[Tfug] OK, XFCE on an older rig has lost it's mind...

[Jude Nelson]

Try Enlightenment DR17.  Looks like XFCE, but it's a LOT faster and
has better eye-candy IMHO (heck, it's pretty responsive on my PDA).
I'm not sure if it's in Gutsy's repos yet, but there are plenty of
mirrors online.

Regards,
Jude

On 11/13/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I just fixed XFCE's panels :).
>
> Solution: do an ALT-F2 and enter "xfce4-panel &" no quotes.  That
> brings up panels - at least until next reboot.  Under
> Settings>SessionsAndStartup select "save session on logout".  Logout.
> Log back in and prestobingo, panels work.  Then DE-select "save
> session on logout" so the user doesn't bork everything themselves :).
>
> As to OpenBSD, I don't doubt you.
>
> Thing is...I've got more app support in Ubuntu (as you say,
> synaptic/apt-get ROCKS).  Ubuntu is what I personally use, and...I'm
> trying to flat-out master it and do all my user support in it, at
> least as much as I can.  You know?  I'm just over a year into this
> Linux adventure, I'm learning a lot, I'm at a point where I can
> support newbie users.
>
> Barely.
>
> If I stick with basically one system I'll be in better shape, y'know?
> I can test stuff on my own box...and I just have the one :).
>
> So for now, I'm not going to delve into anything else.
>
> Jim
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 1:28 AM, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jim,
> > Do not be angry at me for this comment but that computer would love
> > OpenBSD (and this is comming from
> > the mouth of primarelly FreeBSD user)
> > Complete installation with X would be less then 600Mb + OpenBox
> > + XFce-panel and fah for wall paper +
> > application you need 1-2Gb. No FreeBSD ports just pkg_add utility to add
> > pre-compiled OpenBSD binaries.
> > It would take me 2-3 hours to load the crap and it would fly like a bird.
> > Couple times I did that for my friend they thought they have a new
> > computer.
> >
> > Speaking of Ubuntu I installed just as a joke 7.10 on an older PIII 650Gz,
> > 312Mb ram and 10G hard.
> > It really did work out of box 100% and very efficient. I really liked
> > Sinaptic installer. It is an ideal
> > grand-mother distro. I could not believe Opera is not a standard package.
> >
> > Good Luck
> > Predrag
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:14:33 -0700, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Ah.  OK, I unborked it.  CTRL-ALT-F2, got another text session with
> > > login, did vi to change color depth back.
> > >
> > > OK.  Now why in hell is XFCE got dead panels?
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > On Nov 13, 2007 1:05 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Yeah, well now I've borked it completely.  Like an idiot I tried
> > >> setting color depth to "8" instead of "24" in xorg.conf to try and
> > >> salvage video performance.  Oops.  Killed "X" deader'n'elvis.  And
> > >> "rescue mode" is screwed too.
> > >>
> > >> Siiiigh.
> > >>
> > >> Screw it.  I'll load xubuntu alternate 7.10, see if that's more
> > >> reliable than loading gnome ubuntu alternate and doing "sudo apt-get
> > >> install xfce*" to get XFCE.  The latter trick boogered stuff up
> > >> apparently.
> > >>
> > >> Grrrrrr.
> > >>
> > >> Jim
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Nov 13, 2007 12:40 AM, Brian Murphy <murphy at coppershadow.com> wrote:
> > >> > Jim March wrote:
> > >> > > I'm rebuilding an old IBM Thinkpad "iSeries" Celeron 600 critter.
> > >> All
> > >> > > of 192megs RAM and that appears to be peak (sigh). Trident video
> > >> with
> > >> > > wow, 4megs RAM!  (bleah)
> > >> >
> > >> > Sounds like a good candidate for fvwm95! :-)
> > >> >
> > >> > B
> > >> >
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