The Arch Anywhere XFCE pretty much looked identical to their OpenBox, but used 192M of memory....
I don't feel like exporting an appliance, but if you try, you need to install the ARch anywhere Repository this time. I also did an arch-anywhere -u first On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Nat Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is a link to an .ova Virtualbox Appliance that is an Arch Linux > installation created by Arch-Anywhere > that has the following desktops installed: > Budgie > Cinnamon > LXDE > Mate > Openbox > > (The menu says there's gnome options but they dont work, I didn't install > gnome. I tried to install the Arch-Anywere custom XFCE, but it didn't > install for some reason, maybe I need to select XFCE from the menu too. > The install was fairly quick an painless, although it should be noted that > the Arch Anywhere installer crashes if you select the Arch Anywhere > Repository from the Additional Software menu; it says its already in the > database but doesn't install. IT also crashed if you selected (one of, > probably the later) gnome group and/or gtk3(Experimental). Everything is > already installed here so don't worry about it unless you're trying to > replicate this) > > It uses Lightdm for the Display Manger, and you can select the Desktop > Enviroment by clicking on the little icon on the top right of the screen, > on the left side of the little line of icons. > > The username is dude > the password is AbitaAbider22@ > the root password is dugPLUGwhatalug! > > If you're paranoid I got sneaky and hid some evil stuff in there, disable > the networking through Virtualbox, but I don't have the time or desire to > do so, and besides, I imagine this is the wrong list to mess with... > > The custom Arch Anywhere OpenBox is very Haxxor... I actually kinda like > it, but Htop says its not quite as fast as LXDE > Budgie used the most memory, followed by Cinnamon (which said it would be > faster if it wasn't running in frame buffer due to video drivers), followed > by Mate, then, OpenBox, the LXDE > > Mate (246M) felt the most familiar, due to past gnome2 use. LXDE (162M) > was lightning fast and it looked good, and I might be able to get used to > that l33t Arch Anywhere OpenBox(174M)... > > > I'm not sure if it's fair to just logout and start a new desktop > environment, but thats what I did, and the results seemed consistent... > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Mw4QXQzulid1BsWEVfbFVieHc/ > view?usp=sharing > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Nat Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I do like it >> > when there's that mac-like icon dock (conky? docker? i forget), which I >> > have seen on both distros. >> > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > Is this what you are thinking about: >> http://glx-dock.org/ >> It is what I run (it is called Cairo Dock) but it does all of that Mac >> stuff too. Very >> configurable. >> >> Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- >> Glass, five thousand years of history and getting better. >> The only container material that the USDA gives blanket approval on. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
