OT: lightweight DE's

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 00:33 +0200, marc wrote:
> Nigel Ridley said...
> > marc wrote:
> > > Nigel Ridley said...
> > >> marc wrote:
> > >>> Nigel Ridley said...
> > > 
> > >>>> Does anyone know if LXDE will run under Jaunty and if there are debs available (for Jaunty)? I 
> > >>>> did try Googling but only came up with debs for Intrepid and prior.
> > >>> Just installed this on Jaunty and it works a treat. It even has suspend 
> > >>> on the "Leave" dialogue :-)
> > >>>
> > >>> All the KDE apps I tried worked okay.
> > >>>
> > >> You installed LXDE on Jaunty?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > > 
> > >> Was it a deb or did you install from the tar.gz?
> > > 
> > > # aptitude install lxde
> > > 
> > > It's in universe/x11
> > > 
> > 
> > It installed very nicely and I played around with it for about an hour.
> > The main issue I had with it was I couldn't get it to connect to my wireless router without first 
> > having to open [KDE] System Settings > Network Management > Wireless tab and then edit the router 
> > connection and close it. Bit of a pain in the proverbial....
> 
> I dumped NM about ten minutes after loading Jaunty. Doesn't work 
> anywhere here.
> 
> > The other thing that I missed was KDE's ability to not only reopen previously opened apps (on a 
> > logout/login shutdown/start) but to also remember which desktops the 'belong' to.
> 
> Yup, remembering the session is excellent. 
> 
> > I must admit to being spoiled by KDE ;-)
> 
> If you use the features, you really miss them elsewhere.
>  
> > Anyway, LXDE is very nice and fast; has some great features and loads of possibilities (I just 
> > checked on my boy's box running gOS (uses LXDE) and gOS has got some custom and/or plugins that 
> > make the whole desktop very polished. Perhaps Canonical could do the same with Xubuntu.
> 
> I'm treating myself to a netbook - so cheap now, especially without the 
> Windows tax - and may well give gOS a spin. Did you also take a look at 
> their "Cloud" idea. That would probably be ideal for 95% of my non-tech 
> friends and family.

The whole cloud part to gOS is still in devel, according to the guy that
created the distro. Really nice guy with some ideas good enough that he
just spun off his own distro to put it all into one install. I wrote him
and he personally wrote right back. That's nice. Ric

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