[clug] Desktop Environments - Thursday 2016-05-26 19:00

[Rodney Peters]

Hi George,

I had offerred to demo LXQT, running on an ageing laptop.  What I would show 
wont' take long and would not have the same effect if run as a VM on your 
laptop.  The main app I wanted to demo is pdfForts.

At present, x86 distro tend not to install LXQT directly anyway.  LXDE needs 
to be installed first then LXQT "pattern" applied.  You could try installing it 
as a VM, of course.   I run it on openSUSE, mainly because I know my way 
around the latter distro.

Cheers,

Rod

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 18:59:22 AEST George at Clug wrote:
>     Steve,
> 
> I have picked up plastic cups (others may also).
> 
> If we will be chatting about Linux Distros and Linux Desktop
> Environments (with their applications), I have a laptop on which I
> have been using VMware Workstation to test various Linux Distros.  If
> people use any of these, they would be welcome to give us all a quick
> run though about their favorite features.
> 
> If people let me know about their favorite Distro early tonight, I may
> have chance to install a few for review.  I would be interested at
> looking at them.
> 
> The list so far are;
> Ubuntu
> Fedora
> Debian with XFCE
> Debian with Mate
> Debian with LDXE
> Debian with KDE
> Debian with Cinnamon
> Debian with Gnome
> 
> George
> 
> 
> At Monday, 23-05-2016 on 20:03 Steven Hanley wrote:
> 
> 
> Dropped the ball a bit not even trying to chase up a talk this month.
> I
> think the idea of a round table and possible presentation from various
> people of how they use the linux desktop has some popularity and was
> delayed
> from last month.
> 
> Can someone please volunteer on the list to bring some plastic cups
> for
> drink consumption with the pizzas. You will be reimbursed.
> 
> See below, 18:00 at Wig and Pen for BeerSig
> 19:00 at N101 for CLUG.
> 
>   Canberra Linux Users Group Meeting - 26th May 2016
>   ==================================================
> 
>   Date:          26th May 2016 (Fourth Thursday of the
> month)
> 
>   =================================================
> 
>   Time:         18:00 - 18:55
> 
>   Abstract:     It's BeerSIG time!
>                 'What's BeerSIG?' I hear you ask!
> BeerSIG is a social
>                 gathering, and an opportunity to get
> together with
>                 like minded people and share a social
> pint
>                 or two before the meeting.
> 
>   Location:     Wig and Pen, Llewellyn Hall, Canberra School of
> Music
>                 Look for the table with a stuffed toy
> penguin
> 
>   =================================================
> 
>   Time:         19:00 - 21:00 (or when it finishes)
> 
>   Speaker:      Various
> 
>   Abstract:     Desktop environments in linux, examples and
> usage
> 
>   Anything else that pops up can come up for discussion.
> 
>   Venue:        Room N101
>                 Computer Science and Information
> Technology Building
>                 North Road
>                 The Australian National University
> 
>                 See http://clug.org.au/ for more
> directions and a map
> 
>   Food/drink:   Pizza and soft drink/juice. Come hungry, and bring
>                 about $6 to cover the cost of your
> share if you
>                 want some.