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There are 2 things that make up the graphical environment: | |||
1. The desktop - this is the underlying architecture | |||
2. The window manager - this is also called the compositor and provides the eye candy. | |||
Gnome has become too weird so I don't like using it. | Gnome has become too weird so I don't like using it. | ||
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So you can use xfce4. | So you can use xfce4. | ||
=xfce= | =xfce desktop= | ||
== keyboard shortcuts == | == keyboard shortcuts == | ||
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NB After doing this, you will have to use the kde-system-settings to change settings! | NB After doing this, you will have to use the kde-system-settings to change settings! | ||
= razor-qt = | |||
Very lightweight and runs the openbox windows manager as standard. Is apparently fused with lxde to become lxqt | |||
= lxde = | |||
slightly lower memory footprint than razor-qt and merged with razor-qt to become lxqt | |||
= lxqt = | |||
doesn't exist in Debian Jessie, so no comment | |||
Revision as of 08:28, 16 June 2015
There are 2 things that make up the graphical environment: 1. The desktop - this is the underlying architecture 2. The window manager - this is also called the compositor and provides the eye candy.
Gnome has become too weird so I don't like using it.
KDE is too heavy and I don't like it either.
I like eye candy: rotating cube, wobbly windows, etc.
So you can use xfce4.
xfce desktop
keyboard shortcuts
application menu - window manager - set the windows key to open
/usr/bin/xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu
using kwin eye candy
cp ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml.orig cp /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml vi ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml
on line 12 replace xfwm4 with kwin
test by running
kwin --replace
in a box. This may take a little while, but is a good test. If it works, log out then use a standard terminal to delete stuff in ~/.cache/sessions before rebooting the machine (otherwise you may not see any window borders after rebooting.
NB After doing this, you will have to use the kde-system-settings to change settings!
razor-qt
Very lightweight and runs the openbox windows manager as standard. Is apparently fused with lxde to become lxqt
lxde
slightly lower memory footprint than razor-qt and merged with razor-qt to become lxqt
lxqt
doesn't exist in Debian Jessie, so no comment