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echo: rberrypi
to: D.M. PROCIDA
from: RAY CARTER
date: 2020-11-28 01:37:00
subject: Re: Recommendations for P

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On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:53:54 +0000, D.M. Procida wrote:

> Uusally I only access Raspberry Pis via SSH, so the question of desktop
> user interaces hasn't really been an issue.
>
> Now that I have had a new Pi 400 on my desk for a couple of weeks, there
> are some aspects of the UI that I find rather unsatisfactory.
>
> One is the window-centric menubar arrangement; I find it much less
> pleasant to use than the Mac's menubar that sits at the top of the
> screen (also adopted by default by Ubuntu).
>
> The other is what feels like very crude mouse acceleration profiles,
> that make the mouse tracking feel simultaneously too fast and too slow.
>
> Are there easily-installed alternatives? I don't want a wholesale
> replacement of Raspberry Pi OS, because I'm work on and with software in
> the Raspberry Pi ecosystem and need components to work in the same way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniele

You can replace the pi panel with lxde panel - or try xfce.

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