Back to XFCE? ...
Well, for work at least.
I use Debian Live (Jessie) to do my work, at work, rather than using Windows as installed. The boxes are unfortunately P4s, so not exactly modern and snappy.
For the past few months, I have been using a desktop which I replicated from Crunchbang. Openbox, tint2, a simple conky config and their keyboard shortcuts. I've been happy with it, and accessing the menu with <Super>-<Space> is great.
With a new live build, something I do every few weeks, I forgot to enable persistence. This landed me in XFCE 4, and I decided to play with it for the first time in quite some time.
Yeah, even with theming, it can appear quite clunky and dated. To keep at home with the look, I usually go for a motif-look-a-like theme. Being restricted to GTK+ 2 themes doesn't help as it seems there are fewer and fewer being made. Aurora Autumn looks great, even though it hasn't been update in a while. For once I won't be doing that retro thing with an XFCE install.
The font rendering is better than I remember it. Maybe it's been a while, but text looks pretty beautiful, with modest hinting.
If only I could have just the applications menu pup up under the mouse when I hit my desired shortcut, it would be perfect.
I use Debian Live (Jessie) to do my work, at work, rather than using Windows as installed. The boxes are unfortunately P4s, so not exactly modern and snappy.
For the past few months, I have been using a desktop which I replicated from Crunchbang. Openbox, tint2, a simple conky config and their keyboard shortcuts. I've been happy with it, and accessing the menu with <Super>-<Space> is great.
With a new live build, something I do every few weeks, I forgot to enable persistence. This landed me in XFCE 4, and I decided to play with it for the first time in quite some time.
Yeah, even with theming, it can appear quite clunky and dated. To keep at home with the look, I usually go for a motif-look-a-like theme. Being restricted to GTK+ 2 themes doesn't help as it seems there are fewer and fewer being made. Aurora Autumn looks great, even though it hasn't been update in a while. For once I won't be doing that retro thing with an XFCE install.
The font rendering is better than I remember it. Maybe it's been a while, but text looks pretty beautiful, with modest hinting.
If only I could have just the applications menu pup up under the mouse when I hit my desired shortcut, it would be perfect.
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