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@dreamer

Looks like a great spin!

T3KN05H4M4N wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 5:28 pm
Very nice! How does MX LXQt perform compared to MX Xfce? I've always liked Xfce, LXDE, and LXQt DE's on Linux.

In VBox with my favorite startup applets/plugins both LXQt and Xfce consume slightly less than 1 GB RAM. Both are CPU friendly and will happily run on a dual core CPU.

It’s probably possible to shave 300 MB from either desktop if you are starved for RAM.

Sometimes proprietary gpu and wifi drivers can eat a lot of RAM. And browsers. And kernels. I have stopped worring about DE RAM consumption.

One thing I noticed is that the Liquorix kernel felt snappier than the stock Debian one. Also smaller install size I think. I noticed on my Intel machine I was able to run without any dkms packages, even with stock Debian kernel (Wifi still works). This saves time during kernel updates.

AVLinux wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2024 7:09 pm @dreamer
Looks like a great spin!

Yeah, playing around. The basic thought was having something that is 4K ready . I don't own any 4K monitors, but my TV is 4K and Qt5 is far ahead of gtk3 when it comes to scaling. Esspecially fractional gtk3 scaling is kind of bad even if it works somewhat. Internally gtk3 can only do integers so the window manager must upscale/downscale the entire view area causing performance and battery bottlenecks.

@rafales1959

Very unique! Great customizations! Can you tell us a bit about what themes/icons you're using?

dreamer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 8:40 am Yeah, playing around. The basic thought was having something that is 4K ready . I don't own any 4K monitors, but my TV is 4K and Qt5 is far ahead of gtk3 when it comes to scaling. Esspecially fractional gtk3 scaling is kind of bad even if it works somewhat. Internally gtk3 can only do integers so the window manager must upscale/downscale the entire view area causing performance and battery bottlenecks.

Yeah, that exactly soured me on XFCE4 big time, I can believe there isn't a lot more outcry about it's scaling issues, obviously in the context of this Forum there aren't a large number of 4K Users... For me 2560x1440 was about as far as you could go with XFCE4 at it's native scaling, after that things go downhill fast.

AVLinux wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 12:55 pm @rafales1959

Very unique! Great customizations! Can you tell us a bit about what themes/icons you're using?

wm is Vibe
theme is twostepsback
icons are buuf-nestort

Current AVL-MXe "Greatest Hits" a downsized systemd-only AV Linux in progress focusing on refining the experience with the Enlightenment Desktop Environment and preparing for future MX-25. Shown are the File-Manager agnostic "Open With" Custom Actions that cut out the need for service files specific to individual File Manager and should work with pretty much any File Manager (EFM shown). Lots of other stuff under the hood too, a modified default Enlightenment theme and continuing work on custom Icons. *Note some actions are not shown and others are for development use only as need arises.

AVLinux wrote: ↑Fri Dec 13, 2024 12:58 am Current AVL-MXe "Greatest Hits" a downsized systemd-only AV Linux in progress focusing on refining the experience with the Enlightenment Desktop Environment and preparing for future MX-25. Shown are the File-Manager agnostic "Open With" Custom Actions that cut out the need for service files specific to individual File Manager and should work with pretty much any File Manager (EFM shown). Lots of other stuff under the hood too, a modified default Enlightenment theme and continuing work on custom Icons. *Note some actions are not shown and others are for development use only as need arises.

Nice. I was looking into file manager agnostic right-click items a while ago. I found these examples:
https://gitlab.com/radio_dude/pcmanfm-context-menu
https://github.com/stefonarch/custom-actions

Hi,

I've been testing Bodhi Linux and it's Moksha Desktop Environment (a fork of Enlightenment). I wanted to bring some of their rich earthy palette to Enlightenment and at the same time dabble with some new skeumorphic GTK themes. The developer of the 'UltraSkeuo' and 'DeeplySkeuo' GTK themes has done some great and unique stuff and allows you to compile your own versions of the themes with editable templates. I'm hoping to weld a Bodhi/MX/Moksha hybrid together so I got a jump on adapting the MX Logo to the Moksha color scheme.. Shown are a variety of apps in GTK3, GTK4, Enlightenment format. *Note that Firefox forces it's own Window management as do GTK4 apps.

AVLinux wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 7:11 pm *Note that Firefox forces it's own Window management as do GTK4 apps.

There is a setting in Firefox to modify the toolbar and there you can turn off CSD to get a normal titlebar.

I did some theme tweaking to my LXQt desktop to keep it more in line with my Cinnamon desktop. (If there are strange dots/colors then it's because my gfx card is a little wonky, they show up in Windows too).