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Dear Grant, |
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I would sincerely second Openbox + tint2. |
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That's my all times favourite. Bear in mind that the stable |
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tint2wizard/conf doesn't handle the Launcher properly. |
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For that you need to emerge tint2 with the testing "~amd64" flag :). |
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There are some additional goodies in the more modern tint2 panel, too. |
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Best regards, |
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Andy |
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On 29 September 2016 at 21:52, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> |
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wrote: |
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> On 2016-09-25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I liked openbox though, so if LXDE refuses to handle multiple |
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> >> screens I may stick with openbox and try to find some other panel |
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> >> program that does work with multiple screens. |
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> I gave up on LXDE. I messed around with it a bit more and it seems to |
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> have a hard-wired assumption that computers are single-user and |
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> single-screen. Besides that, the LXDE community also seems to be |
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> rather small/inactive. I posted questions about multi-screen use to |
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> the LXDE forum, but the user forum only has a couple of posts per |
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> month, and few of them ever get any responses. |
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> > Openbox+tint2 looks promising. |
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> That's what I've settled on. It took a couple hours of fiddling to |
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> setup a startup script, configure the panels, the window manager |
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> itself, and build a root window menu that's close enough to my old one |
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> that I don't flail about like Donald Trump making fun of the |
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> handicapped. |
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> For generating an openbox root menu, I recommend obmenu-generator. |
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> > I still have to figure out one last tweak to openbox's behavior. When |
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> > you do ctrl-alt-right/left it switches virtual desktops on the screen |
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> > that has input focus, and I want it to switch on the screen where the |
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> > mouse pointer is. I know it's trivial, and all you have to do is |
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> > click before hitting ctrl-alt-right/left. |
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> I haven't figured that out yet, so I'll have to adapt. :) |
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> -- |
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> Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Does someone from |
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> at PEORIA have a SHORTER |
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> gmail.com ATTENTION span than me? |
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