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 |