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A few days ago I fired up my aged AcerAspire 3620 laptop with the intention of blanking the drive prior to finally committing it to recycling. This was because the CMOS battery has finally begun to die, making it necessary to reset the time/date on each boot or else it won't go online without error messages. (among other reasons)
However its otherwise still-excellent functioning won me over yet again and I decided to hang on to it a bit longer. This, after watching an excellent Youtube presentation on how to thoroughly disassemble the unit which would allow for CMOS replacement and full cleaning of both the fan & heatsink unit.
While there.... the Acer has an older 32-bit version of Slackware installed, and several alternate window managers so I decided to take a look at it's Fvwm. Lo & behold despite it's simplicity that configuration had an appeal that the version installed by default on my 64-bit Slackware desktop did not. I liked the button bar and mini-button bar attached to the pager console in particular. So, I scp'd the .fvwm folder from the laptop over to the desktop and tried it out here. Very pleased with the clean look and smooth action of this version. In addition, custom config of the menus, modules, and decorations files is fairly simple, allowing me among other things to customize the button bar with desired apps and icons. The setup runs transparent conky just fine without compositor, but there's no transparency for the terminals. (which does not bother me a bit)
Yet another variation on the infinitely diverse Fvwm desktop.
Distribution: Slackware64 {15.0,-current}, FreeBSD, stuff on QEMU
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I recently got a Surface tablet. Since one portable spyware machine is more than enough and I already own a smartphone, Windows had to go. Now, I can use Slackware anywhere. Was it a good purchase? Let's just say this thing has saved me a fair amount of drudgery at work over the last few weeks.
I was on the fence about which desktop to choose; Plasma's compositor was a bit glitchy, so I'm sticking with fvwm3 for now. I'll probably try GNOME this weekend, but I suspect it'll be a little too heavy for four threads and 8GB of RAM. Anyway, it's running a kernel with these patches here and the onscreen keyboard is florence.
I recently got a Surface tablet. Since one portable spyware machine is more than enough and I already own a smartphone, Windows had to go. Now, I can use Slackware anywhere. Was it a good purchase? Let's just say this thing has saved me a fair amount of drudgery at work over the last few weeks.
I was on the fence about which desktop to choose; Plasma's compositor was a bit glitchy, so I'm sticking with fvwm3 for now. I'll probably try GNOME this weekend, but I suspect it'll be a little too heavy for four threads and 8GB of RAM. Anyway, it's running a kernel with these patches here and the onscreen keyboard is florence.
Did You consider svkbd for the onscreen keyboard yet?
Also i found XFCE4 to be the fastest of the "fully featured" GUIs, while still being the most feature rich of the "light on resources" out there FWIW.
We have to put Slackware on as many devices out there, right?
Last edited by SCerovec; 05-20-2023 at 02:30 AM.
Reason: typo in app name
Distribution: Slackware64 {15.0,-current}, FreeBSD, stuff on QEMU
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Originally Posted by SCerovec
Did You consider svkbd for the onscreen keyboard yet?
I hadn't heard of that one, but I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
And I did build GNOME. I'm... pleasantly surprised? It's running much better than I expected (certainly better than it's ever performed on any laptop I've ever tried it on).
https://imgur.com/XyJWqCe.png <-- I m using xfce desktop in my Slackware-current system.
But really Gnome desktop is very, very stable Desktop for Slackware... Gnome44 run out of the box for current and I hope soon in next Slackware release we will have Gnome 43-44 in SlackBuilds.
Thanks to all slackware-gnome-devs guys for their work...
I have gdm as display manager, and in my xfce desktop using nautilus file manager. I also use gnome-terminal and console, gedit and everything goes fine last 2 years
And the most good stuff I use is gnome-software https://imgur.com/jBQj8ao.png
excellent work !!!
I hadn't heard of that one, but I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
And I did build GNOME. I'm... pleasantly surprised? It's running much better than I expected (certainly better than it's ever performed on any laptop I've ever tried it on).
Do note it's not as "plug and play" as one might expect (like florence ought to be) but i found it more cut for what i like - i could set it's size on launch and things like that - and it crashed way less often back in the day than any other i could get my hands (well; my mouse pointer) on...
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