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I've been running XFCE for many, many years, and I was perfectly happy |
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with it until 4.11 came out. Support for multiple displays[1] was |
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broken in xfdesktop by a commit made in 2013. It's been broken ever |
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since, and there doesn't appear to be any intention of fixing it. |
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About a year ago, when 4.12 went stable, I had to block it to avoid |
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this bug. I've been running 4.10 ever since, but the ebuild for 4.10 |
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just got pruned, so it's probably time to start thinking about |
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switching to a different desktop. |
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Would anybody care to make a recommendation? |
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The requirements are: |
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* simple and lightweight |
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* support for multiple displays[1] |
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* support for multiple virtual desktops on each display (I |
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currently run 4 virtual desktops on each of 3 displays) |
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* must have focus-follows mouse and must be able disable |
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"raise-on-click" |
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* some sort of easily modifiable root-window menu that I can use to |
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start apps |
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* some sort of task-bar (auto-hide required) |
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* some sort toolbar OK (as long as it's auto-hide) |
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* GTK-based strongly preferred -- I typically don't have Qt or any |
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KDE stuff installed, and have some custom-written GTK apps on |
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which I'm rather dependent. |
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* I don't want a file manager, terminal emulator, or any other |
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bundled apps, so it would be nice if they were all optional, |
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separate ebuilds |
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I don't want any storage auto-mounter, network manager, modem manager, |
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or any of that sort of thing. Anything with "manager" in the name is |
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probably right out. |
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All I want is something to run urxvt terminals and xemacs windows -- |
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with maybe an instance of firefox, chrome, or wireshark. I also |
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occasionally run libreoffice or xfreerdp, but only under duress. |
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I don't want any icons or folders or shortcuts or whatnot on the |
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desktop. |
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I don't even need the ability to use an image as my desktop |
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"wallpaper": all I want is a user-configurable sold color. |
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When I'm moving/resizing a window, all I want to see is a wireframe -- |
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I don't need a window's contents being re-rendered constantly as I |
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move or resize it. |
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No fancy animation or translucency silliness. |
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[1] I'm referring to separate X11 displays/desktops, not a single |
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logical display spread across multiple physical monitors. |
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