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Autor: Dave Turner
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] Proposals for an xfce-desktop-lite
I ought to like LXDE but that pcman file manager is rubbish!
IMHO, YMMV etc.
DaveT

On 30/12/15 06:09, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:30:44 -0500
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:
>
>
>> I installed LXDE into my devuan alpha 2 system, but I do not know how
>> to ask for it. My system boots into a green login screen and when I
>> log in it starts me off with xfce instead. In the old days when I
>> ran Debian, it would start with a login screen where I could find a
>> menu and select a window manager.
>>
>> I'm arguing for discoverability here.
> :-)
>
> I've gotten so used to knowing that you put "exec lxsession" in
> your .xinitrc (so startx starts LXDE, there's a different file for
> starting from a display manager), that I forgot that yes, people
> shouldn't need to rely on folklore handed from father to son to be able
> to run their computer.
>
> I think Devuan uses a display manager, and that display manager
> *should* have a hoverable icon of some kind that lets you pick your
> wm/de. Neckbeard that I am, I kinda wish you didn't have to hover
> everything on the screen to discover where you want to go next.
>
> SteveT
>
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