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What does your desktop look like?

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5371 Post by pawRoot »

^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?

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#5372 Post by dcihon »

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.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5373 Post by Bloom »

pawRoot wrote:^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?
Yes, it is. There's a freeze when the new Stable is being prepared, but after that it migrates seamlessly to the new Testing.
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.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5374 Post by Bloom »

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.
You do know that Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing, don't you?

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?

#5375 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5376 Post by Lysander »

Bloom wrote:
pawRoot wrote:^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?
Yes, it is. There's a freeze when the new Stable is being prepared, but after that it migrates seamlessly to the new Testing.
You only need to make sure that the name 'Buster' in sources.list is replaced by "testing" everywhere.
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.

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5377 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

After much deliberation I went for the LXQt desktop option:

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^ That's the vanilla configuration, tweakage will happen.

EDIT: some configuration later:

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It's pretty but the Gtk integration sucks :?
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#5378 Post by HuangLao »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:After much deliberation I went for the LXQt desktop option:

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^ That's the vanilla configuration, tweakage will happen.

EDIT: some configuration later:

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It's pretty but the Gtk integration sucks :?
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....

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5379 Post by HuangLao »

I'm playing around with Gnome-Shell on Stretch (feel kinda dirty...lol)
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#5380 Post by HuangLao »

Lysander wrote:
Bloom wrote:
pawRoot wrote:^ but Debian testing isn't rolling, or is it ?
Yes, it is. There's a freeze when the new Stable is being prepared, but after that it migrates seamlessly to the new Testing.
You only need to make sure that the name 'Buster' in sources.list is replaced by "testing" everywhere.
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.

very true, its closer to Slackware-current then Arch or a "true" rolling release.

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#5381 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

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?
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:

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5382 Post by None1975 »

Working on my Xmonad project...
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5383 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

^ Very nice! But is that really terminator? :o

I find fantasque sans mono personally offensive but I will try not to hold that against you :mrgreen:

My desktop:

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Debian sid & LXQt/bspwm.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5384 Post by Wheelerof4te »

Clean desktop:
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Busy desktop:
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Busy desktop (overview):
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5385 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

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:

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^ 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 &
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exec bspwm
I've set multi-user.target as the default with the desktop autostarted by this line in ~/.profile:

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[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && exec startx
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5386 Post by None1975 »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:^ Very nice! But is that really terminator?
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:I find fantasque sans mono personally offensive but I will try not to hold that against you :mrgreen:
I understand, but I like it :)
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:My desktop:Debian sid & LXQt/bspwm.
LXQt/bspwm. Very nice. I like this idea.
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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5387 Post by Lysander »

HuangLao wrote:I'm playing around with Gnome-Shell on Stretch (feel kinda dirty...lol)
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.

Current desktop - Greenland. One day...

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Re: What does your desktop look like?

#5388 Post by bester69 »

I hope you like it :wink:

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#5389 Post by None1975 »

My Xmonad
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#5390 Post by Nili »

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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