AG, et al: Thank you. So, the "question" might be how radically different is the debian based "lxde" from the possibly lubuntu engineered "lxqt desktop"??? to find a way forward.
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 1:44 PM Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote: > (my comments are bottom-posted) > On 5/23/20 1:56 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > > Always interesting to see how OPs seem to disappear on ubuntu forums, and > it winds up RPs discussing the topic . . . . > > So, booted up in Lu 20.10 and checking the sessions I now have "Lubuntu" > which seems to be thenewer, richer looking, possibly "Plasma" based GUI DE; > and "LXQT Desktop" which seems to be more of the basic GUI DE; and then ye > olde Openbox . . . minimalistic DE . . . . > > So I don't know if I had "lxde" only a few weeks back, and then moving up > to "groovy" removed it, OR, that was an imaginary "fabrication" on my part > and what I saw as "lxde" was the "lxqt desktop" option . . . that option > seems similar to what was the traditional "lxde" . . . DE . . . maybe it > has just been "renamed" as the easy way to change the DE, but under the > name it is still . . . the same?? I didn't spend too long looking at the > features offered in lxqt desktop session . . . but, just saying that > especially in linux, "change is inevitable" . . . the clock runs forward . > . . . > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 11:18 AM Fritz Hudnut <este.el....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Possibly I have lxde there from before there was lxqt and I've just >> updated via changing the sources.list?? I can't remember when I did a >> fresh install, but I think maybe I had to after Siduction ripped through >> all of my drives and wiped data . . . probably would have been 18.04?? And >> I didn't add lxde . . . but, I couldn't swear to that . . . . : - )) >> >> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 9:27 AM Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 5/21/20 8:36 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Having now used LXQt, I'm much happier with LXDE. I'd like to stick >>>> with LXDE as long as realistically possible, though I understand (I think) >>>> the difficulties around that. >>>> >>>> Can anyone clear this up, thanks >>> >>> >>> @et al: >>> >>> I'm pretty sure that even in 20.10 Lu that I have now, the option of >>> LXQT, LXDE, or Openbox sessions are available on log in? >>> >>> Possibly Aere G could confirm that, but I believe there was a >>> conversation regarding something similar not too long ago here? Likely at >>> least 20.04 . . . I'm a couple days away from my "lubuntu" day . . . . >>> >>> F >>> >>> >>> I'm pretty sure you have to install the lxde package, before the LXDE >>> option appears in the "Session" drop-box, near the upper left corner of the >>> log-in screen. >>> >>> -- >>> Sincerely, >>> Aere >>> >>> >>> >>> The LXDE desktop I see on Lubuntu 20.04, appears identical to the LXDE > desktop I see on my Debian Buster systems. > > The launcher icon, and the dark, rounded taskbar, as well as the LXDE > splash-screen are the same on Lubuntu 20.04, and on Debian Buster. > > I suspect the LXDE we get on Lubuntu 20.04, is the same as comes from > Debian. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > > >
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