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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] My experience with Devuan Alpha2
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 11:08:26 +0000
Eugene Bolshakoff <mercurius@???> wrote:


> Hello Mitt,
>
> Thanks for this picture. So much xfce4 dependences... probably I
> should switch from xfce4 to any other VM/DE (fvwm, probably).


Fvwm's good. Resource light, very configurable. That being said, you
must be *very* knowledgeable to get fvwm to work in a way that's
conducive to your workstyle, especially if you have poor visual acuity
like I do.

I like the LXDE/Openbox combo. When I want a start button and taskbar,
I use LXDE with Openbox underneath, so I get that "desktop environment"
feel but have Openbox hotkeys available. When I'm on my daily driver
desktop and don't want all that desktoppy stuff, I use Openbox, which
if configured correctly, is spectacular.

Like I said, fvwm is excellent. LXDE and Openbox are two others to look
at, and as far as I know they have few if any systemd dependencies,
direct or otherwise.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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