I was in a similar situation and finally I replaced XFCE with gnome-fallback & compiz. I had some configuration difficulties with themes (are changed in dconf editor), but now I'm very happy with this setting!!
2013/8/17 Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> > > On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 01:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 19:18 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > > > mate is not in the repos, thus, not officially supported. nothing > > > about ubuntustudio should prevent you from using mate if you want. i > > > would refer to documentation for adding/using mate in ubuntu, since > > > ubuntustudio *is* ubuntu.. and let us know how it goes.. should be > > > fine, and totally unsupported.. as a potentially relevant side-note, > > > cinnamon is in the repos.. > > > > For Arch it's also not in the official repos, but Cinnamon is in Archs > > official repos too and doesn't force to install problematic dependencies > > and also it won't remove file-roller. Perhaps I'll install it to my Arch > > and Ubuntu Studio to test it. > > Cinnamon > > I was mistaken. Arch does provide the gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse and > nemo, with a hard dependency to gvfs, is an optional dependency for > Cinnamon, so I guess for Ubuntu there will be at least a hard dependency > to pulseaudio. > > The default look is ugly and I didn't find settings that makes it look > less ugly. IMO for users who want to use it for graphic a PITA, but it > might be more configurable, than I'm aware at the moment. However, there > are serious issue, they forgot to write a good 3D graphics driver for my > ATI card, the performance is bad. I wonder if it's impossible to enlarge > some fonts, or if there are different places, where the user needs to > chose the font sizes. Even to use the lock screen button they force the > user to install an optional dependency to some screen thingy, instead of > allowing to use the lightweight lock screen package I've got already > installed. > > With Suse 11.2 I still use GNOME 2, GNOME 2 and Xfce4 are very similar, > Cinnamon has absolutely nothing in common with GNOME 2. > > I won't remove it and try to get rid of all that 3D crap and odd > gimmicks and perhaps it's possible to make all fonts readable, but I > won't install it to Ubuntu Studio too or use it on Arch to make music or > graphic work. > > cinnamon 1.8.8-4 > gnome-settings-daemon-nopulse 3.8.3-1 > > It's disgusting. IMO the only usable DE from all the bloated new DEs is > KDE 4, I'm using Xfce only, but IMO LXDE is ok too. > > The 3D version needs 6 to 15 % CPU when Evolution is opened and > Xfce4-terminal is opened and I only move the mouse and it needs 9.5% of > the 3.5 GiB available memory. This is ridiculous. > > When using the "software rendering" the Windows perform better, but > writing is to slow. When idle it needs 16, but usually 30% up to > 90% > of a dual-core 2.1 GHz CPU. > > In software rendering mode it's completely unusable, while for the > normal mode it does perform very bad and might be usable. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >
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