On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:57:43 -0500 Arthur Machlas <arthur.mach...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 > > Arthur Machlas <arthur.mach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and > >> losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once > > > > Never really used Gnome or its screensaver - what does it do that > > Xscreensaver doesn't? And what does powermanager do that Xfce's > > power manager doesn't? > > Gnome's screensaver can switch users, leave messages, unlock with > fingerprint scanner, and as a bonus, doesn't look like its running on > an Atari system from 1983. C'mon, update the icon already. Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system. The xscreensaver author has a low opinion of gnome-screensaver: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html But I have no idea how serious his concerns are, and whether they are uptodate for current gnome-screensaver. > Gnome's powermanager work for me. XFCE's doesn't. No idea why, or what > magic they are employing. More substantively, not sure that XFCe can > spin down hard drives. Thanks. I don't do much pm stuff, and what I do is generally from the console, so I can't comment here. > Is this a threadjack, or is this now a desktop war thread? Not a threadjack - I was just curious about the advantages of other DE's out there, and wondering what I'm missing ... Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101013152321.053c4d87.cele...@gmail.com
