[kwlug-disc] Ubuntu 18 Unity/GDM3 to LightDM/LXDE/OpenBox

[Mark Steffen]

"xbacklight" rather.

*Mark Steffen*
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Only complaint about Lubuntu was that I needed to do a bit of hotkey
> reconfiguring to get volume/mute and brightness to work.  Mute needed to
> have the amixer command changes, and I had to install xbacklist and drop in
> an extra config file for my intel-based video adapter for xbacklist to
> "recognize" it.  But all good now.  Sound sometimes seems a bit
> intermittent where I have to put the laptop to sleep and wake it up, but
> this was the same with the default Ubuntu install as well.
>
> *Mark Steffen*
> Office Direct: +1.226.476.1240 | Mobile: +1.226.600.0464
> *"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." -Abraham Lincoln*
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 12:38 PM, Mark Steffen <rmarksteffen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was surfing trying to find actual hard data (or someone that did some
>>> sort of testing) on memory consumption for the different window
>>> managers/etc. and it seem LXDE came ahead by a significant margin; gnome
>>> and xfce seemed close to tied (which seemed not credible but who knows).
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm ...
>>
>> Makes me think about replacing XFCE with LXDE just to test things out ...
>> I am on 16.04 still ...
>>
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