[PLUG] Which version of MATE are folks using?

[Nat Taylor]

Nobody downloaded it.   I'll leave it up for a while, or try it out
yourself then, was an easy install, except for a couple bugs if you
selected the wrong options.  https://arch-anywhere.org/

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Nat Taylor <bioborg at gmail.com> wrote:

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