Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

I use i3 with xfce4 session, It took me a while to figure out, but in the session and startup dialog for xfce4 you canchoose a display chooser on login, I disable all xfce4 sessions except xfce4-panel and xfsettingsd, install i3 with urxvt and all the plugins for urxvt (tabs, perls etc). In

Re: [arch-general] ssd trim using fstrim.service and fstrim.timer

Okay, thanks for the replies. Now, if backing up wasn't such a chore . . . On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 28-12-2015 19:51, Anthony Mapes wrote: > > > > It's worth noting that most hard drive life estimates are very > conservative. > > >

Re: [arch-general] plasma 5 crashing

On 12/29/2015 09:44 AM, Mike Cloaked wrote: For anyone having this kind of problem some additional useful info might be obtained by running the suggested commands in the page at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/glxinfo/ - and getting at some ... Sure - graphics is using intel i915 % glxinfo

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

Wow. It seems that desktop environments and window managers are like "standards" - "the good thing is that there are so many of them". :-) Well, then: which DEs and WMs are MOST likely to be still around (and have major usage and development) in 5 years? In 10 years? And which are LEAST

Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon main menu bug?

I'm not sure how that is supposed to be done (correctly). But I did install: gtk-update-icon-cache and then tried: sudo gtk-update-icon-cache (and) sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor (and even) sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -v /usr/share/icons/hicolor all with no apparent

Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon main menu bug?

There is a Panel Applet, I think, that will restart Cinnamon. Or maybe it's and extension. Also, maybe # updatedb Just a thought. Regards, Marshall Neill On 12/29/2015 07:22 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: I'm not sure how that is supposed to be done (correctly). But I did > install: > >

Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon main menu bug?

FWIW, I've had the same experience in the last two kernels. I'm simply exiting/restarting X as a work-around. Larry From: arch-general on behalf of Marshall Neill Sent: Tuesday, December

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

IIRC, I won't read the thread again, all the mentioned WMs and DEs have a past and most likely a future. You might have noticed another thread, "plasma 5 crashing". The bloated DEs, especially GNOME and KDE do not provide a steady work-flow. New major releases often are released before they are

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

I think I'll stick my head out and say Enlightenment. Looks good enough, works well enough, mature/old enough, both stable and flexible enough [for me], and it's keeping up with Wayland support.

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

Francis Gerund, we forgot to mention that some users prefer configuration files that aren't human readable over classic human readable KISS configuration files, this might be important for you too, when you chose your desktop environment. Seemingly not all Arch Linux users consequently prefer the

Re: [arch-general] plasma 5 crashing

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Genes Lists wrote: > Fully updated from testing repo. > > Since update to plasma 5.5 I am getting periodic crashes of plasmashell > -trace back below. Seems to be connected with dri/swrast_dri.so. > > i915 graphics so not sure why swrast_dri

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

I'm another extremely satisfied i3wm user. Dmenu is amazing, and everything about i3 is so clean. The config file syntax, the design principles, the container system, the looks... I use ranger as a (text-mode) file manager and dolphin when I want a graphical one. Gwenview as image viewer. I tend

[arch-general] plasma 5 crashing

Fully updated from testing repo. Since update to plasma 5.5 I am getting periodic crashes of plasmashell -trace back below. Seems to be connected with dri/swrast_dri.so. i915 graphics so not sure why swrast_dri is called - but then again not sure what that does exactly (sounds like software