On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Levi Bard wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Levi Bard wrote:
>>
>> >> For lightweight window managers, I would suggest XFCE <snip />
>> >
>> > I'm going to ditto this. XFCE is indeed slimmer than either of the
>> > KNODE twins, and is IMO the most maclike of the popular DEs. It's
>> > /very/ just-works and configure-everything-from-the-GUI friendly, as
>> > well, (perhaps) surprisingly more so (again IMO) than either KDE or
>> > GNOME.
>>
>> Does _that_ have a "reset interface to defaults" (or saved state, whatever)
>> control?
>
> I'm not sure, but `rm -r ~user/.config/xfce4*` would probably get you there.
Hokay, I got the machine Ubuntu-ized. It's a Celeron 433 with 192 MB RAM.
I had an extra 512 MB DIMM, but it's the wrong type to fit in there
(existing ones have two notches, this has one). Dammit.
So the stock installer requires too much RAM. No problem, download
ubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso and we're on the way.
Then I tried to install xfce. It's not in the distro (it is in Xubuntu), so
download on another machine | sneakernet et voila ... almost. It needs
Gmodule, part of glib, and it refers me to gtk.org. I'd rather not download
out-of-distro software onto this machine. Is there an easier way? Gnome
(or something) keeps the CPU above 20%...
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