On Thursday 01 Nov 2012 13:46:20 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 Nov 2012 03:53:44 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 23:12 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> > 121101 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> > > On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:46 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> > >> I was thinking of using razor-qt > >> > > > >> > > From the Oct 20 automated package removal email > >> > > you might want to investigate why before moving to it. > >> > > > >> > > x11-wm/razorqt 2012-10-22 10:00:01 > >> > > yngwin x11-misc/lightdm-razorqt-greeter 2012-10-22 10:01:35 > >> > > > >> > > yngwin > >> > > >> > As sometimes happens, "removal" really means "moved" : > >> > it has a new Portage category all to itself, like Xfce. > >> > >> Thanks for clarifying. > >> > >> BillK > > > > Phew! Just as I was about to hit the abort button. :-) > > > > Has anyone tried it and can comment how it compares to KDE? > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > Mick, > I've used 0.4.2 a bit. It worked fine but as a KDE user it felt a > little strange. I didn't invest much time to make myself more > comfortable. > > My trading partner who is newer to Linux (about 1 year now) has > been using razor-qt for the last month or so. He was fine with 0.4.2 > but when they moved the package group they also had an update to 0.5. > Unfortunately this did not produce correct resolutions on one of his > three monitors so he's back to running KDE and doing updates on razor > until that gets fixed. (TTBOMK he has not filed a bug report.)
Thank you all for your responses. The PC in question has two monitors, with different resolutions, so I will be needing this to work fine (or will never hear the end of it). I'll make some time to try it out over the weekend and if they don't like it I may push the boat out and switch to e17 (which I am more familiar with). -- Regards, Mick
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