[openbox] Fighting Gnome

Johan Vromans jvromans at squirrel.nl
Mon Jul 8 02:47:34 EDT 2013


Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> writes:

> I have always been more command line orientated, but then I grew up
> with TTY terminals, so I like command line and can shell script
> something I need on the fly.

Same here.

> XTerms still beat the other terminal emulators just from
> its completeness.

Yup.

> After 'fighting' gnome for years, I found that the older Gnome 2
> nautilus was still one of the best file manager applications.

Yes, unfortunately...

> I also used Gnome 2 panels too.  But for the window manager
> I used Openbox and many other things other than gnome.

Same here.

> But then even LxPanel feels kludgy. So much so that I just configure
> them by hand using its text configuration files!

I'll try this.

> So I still use nautilus.

So will I, and I will use several other Gnome tools as well. But not the
desktop.

-- Johan


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