[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> And I find it very useful to be able to leave 2 of the screens as-is >> while I switch the third one to do something else. >> >>> The results of your searches and experiments seem to suggest that it >>> is n unusual configuration >> >> It is, though I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/09/2016 16:02, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:13:48 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> I may try MATE next, but I'm not optimistic. All references I can >>> find to multiple screens in the MATE docs are not actually talking >>> abo

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-09-23, Grant Edwards wrote: > > [need to pick new desktop environment -- which could just be a window > manager with a couple extra bits] [...] > Windowmaker seems a bit too oriented towards "icons on the desktop" > which isn't how I want to work. [..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 03:09:23PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:02:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > I'm curious. What is it you are doing that needs desktops on separate > > > X11 screens? > > > > I do software development that often involves fairly complex t

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:02:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > I'm curious. What is it you are doing that needs desktops on separate >> > X11 screens? >> >> I do software development that often involves fairly complex test >> setups where I sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install

2016-09-25 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Christopher Robinson wrote: > There you go again twisting my words.I never said it compiles to a graphic > desktop. I said it gets > to one, after compiling. Try to read more carefully, will you? > Please keep to your promise not to respond to my posts. I would s

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-09-25 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:55:02 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it > segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or the > URL field. > > Anybody else see this sort of behavior? Did you enable custom-cflags or cust

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 +, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. > I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. > > I also have a few virtual desktops. > > I would like each display to have a seperate set of virtual displays. > This woulx allow me

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. >> I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. >> >> I also have a few virtual desktops. >> >> I would like each display to have a seperate set of virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 14:02:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > I'm curious. What is it you are doing that needs desktops on separate > > X11 screens? > > I do software development that often involves fairly complex test > setups where I sometimes need 1 screen for source code, 1 screen for

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-09-25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:13:48 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I may try MATE next, but I'm not optimistic. All references I can >> find to multiple screens in the MATE docs are not actually talking >> about multiple X11 screens. They're talking about a

[gentoo-user] Fluid -- the fltk gui designer...how to get it?

2016-09-25 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, I neither found appropiate USE flags nor a seperate package for this... How can I get FLUID -- the fltk gui designer? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 25, 2016 02:27:06 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/09/2016 14:17, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Sunday, September 25, 2016 12:16:29 PM Mick wrote: > >> On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. > >>> I have a de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 14:17:35 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, September 25, 2016 12:16:29 PM Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. > > > I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. > > > > > > I also have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/09/2016 14:17, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Sunday, September 25, 2016 12:16:29 PM Mick wrote: >> On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. >>> I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. >>> >>> I also have a few virtual deskto

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 25, 2016 12:16:29 PM Mick wrote: > On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. > > I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. > > > > I also have a few virtual desktops. > > > > I would like each display to h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 25 Sep 2016 10:24:24 J. Roeleveld wrote: > I think it's what I would love for KDE to have as well. > I have a desktop with 2 displays connected. > > I also have a few virtual desktops. > > I would like each display to have a seperate set of virtual displays. This > woulx allow me to sw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On September 25, 2016 10:49:15 AM GMT+02:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:13:48 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I may try MATE next, but I'm not optimistic. All references I can >> find to multiple screens in the MATE docs are not actually talking >> about multiple X11 scr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

2016-09-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 00:13:48 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > I may try MATE next, but I'm not optimistic. All references I can > find to multiple screens in the MATE docs are not actually talking > about multiple X11 screens. They're talking about a single X11 screen > spread across multiple