Працюю де доведеться. В офісі буваю рідко – відповісти на питання, забрати матеріали для роботи, випити з колєґами бридкої кави…
На робочій машині у офісі (а потім і на нетбукові) зробив колись зручну штуку — перемикання розкладок на CapsLock. (Традиційна функція клавіші тепер під Shift+CapsLock). Зручно до жуті — перемикання одним мізинцем, не відводячи пальців з базової позиції.

Реальний лайфхак, і кому цікаво, реалізація у кінці допису.
Антихак починається на інших машинах — нетбук мій досі в ремонті. А на інших машинах скрізь звична Shift+Alt/Shift+Ctrl. Тепер перемикнути розкладку — це кожен раз міні-стрес. І найгірше, що коли попадаєш у звичні обставини з рідним КапсЛоком, пальці тиснуть на дві дурні службові клавіші вже за звичкою. І виходить, що кожного разу декілька слів набираються СТРАШЕННО ВЕЛИКИМИ ЛІТЕРАМИ, f,j yt d nsq hjprkflws (або не в тій розкладці).

І ще один хак-антихак — це використання машинописної розкладки. Справжні текстові ґіки, для яких швидкість має значення, знають про всі вигоди набору основних розділових знаків вказівними пальцями без Shift. Але коли сідаєш за чужу машину, і замість ком і крапок у тебе шістки і сімки — це дуже дратує. Так, знаю, що нормальне населення нашої планети страшенно дратується, коли замість їхніх ком вилазить велике ЙО, якщо їм деколи випадає сісти за “канонічну” машину. Проте для них це просто роздратування, а я себе сам антихакнув…

setxkbmap -rules xorg -model pc104 -layout "us,ru,ua" -variant ",typewriter,unicode" -option "grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:caps,lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl"

Автоматизується додаванням до автозапуску у тому DE, що використовується.

Llevo mucho sin escribir porque, como dije, tenía la necesidad de crear algo nuevo y creedme que lo he intentado.

Las cosas no son fáciles y es de entender que un proyecto como el que propuse sea algo difícil de llevar a cabo. No se trata de que sea una tortura, yo creo que se trata deque hagamos una web entre amigos/compañeros de fatigas.

Unamos nuestros esfuerzos, no?

Los motivos? ya los sabeis pero como es la última oportunidad que le voy a dar al proyecto pues los vuelvo a explicar:

- Los post duplicados: este un motivo para mi principal y es que en todas las webs que leo sobre Archlinux o lo que sea, me encuentro las mismas noticias.

- El trabajo es voluntario y gratificante: Es cierto que los que escriben lo hacen voluntariamente pero, queramos o no, hemos adquiridos un cuerdo tácito en el que nos comprometemos a continuar escribiendo para que alguien se beneficie de los datos que aportamos.

Aseguro, en mi caso, que nada es más gratificante que recibir un comentario a un escrito.

- Devolver a la comunidad: sigo pensando que en los años que llevo en esto (y podría sumar los que llevo con la informática en general) siempre he ido consumiendo lo que la Gran Comunidad de Internet me ha aportado pero rara vez he contribuido.

He mirado valoración de películas, música o libros, he solucionado mis problemas con el ordenador o la lavadora, hasta he encontrado consejos de toda índole pero rara vez he puesto un comentario dando las gracias, felicitando por el aporte, corrigiendo si había algún error o simlemente opinando sobre una película y… la verdad… me siento mal.

A veces cuesta hasta dar las gracias... pfff!

Creo que la gran mayoría hemos sido como yo en algún momento y, algunos han encontrado el camino de devolver el favor, pero yo, estoy en ello.

Este proyecto nace con la idea de contribuir a la comunidad de Linux en general, pero también de tecnología. No quiero cerrarme a nada, sólamente quiero crear un proyecto conjunto, con amigos y compañeros, con gente con ganas y compromiso. Está claro que todos tenemos cosas que hacer y que organizar algo así lleva mucho tiempo y es difícil pero, como me ha enseñado la programación (y el socio con el que la hice!), no hay cosas difíciles, hay más de una cosa junta. Sólo hay que desgranar, “divide y vencerás” que decía otro.

