Am 17.10.2013 um 16:45 schrieb Joe <j...@jretrading.com>:
> There is mate, allegedly a fork of Gnome2, I haven't tried it. I do use > LXDE on my sid desktop and also on my Aspire One netbook. I have the > one with the slightly smaller case and SSD, which has an unbelievably > slow write speed. I usually use it with an external USB hard drive, > which has sid/LXDE. It seems quick enough for my purposes, but they may > be different from yours. Mine are development centered (Perl programming) plus associated tasks - editing, testing, web-browsing, PDF-reading. > My desktop does not show a highlighted tab in gedit, which may be > either because it needs Gnome, or maybe a different window manager. > Both LXDE and XFCE use Openbox, but of course there are many others. I > can't remember what Gnome2 used, maybe Metacity. A heavier window > manager will of course slow things down, but almost certainly not as > much as Gnome3. Thanks for the tip. I gave LXDE a try and is feeling a lot faster. Some features like the taskbar are better than in XFCE. But the power-management seems unstable. I got the "suspend on lid close" and other behaviour working, but now it's again ignorant. Helmut Wollmersdorfer -- 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/da7cc054-972b-417c-8d40-af28c9b37...@fixpunkt.de
