Hi there!

flywheel · 2025-12-04 14:26:29

Hi there, my name is Peter and I am from Denmark. I've been using SuSE Linux since the late 90's, later changing to openSUSE - until 2007 running it parallel with IBM OS/2.

It seems like I have the need for a longer speech.

All of my computers ran openSUSE, at one time even my PinePhone. But they where rather old - all of them level 1 x86-64 (well exept from my Allwinner driven phone). Lately I began replacing them. My webserver and in last week my old Phenom-II - has been replaced with Raspberry Pis, naturally running their taste of Debian (Though I'm actually looking forward to the upcoming Tumbleweed). My webserver naturally runs headless, while I try to get Wayland to run on my desktop not all DEs are done with the transistion. When I have moved my data from my old Atom-based NAS to my just-arrived Rockchip-NAS, we've become an all Arm household.

Most of the time I've been a Qt and KDE fanboy (with a quick look at openBox/Blackbox, for a few years) and never really liked GTK. For a short time I tried RazorQt (Didn't like KDE4), then went back to KDE5. Last year I shortly tried LXQt but it didn't work well with Labwc - and I was decided ti go Wayland, preferable Labwc. Then I've had six months running pure Labwc (I found out I missed my openBox) - but the hardware got unstable. Couldn't reinstall openSUSE but was able to install Debian. I'm not at all keen on LXQt nor KDE anymore and I hate the sight of Gnome. The only DE that got a fine history and stands out a bit was Xfce. I saw a Youtube video on how to install Xfce on an RPi using tasksel and since I already had decided I would go the RPi way - I tried out the Xfce. I really liked the theme that the openSUSE community had chosen as default - it looked very much like the default LXQt look.

Then I changed to the RPi5 and used the built-in netinstaller and as my first task I installed tasksel, installed Xfce4 and changed greeter to the GTK one - now I can select DE at startup. And I haven't looked back. I recreated the openUSE setup. Dark with only panel-1. Since OS/2 I've always prefeered to have the panel at the top. And a simple conky script giving the most vital information. The Wayland experience still lacks a few details, but Xfce4 is getting there.

Live long and prosper...

eriefisher · 2025-12-04 17:22:53

Welcome to the forum!

I run Debian Sid with Xfce4 and Labwc. Other than a couple minor things still being worked on it runs well.

flywheel · 2025-12-06 00:17:49

Thank you very much smile

The stuff that makes the machine explode has been solved quite nicely. As I see it a lot of the things that do not work, is because the Wayland compositor is taking over a few tasks, which then has to be configured through the compositor. My guess is that most DEs that do not bring their own compositor (for instance like KDE) got the same problems. I'm sure it all will be resolved nicely soon smile

Last edited by flywheel (2025-12-06 19:35:16)

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