[arch-general] moving away from gnome

[Andrea Crotti]

On 02/25/2012 07:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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> The OP asked for what GNOME does to fulfill his needs.
>
> My interpretation of the original post is, that the OP decided to use a
> WM without the DE GNOME, so you are talking about what he has
> experienced with GNOME and what he should adopt if he moves away from
> GNOME.
>
> You're talking about power-management done by GNOME too.
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> ;)
>

Exactly, I really don't need any of these processes running behind my back,
and I prefer to know what is going on on my machine..
I did actually run most of my time on destkop machines without a full DE 
(fluxbox/awesome and others),
only on the laptop is a bit more tricky.

Anyway I fixed the power management, with acpid configured properly 
everything is fine.

Now the next problem is that networkmanager doesn't see any networks, 
and wicd tries to connect but
the password is refused.
I think this again has something to do with ConsoleKit and the policies, 
is that correct?

Another issue is that thunderbird for example looks quite bad, there's 
something wrong with the fonts and the graphics apparently..