[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

[Mark Steffen]

JK> But isn't LXDE about to undergo a major rewrite?

Not sure, really hadn't had an interest in following it.  For desktops I
have always just used the default Ubuntu environment and themed it up a
little.  But I also usually get 8GB RAM in my devices.  This laptop had 4,
which I figured would be fine, but I've noticed once I get a few browser
tabs open, Evolution, LibreOffice, my remote screenshare tool (which is a
Windows app but runs fine in Wine) along with the Signal and Skype snaps,
it can occasionally get pretty laggy and I noticed swap getting a fair bit
of use.  So I thought I'd try lightweight.  In fairly to xfce I haven't
tried it; I'm pretty happy with lxde though.  Will advise if my opinion
changes :-)

*Mark Steffen*
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "xbacklight" rather.
>
> *Mark Steffen*
> Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile: +1.226.600.0464
> *"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln*
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Only complaint about Lubuntu was that I needed to do a bit of hotkey
>> reconfiguring to get volume/mute and brightness to work.  Mute needed to
>> have the amixer command changes, and I had to install xbacklist and drop in
>> an extra config file for my intel-based video adapter for xbacklist to
>> "recognize" it.  But all good now.  Sound sometimes seems a bit
>> intermittent where I have to put the laptop to sleep and wake it up, but
>> this was the same with the default Ubuntu install as well.
>>
>> *Mark Steffen*
>> Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile: +1.226.600.0464
>> *"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln*
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was surfing trying to find actual hard data (or someone that did some
>>>> sort of testing) on memory consumption for the different window
>>>> managers/etc. and it seem LXDE came ahead by a significant margin; gnome
>>>> and xfce seemed close to tied (which seemed not credible but who knows).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm ...
>>>
>>> Makes me think about replacing XFCE with LXDE just to test things out
>>> ... I am on 16.04 still ...
>>>
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