On 29/03/18 16:34, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
I've done a fresh install of Debian/Testing on a new laptop and the volume control buttons aren't working. They make no apparent difference to the volume and no change to the volume settings according to alsamixer.
If you can still change the volume via a mixer app, it sounds like the problem is with the buttons providing the right inputs. That may require changing the keyboard settings or something like that. And some laptops handle those buttons specially, through ACPI or other BIOS hacks, and therefore need special kernel drivers (!)
Is there another desktop environment that has a more minimalist design without being like TWM? I want something that has notifications for USB devices, battery, network manager, etc but not too much else in the way of trying to take over everything and not having a process like plasmashell taking 10% of a CPU core when nothing is happening.
I like XFCE, which like Cinnamon and Mate is inspired by earlier versions of Gnome, but I've also used LXDE which is even more minimal. And we had a great presentation on i3wm at the last LUV workshop. Cheers, Andrew