08-11-2020, 02:03 PM
(08-11-2020, 11:26 AM)wdt Wrote: I have no experience with wayland, 13, or sway
You were going on about xfce,
On debian apt-cache search task- ,,
there is task-lxde and task-xfce, both meta packages
Not like you're going to fill up your SD
Ok no prob. I will try to figure out. I found a debian wiki on sway and there is also the official wiki.
I was hoping to use xfce but it has some rough edges too. Particularly the bluetooth manager. According to debian wiki there are gnome-bluetooth, bluedevil and blueman as options to install on repositories. Both bluedevil and gnome-bluetooth are heavy on dependencies (to kde and gnome). I tried gnome-bluetooth to work with xfce but no success.
After googling a bit I figured out blueman is my best bet. I installed it on xfce rebooted. I had the bluetooth icon; however, I wasn't able to pair it with my headphone set. Blueman needs to be maintained as it feels dated.
Having lack of bluetooth manager made me switch to gnome. Additionally, both gnome and xfce seem to have problems with soundcard; gnome feels troublesome than xfce.
I am just puzzled with pinebook pro. The default Manjaro KDE is not usable to me, but looks good. If you want another linux operating system, you end up having troubles as if you are converting a MS Pc to linux. I would expect the keyboard layout keys, sound card drivers etc. to be available in any linux flavour. It doesn't seem that way in Debian. Fedora does not have those problems but bluetooth is troublesome with Fedora...
If I could pass the bluetooth problem, I could consider XFCE but Gnome feels very usable right now. I will try to add Sway window manager; If I can make it to work with wifi and bluetooth manager, I will use it as my main productivity enviroment. Otherwise I will stay with Gnome now.