Hi Steve, Steve Litt writes:
> Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:49:59 +0900 > >> [stuff about trying to get rid of *pulse packages on an Xfce4 system] > > About the only positive thing I can say about xfce is it's better than > Gnome, KDE and the now defunct Unity. Except compared to those, it's > not particularly lightweight, and my experience is it's been quirky on > Linux (but not OpenBSD) for the past decade, at least. There are so > many great WMDEs (Window Manager/Desktop Environment) that it's a shame > to use xfce. So shame on me then. You are entitled to your opinion, so is everyone else. I used to use Gnome, noticed it started to bloat, changed to KDE, noticed that started to bloat too and switched to Xfce. That was over a decade ago (maybe 15 years or so?) and I haven't really had an issues with Xfce on Debian first and Devuan later. # Before Gnome I used something else but don't remember what. Must have # been one of the X11 window managers with a hand crafted .xsessionrc or # .xinitrc. Whatever worked way back then. > [Openbox and LXDE plug snipped] > > Other outstanding WMDEs include fvwm, IceWM, Windowmaker, jwm, i9, and > a host of others. From my perspective, there's absolutely no reason to > use xfce. Haven't heard of i9, can't find any info about it either. You sure you don't mean i3? Actually, I am looking at ditching Xfce4. Too much stuff I don't use anyway. After looking at the boatload of window manager packages that come with Devuan, I am now experimenting with i3-wm on two machines (one at the office, one at home) but my mainstay is still Xfce4. Still haven't made up my mind about a command-line terminal. Have been using guake for a long time, looked at tilda for a bit but for the time being use rxvt-unicode on my i3-wm systems. Note, support for Japanese is a must for me, output as well as input, not just on the command-line but the "desktop" in general. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
