[plug] Linux on a USB stick

[Timothy White]

On 8/2/05, Adam Davin <byteme-its at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:11:16 +0800
> Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 20:39 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> >
> > Yep, seconded and then some. Until the latest round of GNOME I used
> > XFCE4 on my main desktop, which is *definitely* not short on
> > resources.
> >
> > The main issue you'll run into is if you want a GUI file manager. XFFM
> > is in my view unusuable (but then, I rate any GUI file manager on any
> > platform as "almost passable" at best). If you want Nautilus or
> > Konqueror you're going to find they pull in most of the libraries and
> > helper daemons you were trying to get rid of. As a happy user of the
> > traditional file manager "the shell" for 95% of my file management
> > tasks, this doesn't bother me one bit.
> >
> I switched from 'E' which was giving me all sorts of headaches with
> window placements to XFCE4 a few months back and have found it great.
> The only thing I miss is different desktop backgrounds for different
> virtual desktops and being able to drag and place windows in the pager
> _exactly_ where you want them on the screen. The later I have learned to
> make do without, the former I would still like to see implemented.

I feel your pain. I miss different virtual desktop backgrounds, which
I believe XFCE 3 had. I don't mind the pager positioning. I couldn't
care less, but the wall papers mean a lot when I forget which desktop
I'm in.
Another small gripe, if you have a window (mainly happens with
terminal emulators) open, and it is maximised (with the right setting
so that it doesn't go behind the panel) and you add another tab, the
window grows that much more and part is now behind the panel. I guess
that's something to work with the developers on though.

Tim