Gavin Ford wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21:34AM +0100, John Levin wrote: >> Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any >> of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? > > I use parts of Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I installed from an Ubuntu 7.04 disc and > later removed ubuntu-desktop and installed xubuntu-desktop. > > Using Fluxbox as a Window manager and the Thunar file manager from XFCE > rather than Gnome. > > There are lots of good parts to XFCE, but it's still a little heavyweight for > me. I've also never been a fan of the Start Menu setup, I prefer the right > click the desktop for a menu way. > > I still use the gnome-settings-daemon rather than xfce-mcs-manager as the XFCE > tool causes strange graphical defects in Firefox for me.
I am an appreciative and occasional user. I am not fluent with much clever stuff and have often chosen the rather lazy option of also installing ubuntu-desktop (in addition to xubuntu-desktop) and if anything difficult (for me) occurs, I can log into gnome and be on more familiar ground, albeit more slowly, while sorting something out :-) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
