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I have been exclusively using Gnome for five years. This week howev
I dumped Gnome3 from my Debian testing machine (Wheezy) and install
Xfce4. This weekend I'm going to explain the reasons why I did that
in detail in my blog but by now let me just say that I disliked the
fact that I couldn't easily tweak its applications to my liking.
Xfce works fine so far, but I discovered that setting the time is n
an straightforward thing to do. What the heck! I will never
understand why a regular user can't set the time. Only root can do
that. No, please don't go telling me about security issues. Setting
the time shouldn't be a threat to the system.
<rant>
Why a regular underpriviledged desktop user can shutdown a machine
and however a cli user has to become root to do that? It makes no
sense.
</rant>
Well the thing is that in order to change the timezone in my Xfce I
had to reconfigure tzdata because there isn't any configuration
option in the clock properties window. So I had to switch to a
terminal emulator:
# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
I guess there must be a good reason for that. Ahem
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