Fast, flexible desktops for those who like it their way.

Desktop

Window Manager

Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our Source page for our latest source code repositories.

The project is currently primarily supporting X11 but has experimental Wayland support.

Libraries

Toolkit C Libraries Re-Usable for Applications

The EFL libraries used for building the Desktop Shell can be used for building any applications you like. They will all match the desktop and follow the theme looks consistently.

Platforms

Multi-Platform Support

Enlightenment ports to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, with EFL Also porting to Mac and Windows as well allowing applications to be built cross-platform.

Thanks

Thanks To

We run as an open source project. People may contribute because they like to or because they are paid - but no one gets more preferred access than anyone else. The intent is to release everything under liberal open source licenses with no restrictions on those using such works except the usual "share alike" clauses found in LGPLv2, BSD etc.

We also receive other types of contributions. Our community files bug reports, does translations, as well as simply providing feedback.

This entire website runs on a machine bought with donations from developers and the community. Donations are highly appreciated. We have a non-profit Enlightenment foundation based in France, which acts as custodian of such funds until they are needed.

This server is hosted at OSUOSL who use their infrastructure to keep many open source projects running.

Our DNS is kindly provided by EasyDNS.

Many of our Enlightenment Developer Days events have been sponsored and paid for by Samsung and have recently been hosted by Openwide, now part of SmileEU.