In the BrushedMetal-Tigert theme for enlightenment which is the default that it comes up with after you install E, none of the root window menus are not readable because of a font issue with the default menu font specified in: /usr/X11R6/share/enlightenment/themes/BrushedMetal-Tigert/menustyles/menustyles.cfg I tried changing the default menu font in the above file (since the one specified is not available on the SuSE-9.2 x86_64 system I just installed here) to one that was available but it made no change to the menus. That default font BTW specified in the above file is "-*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" Also the way I was able to get enlightenment to be my default window manager was to do the following: export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment