Skribent: Steve Litt Dato: Til: dng Emne: Re: [DNG] Proposals for an xfce-desktop-lite
So try Thunar.
By the way, if part of your objection to pcfmanager or whatever it's
called is its inconsistent way of mounting thumb drives, that's exactly
why I wrote Amounter.
SteveT
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:22:36 +0000
Dave Turner <dave_t_turner@???> wrote:
> 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.