On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 18:59, Jacek Generowicz
Magnus Therning wrote:
Another option that you might find worth exploring is using one of the lighter desktop environments, such as XFCE or LXDE. I think both of them would allow you to move away from Gnome/Unity without having to invest so heavily in finding replacements for all the parts of Gnome/Unity that "make things just work".
Any thoughts choosing between XFCE and LXDE, if I should try going down this route?
I recently threw out Gnome3 in favour of Xmonad+LXDE (with lxdm). I had a brief look at XFCE first, but it looked a bit more complicated to get XFCE to use Xmonad so I decided to try LXDE first and haven't found any reason to bother with XFCE yet :) I wrote the page on setting up Xmonad in LXDE and it's rather short and sweet. Personally I haven't found anything in LXDE that's limiting *me* in my computer usage. What I've noticed so far is: • wicd doesn't have good support for VPN yet (you can use post-connect scripts, but that's very rudimentary compared to NM) • the randr application in LXDE (lxrandr) is not nearly as capable as the one in Gnome3 /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus