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What does your desktop look like?
Re: What does your desktop look like?
Sorry comment off topic.
Taken from another site:
Taken from another site:
Really if a good rolling release is your goal you probably are better off with another distro. The biggest reason to use testing should be because you actually want to help test it for the next Debian release.
Re: What does your desktop look like?
Yes, it is. There's a freeze when the new Stable is being prepared, but after that it migrates seamlessly to the new Testing.pawRoot wrote:^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?
You only need to make sure that the name 'Buster' in sources.list is replaced by "testing" everywhere.
Although you could the same for Stable (replacing 'stretch' by 'stable' in sources.list), I wouldn't recommend that because the upgrade to a new stable would have to jump about two years ahead and that won't be seamlessly, to say the least.
Re: What does your desktop look like?
You do know that Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing, don't you?dcihon wrote:Sorry comment off topic.
Taken from another site:Really if a good rolling release is your goal you probably are better off with another distro. The biggest reason to use testing should be because you actually want to help test it for the next Debian release.
Testing is fine for desktop systems. Stable can be as well, but if you'd like more recent versions of software you could try Testing. I wouldn't use Sid (Unstable) unless you know your way around a root terminal.
I have used Debian Testing for several of my desktop systems for quite a few years now and haven't encountered any problems. The last year, I even started using Sid for my desktop.
If you need to install a server, stick to Debian Stable.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
It's probably more accurate to think of Testing as a rolling development version, rather than a rolling release as such. Arch, Gentoo etc are rolling releases since those releases receive small, frequent updates and are fully independent. This is different to Debian Testing, which exists to find fixes for another release, notably Stable. So yes, Testing is indeed rolling, but the difference lies in its cause.Bloom wrote:Yes, it is. There's a freeze when the new Stable is being prepared, but after that it migrates seamlessly to the new Testing.pawRoot wrote:^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?
You only need to make sure that the name 'Buster' in sources.list is replaced by "testing" everywhere.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
After much deliberation I went for the LXQt desktop option:
^ That's the vanilla configuration, tweakage will happen.
EDIT: some configuration later:
It's pretty but the Gtk integration sucks
^ That's the vanilla configuration, tweakage will happen.
EDIT: some configuration later:
It's pretty but the Gtk integration sucks
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
I always liked LXDE so I have a soft spot for LXQt, however, I never had much luck printing from qt based pdf viewers, whether Okular or qpdfview...always had to install Atril, Evince etc... which seemed silly, even had this problem on KDE (regardless of distro). Have you noticed this before? Not meant as a thread hijack....
Re: What does your desktop look like?
I'm playing around with Gnome-Shell on Stretch (feel kinda dirty...lol)
https://scrot.moe/image/9zhib
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Lysander wrote:It's probably more accurate to think of Testing as a rolling development version, rather than a rolling release as such. Arch, Gentoo etc are rolling releases since those releases receive small, frequent updates and are fully independent. This is different to Debian Testing, which exists to find fixes for another release, notably Stable. So yes, Testing is indeed rolling, but the difference lies in its cause.Bloom wrote:Yes, it is. There's a freeze when the new Stable is being prepared, but after that it migrates seamlessly to the new Testing.pawRoot wrote:^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?
You only need to make sure that the name 'Buster' in sources.list is replaced by "testing" everywhere.
very true, its closer to Slackware-current then Arch or a "true" rolling release.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
I've never tried printing from a PDF viewer, sorry (I didn't even know that could be done) — the only PDFs I deal with are generated by texlive, qtpdfview seems to render such documents very well indeed:HuangLao wrote:I never had much luck printing from qt based pdf viewers, whether Okular or qpdfview...always had to install Atril, Evince etc... which seemed silly, even had this problem on KDE (regardless of distro). Have you noticed this before?
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
OS: Debian 12.4 Bookworm / DE: Enlightenment
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
^ Very nice! But is that really terminator?
I find fantasque sans mono personally offensive but I will try not to hold that against you
My desktop:
Debian sid & LXQt/bspwm.
I find fantasque sans mono personally offensive but I will try not to hold that against you
My desktop:
Debian sid & LXQt/bspwm.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
LXQt is a very nice desktop but Qt configuration confuses the hell out of me and Trolltech.conf makes that worse
Also, session management is bloat so it's back to basics:
^ That's bspwm & xfce4-panel (with volumeicon-alsa & xfce4-power-manager in the systray, fuzzy clock ftw!), started from ~/.xsessionrc:
I've set multi-user.target as the default with the desktop autostarted by this line in ~/.profile:
Also, session management is bloat so it's back to basics:
^ That's bspwm & xfce4-panel (with volumeicon-alsa & xfce4-power-manager in the systray, fuzzy clock ftw!), started from ~/.xsessionrc:
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# ~/.xsessionrc
xset s 300
sh ~/.fehbg
xfce4-panel --disable-wm-check &
volumeicon &
xfce4-power-manager
exec bspwm
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[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec startx
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Thank you, Head_on_a_Stick Yes, it is terminator with Solarized color scheme.After long use of the urxvt terminal, I decided to get a more comfortable option.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:^ Very nice! But is that really terminator?
I understand, but I like itHead_on_a_Stick wrote:I find fantasque sans mono personally offensive but I will try not to hold that against you
LXQt/bspwm. Very nice. I like this idea.Head_on_a_Stick wrote:My desktop:Debian sid & LXQt/bspwm.
OS: Debian 12.4 Bookworm / DE: Enlightenment
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
Nice, I've been using GNOME for my Debian life. I use a mixture of Frippery Clock Move, Pitch Dark, Activities Configurator, Open Weather and Mist theme to get things looking how I want.HuangLao wrote:I'm playing around with Gnome-Shell on Stretch (feel kinda dirty...lol)
Current desktop - Greenland. One day...
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
OS: Debian 12.4 Bookworm / DE: Enlightenment
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Re: What does your desktop look like?
I had hard time once with Xmonad. So i gave up for herbstluftwm, but that WM is ultra fast, lighter and very configurable for those who own it.
Xmonad + Ratpoison + dwm = three kings.
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Xmonad + Ratpoison + dwm = three kings.
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