Enlightenment (window manager)

Enlightenment
Original author(s)Carsten Haitzler
Developer(s)Enlightenment development team
Initial release1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Stable release
0.26.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 23 December 2023
Repository
Written inC (EFL)
Operating systemUnix-like
Type
LicenseBSD 2-Clause[2]
Websitewww.enlightenment.org

Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System. Since version 0.20, Enlightenment also supports Wayland.[3] It is shipped with some Linux distributions such as Bodhi Linux and Pentoo.[4]

Enlightenment is only a window manager at its core; however, with many modules included, it can be extended to resemble a full desktop environment.[5] Since version 0.17 (E17), Enlightenment has been written with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), and the Enlightenment project also writes a set of applications with the EFL.

  1. ^ "Enlightenment 0.26.0 Release". 23 December 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Enlightenment/COPYING at master". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Enlightenment DR 0.20.0 Release". Enlightenment.org. Archived from the original on 21 June 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. ^ Zinoune, M. (10 July 2012). "Enlightenment distributions that are still alive!". Unixmen. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Portal:Enlightenment". en.opensuse.org. 2012-12-21. Archived from the original on 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2014-06-17.