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I see youre using LXDE. I still like LXDE but really havent used it much since I went primarily to KDE. Yeah, I have tried going to Plasma off and on over the years but I just do not 'get' it. Some bits are good, but as I use 90% GTK apps and a few Qt5 I find I spend too much effort just trying to ...

1. SparkyLinux Buster with XFCE
2. SparkyLinux Stretch with LXDE
3. Sparkylinux Buster with Trinity
4. Q4OS Trinity 2.7 Scorpion

There seems to be a Debian thread here somewhere....

My first real use of Linux was kicked off in 1998/9 with a magazine cover CD of SUSE 5.8

It was interesting. I also bought the full box set of 6.0 - why I'll never know as it was a real PITA!!

I must admit that LO 7 is the first version I've thought actually looks like it might have had some sort of thought behind the UI.

That of course excludes the old days of StarOffice - going back to the Staroffice 3 DOS version in the mid 90's

Thanks for that chris - a useful extra tweak. Well, I ran the cleanup and certainly things do feel a bit snappier - especially Konqueror. It may be a placebo effect of course!! But, it still results in a much cleaner system and that I like. I did try to find a way to make the script recursive, but c...

Good thinking. :) I was puzzled by the use of grep but a bit more digging with a relevant example makes it a lot clearer. Thanks again for assisting my little grey cell! If anyone is reading this and wondering what I'm on about - please see the before and after attached. 221 lines down to 25 lines t...

grep -v '.*\[.*\]=' textmaker-free18.desktop [/size] will print ONLY lines NOT containing: Something[something]= from the file textmaker-free18.desktop Note the \ escaping [ and ], and .* for any-length string Excellent - find what you're not looking for! No wonder I struggle with this stuff! :lol:...

.desktop files contain loads and loads of lines that are not needed. e.g:- GenericName[es]=Navegador web Comment[ca]=Accedeix a Internet Name[fr]=Nouvelle fenêtre ad nauseam - take a look at the google-chrome.desktop attached and you'll see what I mean. I don't need any of these language entries and...

Whew - heatwave coming tomorrow - could be as high as 88 here! Well 28C anyway

I don't know how you folks handle that stuff - it would pop my cork!!

Nice to see you bin. You were running Q4OS as your OS? Hi crosscourt - thanks, you too. No, this was on SparkyLinux - a couple of other users on there reported similar problem with what sounded like normal upgrades. It was also the subject of discussion on a couple of Debian Bug forums so it was no...