what's the best distro based on debian 7.4 and using lxde or xfce

DR.PRO · 04-21-2014, 07:21 AM

hello.what's the best distro based on debian 7.4 and using lxde or xfce.

snowday · 04-21-2014, 08:10 AM

Debian is the best Debian-based distro in my opinion/experience. Is there a specific reason you would choose something else?

273 · 04-21-2014, 08:35 AM

I'm running Debian with XFCE here on two machines and have been fro a while. So I'd agree with snowpine that Debian is the best Debian based distribution.

DR.PRO · 04-21-2014, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by 273

I'm running Debian with XFCE here on two machines and have been fro a while. So I'd agree with snowpine that Debian is the best Debian based distribution.

I searched in google for snowpin I did not find any search results?

snowday · 04-21-2014, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by DR.PRO

I searched in google for snowpin I did not find any search results?

It's spelled "debian" not "snowpin."

Here's the link:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/

273 · 04-21-2014, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by DR.PRO

I searched in google for snowpin I did not find any search results?

snowpine is the name of the person who posted before me with whom I was agreeing. I agreed that Debian is the best Debian based system that runs XFCE.

widget · 04-21-2014, 08:39 PM

Debian Xfce is simply great. On Wheezy with Xfce right now on an ancient laptop.

The Xfce version in Wheezy is 4.8. If you use Debian testing (Jessie) or Sid the version is 4.10 and is even better. I have also used the 4.10 version under Wheezy with no promblems at all from the testing repo.

More panel options are available in 4.10 that are probably quite good for a lot of people. I admit to not using any of the added functions there. Thunar, which you can also use on its own in 4.8, is the improvement I like. Tabbed browsing.

The lack of tabbed browsing under Xfce has been my only complaint and 4.10 using the newer Thunar version removes that.

Xfce used in a lot of other distros seems to be put together by people that don't use Xfce and do not know how to use it. They slap in a lot of Gnome config tools to improve it. This makes the perfectly good Xfce tools not work well and the Gnome tools are not meant for Xfce so they don't work all that well either. Xubuntu and Manjaro-Xfce are 2 good examples of this.

Debian supplies Xfce pretty much the way it comes from upstream from the Xfce folks. Those are people that are pretty good at running Xfce so it works pretty damned slick.

Jessie with Xfce is, in my opinion pretty stable. Sid with Xfce is, or was before my tower died last month, what I was using most because it seems even more stable than Jessie.

Lxde I have used on Wheezy when Wheezy was in its final freeze before being released. I was not impressed. OpenBox with all the bells and whistles you can get in the Debian repo was actually easier to set up and use. Lxde, if you are not aware of this, is simply a spruced up OpenBox.

Lxde does however do some of the configuration for you but this means you don't learn to configure OB. I can't say that I am an OB wizard by any means but it can be made to do just about any thing you want it too if you have the patience to learn the ropes.

If you install the Debian menu package it works very nicely under OB. The OB menu is fully customizable however and will contain only the things you want it too.

One thing that got me to drop Lxde is that you have the option on the login page under the Sesion button of booting to OB. When I realized that I was doing that more than booting to Lxde I deleted the install and did a clean install of OB straight up.

A lot of people like Lxde though so you may want to check it out. Like Xfce the Debian version is pretty much what comes straight from upstream so it is the way the Lxde devs put it out. This makes it easier to get help from not only Debian forums but from the Lxde forum.

dobradude45 · 04-22-2014, 03:40 AM

Hi there
There IMO isn't a better debian than Debian. I use the KDE version but XFCE is great too. I use KDE because I also use OpenSuse 13.1 and on opensuse KDE is just awesome. My take on this is Debian for stability and OpenSuse for tinkering around - I like messing around with the latest stuff from KDE and Opensuse is good for this while debian is my running stable desktop.

I actually like the basic openbox -- just the grey desktop - where I can customize it at will.

(I hate though Opensuse's YAST package manager -- but zipper now works somewhat similarly to debian's apt-get install).

Cheers

qrange · 04-22-2014, 06:41 AM

I have to manually reboot and shutdown lxde, because debian testing lacks the latest patch for it. other than that it works ok.

widget · 04-22-2014, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by qrange

I have to manually reboot and shutdown lxde, because debian testing lacks the latest patch for it. other than that it works ok.

Put this in your /home/<user name> directory, make it executable, point your menu to it. I think you can do that in the Lxde menu.

Will throw up a small sellection box for the usual options;

Code:

#!/bin/bash

sel=`zenity --title="        Exit" --list --column=""  "Logout" "Suspend" "Reboot" "Shutdown"`


if [ "$sel" == "Logout" ]; then
   openbox --exit

elif [ "$sel" == "Suspend" ]; then
   dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Suspend int32:0
        
elif [ "$sel" == "Reboot" ]; then
   dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.Hal" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Reboot

elif [ "$sel" == "Shutdown" ]; then
   dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.Hal" /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Shutdown
   

fi
exit 0

Must have zenity installed.

Fairly common way to shut down OB.

Can also be invoked by simply going to the file in you home directory and executing it. I tend to use it on any DE in that fashion when not using a DM.

hitest · 05-13-2014, 08:23 AM

Debian would be my choice for a best Debian based distribution.

rokytnji · 05-13-2014, 08:52 AM

Quote:

based on debian

I'll cut ya a break

http://solydxk.com/

The X version is xfce. I run it on one netbook and it works just fine.

Edit: The Business edition is based on Debian Stable.
I run the testing home edition.

2nd Edit: Looking over Business Edition. It only comes in KDE. So blow off my post if just wanting Wheezy.

m.a.l.'s pa · 05-13-2014, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by DR.PRO

hello.what's the best distro based on debian 7.4 and using lxde or xfce.

MX-14 might be worth a look. I've tried it in live sessions; seems pretty good. Still, for anything Debian-based, I prefer Debian. I use Wheezy Xfce on my main computer.

EDDY1 · 05-13-2014, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by qrange

I have to manually reboot and shutdown lxde, because debian testing lacks the latest patch for it. other than that it works ok.

Code:

shutdown -h now

&

Code:

sudo  shutdown -h now

doesn't work?

Eireannach · 05-13-2014, 05:59 PM

I am using Debian Stable (Wheezy) with Xfce although I am a relative newbie.

If you are put off by the many posts on various blogs that say Debian is not for newbies this is not my experience. You can get an ISO image from https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ Study up on apt-get and / or synaptic and you can install whatever software you need from the Debian repos.