WetGeek Workspaces are still an issue.
BunsenLabs Lithium
That was quick. I found the link right away in the OpenBox Configuration Manager, as Desktops. I increased the number to 8, but I haven't as yet figured out how to make them appear on the screen. That's next.
And that was just as quick. With the mouse pointer on an empty part of the background, I discovered that rotating the mouse wheel displays a little image representing the desktops. The first bit of rotation displays them all with the current desktop indicated as the selected one. Moving the mouse wheel changes the selection to the left or right, where clicking on the current desktop makes it the new current one.
The result of all this stuff being available by using the mouse on the desktop -- the right-click, for example displays the main menu, mouse wheel changes virtual workspaces -- leaves the desktop, itself very clean. This is the first such arrangement I've seen in all the distros I've explored, and I'm sure it would appeal to anyone who doesn't like a cluttered workspace.
The Conky display listing all the keyboard shortcuts is a nice touch, too. And, of course, there's a Conky configuration editor available for those who love to tinker with things.
Here's how its size compares to other VMs that I've created. Keep in mind that I haven't created any snapshots of this VM yet, so the comparison isn't perfect, just approximate. Lithium is fully setup and configured as a useful computer, though, so there's nothing more to be added to it. If I have reason to post again about this distro, I'll include an actual comparison, as I'm about to create a snapshot of it.
And since I've been suggesting that the number of unit files that are enabled at startup is related to startup and shutdown speed, here's what this distro enables. 43 is a lot more than Solus, which loads 3, and results in its being very quick. But it's considerably fewer than most distros enable. Ultramarine, for example, enables 156, and as I've pointed out before, that's a lovely distro that takes forever to startup and shutdown.
About all that's left is to use it for a while in place of my laptop, to get a "feel" for how it would be as a daily-driver computer.
