15 Nov
2021
15 Nov
'21
12:43 a.m.
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(a)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:
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:37:25 -0700
Bob van der Poel <bob(a)mellowood.ca> wrote:
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https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user 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(a)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.