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

Dear Grant, I would sincerely second Openbox + tint2. That's my all times favourite. Bear in mind that the stable tint2wizard/conf doesn't handle the Launcher properly. For that you need to emerge tint2 with the testing "~amd64" flag :). There are some additional goodies in the more modern tint2

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

On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple >> screens I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel >> program that does work with multiple screens. I gave up on LXDE. I messed around with it a bit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 >>

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

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?

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 >>

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

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

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

160925 Grant Edwards wrote: > So far I've looked at Windowmaker and LXDE. You should look at Fluxbox, which is simple & configurable. I don't know whether it can handle multiple monitors, but otherwise I've used it happily for some years. --

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

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] So far I 've looked at windowmaker and LXDE . Windowmaker seems a bit too oriented

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

On 24-09-2016 01:26 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2016-09-24, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +, Grant Edwards wrote Would anybody care to make a recommendation? How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a "Window

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

On 2016-09-24, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +, Grant Edwards wrote > >> Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a > "Window Manager" instead? That's probably a

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

On 2016-09-24, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >>Would anybody care to make a recommendation? > > Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config > is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and stuff. I

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

On 2016-09-24, Alecks Gates wrote: > On 09/23/2016 06:45 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've been running XFCE for many, many years, and I was perfectly happy >> with it until 4.11 came out. Support for multiple displays[1] was >> broken in xfdesktop by a commit made in 2013.