I use three monitors at work and now use two at home... which in itself is great.
But there is something that nags me.
When dealing with a multi monitor setup I tend to switch my focus too often between monitors. I ask myself if that is the way to go.
Thinking about rather using one and handling all the windows in different #Xfce workspaces - since switching is easy via keyboard.
Maybe this is just me... but I kinda feel a little disorganized - if that makes sense.
A very nice launcher (and much more) is rofi.
I use it with #Xfce to quickly run a application. It is easy to use and the defaults are sane.
Bin it to a keyboard shortcut of your liking and it will be your best buddy soon 😎
I spent a good chunk of the day slimming down my Debian install on the #MangoPiQuad. I moved from (and uninstalled) #XFCE to #OpenBox. I wholesale uninstalled many preinstalled apps (such as Libre Office, Emacs, Bluez, and much, much more).
I installed #CairoDock and #Nitrogen I gotta say, it is running smooth. I am even able to run #MinecraftPiReborn with out maxing out the CPU or RAM!
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Spent the day installing #Mint#XFce to an old Acer #laptop of my sister in law's brother (I've converted everyone to #Linux in the family). Acer's firmware was very buggy, so it took tricks to load grub.
Installed them a few apps, and they will be super happy with their new (old) laptop. Previously, #Windows 10 was dying on that laptop, it was that slow, as it was swapping furiously! Mint loaded in about 1 minute, which is good (considering the very slow hdd).
I decided to try #XFCE. I didn't like it. Font rendering was harder to read than on MATE. Changing the color scheme made the desktop icon names unreadable. Settings were hard to find or didn't behave as I expected. The clock text is really hard to read because it's so small. The panel volume icon says 25% (correctly) while pavucontrol says 0%. Probably some other things I'm forgetting.
OTOH, nothing actually crashed or broke. It's usable in a pinch.
@nixCraft Oh yes yes yes! I remember it. Used Xfce on Gentoo back in 2005-6, and the feeling was exactly this. I still use Xfce in Debian today as my main desk / machine. Just perfection
@nixCraft I remember everything! My "year of the Linux desktop" was in 1997 when I first succeeded to install Fvwm2 and got the eyes watching me 😀. Then I switched to WindowMaker and then came Xfce and tha mouse was cool.
Looks like the #XFCE#screenshot tool will soon have that awkward "Upload to #Imgur" option dropped. Good riddance! I never understood features like this one, especially when it goes to a #proprietary service.
Qui qui est doué avec Gimp, photoshop et compagnie ?
J'aimerai avoir le logo #xfce mais en violet au lieu du bleu. L'idée c'est de me l'imprimer sur un tee shirt
#Xfce never let me down. The stability and usability really is from another world.
You can throw any workflow at it and it will not stutter, hang or crash.
Just the right thing for any Sysadmin doing work. 🙂
Combine this with #Debian or any #BSD and you got a match made in heaven 😎
@jhx@jloc0 Same for Xfce on Sid, that's my choice too. It's really boring... As in, you don't have any surprises, it just keeps working as intended. :)
The stock xfce4-panel Clock *calendar for some weird reason has the week number hard coded. So you can't hide it. I can't think of a single time in my life I thought to myself, "gee, I wonder what week out of 52 we are currently in". This is such a strange choice.