Antony P Joseph on 15 Apr 2010 08:43:07 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] New Lucid theme too "bright"(FYI)


Hi

 You have to use LDXE http://lxde.org/ which is much lighter than xfce 
and almost provides similar capabilities.

With regards
Antony
Richard Freeman wrote:
> On 04/14/2010 07:50 PM, jeff wrote:
>   
>> You can't argue with the incredible lightness of xfce, though.
>> It will more than likely put some spring in your Mini's step.
>>
>>     
>
> Yup - I finally switched to xfce a few months ago when Gentoo switched 
> to KDE 4.  I tried it out but my system was in a perpetual state of swap 
> (even after disabling KDE 4's more obnoxious features like file 
> indexing).  Granted, this is a pretty busy system, but I've used it that 
> way for a long time, and if I can rebuild the kernel and chromium 
> without killing performance, then my desktop manager certainly should be 
> able to "just work."
>
> Rich
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