LXDE is an acceptable substitute for Gnome 2

[Frederick N. Brier]

On 09/16/2011 09:30 AM, Charlie Brune wrote:
> On 09/15/2011 01:13 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 09/15/2011 11:03 AM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>>> I never really tried XFCE to be honest, guess someone else would have to
>>> give the verdict on that.
>> I use F14.  As soon as I learned what Gnome3 was like I did some
>> research and ended up with XFCE.  Even if they make a version of Gnome3
>> that I don't find horrible I'd never go back.
> Agreed. I initially went to XFCE because I didn't like Gnome3.
>
> My reaction is the same. The desktop settings of XFCE are really easy to
> modify and I have it the way I want it. I plan to stay with XFCE as well.
>
> I haven't tried LXDE, but this thread is making me want to take a look
> at that, too.
I am pretty happy with my switch to XFCE too.  However, opening dialogs 
and windows is still dramatically slower under F15 vs F14.  So what else 
changed?  Is Gnome actually multiple layers with the window manager we 
switched out for XFCE only being the top layer of the stack?  Is there a 
layer above the xorg X server that is slowing things down?  So a part of 
the revamped Gnome is still there regardless.  I ask because the 
gnome-system-monitor reports that it is running Gnome 3.0.1 even though 
it is running XCFE.  Perhaps the slow dialog creation is unrelated to 
the windowing system...?  I hate having to try and do performance 
analysis on open source applications to try and determine what the 
bottleneck is.  The OS is supposed to just work.  Not make my life 
miserable.