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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/21 5:48 AM, Will Godfrey
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 12:43:13 -1000
"David W. Jones" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gnome@hawaii.rr.com"><gnome@hawaii.rr.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bthaleproductions@gmail.com"><bthaleproductions@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:37:25 -0700
Bob van der Poel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bob@mellowood.ca"><bob@mellowood.ca></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:willgodfrey@musically.me.uk"><willgodfrey@musically.me.uk></a>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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.
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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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While I appreciate the suggestions for LXDE or XFCE, while both are
indeed lightweight, are a good fit for the overall setup, which is quite
deliberately RISCOS-like (which makes rather a good environment for an R-Pi).
I've been able to find a screen resolution program that works well, and is
indeed better than the original! That leaves just the archiver. This is a
hard nut to crack. I can't find anything that is simply drag and drop.
Possibly I could code this myself, but I've got quite enough on my plate as it
is :(
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<p><font face="Liberation Serif">If you really need python2 in
Debian (and probably Devuan), a friend of mine said you need a
package called "python-is-python2". That supplies the python2
runtime.</font><br>
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