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