[svlug] (forw) Re: [conspire] could Linux desktop go reasonably any faster?

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 18:47:14 -0800
Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):
> 
> > Because of lxterminal and lxrandr, I'm a big fan of installing LXDE
> > even if you never use it. Lxrandr has saved my life, many times,
> > during presentations with a projector.  
> 
> This appears to be an X11 front-end (using the gtk2 graphics toolkit) 
> for the X.org 'X RandR' extension (/usr/bin/xrandr).
> 
> If you like this graphical utility, logically you should install the
> distro package furnishing /usr/bin/lxrandr .  I'm unclear on why you
> would need to installed the entire LXDE Desktop Environment suite.
> (That's a polite way of saying that you just don't.)

OK, I'm busted. I love LXDE so much my wife is jealous. Although I use
pure OpenBox on my desktop, I use LXDE on all my laptops, because when
I present, my tech IQ goes down 30 points and I need all the GUIhelp I
can get.

 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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