Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013, Stephen Powell wrote:
> Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently
> no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D
> acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is
> apparently unusable with such an X driver.
>
> Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the
> default desktop for the production jessie installer.
You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing
Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop "environment" entirely, and just use a
full-featured window manager and a few utilities. I found Openbox with
LXPanel works just fine. Lower overhead, too. Just do a Base net
install, and add one thing at a time.
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