At 12:30am, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

>
> It would appear that on Feb 15, P Purkayastha did say:
>
>> You need to look into enlightenment_remote in e17. It has got command line
>> logout and keybinding settings.
>
> I thank you... enlightenment_remote looks to be as close to what I'm
> looking for in e17 as I'm ever going to get. It's going to take a bit
> to figure out how to use some of it's features though. I don't suppose
> there's a good tutorial or How-To around that doesn't assume the user
> understands the syntax or terminology used...
> (looking at "enlightenment_remote --help" it took me at least five
> minutes to get the idea that "OPT1" wasn't the literal name of some
> options file)
>
> I did find the the -logout, -shutdown, & -reboot options interesting. I
> did a partial test. I was disappointed two learn that these options
> don't bypass the confirmation pop-ups That still don't listen to the
> keyboard... Though actually I "LIKE" a confirmation that I hadn't just
> fat-fingered a keybinding... I just want a KEYbinding for confirming
> that I want to logout...
>
> On the other hand as a startx user I was pleased to learn that the
> -shutdown will actually get the 'puter to poweroff (after I "click" on
> the confirmation box of course...) It usually seams that this is only
> available for normal users when they logged in via something like
> kdm or gdm... Or when they have the time to enter a password for su or
> sudo.
>

There are three things worth noting:

  1. You can shut up the confirmation dialogs: Settings->Dialogs.

  2. The confirmation dialogs usually come up with default setting at "No". 
You can press "Tab" and then "Enter" to execute "Yes". If you use a theme 
like detour (http://code.google.com/p/detour/), it actually highlights the 
option "Yes" or "No" that is currently chosen.

  3. If you want to logout immediately, give the -exit option to 
enlightenment_remote.


>> Once you have setup your key, mouse, etc bindings you can use this script
>> to store them as a bash executable file (a lot of other settings are also
>> stored):
>> http://ppurka.googlepages.com/e17_setup.sh
>
>
> Thanks again! does this mean I can save the setup to a file and then
> load that file into an e17 installation on another linux install to
> "clone" the environment. Heck even if "enlightenment_remote" didn't
> offer hope of eventually knowing enough to bypass the gui tools, the
> ability to only have to do it once. .  .    .        (wow!)
>

No, not all the settings. Only a part of the settings can be stored, 
depending on how much enlightenment_remote supports and how much the 
script can automatically save. In particular, you can never get back your 
shelf settings, but you will get back all the modules that you want 
loaded. I mainly use this to backup my key, mouse, wheel and signal 
bindings and my window focus settings. There is one drawback which I have 
not been able to address: if you run the output produced by this script, 
that should delete all the current key/mouse/signal/wheel bindings and 
then introduce your settings; however some *duplicates* remain. I think 
e17 does not allow you to delete certain keybindings, mousebindings, etc.

The output file it creates is a bash script. You can easily open the 
output file in an editor and see what commands the output file will 
potentially run.

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