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I Am Looking for a New Distro to Install and I Need Help.

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:04AM   Printer-friendly
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pjbgravely writes:

I need to install a new Linux/Gnu OS soon. The present one, Linux Mint (Mate) Debian edition no longer fills my needs. I run 4 screens with 3 X sessions. Mate worked great for this, then an update broke it to one screen. I tried Cinnamon but it won't even start on multiple X sessions. XFCE works but with some serious drawbacks although that may be caused by my current system. Enlightenment actually worked well until it started crashing and I had to restore the settings file. When it finally crashed so nothing got it to run again I gave up on it.

I need a OS with multimedia support, the ability to install programs that may not be in the repositories ( Mythtv ), and multi X screen support. I am also looking for a file manager that has something like Gnome scripts. I have fair command line skills. I presently have Nvidia cards but I will go shopping if I have to. I might try Xinerama but I usually watch one screen while switching the other 2's desktops. Also not having a menu on all screens would be a pain.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday November 26 2019, @01:50PM (2 children)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @01:50PM (#924907) Journal

    I use Fluxbox as a multi screen X11 desktop. Manual X11 configurations. No display manager, just login on console than startx.
    For decades already. Changed several desktop machines and their their head configurations between 1-3 monitors many many times. Notebooks too.
    It even survived migration from Gentoo Linux to FreeBSD couple of years ago.
    Handcrafted config files, handcrafted menus and keyboard macros.
    No shit bundled, like KDE or Gnome remote backdoors via dbus.

    http://fluxbox.org/ [fluxbox.org]

    It's forever.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Mojibake Tengu on Tuesday November 26 2019, @02:04PM (1 child)

    by Mojibake Tengu (8598) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @02:04PM (#924908) Journal

    An example of a very simple keyboard macro from my ./fluxbox/keys:
    LeftAlt+F1 when cursor touches the desktop brings up a list of active windows (without conky's panels) and switches to selected window from that list

    Ondesktop Mod4 F1 :Exec /bin/sh -c "wmctrl -i -a `wmctrl -lpxF | grep -v Conky | dmenu -l 12 | cut -b 1-20`"

    If a man knows what he's doing, he may do anything perfectly.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:41PM

      by Freeman (732) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @04:41PM (#924979) Journal

      Ondesktop Mod4 F1 :Exec /bin/sh -c "wmctrl -i -a `wmctrl -lpxF | grep -v Conky | dmenu -l 12 | cut -b 1-20`"

      ^^
      Yeah, I wouldn't call that "perfect". More like, nightmarish. Sure, I can work on getting an OS running, but I don't want to do that when I'm at home.

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