Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 28, 2011 15:48 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Old style GNOME UI by proski
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 released

I switched to IceWM, but it shows its age and lacks some taskbar applets I got used to while using GNOME. I tried LXDE, which is close, but not quite what I want.

I switched from Gnome 2 to Xfce 4 this past week, and it was a relatively painless process. Not everything is completely groovy, but I think it will work well enough.

I haven't tried the Gnome 3 fall-back-to-Gnome-2 mode yet, so I don't know if that is better or worse that Xfce, but the fact that it will be going away soon makes me think that I'd be better off sticking with Xfce in the long run.

I also tried LXDE, but I had a protracted and unsuccessful attempt at trying to add an terminal window shortcut with geometry settings to the panel, so I gave up on it, at least for now.

Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 28, 2011 16:14 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (guest, #3032) [Link] (2 responses)

I've also found Xfce to be tunable to suit my expected GNOME experience rather effortlessly. I can't say that I'm missing any of the additional integration that GNOME offers. The switch has also reduced the boot time of this ageing laptop from 65 seconds down to 45.

Fluxbox

Posted Apr 28, 2011 18:56 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (1 responses)

If you have an aging laptop, may I suggest that your tweaking time may be better used with Fluxbox?

While I appreciate there is better *promised* integration in the large DMs+WMs like GNOME, KDE, and XFCE, I know that when I've tried them, there is always some hacking needed to get them right. So, I then asked myself "what's an environment that is *designed* to facilitate 'hacking to get right'?" Answer: Fluxbox. :)

Just a suggestion, please no flames. :)

Fluxbox

Posted Apr 29, 2011 0:15 UTC (Fri) by wertigon (guest, #42963) [Link]

I find that if you go with one of the *box variants, might as well go all out with awesome. :)

Just my personal op though.

XFCE rocks

Posted May 1, 2011 21:15 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Just wanted to add a "me too" here. I switched to XFCE a few years ago, after trying Gnome, KDE and IceWM. I have never looked back. That little mouse in the corner is now very dear to me!