[PLUG] Which version of MATE are folks using?

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 04:55:11 UTC 2017


The Arch Anywhere XFCE pretty much looked identical to their OpenBox, but
used 192M of memory....

I don't feel like exporting an appliance, but if you try, you need to
install the ARch anywhere Repository this time.
I also did an arch-anywhere -u first



On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Nat Taylor <bioborg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is a link to an .ova Virtualbox Appliance that is an Arch Linux
> installation created by Arch-Anywhere
> that has the following desktops installed:
> Budgie
> Cinnamon
> LXDE
> Mate
> Openbox
>
> (The menu says there's gnome options but they dont work, I didn't install
> gnome.  I tried to install the Arch-Anywere custom XFCE, but it didn't
> install for some reason, maybe I need to select XFCE from the menu too.
> The install was fairly quick an painless, although it should be noted that
> the Arch Anywhere installer crashes if you select the Arch Anywhere
> Repository from the Additional Software menu; it says its already in the
> database but doesn't install.  IT also crashed if you selected (one of,
> probably the later) gnome group and/or gtk3(Experimental). Everything is
> already installed here so don't worry about it unless you're trying to
> replicate this)
>
> It uses Lightdm for the Display Manger, and you can select the Desktop
> Enviroment by clicking on the little icon on the top right of the screen,
> on the left side of the little line of icons.
>
> The username is dude
> the password is AbitaAbider22@
> the root password is dugPLUGwhatalug!
>
> If you're paranoid I got sneaky and hid some evil stuff in there, disable
> the networking through Virtualbox, but I don't have the time or desire to
> do so, and besides, I imagine this is the wrong list to mess with...
>
> The custom Arch Anywhere OpenBox is very Haxxor... I actually kinda like
> it, but Htop says its not quite as fast as LXDE
> Budgie used the most memory, followed by Cinnamon (which said it would be
> faster if it wasn't running in frame buffer due to video drivers), followed
> by Mate, then, OpenBox, the LXDE
>
> Mate (246M) felt the most familiar, due to past gnome2 use.  LXDE (162M)
> was lightning fast and it looked good, and I might be able to get used to
> that l33t Arch Anywhere OpenBox(174M)...
>
>
> I'm not sure if it's fair to just logout and start a new desktop
> environment, but thats what I did, and the results seemed consistent...
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Mw4QXQzulid1BsWEVfbFVieHc/
> view?usp=sharing
>
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> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:16 PM, Nat Taylor <bioborg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >   I do like it
>> > when there's that mac-like icon dock (conky? docker?  i forget), which I
>> > have seen on both distros.
>> > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Is this what you are thinking about:
>> http://glx-dock.org/
>> It is what I run (it is called Cairo Dock) but it does all of that Mac
>> stuff too. Very
>> configurable.
>>
>> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
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