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I have been exclusively using Gnome for five years. This week however |
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I dumped Gnome3 from my Debian testing machine (Wheezy) and installed |
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Xfce4. This weekend I'm going to explain the reasons why I did that |
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in detail in my blog but by now let me just say that I disliked the |
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fact that I couldn't easily tweak its applications to my liking. |
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Xfce works fine so far, but I discovered that setting the time is not |
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an straightforward thing to do. What the heck! I will never |
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understand why a regular user can't set the time. Only root can do |
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that. No, please don't go telling me about security issues. Setting |
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the time shouldn't be a threat to the system. |
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<rant> |
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Why a regular underpriviledged desktop user can shutdown a machine |
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and however a cli user has to become root to do that? It makes no |
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sense. |
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</rant> |
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Well the thing is that in order to change the timezone in my Xfce I |
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had to reconfigure tzdata because there isn't any configuration |
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option in the clock properties window. So I had to switch to a |
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terminal emulator: |
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# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata |
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I guess there must be a good reason for that. Ahem |
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Gophered by Gophernicus/1.6 on NetBSD/amd64 9.1 |
