LXDE - Pretty Good
Posted: 06 Jul 2016, 01:47
istinnjazz , I have been working with the LXDE x64 version today, and I must say its quite good!
I got video thumbnails working, took a while(why do I have the hardest time on a persistent usb distro with this, but not nearly as often with a regular harddrive installed distro? lol).
I did everything I was supposed to for pcmanfm to get video thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer etc(googled a lot, but It was mostly things I had came upon before so pretty much already knew what to do). I couldnt get them to show though until I just said what the heck and went ahead and updated the system using PAMAC. As soon as I did that, boom, they started showing.
LXDE is fast and with a bit of adding some icons(numix), I got it looking pretty good. LXDE is actually growing on me quite a bit because of your suggestion to try it out. Thanks! I love the speed, and with the arch repos I can add most of what I want that I miss from more bloated desktop environments. Very nice!
I really have only one really nagging issue here. It appeared after I updated the system with PAMAC. It seems like it would be a theming issue, but im no expert and after googling quite a bit I havent really nailed down the cause yet. I have some screenshots for you. Something has gotten a little borked and Im almost a 100% sure it was after the update with PAMAC.
http://imgur.com/a/exjte
There are 3 screenshots.
The first screenshot: The network icon in the system tray. As you can tell the right click menu for it is borked, definitely seems like some sort of theming issue. Ive tried changing themes and the like, it doesnt seem to alter it at all. When you hover the mouse over an option it does not highlight or anything either. Also, the tooltips when hovering over the icon is the same dull grey as the menu. Just to note, not all icons in the tray or panel for that matter are showing the same problem.
Screenshot 2: Here you have PAMAC. As you can tell the titlebar area is messed up. Only some applications are doing this. PAMAC and some others. There are quite a few that are acting just normal. Transmission for example is showing a similar type problem. I didnt screen shot that one though. I can later if you would like to see. I would think this is some kind of gtk theming issue or something, but Im not sure what to do about it. Ive tried googling things related to this as well.
Screenshot 3: Here you see the right click menu for Guake icon in the systray. It is behaving completely normal. Thought Id show you this just to show that some icons and applications are behaving normally. (most applications are behaving fine). Also the tooltip when hovering over Guake icon in the systray is the normal yellow color that was the default on fresh boot.
I can say without a shred of doubt that nothing in my modules folder is causing this issue. I have booted without the save.dat container and just using modules and rootcopy and the issue is gone. So I was left to assume it had to be the system update with PAMAC that caused this. Interestingly enough, I lost video thumbnails in pcmanfm when I booted without the save.dat container also. This also reinforced my belief the update finally got the thumbnails working(I had already added ffmpegthumbnailer before the update of course).
I have been using pman whenever possible so as to isolate any potential changes that may break something into modules I can just remove if something bad happens. I however didnt know if I could do a system update using pman or if it would be wise to do so. So I used regular system update through PAMAC.
Sorry for such a long winded post. I wanted to be thorough and describe the issue well. Its not an end of the world issue, but nagging and Id really like to figure it out and hopefully learn how to fix anything similar in the future. Thanks for the time and any ideas you may have on this. Thanks again for suggesting LXDE Nemesis, its great!
I got video thumbnails working, took a while(why do I have the hardest time on a persistent usb distro with this, but not nearly as often with a regular harddrive installed distro? lol).
I did everything I was supposed to for pcmanfm to get video thumbnails, ffmpegthumbnailer etc(googled a lot, but It was mostly things I had came upon before so pretty much already knew what to do). I couldnt get them to show though until I just said what the heck and went ahead and updated the system using PAMAC. As soon as I did that, boom, they started showing.
LXDE is fast and with a bit of adding some icons(numix), I got it looking pretty good. LXDE is actually growing on me quite a bit because of your suggestion to try it out. Thanks! I love the speed, and with the arch repos I can add most of what I want that I miss from more bloated desktop environments. Very nice!
I really have only one really nagging issue here. It appeared after I updated the system with PAMAC. It seems like it would be a theming issue, but im no expert and after googling quite a bit I havent really nailed down the cause yet. I have some screenshots for you. Something has gotten a little borked and Im almost a 100% sure it was after the update with PAMAC.
http://imgur.com/a/exjte
There are 3 screenshots.
The first screenshot: The network icon in the system tray. As you can tell the right click menu for it is borked, definitely seems like some sort of theming issue. Ive tried changing themes and the like, it doesnt seem to alter it at all. When you hover the mouse over an option it does not highlight or anything either. Also, the tooltips when hovering over the icon is the same dull grey as the menu. Just to note, not all icons in the tray or panel for that matter are showing the same problem.
Screenshot 2: Here you have PAMAC. As you can tell the titlebar area is messed up. Only some applications are doing this. PAMAC and some others. There are quite a few that are acting just normal. Transmission for example is showing a similar type problem. I didnt screen shot that one though. I can later if you would like to see. I would think this is some kind of gtk theming issue or something, but Im not sure what to do about it. Ive tried googling things related to this as well.
Screenshot 3: Here you see the right click menu for Guake icon in the systray. It is behaving completely normal. Thought Id show you this just to show that some icons and applications are behaving normally. (most applications are behaving fine). Also the tooltip when hovering over Guake icon in the systray is the normal yellow color that was the default on fresh boot.
I can say without a shred of doubt that nothing in my modules folder is causing this issue. I have booted without the save.dat container and just using modules and rootcopy and the issue is gone. So I was left to assume it had to be the system update with PAMAC that caused this. Interestingly enough, I lost video thumbnails in pcmanfm when I booted without the save.dat container also. This also reinforced my belief the update finally got the thumbnails working(I had already added ffmpegthumbnailer before the update of course).
I have been using pman whenever possible so as to isolate any potential changes that may break something into modules I can just remove if something bad happens. I however didnt know if I could do a system update using pman or if it would be wise to do so. So I used regular system update through PAMAC.
Sorry for such a long winded post. I wanted to be thorough and describe the issue well. Its not an end of the world issue, but nagging and Id really like to figure it out and hopefully learn how to fix anything similar in the future. Thanks for the time and any ideas you may have on this. Thanks again for suggesting LXDE Nemesis, its great!