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TassieDevil

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From: /terra/australis

Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 25

What took me so long?

Hi crunchbangers! After procrastinating a bit I decided to take #! Xfce for a spin last week and I am loving it.

I have used linux for quite a few years (Mandrake in the early days, Ubuntu over the last few years) and have always liked the idea of Xfce. Until now I haven't found an Xfce distro to really make me smile, and I have tried many. To finally find a friendly and polished looking distro that performs really well "out of the box" and is built on the all conquering apt/debian base is just great.

The clincher was coming here to the forums and having a good look around. Goodness me - the friendliness, helpfulness and lack of ego are a real breath of fresh air! A bit like walking into a good friend's house...

Very big thanks to Corenominal for this mighty little OS, and thanks also to Hardran and others for some very fast-track post-install tutorials. I found myself with a fantastic working setup in no time.

I'll be seeing a lot more of you all I'm sure :-)

muzieca

#! Die Hard

From: /home

Registered: 2010-08-28

Posts: 1,152

Re: What took me so long?

Welcome to #! forum TassieDevil. Have fun!

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VastOne

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From: V-Ger

Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: What took me so long?

Welcome TassieDevil!

We have all said just about the same things....

Good to have you at "home" 

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merelyjim

#! Die Hard

From: Fort Worth, Texas

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 2,303

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Re: What took me so long?

Welcome to #!

Just curious, but did you also install Openbox in the cb-welcome post-install script? There's just a little more snap to it than Xfce, and I end up switching back and forth between the two fairly often without ever deciding which I like best...

Last edited by merelyjim (2011-06-08 21:34:10)

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Awebb

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Registered: 2009-07-23

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Re: What took me so long?

Why not using Openbox inside XFCE?

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TassieDevil

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From: /terra/australis

Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 25

Re: What took me so long?

Hi merelyjim and Awebb - yes I did install Openbox and yes it seems a tiny bit snappier in use

However I am currently having fun experimenting with enlightenment e16 over Xfce - it's almost brilliant. Very snappy and some of the good old enlightenment bling. There is a black theme that looks pretty good with #! I'm wrestling with a couple of minor issues atm, so the inner tinkerer is happy

VastOne

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From: V-Ger

Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: What took me so long?

Hi merelyjim and Awebb - yes I did install Openbox and yes it seems a tiny bit snappier in use

However I am currently having fun experimenting with enlightenment e16 over Xfce - it's almost brilliant. Very snappy and some of the good old enlightenment bling. There is a black theme that looks pretty good with #! I'm wrestling with a couple of minor issues atm, so the inner tinkerer is happy

@TassieDevil  -  Hi...  I am using Xfce 4.8 and found a somethings that may interest you as far as dark themes...

Here are two images... The first one is SlicknesS and it has a lighter background of everything with dark menus

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21077800/screen … 0748am.png

This second one is SlicknesS Dark the same with dark backgrounds on everything...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21077800/screen … 0959pm.png

I set both of these from Settings/Appearance

I use XubuntuStudio as my Window manager because it was th only one I could find that was Shiny, Black and with the exact buttons I wanted...

You can download all of these at

http://gnome-look.org/?xsection=home

Just trying to show you options... If you get a chance send me a screen shot of the enlightenment e16 over Xfce ... I would like to take a look at it too...

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jscottu

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Registered: 2011-06-09

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Re: What took me so long?

I, too, have been looking for a variation of xfce that I liked.  Specifically, one that could go onto a compaq 731mhz, 256mb PC.  Crunchbang did it AND, as I understand it, I won't have to reinstall it every 6 months (xubuntu can theoretically be upgraded without a reinstall but in practice it doesn't work with my 256mb ram).
It takes some maturity to train ones self to live without eye candy.  But it is worth it on an older machine.  What I want is SPEED and crunch delivers.

anonymous

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Re: What took me so long?

Welcome to #! TassieDevil

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TassieDevil

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From: /terra/australis

Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 25

Re: What took me so long?

Hi VastOne - tyvm for the screenshots and links! Wow, compliments on your desktop - nicely done. Like you, Xfce 4.8 was one of the very first things I did on my new #! install and I'm liking it a lot.

I am still wrestling with e16 - I found a window decoration theme that is very close to the default look of OB and Xfce in #! and confidently thought to myself "I can quickly hack this to be perfect - move a couple of window control buttons and change the button images and voila!". That is, until I started to dig into e16 theming - painfully difficult, and docco seems very hard to find. If any other #! users have any experience at this or know of a good tutorial/source of docco, please sing out!!

Thanks for the warm welcome, and I will try and get something worth sending as soon as possible.