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Hi drooly, thanks for your additional comments. ;) In that case I'd rather recommend installing Debian proper, and opting for an LXDE desktop I see. I think that makes sense. But taking a look at https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=debian I realized the "Release Model" seems to ...

Hi abacus7, thank you for your reply. It´s very informative and interesting indeed. ;) Well, in the meantime I performed a fresh/clean install of Lubuntu 20.04 which means I´m using LXQt now. Thinking about what to do was a pretty long process in the course of which a also dowloaded LXLE and booted ...

Hello drooly, thank you so much for your reply. Your info is much appreciated. I´ve read all the info provided by your links and your signature. It´s especially https://github.com/LXDE which seems to indicate that the components of LXDE are still pretty well maintained. Rather a loose conglomerate o...

Hello drooly, thank you very much for your answer. So this looks good then. However the point you made is certainly worth taking into account. I must admit I wouldn´t have thought of that. :oops: So if I want the pure LXDE desktop then sudo apt-get install lxde would be the way to go. BTW: Do you by...

Hi altogeher, currently I´m using Lubuntu 18.03.5 LTS, 64 bit. As this version will reach EOL next April I will have to do a fresh/clean install by then. As a matter of fact Lubuntu uses the LXQt desktop environment in 20.04 which I don´t like very much. So I´m looking for another distro. As I´ve be...

Hi again, In the meantime I could solve the mystery. With the help of ondoho from linuxquestions.org. If anyone is interested here´s some background info: File: ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml please have a look at that file. (warning! XML is hard to read without syntax highlighting!) the name might d...

Hi altogether, I´ve got a question concerning my mouse-pointer when opening pcmanfm . From time to time my mouse-pointer changes to a symbol that represents something like an arrow melted together with a loading-circle. I tried to find out something about it and believe that it means "backgroun...