Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ...

>From how you describe your desktop preferences, it seems to me that your DE
switch should go from GNOME 2 to LXDE.

LXDE is very fast (really refreshing !) - its Task Manager shows 110 MB RAM
consumption after DE startup; I could not believe, that's 1/3  of what others
take up front.

It has very lean and quick apps (accessories, graphics, system utilities).
You can customize it as well (Preferences are more than sufficient; sometimes
on a lew level, but e.g. 'man date' allows you to adjust your date/time format
very quickly). 
Administration menu is also familiar (and can be extended by installing
whatever you wish from GUI system-* packages).

The only external thing I needed was fonts configuration, which improved many
apps considerably.
Here is what you need (you can improve if you wish on your own).
$ cat .fonts.conf 
<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

That's it !
Why bother with weirdos ...
It's like entering a Second Life :-)

JB


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