Lo que propongo:

El nombre ahora no recuerdo a quien se le ocurrió (puede ser xabz(?)) pero es un poco lo que quiero transmitir. entiendeatux. Ese es nuestro problema y al que podemos poner solución.

Propongo crear una web: www.entiendeatux.es como un clon de www.muycomputer.com pero con la salvedad de los temas que queremos tratar.

Y luego crear subdominios con los siguientes “blogs” administrados por parejas o más dependiendo de las secciones y siempre teniendo en cuenta que los problemas/soluciones/tutoriales iguales entre las distribuciones deberían ir a su subdominio p.ej. instalaciones.entiendeatux.es  pues siempre se instalan los mismos paquetes pero con la diferente manera según cada distribución (apt-get, pacman, yum, etc…).

Será que no teemos cosas de que escribir? Y no sólo de Linux vive el hombre tecnología, música de linuxeros (creo que es bastante diferente a la mayoría), artwork, telefonía, competencia, reflexiones… mil temas…

Incluso me atreví a hacer un diseño “mock up” de la web a ver si daba ánimos aunque luego parece o, a lo mejor, se quede en nada. Lo pondré por si a alguien le interesa

No se si le gustará a alguien pero lo hice con ganas y... bueno, eso es todo!

No sé, a lo mejor es demasiado aunque una de las ventajas que creo que ya he dicho es que si lohacemos entre varios y luego lo mntenemos entre varios, nos podemos cubrir cuando alguien no puede/quiere escribir.

Sueño de un lunático? Puede ser pero creo que a matkiber… le hubiera gustado conseguirlo, igual que a mí, pero necesitamos más gente, más recursos, más compromiso y más ganas.

Algún valiente se atreve? XD

Alguien se atreve?

P.D.= Si no lo consigo esta vez… vuelvo al blog y seguiré como hasta ahora… no os librareis de mí tan fácilmente muaaaahahahahaha!

Thunar is the default file manager for Xubuntu’s Xfce desktop environment, and is as stable in Ubuntu as the default app, Nautilus (especially since Xfce uses a lot from Gnome anyway). In many ways, you can’t tell the two programs apart, but for a time Thunar was way ahead of Gnome’s file manager. That’s not just because of advanced features like custom actions you could add, but because of the various views you could have. For example, for newbies tentatively moving away from Windows, the Tree view in the side pane is assuringly similar to Windows Explorer.

While Nautilus has certainly caught up, with being able to add to context menus via actions, and 6 different views for the side pane, Thunar is still worth installing because you can get the best of both worlds. You can leave Nautilus with the Places pane on the left and “Icon View” (thumbnails) on the right, and for when you want to browse via a Tree pane with “Compact List” icons (“List View” in Windows Explorer), you can open Thunar.

Also, unlike with Nautilus, you can still access the defined shortcuts (usually available via the left pane) while in Tree view by clicking a button at the end of the address bar. If you are thinking Thunar might be good to have as a backup in case Nautilus is having problems (which it is), but prefer it to look like Nautilus, then you can always change things back to how you like them (change the Tree pane to Shortcuts).

If you like this idea, but are thinking the icons in “Compact List” view are too small, you can always make them bigger (seen above), via the View menu, or zoom with your scroll wheel.

If you look at the pics, you’ll see some minor differences between the two file managers. Firstly, while Thunar uses the same icons for toolbar buttons that Nautilus does (they both get them from the current icon theme), Thunar’s are bigger (which I personally like). You’ll also note from the second pic that in your home folder (and elsewhere), hidden folders and files are listed first.

Other things worth mentioning are the differences between thumbnails and folder settings between the two, and that the Thunar context (right-click) menu will probably have less entries than you’re used to (though you should get “Open Terminal Here“ by default, while with Nautilus you have to install a package to get “Open in Terminal“).

