Thanks much for the replies.
I find rox to be perfectly acceptable, and very efficient...*after* I tell it to display using small icons with thumbnails, sorted vertically. For find-files-containing-text I use either Double Commander or else Total Commander under wine.
Below is a screencap of my upup-3.9.9.2 screen. Ergonomically, I find this arrangement very efficient.
1. Lxpanel at the top. I agree that tint2 looks prettier than lxpanel, but lxpanel provides tabbed (grouped) taskbar windows, tint2 does not. If tint2 ever gains grouped taskbar windows then I will switch to tint2.
2. Drives are listed (and accessible) on the left. Here, I am using Puppy Event Manager to show the drives, but I would prefer the drives-showing "ybar" arrangement used by Grey in some variants of his BoxPup series.
3. wbar across the bottom, started using
sleep 2 &&
wbar -above-desk -jumpf 1.0 -pos bottom -offset 10 -zoomf 1.8 -idist 6 -isize 32 -bpress -balfa 0 -falfa 100 &
sleep 1 &&
with 48x48 icons.
4. gkrellm at the right, Invisible theme.
5. Rox's pinboard provides the standard Puppy Linux icons at upper left, just to the right of the drives. However, I rarely use these anymore, because almost everything I use is accessible via wbar.
Window manager is Openbox, Openbox theme is Mavos, GTK theme is Stardust. Transparency is provided by the combination of compton and devilspie.
(I am posting these screencaps at full size so you can appreciate just how good infinality-ultimate fonting is.)
(sorry if there is a softcore-porn ad on it; does anyone know of a free filehosting service without the sexploitation of women?)
Screencap of upup-3.9.9.2:
http://www.datafilehost.com/d/87ef64d0On upup-3.9.9.2 I have not yet succeeded in adequately tuning infinality-ultimate fonting; here is a screencap of infinality-ultimate fonting on upup-3.9.9.1, on which I compiled i-u from scratch:
http://www.datafilehost.com/d/634606da(on upup-3.9.9.1 the Openbox theme is Gelb, and I have eliminated the Puppy icons from the desktop plus added PWidgets clock and calendar).
Thanks for the tip on makesb, I'm sure that will come in handy.
Oh, btw, the speeds reported above are with my i3570K running at only 1600MHz, so at full speed it will no doubt be much swifter.
Now to see what I can do to tame this speedy beast...
-Rusty