getting make errors on BSD's

Make sure you have GNU make installed first. EDE can't be built with BSDs default make.

2. eFLTK related

2.1. What is eFLTK

eFLTK was a fork of never-released FLTK 2.0 version started by Mikko Lahteenmaki. This fork in time becomes very modified and extended, adding support for XML, network, databased and etc.

2.2. Is there any documentation

API documentation can be found on http://equinox-project.org/api/efltk (it describes 2.0.3 version, but can be used for the latest version too). Also, if you already did something with any FLTK version, you are already familiar with the large part of eFLTK.

2.3. Is eFLTK still in development

No. eFLTK is deprecated and the future EDE versions will use stable FLTK 1.x releases.