[LAU] Desktop replacements for ROX applications

[David W. Jones]

I use XFCE. I have Trinity running on a VM. XFCE is better and lighter.

On November 14, 2021 10:27:48 AM HST, Brandon Hale <bthaleproductions at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've never run Rox, but I just took a look at it. Maybe some 
> alternatives that could be very similar in functionality are:
> 
> GNUStep
> 
> LXDE
> 
> Trinity Desktop (KDE3 Revived)
> 
> Mate Desktop (Gnome 2 Revived)
> 
> 
> These all have their own applications I do believe and have a retro and 
> lightweight feel to them. I know for a fact that LXDE will run on a 
> potato. I use it on an old Acer Aspire One netbook. I run mate on my 
> main machine and it uses modern gtk3 and is fast and featureful (just 
> like I remember it back in 2009)!
> 
> I hope this helps. You can also pick and choose which applications you 
> like best from all of these and run the ones that you like.
> 
> Brandon Hale
> 
> On 11/14/21 14:58, Will Godfrey wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:37:25 -0700
> > Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Not to state the obvious ... but you could install Python2. 3 and 2 live
> >> quite happily together.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 8:27 AM Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> For very many years I've been using the combination of OpenBox and ROX.
> >>> This
> >>> has provided a very lightweight and user-friendly interface. It's also
> >>> a good fit for the Raspberry Pi, and users unfamiliar with Linux seem to
> >>> take
> >>> to it quickly. However...
> >>>
> >>> ROX filer itself is still fine after all this time, but ROX-Lib relies on
> >>> Python-2, so all apps using it are now dead - as is the rox -users list :(
> >>>
> >>> I can get round most of the ones I use but the two I need are desktop
> >>> replacements for are the Archiving program (which handles a laundry list of
> >>> formats) and screen resolution manager (based on XrandR).
> >>>
> >>> The usual web searches don't seem to show up anything useful.
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions appreciated.
> >>>
> > Well, that proved rather interesting. The upgrade (devuan chimaera to be
> > precise) removed python2 and, critically, python-gtk2, but it left the old
> > entries in apt/sources.list so I was able to reinstall them. That's a bit more
> > breathing space, but the axe is bound to fall at some point, so I'd still like
> > to find alternatives.
> >
> > The archiver is particularly good for newbies. It's drag-and-drop. Drop a
> > compressed file on it and it will decompress it, drop a plain file on it and it
> > will put up a menu of compression types. In both cases it *doesn't* delete the
> > source.
> >
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