March 10, 2012 3:23 PM PST
usr/share/applications and I think you'll find solutions to some of your problems... power manager and mouse settings...
use chromium instead of Midori, easy fix...
I spend a good two hours tweaking a new install of any LXDE distro. I don't consider it an annoyance or hassle. With a little research, it's very easy to customize and that's one of the cool things about it.
Try this for clock
%A-%b%d %l:%M
It will look like this
Saturday-Mar10 5:30.... that's the way I like it.