I've been a XFCE user since 2005, probably earlier, and every time I try a new Gnome or KDE desktop, I get back to XFCE. It works, it's light, the panel works just fine, Alt-Tab works as expected, Alt-` switches between windows of the same program (like the dozen terminals I keep opening all the time), you can have several virtual desktops and Ctrl-Alt-arrow to change between them. It supports icons on the desktop, icons on the menu, and takes very little memory.
The other desktop environment that I used extensively is Cinnamon. It's fast, it's pretty, everything works, and maybe someday I will take the time to build it under RedHat Enterprise, the distro I am forced to use because it's the company issued Thinkpad that I explicitly requested (otherwise I would have been issued a MacBook or the Air variant). But as XFCE is as good as Cinnamon, I have little incentive to install dozens and dozens of libraries and wrestle with make to, well, make it. Mauro https://www.maurosouza.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. Em qui., 21 de out. de 2021 às 14:30, Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]> escreveu: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 19:59, Stewart C. Russell via talk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2021-10-20 11:03, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > > > > > > When a desktop going from version 2 to 3 throws away everything users > > > are used to, and the developers simply don't care, then it deserves any > > > hate it receives. > > > > Yup. The main reason for Gnome removing desktop icons was that the code > > was buggy. They didn't ask the users whether they wanted the bugs fixed > > or the icons gone. They picked the latter. TBH, I'm still mad at Gnome > > for getting rid of the bar you could dismiss with a click and it made > > the Strar Trek door noise. I think that went in Gnome 1.2 → Gnome 2.0 > > > > I've just switched to xubuntu. I think it uses XFCE. So far (10 minutes > > in) it mostly works. It does fail on one thing, though: > > > > > Let me alt+tab between the windows. > > > > I can't seem to do that. And I can't cycle between workspaces, either. I > > hope it's not because I'm using an Apple keyboard. It's the least > > disappointing keyboard I've tried, but Linux barely understands it. > > (Admittedly from memory:) try Ctrl-Alt-<left|right>-arrow-keys to > change desktops. That is, of course, if you can find those keys on > the Apple keyboard: Control-Option-arrow? > > -- > Giles > https://www.gilesorr.com/ > [email protected] > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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