On 16/07/2014, Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote: > Le 15/07/2014 21:36, Bret Busby a écrit : >> On 16/07/2014, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:46:07PM +0200, Bzzzz wrote: >>>> When I launch gedit, it just have ugly upper and lower >>>> gray bars (with controls & information), but no XFCE >>>> decoration, especially the close/minimize buttons (and >>>> no upper bar from the theme). >>>> >>>> grdestop has XFCE decoration. >>>> >>>> Is it normal or do I miss some pkg(s)|setup? >>> This is … an expected behaviour from any GTK+3 application launched >>> outside of GNOME. Googling 'GTK3 client-side decorations' will provide >>> you with all the gory details. >>> >>> Upstream sees this misfeature as a best thing since buttered bread was >>> invented [1]. >>> Users thoughts on the matter, are … well, let's sum it up as 'needs some >>> work' - [2]. >>> >>> Reco >>> >>> [1] >>> http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/13/client-side-decorations-continued/ >>> >>> [2] http://redmine.audacious-media-player.org/boards/1/topics/1135 >>> >> >> It all sounds like even more encouragement to stick with Debian 6, and >> GNOME2. >> >> Perhaps, that was the objective... >> > I would say "to use something else than gnome" There are several > alternatives. > >
I have tried xfce, on Debian 7.5, and, do not like it. It appears to not have the fiunctionality for modifying the desktop layout as shown in the version of xfce for PC-BSD 210.0.2 - see http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/XFCE4/10.0 , where provision is provided, for the "Migrate old config" option, which was greyed out, in the Debian 7.5 implementation of xfce. I could not (yet) get a workable LIVE disc of lxde on Debian 7.5 i386, to examine on my old Celeron laptop (HP/Compaq NX5000), so I am waiting for Debian 7.6 LIVE iso's to be available. I am not sure whether I can download and install LXDE on my Debian 7.5 amd64 system that already has XFCE installed; my understanding is that, with PC-BSD 10.0.x, a person can have multiple desktop environments installed, and, select one of them, to use, when logging in as a user, but, I do not know whether that applies in Debian Linux. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8MD-oA+hWFr-+7MvR__HihPxCfEvgjUvOk0K6PwbPC=5...@mail.gmail.com
