> Maybe that'll give you some clues on how to modify the LXDE panel
> (taskbar).

Ohhhh....  I didn't want to have to work that hard for it.  :-)  XFCE
is also lightweight, fast, nice-looking and relatively easy to
customize without having to hack into config files and restart the
session to see the changes.  I can't get transparency to work right in
the terminals, and it handles dual monitors in a unique way, but I can
live with that.  However, I do appreciate the info.  Info like that is
always useful.  One day I might find I have to switch for some reason.

I imagine that the LXDE folks, and the Unity folks, have someone other
than me in mind as a target audience.  They both seem designed for
folks who use computers for pretty standard tasks and who don't
already spend their days mucking around in the bit-bin anyway, and
that's a really good thing to have available.  But, for the folks who
don't do standard things, it can be frustrating.

That's been my impression of Ubuntu in general.  If you need to do
something they've made easy for you, doing that thing is very, very
easy.  If you need to do something else, it can be very, very
difficult, if not nearly impossible.  But, we now have VM's, so that's
not such a big problem anymore, at least in some cases.

:-) L

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Rob Owens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:20:32AM -0500, Lachele Foley (Lists) wrote:
>> Regarding LXDE:  I decided to try it when I came in this morning.  I
>> like the look and feel of it, and the appearance customizations are
>> good.  It seems, indeed, lightweight and fast.  If it is, indeed,
>> stable, that is also good, but I'm not sure I can use it.  However,
>> after far more fiddling than should be necessary, I finally figured
>> out how to start a terminal window without sifting through layers of
>> menus.  I do almost everything from a terminal window, and sometimes
>> open dozens over the course of a day, so making that hard to do drives
>> me nuts.  I never did figure out how to add it to the task bar.  In
>
> On my system I have an empty folder:  ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE
>
> I also see some interesting files in /usr/share/lxpanel/profile
>
> Maybe that'll give you some clues on how to modify the LXDE panel
> (taskbar).
>
> -Rob
>
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