Lastly, since the Information pane in Nautilus is rather useless right now when it comes to info, you can use Thunar to get more info at a glance than Nautilus can offer. For example, when you’re in your ~/Pictures folder and what to know the size in pixels of certain images, you generally need to right-click each file and view the info via Properties > Image. But with Thunar, all you have to do is click each file and look at the bottom to the info displayed on the status bar (which can be enabled via the View menu if it is missing).

So you could even do what I did: set up Thunar to display over-sized icons in “Icons” view, and then create a panel launcher to have your ~/Pictures folder open in Thunar (the command for such a launcher would be: thunar /home/yourusername/Pictures). That way, you don’t have to mess with icon size in Nautilus, but still get really large thumbnails of all your pictures, as well as info on dimensions presented in the status bar.

To install Thunar, as well as select some plugins for installation, simply search for “thunar” in Synaptic. Or you can install the program and all related plugins via the terminal:

sudo apt-get install thunar thunar-media-tags-plugin thunar-volman thunar-thumbnailers thunar-archive-plugin

To get more info about the plugins, simply paste their names (individually) into the Quick search field in Synaptic.

La réponse à un possesseur IMac 500

Bonjour,
Il semblerait que ce soit possible ; pour ce faire , il faudrait télécharger un premier fichier .iso (LIVE), le graver sur un Cd, booter sur ce cd (Je ne connais pas MAC…. on parle d’une touche C pour booter sur un cd).
Se contenter d’un bureau léger : XFCE!
Si la reconnaissance de la carte graphique et si la connexion se font , il n’y a aucune raison pour qu’une installation définitive ne puisse pas se faire!
Je tenterais en premier : Xubuntu
xubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy Heron ICI
C’est une version stable et LST (supportée à long terme)!Choisir : XFCE
LIRE les liens annexes!
Par ailleurs Mint et Elive fontionnent bien sur de vieux PC!

Un site intéressant!

Bonne journée!

   De când aşteptam eu să treacă şi ZevenOS-ul pe tanti Koala (m-am tot jucat cu versiunile anterioare despre care am scris pe aici pe blog)! Acum ai un look and feel de BeOS combinat cu noile trăsături din Ubuntu 9.10 – ce poate fi mai bun ? Au şi un tool pentru customizare, dar cred că-l instalez aşa cum e şi îl customizez după – dacă reuşesc şi să-i bag un KDE 4.3.3 mă pot declara mulţumit . Principalele trăsături ale versiunii de faţă sunt următoarele:

* a completely new audio subsystem (pulseaudio)
* the switch from HAL to Device-Kit
* Magi-Kit a standard application management layer
* Remaster-Kit for easy iso remastering
* Encode & SUPER Encode an all in all multimedia converting app
* MAGI 2 an application launcher/installer and configuration center
* The typical BeOS like look has been improved with changes to the Deskbar , Icon Theme and GTK-Theme
* Disk-Manager now supports auto-detection of BFS(BeOS) partitions and allows to mount them .

As I posted previously I am in the process of taking the plunge into the new Ubuntu 9.10. More accurately I am taking on Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Xubuntu has been my primary operating system for some time now, but a few months ago I installed Kubuntu on my fathers computer because of its “windows-like” feel. Due to this I decided to take on Kubuntu first so I felt comfortable when updating his system in a couple months. So lets have it, shall we?

The Good:

1. First and fore most this version of Kubuntu actually worked with my laptop. My laptop is an Everex gbook that uses a low power VIA processor and graphics. The last version had many install issues and I never did get it to work right, though the same version of Xubuntu worked fine.

2. Even on my system It feels much more snappy, I am excited to see how it will preform on my fathers full powered pc.

3. Flash installed easly and worked properly on the first try, a big improvement over the last version.

4. The widgets seem more stable this time around and do not randomly quit.

The Bad:

1. Kpackagekit is still crap. The gnome/xfce manager for downloading/updating seems faster, more intuitive, user friendly, and less prone to issues. I have a hard time finding packages in kpackagekit and a weird problem…

3. That weird problem is that the Mozilla Java plug-in broke my dependencies and now I get all these maddening alerts that fill my screen and obstruct its operation. You can follow my thread on this issue over at the Ubuntu Forums

4. The reminders are worse than Windows Vista! I literally had 46 reminders about this dependency issue waiting for me when I got home. One would have done the job. There should be a way to turn these things off.

