I've been a XFCE user since 2005, probably earlier, and every time I try a new Gnome or KDE desktop, I get back to XFCE. It works, it's light, the panel works just fine, Alt-Tab works as expected, Alt-` switches between windows of the same program (like the dozen terminals I keep opening all the time), you can have several virtual desktops and Ctrl-Alt-arrow to change between them. It supports icons on the desktop, icons on the menu, and takes very little memory. The other desktop environment that I used extensively is Cinnamon. It's fast, it's pretty, everything works, and maybe someday I will take the time to build it under RedHat Enterprise, the distro I am forced to use because it's the company issued Thinkpad that I explicitly requested (otherwise I would have been issued a MacBook or the Air variant). But as XFCE is as good as Cinnamon, I have little incentive to install dozens and dozens of libraries and wrestle with make to, well, make it. Mauro https://www.maurosouza.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. Em qui., 21 de out. de 2021 às 14:30, Giles Orr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> escreveu:
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 19:59, Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2021-10-20 11:03, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
When a desktop going from version 2 to 3 throws away everything users are used to, and the developers simply don't care, then it deserves any hate it receives.
Yup. The main reason for Gnome removing desktop icons was that the code was buggy. They didn't ask the users whether they wanted the bugs fixed or the icons gone. They picked the latter. TBH, I'm still mad at Gnome for getting rid of the bar you could dismiss with a click and it made the Strar Trek door noise. I think that went in Gnome 1.2 → Gnome 2.0
I've just switched to xubuntu. I think it uses XFCE. So far (10 minutes in) it mostly works. It does fail on one thing, though:
Let me alt+tab between the windows.
I can't seem to do that. And I can't cycle between workspaces, either. I hope it's not because I'm using an Apple keyboard. It's the least disappointing keyboard I've tried, but Linux barely understands it.
(Admittedly from memory:) try Ctrl-Alt-<left|right>-arrow-keys to change desktops. That is, of course, if you can find those keys on the Apple keyboard: Control-Option-arrow?
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