On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 06:58:25PM -0500, Loyal Barber loyal_barber@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
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> On 7/20/2015 4:58 AM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
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> >On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 02:00:02AM +0000, Justin Bell
> >justin_e_bell2000@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
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> <snip>
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> >I think that trying the XFCE version (which, as far as I can tell, is
> >usually quicker to come out than LXDE versions--someone who knows might be
> >able to give better answers) would probably fix a lot of the slowness.
> >
> >--
> >Scott Robbins
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> <snip>
> XFCE for Mint comes out about 2-4 weeks later than Mate and
> Cinnamon. Cinnamon is a resource hog.
> On my old netbook, I run XFCE. As far as I know, there is not
> blessed LXDE version of Mint though I wish
> there were.
Ah, that answers that question--thank you Loyal.
For what it's worth, I assume you could install LXDE on a Mint install and
choose it as your default, but that's untested by me, though I do have a
Mint 17.2 install where I use openbox and dwm.
--
Scott Robbins
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