So far for me its about 50/50 which is a vast improvement over the last version. I will keep you all posted, hopefully can solve these few issues and move on to Xubuntu soon

**Update** I fixed the Java plugin issues. Apparently the Java plugin in the repos breaks some dependencies. I used aptitude to remove that package and installed the sun-java.bin instead via the terminal and all seems fine now.

Both of the two biggest Linux desktop environment projects – Gnome and KDE – have a long history of just charging ahead at breakneck speed; forward, always FORWARD… to the point that they never look BACKWARDS to the tried-and-true, good ol’ reliable stuff. I’m just discovering Xfce now and it RAWKS! What a wonderful little desktop environment!

In my former obsession with “lightweight” I had completely ignored Xfce and ran to the ultralight LXDE desktop. But it’s constantly “under heavy development” (read: “Forward, for God’s sake, FORWAAAARRRRRD!”) and buggy as hell on every Debian/Ubuntu/Mandriva variant I tried it on. I have since learned that LXDE takes the majority of its code from Xfce – and it will likely just be an Xfce clone when it finally matures (if they slow down long enough to catch their breath).

Xfce has improved with every new release, but kept a slow enough pace that it don’t run roughshod over end users in a mad rush to introduce the next fancy-shcmancy eye candy. I think a LOT of folks are going to discover the beauty, simplicity, and power of Xfce in the near future, brought there to avoid the helter-skelter rush of the two racing giants.

Tras mi fracaso probando Elive en el Acer Aspire One topé con una nueva distro Kuki. Mi plan era compilar el kernel sickboy-kuki optimizado para el AAO en Elive, pero no pude hacerlo debido a problemas de dependencia, el kernel necesitaba la libreía libc6 2.8 y Elive viene con la 2.7, así que decidí no complicar más los problemas de dependencia e investigando sobre este último kernel descubrí que no solo habían creado un kernel, sino también una distribución completa, Kuki Linux.

Esta distribución está creado para el Acer Aspire One y deriva de Ubuntu 8.10, así que no me lo pensé más y decidí instalarla, y esta vez si me convenció, arranca en algo menos de un minuto y tiene un escritorio muy bien conseguido para ser un XFCE, recuerda mucho a Xubuntu, además funciónan los dos lectores de de tarjetas en todo momento, algo que solo pasaba con la Linpus original que venía de fábrica y por supuesto tiene todos los paquetes que están disponibles para Ubuntu 8.10 a través de Synaptic o bien APT. Eso sí, a la hora de actualizar los paquetes, como sigue siendo un Ubuntu retocado, te da la opción de actualizarlo a Karmic Koala, Ubuntu 9.10, yo decidí realizar tal actualización y tras 2 horas y media entre descargas, actualizaciones y configuración el sistema se quedaba colgado tras el arranque. Por tanto, como consejo, nunca realicéis esta actualización ya que tendréis que reinstalarlo de cero todo, unicamente actualizar los paquetes instalados.

No puedo opinar nada más, ya que acabo de instalar el sistema, y unicamente el puesto a prueba el hardware, ya os iré comentando como me ha ido el día a día con él y destacar algo significativo que me ocurra.

Para más información la página oficial de Kuki Linux:

http://www.kuki.me

   Încă un beta de la PureOS – un distro franţuzesc (despre care am mai scris pe aici) bazat pe Debian ce vine în versiunea de faţă cu următoarele schimbări :

- kernel 2.6.30.8 with ext4 support and grub2
- Iceweasel 3.5.3
- Claws Mail replaces Icedove
- ePDFView replaces Evince
- MPlayer replaces VLC
- Pidgin removed
- improved scripts for module management (thank to N. Villa / Linux-live-cd.org )
- Gnome-colors icon theme and Stay-calm wallpaper
- added ntp, xserver-video-geode …

fui brincar de instalar o slim (gerenciador de login) e entre um teste e outro acabei com um problema nos painéis do xfce. Nem o menu nem a barra com os aplicativos abertos apareciam.

tentando resolver reinstalei o xfce, desinstalei o slim e nada.. Mas acabei achando uma solução bem simples executando o comando:

xfce4-panel

fonte: viva o linux

Parole Media Player

La dernière version 0.1.91 vient tout juste de sortir, et vous pouvez aussi récupérer les sources git.

