On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:37:45PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2013, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently > > no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D > > acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is > > apparently unusable with such an X driver. > > > > Goodbye, GNOME. Hello, XFCE. I hope Debian will make XFCE the > > default desktop for the production jessie installer. > > You could do what I did with my install of Wheezy 64-bit (Replacing > Fedora 12): Abandon the desktop "environment" entirely, and just use a > full-featured window manager and a few utilities. I found Openbox with > LXPanel works just fine. Lower overhead, too. Just do a Base net > install, and add one thing at a time. > +1 I use Fluxbox and am very happy with it. As an alternative to LXPanel, you could use fbpanel. There are others as well. But fluxbox has a normal-ish panel/taskbar so I don't use an add-on panel (although the add-on ones are prettier). I use keyboard shortcuts to launch all my applications. If you end up choosing Fluxbox, I can post my config files for you. With most window managers, you need to configure your startup applications. Things like pulseaudio and network-manager need to be specified, because they are typically not started by default. This was the biggest difference I found when switching from a desktop environment. -Rob
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