[openbox] Fighting Gnome

[Anthony Thyssen]

| > On 07/07/2013 3:29 PM, Johan Vromans wrote:
| > > The latest Fedora upgrade blew my desktop, again, so now I'll stop
| > > fighting Gnome and switch to something else.
| > >
| > > What would be a good companion for OpenBox? Xfce? Lxde? Cinnamon? Mate?
| > >
| > > -- Johan
| > >
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 16:42:17 -1000
Das <dasfox at gmail.com> wrote:
| What do you mean a good companion for OpenBox? Xfce? Lxde? Cinnamon? Mate?
| 
| You can run them all alone as your standalone DE....
| 

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

After 'fighting' gnome for years, I found that the older Gnome 2 nautilus
was still one of the best file manager applications.  Just from its full
range of features, from icon generation, and its ability to have "user
scripts".  I also used Gnome 2 panels too.  But for the window manager
I used Openbox and many other things other than gnome.

Gnome 3 however just nerfed everything too much!  It made then unusable.
So much so I now use   OpenBox, LxPanel, for my non-terminal needs.
But I have yet to find something to replace the nerfed nautilus.
They just feel 'kludgy'.

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

So I still use nautilus.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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