Pour l’instant j’ai créé un paquet tout simple pour karmic disponible dans mon PPA Xfce :

parole 0.1.91-1 pour i386
parole 0.1.91-1 pour amd64
parole 0.1.91-1 pour lpia

[En] : Parole is a media player comparable to totem, using Gstreamer framework and written by Ali Abdallah for the Xfce desktop.

The new version 0.1.91 is out, and you can also get the git sources.

I created a simple package for karmic available in my Xfce PPA :

parole 0.1.91-1 for i386
parole 0.1.91-1 for amd64
parole 0.1.91-1 for lpia

Assalamu’alaikum Wr.Wb

Halo linuxer, jika anda pengguna Linux tentunya tidak aneh lagi dengan tampilan desktopnya bukan? Seringkali untuk pengguna linux dengan modal “pc tua” (ups…) tentunya merasakan berat untuk menggunakannya. Ini karena linux umumnya menggunakan Gnome dan KDE sebagai desktop utama, dan ini membutuhkan memori besar. Ini yang menyebabkan menjadi berat untuk pc lama dan memiliki memori sekitar 256 kebawah.

Nah untuk tetap menggunakan linux dengan pc tua, anda mempertimbangkan desktop LXDE ini. Tadinya aku menggunakan Linux dengan desktop Gnome dengan memori hanya 512MB, sangat menyiksa, berat. Nah setelah menginstall desktop lxde, baru terasa bedanya. Sangat ringan sekali dan tampilannya sangat elegan dan tidak kalah dengan vista.

Never Try, Never Feel and Know it…

Wassalam.

   Deşi stilat şi rafinat ca aspect, PCLinuxOS-ul cu XFCE e dezamăgitor din alte puncte de vedere – sunet lipsă, fază penală cu mediu lipsă – nu merge decât pe SATA Probe, rezoluţie schimbată doar cu logout, KDE 4 deşi valabil, în repozitorii în mod default nu apare – trebuie efectuate câteva manevre pentru a-l face disponibil şi cam atât e suficient pentru a-mi pierde speranţele într-un distro care a fost mulţi ani la rând distro-ul meu preferat . Am încercat de curând şi Minime-ul şi sunt şi aici cam aceleaşi probleme .

I haven’t given the Xfce desktop environment a fair chance at all. I went from Gnome to KDE (omygosh, waaaaay slow!), then LXDE because of what I had read. LXDE prob’ly has a bright future, but it’s under such heavy development right now and they keep changing stuff, and it pulls in a surprising number of unexpected dependencies. And for me, it’s been just buggy. I have always had a sound issue with LXDE in every distro I’ve played with, both Debian-based and Mandriva-based.

I’d like to hear from some Xfce users who have tried LXDE. All the comparisons I’ve read so far show the “hard data” that indicates memory usage and such, but they don’t describe the actual experience of LXDE vs Xfce. That’s what I’m interested in, and that’s why I think I’ll play with Xubuntu when it’s ready. I’ve experienced KDE, Gnome, LXDE, and Openbox. Of all these, Openbox should have been the fastest. But the actual experience of Crunchbang Linux (Ubuntu-based, “lightweight for older computers, etc) was slower than LXDE (and not a little confusing for a newbie. I haven’t actually experienced Xfce yet.

And can someone tell me why Canonical ships free Ubuntu and Kubuntu CDs but not Xubuntu? I thought Xubuntu was an “official” Canonical-approved distro. That’s just weird.

Como sabemos todos los usuarios de Thunar, cuando una aplicación no encuentra el programa que la ejecuta, podemos ir a la opción Abrir con... e ir añadiendo todos los programas que queramos que ejecuten dicha aplicación.

