On 13.06.25 17:14, Didier Kryn wrote:

> Le 13/06/2025 à 16:02, Kevin Chadwick via Dng a écrit :

> > On 13/06/2025 14:00, Didier Kryn wrote:

> > > Now happy with Xfce: simple and intuitive, though, unfortunately, still

> > > depending on Gnome.

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> > I use KDEs folderview widget now and it

> > just works with the filesystem how I want and where I want.

Haven't noticed any perceptible difference between Gnome, XFCE, and LXDE, over several decades - even the ancient Solaris desktop for that matter. All of my system actions are on the command-line. Moves are too simple to warrant involving a GUI, and "locate" is quicker, with less keystrokes, than "find". That updatedb is run automatically, at least on reboots, is ample convenience.

So long as there's no dastardly Poetterware, I'm agnostic.

>     To mount/umount usb keys, I have my own application, Hopman. Thanks to

> that I could get rid of gvfs. But Hopman relies on the kernel to decide if a

> disk is removable and the kernel decides that large disks are not. I should

> let Hopman decide by some different logic, but I have been too lazzy up to

> now, therefore I use pmount from the command-line for large disks.

Puzzlement here: pmount is quick and effortless for flash sticks or anything else. A "^R pm" is usually enough to instantly recall the last removable mount invocation, avoiding the need to type all of "pmount /dev/sda1 /media/stick1" or whatever suits.

Apart from Firefox and Kicad, I'm not sure what GUI stuff my machine has installed. Oh, there's a useful net-connected dictionary under Applications -> Office, that I haven't found a command-line invocation for, but that's about it.

Now, if I didn't have to paste this from vim into my ISP's web MUA, then things would be ideal.

Erik