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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

#! is more than just a DE, as the option to use Xfce in the new release goes to show.  It is trim and light on resources, yet comprehensive and functional.  Many things are tweaked through changing text values instead of having a GUI, sure, but it's easy to figure out and is rather intuitive.

I have played with LXDE in recent earlier edititons on Arch and Vector.  It is still very alpha, with lots of potential, of course.  Honestly, to me, the damned thing feels like playing with a cardboard cut-out of a computer instead of a viable desktop environment.  Why does the bar always look so off?  You try to do something it and if it doesn't crash or ignore you completely, it breaks out it's box of crayons to draw a box on which you press pretend meaningful buttons.  How do you change the !@#%-ing resolution?  Use your imagination, Peter!  That isn't your processor peaking, it's your happy thoughts!  Really, though, I'm sure that it has and will continue to improve.  And the fact that Lubuntu is not funded and directed by Canonical is probably better for the project than they may think (Little Lu, where is your Facebook widget and aren't you supposed to be infected with Mono?).

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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

epidenimus wrote:

Why does the bar always look so off?

Do you mean lxpanel or the window titlebars?

epidenimus wrote:

How do you change the !@#%-ing resolution?

lxrandr?

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^ please provide a link for this wallpaper, can' find it on dev art

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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

omns wrote:

^Linux is all about choices smile

+eleventy

That is one of the things that drew me so far in after my initial contact via Ubuntu: so many different flavors.
If there is something you don't like, there is always something else out there in Linux-land that will be at least
based around a similar and familiar interface.

I'm interested in LXDE; it's new, light, and has promise. At the moment though, as others have mentioned,
it has some bugs in it.
But my preferences are OpenBox and XFCE (sometimes try to dabble in Flux).
My particular preference is Philip's interpretations of the last two--they're very usable, tweakable, and just
make sense to me. #! 8.10 & 9.04 have been wonderful to use and almost 100% rock stable and (as I've
stated a few times already elsewhere) I am anxiously awaiting the final cut of Statler-both versions.

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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

anonymous wrote:

Do you mean lxpanel or the window titlebars?
lxrandr?

I meant the panel.  The gradients are like tube socks on a fat kid; the icons, tattoos on a cankle.  Then you have to muck with spacings manually by pixels and it still never looks right.  The launchers often fail...  It's kinda a dysfunctional hassle at this point.

I learned more about lxrandr through Crunchbang, because it actually functions in Crunchbang since the nVidia driver configures properly out of the box.  I still think it's a dumb name, when every other LXDE app is more straightforward:  LXPanel, LXLauncher, etc.  LXRandR could be for shutdown/suspend settings, could be a game, could be something to distract your significant other while you go have fun...  screen resolution is the last thing that comes to mind with a title like that.

Sorry, I gave it a fair spin and I would again if it progressed quite a bit.  I guess, given my experience with it, I just find it funny when someone purports it as a serious desktop environment at this phase.  I'm sure Corenominal is a gent, but it is kind of insulting to say that you can slap LXDE on top of any ol' Ubuntu and have something that is good enough to be a contender for the Crunchbang user base.

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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

epidenimus wrote:

The launchers often fail...  It's kinda a dysfunctional hassle at this point.

You mean they do not launch the programs? Did you try this on the latest version of lxpanel (v0.5.5)?

epidenimus wrote:

The gradients are like tube socks on a fat kid; the icons, tattoos on a cankle.

I don't like that gradient either. Its a good thing you can change it.

epidenimus wrote:

I still think it's a dumb name, when every other LXDE app is more straightforward:  LXPanel, LXLauncher, etc.  LXRandR could be for shutdown/suspend settings, could be a game, could be something to distract your significant other while you go have fun...  screen resolution is the last thing that comes to mind with a title like that.

Well since lxrandr is a front-end to randr, they just went with lx + randr. I do agree its not intuitive for a newbie though.

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anonymous wrote:

Well since lxrandr is a front-end to randr, they just went with lx + randr. I do agree its not intuitive for a newbie though.

Did google break without anyone telling more, or more over did the man pages suddenly disappear?

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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

stopie wrote:
anonymous wrote:

Well since lxrandr is a front-end to randr, they just went with lx + randr. I do agree its not intuitive for a newbie though.

Did google break without anyone telling more, or more over did the man pages suddenly disappear?

yikes nooo googles broken, what do i do? i can't even google it tongue

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Re: Lubuntu .. a serious competitor ....

Just thought i'd pipe in and say that Linux distros are not just bases and desktops. The support community, documentation and dedication of all concerned is a complete package.

One thing I have noticed is that if you try too hard to sell something, people go elsewhere because they like to make a personal choice as opposed to feeling forced. Ubuntu is a very popular marketing machine that wants to be everything for everyone. Unfortunately it is only everything for everyone for the short term. It's done wonders to bring Linux to the public, but sometimes it tries too hard.

Then typical Linux users jump ship in search of something different, which is why most of us run Linux in the first place.

You need to be different to succeed, not the same, then people will come to you.

Hence the popularity of Crunchbang.

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