¿Que sucede? Que este listado se acumula y es posible que no todos los programas que seleccionemos cumplan la función que queremos.

Para borrar este listado solo tenemos que ir a: ~/.local/share/applications donde encontraremos un fichero llamado defaults.list el cual tendrá adentro algo similar a esto:

[Default Applications]
image/jpeg=gpicview.desktop
text/plain=mousepad.desktop
image/png=gpicview.desktop

Donde por ejemplo para abrir las imagenes en formato jpg y png uso gpicview… Borrando esas lineas todo vuelve a estar por defecto..

Ecco i comandi che ho dato in successione (ho fatto un po’ di riassunto, ma il succo è quello):

# pacman -Rc gnome
# pacman -Sy xfce4 xfce4-goodies

con piccoli aggiustamenti per non perdere i miei programmi GTK preferiti.. (evince-gtk al posto di evince, rhythmbox, gnome-do, ecc ecc)

Da qualche giorno sto testando questo XFCE4 (rinnovato moltissimo rispetto all’ultima volta che l’avevo provato, anni fa), e per adesso non sento la mancanza di niente (a parte i vari problemi occorsi con il recente aggiornamento a GNOME 2.28, ovviamente…). Ormai non ho più molto tempo da dedicare allo “smanettamento”, in questo periodo della mia vita voglio solo un PC che quando arrivo a casa, “funzioni”, senza però dover passare a mostruosità come Windows 7, ma nemmeno a elefantini come Ubuntu…

Dopo il passaggio, le cose che mi hanno stupito di più
- xfce-power-manager praticamente identico a gnome-power-manager, con la differenza che funziona (e utilizza le notify-osd senza bisogno di patch particolari)
- thunar che funziona egregiamente, anteprim-izza di tutto e di più e in maniera più rapida che nautilus
- basta rotture di policykit etc all’inserimento di usb-drives, mmc ecc ecc
- un gestore di sfondi finalmente non dell’anteguerra (è una minc*iata, ma io sono uno capace di cambiare sfondo anche 2 volte al giorno, e il poter associare questa funzione ad un semplice tasto, mi esalta a manetta )

e qualcosa mi dice che proseguendo con l’utilizzo, scoprirò altre piacevoli chicche.

Alcuni programmi GNOME li ho trovati in versione “lite” su AUR, mentre per altri cercherò di staccarmi man mano che troverò valide alternative…
Insomma, da qualch e giorno ho riscoperto il piacere di usare il pc in maniera produttiva.

Se volete aiutarmi a risolvere alcune piccole chicche tipo
– ho bisogno di uno strumento grafico per gestire i profili energetici (come un applet ad esempio.. quella di XFCE permette solo di sapere in quale profilo sta lavorando il pc, ma senza possibilità di modificarlo.. ^^)
– far si che in qualche maniera appaia una segnalazione osd alla modifica del volume e della luminosità

segnalate pure nei commenti, grazie! io intanto, provvederò a cercare in giro.

ps arrivederci a GNOME 3.0, sperando che non sia un evento catastrofico in stile KDE4…

Non chiedetemi perché, quando, come.

Non so infatti il motivo, nemmeno da quando c’è il problema, ma le applicazioni GNOME non rilevavano i CD audio (sound-juicer, rhythmbox, brasero) mentre nessun problema con vlc, k3b, exaile. Gira e remena ho trovato (ma che fatica!).

Avendo XFCE ho dovuto sostituire, in .xinitrc, la seguente riga

exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session

con questa

exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

E ora funziona.

When you install either Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Xubuntu, you end up with either Gnome, KDE or Xfce (respectively) as the desktop environment. You only get one choice, but you can easily add one or more of the other desktop environments to your system later. You might be wondering if there are any drawbacks in doing this, so hopefully this will ease your worries.

Basically, the only drawback is that each system requires updates, which might be an issue for those with small download limits. For Ubuntu users, Xfce updates are infrequent and usually quite tiny, but KDE updates are usually larger than those for Gnome, as often more system packages get updated each time, and fairly frequently.

