I've used them all for several years and so far my favorite workstation uses
modified Xfce with a few goodies from LXDE on Debian stable with all traces
of ubuntu, gnome, canonical, zeitgeist, bluetooth, trackers, and other trash
removed.
SLIM is my DM of choice with LightDM a distant second. SLIM is supposedly
inaccessible remotely. Also, I stopped using cell phones and Wifi after a
friend with the IT dept of the FBI explained that ANY technology using
wireless (of any kind) is accessible from anywhere at anytime by any agency
or other allowed corporation (and trust me, they're all corporations). He's
been on the job for over 35 years, and working with computers for over 40, so
I figure he knows. :-) He told me that any GNU+Linux distro using Ubuntu has
code that shares all surfing and other info with Canonical, even Trisquel. We
checked it out, and he is correct. You can test it by adding the "Privacy"
app from Trisquel.
We now have Debian Xfce and LXDE on most of the work and personal machines.
Couple of folks like Enlightenment, and althought it is lean and fast, I'll
stick with Xfce4, except on machines used for testing purposes.
If you just want to make the menu icons larger in Xfce, use mousepad to add
this code to the file:
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml
Beats the heck out of gnome fallback, mate, cinnamon, or anything else I've
tried. Look about 2/3 of the way down that page for:
Property name="IconSizes" type="string" - just add:
value="gtk-menu=24,24:gtk-button=24,24:panel-applications-menu=32,32:panel-directory-menu=32,32"
which is currently blank.
On small monitors you can use these settings: property name="IconSizes"
type="string"
value="gtk-menu=16,16:gtk-button=16,16:panel-applications-menu=22,22:panel-directory-menu=32,32"
SLIM Desktop Manager - How to change the login and background photo...
http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/201305/page14.html
