From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Received: by 10.42.38.76 with SMTP id b12mr18749074ice.26.1422912926602; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:35:26 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.50.120.104 with SMTP id lb8ls1321410igb.12.gmail; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:35:26 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.22.3 with SMTP id z3mr184785ige.3.1422912926416; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:35:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 13:35:25 -0800 (PST) From: Antonio Malcolm To: voidlinux@googlegroups.com Message-Id: <92b13c50-f3ce-4aec-99b8-553fffb3cffe@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <9386866b-d729-4587-bd55-ab639a2da6ed@googlegroups.com> References: <9386866b-d729-4587-bd55-ab639a2da6ed@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Decent Starting Point For Rolling A Desktop Environment? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_Part_2824_2101977543.1422912925063" ------=_Part_2824_2101977543.1422912925063 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2825_1830572051.1422912925064" ------=_Part_2825_1830572051.1422912925064 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, ok, an update: Cinnamon breaks BADLY with the most recent Nvidia drivers. Add to that, it does irritating things, with either overriding some Xorg settings, and (at least the HOW of) its use of Xorg settings in its own settings (I had lots of fun getting my trackpad to work predictably). Solutions, from around the web, for solving the Cinnamon + Nvidia debacle, range from such magic, as install bumblebee, and *MAGIC*, cinnamon will suddenly work, to reinstalling Nvidia drivers, from the Nvidia website and *MAGIC*, Cinnamon will suddenly work, to reinstalling your entire Linux setup and *MAGIC*, everything will just work. Yeah, no thanks. Anyhow, I've ended up happily chugging along with a lightdm+openbox+compton+thunar stack. Quite happily. Add tint2 and kupfer to the equation, and it's a golden setup, which behaves just as expected- as configured. When you're going to set things via config files, anyhow, you may as well go all the way, and go with the solution which operates almost solely according to those configs, without adding so much cruft atop them. Lessons learned! The only two bits of cruft, in my current setup are obconf and lxappearance, as they do make setting the general "look and feel" stuffs easier. And lightdm appears to work easily with whatever you put behind it. ------=_Part_2825_1830572051.1422912925064 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Well, ok, an update: Cinnamon breaks BADLY with the most r= ecent Nvidia drivers. Add to that, it does irritating things, with either o= verriding some Xorg settings, and (at least the HOW of) its use of Xorg set= tings in its own settings (I had lots of fun getting my trackpad to work pr= edictably). Solutions, from around the web, for solving the Cinnamon + Nvid= ia debacle, range from such magic, as install bumblebee, and *MAGIC*, cinna= mon will suddenly work, to reinstalling Nvidia drivers, from the Nvidia web= site and *MAGIC*,  Cinnamon will suddenly work, to reinstalling your e= ntire Linux setup and *MAGIC*, everything will just work. Yeah, no thanks.<= br>
Anyhow, I've ended up happily chugging along with a lightdm+openbox+= compton+thunar stack. Quite happily.
Add tint2 and kupfer to the equatio= n, and it's a golden setup, which behaves just as expected- as configured. =
When you're going to set things via config files, anyhow, you may as we= ll go all the way, and go with the solution which operates almost solely ac= cording to those configs, without adding so much cruft atop them.
Lesson= s learned!
The only two bits of cruft, in my current setup are obconf an= d lxappearance, as they do make setting the general "look and feel" stuffs = easier. And lightdm appears to work easily with whatever you put behind it.=
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