Other than that, your different desktop environments should co-exist in peace, and any “problems” will be minor, like the icons on your Ubuntu desktop being in a different order when you log into KDE. The panels and menus will be different, and some things will work differently, but that’s to be expected, and you’ll have fun learning your way around.

And while most of us are quite happy using one desktop environment, with the majority choosing Gnome, there is an upside to having more than one. You can use it as a backup desktop if things go wrong, and not have to log into Windows or Mac OS to Google for answers. Also, because you are logged into your Ubuntu system regardless of what desktop environment you’re in, you can edit system files or whatever needs to be done, without having to use a Live CD or other tool to be able to get at them (since you can’t via Windows).

Or if you suspect it was a buggy update, and one likely to have had a flood of bug reports from users, you can even sit back and use another desktop for a while and see what happens. After all, you should still be able to use most if not all your Gnome apps without issue in KDE, and updates to Gnome will still come in and get installed. From experience I can tell you it can be as little as 2 days before a bunch of system package updates are rushed out, and once installed you’re logging into Gnome again without a problem.

If you’re a “tinkerer”, and have gotten yourself into spots of bother messing with your system – and are likely to do so again – this option is a lot easier than using a Live CD each time. If you’d like to cut down on hard drive space used and downloads for updates, install Xfce, as it is quite minimalist. One thing to keep in mind though if considering this is that Xfce actually draws a lot from GTK – basically parts of Gnome – so there is at least a slight possibility that if you’ve messed up a part of Gnome it needs, Xfce won’t load either. So if you want to play it safe, and don’t mind sacrificing a little disk space and bandwidth, install KDE as your backup desktop. Or if you want ot play it really safe like me, have all three!

   Dreamlinux-ul n-a mai mişcat de multicel în front (cam de astă toamnă daca exceptăm finalizarea din martie) şi iată ca astăzi vine cu o versiune alpha ce pana una-alta pare promiţătoare . Trăsăturile mai importante ar fi:

Kernel 2.6.29.3-dream-1
Xfce 4.6.1.2
Packages from Debian Squeeze repositories
Smart Package Manager
Multimedia packages from Debian Multimedia Testing.
Wbar replaces Engage dock.
New Applications Folder for new Dreamlinux Executable Modules ( DEM ) packages.
Smplayer for all multimedia tasks, audio and video, standard or HD formats.
New GTK theme: Go_Steel based on Aurora GTK Engine.

   Conform anunţului sunt şi componente care nu merg înca:

Nvidia-install ( installs with manual method, download and run nvidia driver )
Dreamlinux specific scripts ( Easy-install, Color-Folders, Theme-switcher, etc )
Livedream, Easy-Remaster .

Para quem está a procura de um gerenciador de janelas leve existem varias opções, os mais recomendados atualmente são o lxde e o xfce, já que são fáceis e não precisam de muita configuração para criar um desktop usável.

Lxde

Xfce

Ps: esses screenshots postados acima não são meus.

Sem mais delongas, o lxde é mais leve que o xfce, o consumo de memória do xfce é um pouco mais alto do que o do lxde, e o consumo da cpu também. o xfce puro inicia consumindo cerca de 59mb de memória ou um poucos mais, e em alguns casos até menos.

Já o lxde também puro inicia consumindo cerca de 30mb de RAM , realmente… são miseros megabytes, mas para quem tem uma maquina com poucos recursos é sempre bom economizar alguns MB =P

Ps: esse teste foi realizado em uma maquina rodando arch linux e debian linux, com os mesmos serviços rodando, nas duas distros o resultado foi o mesmo.

Algumas dicas extras:

Para ter mais desempenho em aplicações gtk em um desses gerenciadores de janela sempre selecione temas leves, os temas do xfce são um bom exemplo de temas leves apesar de feios xD, Use sempre alternativas leves de aplicativos gtk.

Links uteis:

Site oficial do xfce:

http://www.xfce.org

Site oficial do lxde:

http://www.lxde.org