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My needs are fairly simple but the programs I'd miss the most are K3b and Ktorrent.
It's hard to beat K3b, but I've gotten used to using xfburn, which is pretty good in its own right. At least it ain't Brasero! xfburn doesn't come with the Xfce installation, so I grabbed it from SlackBuilds.
It's hard to beat K3b, but I've gotten used to using xfburn, which is pretty good in its own right. At least it ain't Brasero! xfburn doesn't come with the Xfce installation, so I grabbed it from SlackBuilds.
I actually use Brasero, with all the third party gstreamer-{bad,ugly,obscene} stuff as well as totem-pl-parser. Now it burns about everything nice and clean, even M3U playlists with normalizing. Little bit more patience, then I'll (re)publish my new application repo for my Xfce stuff.
I actually use Brasero, with all the third party gstreamer-{bad,ugly,obscene} stuff as well as totem-pl-parser. Now it burns about everything nice and clean, even M3U playlists with normalizing. Little bit more patience, then I'll (re)publish my new application repo for my Xfce stuff.
Niki, what do you use as your display manager for your Xfce enterprise setups? Initially, I had replaced xdm with SLiM, but after some difficulty I moved to gdm, which is more involved as far as dependencies go, but there are some nice themes out there.
Nick, what do you use as your display manager for your Xfce enterprise setups? Initially, I had replaced xdm with SLiM, but after some difficulty I moved to gdm, which is more involved as far as dependencies go, but there are some nice themes out there.
I had started out with Slim also, but eventually, I'm now quite happy with GDM. I took the source from Salix and modified the theme to my needs.
Do you plan to layout your repo in the Slackware way, so that it can be used with slackpkg+?
Unfortunately I live in the remote South french countryside, and our Internet connection is very poor. Uploading a couple of gigabytes would take days, so what I did this time was simply host the build scripts but add some automated source download.
It's hard to beat K3b, but I've gotten used to using xfburn, which is pretty good in its own right.
Hey thanks, I've installed xfburn for cd-burning, as well as transmission for torrents, and both seem to do the job quite well with very few dependencies. Appreciate the input!
Thanks for all the wonderful replies! Decided to give all the ones available in Slackware a try, as well as MateSlackBuild and I have to say I've narrowed it down to XFCE and Mate.
As for the the sluggishness of KDE, it's not that KDE as a whole is sluggish. It's that the longer I stay in KDE the sluggishness begins to increase to the point where it's annoying to use without a restart. It's not even a matter of swap because the swap barely gets used even during extreme times of sluggishness. This coupled with the little annoying quirks inherent in KDE, I've kind of had enough of it.
If I wasn't using my own blend of Xfce (see above), I'd probably be using MATE from MateSlackBuild. Gave it a spin a few days ago, out of simple curiosity. It's as clean and reactive as GNOME 2.30 on a RHEL or Debian install.
@kikinovak - I must say, your tweaked Xfce looks fantastic. Really, really great work. And I'm glad you found MATE to work well for you too. It's been my daily desktop for awhile and I enjoy it.
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