Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Curt (cu...@free.fr): > On 2015-03-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: > >> But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead > >> of my old WM. > > > > Why? > > I believe he means he has yet to be convinced of any DE's superio

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 10:18:23 Curt wrote: > On 2015-03-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: > >> But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead > >> of my old WM. > > > > Why? > > I believe he means he has yet to be convinced of an

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-13 Thread Curt
On 2015-03-13, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: >> But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead >> of my old WM. > > Why? I believe he means he has yet to be convinced of any DE's superiority over his old WM; if he had put the thing

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 13 March 2015 03:33:41 David Wright wrote: > But I'm still waiting for someone to convince me to use a DE instead > of my old WM. Why? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting ken (geb...@mousecar.com): > A couple decades ago our LUG had a meeting in which people showed > off their favorite window managers. The only one I still remember > the name of is Enlightenment and I believe it's still around. Yes, as is the one I use, fvwm, which is considerably older.

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-12 Thread ken
On 03/11/2015 10:07 PM, Tazman DeVille wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:34:51PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer and gain a few extra features I'm missing in LXDE. Howeve

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-11 Thread Tazman DeVille
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:34:51PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > > I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer > > and gain a few extra features I'm missing in LXDE. However, I don't > > want all the "stuff"

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 16:08:49 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > I did a bit of reading and would prefer the Gnome "Classic" > > interface. Is there a way to install this type of "minimal" gnome > > without breaking it too much? Is it

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Keith BAINBRIDGE
The bar/s can be moved: top, bottom, centre vertical or side vertical. Right click on empty space, panel preferences, and choose which panel you want, where. Default seems to be 2. -- Keith Bainbridge keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my Apad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Joe
On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:41:15 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/05/2015 07:22 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a > > toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal > > glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus t

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/05/2015 07:22 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:33:22 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a > > toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal > > glasses, I have to strain my neck badly i

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 01:22:50PM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar > placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain > my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen > t

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread Wilko Fokken
What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of my glasses. The second shortcoming of Xfce i

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-03-04 23:30, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100 Erwan David wrote: I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer You seem to be saying you're tired of the minimalist life and want to splash out a bit so there's only XFCE for that. That

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/4/15, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: >> >> I did a bit of reading and would prefer the Gnome "Classic" interface. >> Is there a way to install this type of "minimal" gnome without breaking >> it too much? Is it even possible to do, or

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Ric Moore
On 03/04/2015 04:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hi list, I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI program or two, but that's i

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread David Wright
Quoting Doug (dmcgarr...@optonline.net): > On 03/04/2015 04:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > >Hi list, > > > >I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment > >because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is > >essentially installed by me. I have Iceweas

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi list, > > I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment > because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there > is essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another > GUI program or two, but

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Glenn English
On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer > and gain a few extra features I'm missing in LXDE. However, I don't > want all the "stuff" that normally comes with Gnome. You're fine. You just need to get some new

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Jasper Noë
Usually I install xorg, gnome-session-fallback and gdm3. No network-manager, no pulse-audio, no nothing actually. From there you can build it up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100 Erwan David wrote: > I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer You seem to be saying you're tired of the minimalist life and want to splash out a bit so there's only XFCE for that. That would be the next step up from LXDE. Before ge

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Erwan David
Le 04/03/2015 22:03, Stephen R Guglielmo a écrit : > Hi list, > > I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment > because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is > essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI > program or two, but

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Doug
On 03/04/2015 04:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: Hi list, I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI program or two, but that's i

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Martin Vegter
On 03/04/2015 10:03 PM, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > > I did a bit of reading and would prefer the Gnome "Classic" interface. > Is there a way to install this type of "minimal" gnome without breaking > it too much? Is it even possible to do, or does it all depend on one > another? > Gnome is ove

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:03:30PM -0500, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote: > Hi list, > > I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment > because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is > essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI >

My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Stephen R Guglielmo
Hi list, I use LXDE on my Jessie laptop. I chose this desktop environment because I don't want a lot of "stuff" on my system. Everything there is essentially installed by me. I have Iceweasel, Claws-Mail, another GUI program or two, but that's it. Everything else, I do in a terminal. I even use Ic