GhostRaider wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:19 am

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The top and bottom panels are Tint2 panels. I customized the Tint2 panels to my liking to achieve this look. The notifications displayed on the desktop are from xfce4-notifyd. I want to be notified of things such as disconnection from the Internet, or Raspberry Pi is getting hot, or other notifications thrown by Raspbian Lite. Let's see the memory usage of my custom desktop environment:

beje wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 06, 2018 8:43 am

GhostRaider wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 23, 2016 3:19 am

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The top and bottom panels are Tint2 panels. I customized the Tint2 panels to my liking to achieve this look. The notifications displayed on the desktop are from xfce4-notifyd. I want to be notified of things such as disconnection from the Internet, or Raspberry Pi is getting hot, or other notifications thrown by Raspbian Lite. Let's see the memory usage of my custom desktop environment:

Dear GhostRaider a VERY BIG THANK YOU! I register here mainly to give you this. I know that there is a big amount of time invested into creating quality content and than (1) to share it (for free) and on the comunity board and (2) to also support the others!

I have also a selfish request: would you share the openbox / tint2 configuration? For the bottom dock/panel I pretty much know what to do, but I am dead curious of how you have set up the top panel. :ugeek:

p.s. to all of you that just requesting stuff, stop for one second and appreciate. And here I mean, take 1 minute and thank the man who worked before (directly) asking for something!

GhostRaider wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:06 pm

I mostly cover GUI related things in the original thread instead of hardware. But yes, I've had the exact same problem that you have when you use NetworkManager with XFCE. The way I fix this issue is to edit "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" and set managed=true so that NetworkManager takes over WiFi and Ethernet. Then I just run the command "sudo iwlist wlan0 scan" so that WiFi goes into the UP state. Finally I edit "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and delete everything inside it. After a restart, NetworkManager now shows the WiFi networks in the system tray.

PjotrekSE wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:13 pm

Advanced - X11 Forwarding (Remote Applications)
I don't seem to be able to connect to the pi with Mobaxterm. I followed all instructions, including installing the XFCE GUI. But Mobaxterm gives the error 'X11-forwarding : ✘ (disabled or not supported by server)'. I googled the problem and tried all remedies found, but to no avail. Checked that xinit is run on the pi, X11forwarding enabled in the ssh & sshd configs in the pi and that .Xauthority is present in the used home. What to do?

mobaxterm.png

sudo systemctl enable sshd.socket

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xinit

MaximilianSchmitt wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:52 pm

The command

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg

seems to be out of date. Should I install alternative "xserver-xorg-core"?
Does I need further installations?

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xinit

can't also be found :(

Giga_Pi wrote: ↑

Mon May 20, 2019 9:55 am

Brill GhostRaider, thank you so much for this post!

I also want bring it out there that KDE plasma also works with this method. It also works with the animations.

It is slightly sluggish on the 3B+, so only try on older models at your own risk.

Also, why do we need xorg? It worked just fine when I just install xinit.

No need for lightDM on plasma.