I’ve come to the conclusion that GNOME is not quite ready in Debian Lenny. A lot of strange things have been happening on my screen. There’s the ghosting in the upper menu bar, as well as various hard-to-describe funky things happening in other windows opened by various applications on the screen.
I’ve had Fluxbox installed in Lenny for awhile, and I have used it from time to time, but today I decided to see how Xfce is progressing in Lenny.
It was easy to install in a root terminal with Aptitude:
# aptitude update
# aptitude install xfce4
# aptitude install xfce4-goodies
And so far Xfce looks pretty darn good. I had used Xfce quite a bit in Debian Etch, and it also works great in Wolvix. So using it in Lenny is a bit of a no-brainer.
All display weirdness is gone, and Xfce remains incredibly fast.
And if GNOME didn’t run so damn well in Ubuntu 8.04, I’d probably try Xfce there, too. I just might do it anyway.