Just starting out with Arch.Best Window Managers/Desktop Environments?I installed Enlightenment, and am rather unimpressed.

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Anonymous 07/29/15 (Wed) 16:59:05 No.2977

Just starting out with Arch.

Best Window Managers/Desktop Environments?

I installed Enlightenment, and am rather unimpressed.

Anonymous 07/29/15 (Wed) 17:11:25 No.2978

I use cinnamon, but most arch users probably want something more lightweight

Anonymous 07/30/15 (Thu) 01:24:18 No.2987

>>2977

I recommend XFCE, especially for laptops. Eventually try to migrate to i3.

Anonymous 07/31/15 (Fri) 06:41:13 No.2993

Tiling window managers are nice. I'm a fan of Awesome.

Anonymous 07/31/15 (Fri) 16:38:28 No.2996

I use i3 for a tiling window manager.

But I recommend Cinnamon if you're just starting out.

XFCE crashes too much.

Anonymous 08/02/15 (Sun) 04:50:55 No.3004

newbie here too, would like to get seamonkey on this bad boy cuz fuck pocket. Is that possible? I see nothing in the archwiki

Anonymous 08/04/15 (Tue) 02:14:54 No.3013

>>2977

As far as DEs go, LXDE is truly the lightest. After that is MATE, which I prefer. Xfce is after that and has quite a bit more features for a light DE at the expense of using just a bit more RAM than the aforementioned. If you want something robust, go with KDE Plasma or GMOME 3. KDE is extemely heavy while I much prefer the workflow of GNOME.

I really wish Pantheon didn't freeze conatantly on Arch. It's a beautiful DE.

Anonymous 08/22/15 (Sat) 21:16:03 No.3213

cinnamon and xfce are the best, everyone else is a liar

Anonymous 08/25/15 (Tue) 15:50:03 No.3232

I use xfce and I love it, never had a crash issue

Anonymous 08/25/15 (Tue) 15:52:39 No.3234

DE XFCE

If you only want a wm, i3 if you want tiling. OpenBox if not

Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 15:43:39 No.3248

>>3234

I don't understand this, can you run a window manager without desktop environment? What's the purpose of a DE then?

Anonymous 08/27/15 (Thu) 19:04:18 No.3251

>>3248

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU+Linux_ricing

Anonymous 08/28/15 (Fri) 12:37:48 No.3262

>>3251

> It will contain a display manager, window manager, session manager, file manager, and various other default applications that a user may find useful

So the desktop environment shilling is actually the reason for a bloated distro?

Anonymous 08/29/15 (Sat) 01:35:33 No.3263

Try out a tiling window manager. I liked Awesome.

I hear i3 is also good.

Stumpwm requires a lot of customization for it to be good.

Anonymous 08/29/15 (Sat) 11:31:07 No.3265

>>3263

Im starting with i3, my fingers hurt like hell for click wrong so many times

Anonymous 09/01/15 (Tue) 20:34:48 No.3286

>>2977

If you're using Enlightenment and are unimpressed, you are using it wrong. Describe what's wrong with it.

If you like pretty, go with MATE/Compiz. If you like efficiency for getting shit done and don't mind ugly, go with i3. (i3 is my backup reliable window manager for when I break Enlightenment somehow)

Anonymous 09/21/15 (Mon) 22:44:12 No.3403

>>3263

>Stumpwm requires a lot of customization for it to be good.

The defaults aren't the best, but it works really well once you have everything configured. I used awesome for a while and after trying out stump I prefer manual tiling

Anonymous 10/03/15 (Sat) 11:34:04 No.3479

Spectrwm or bust

Anonymous 10/05/15 (Mon) 19:45:56 No.3508

i3wm works without much custom configuration.

Anonymous 10/07/15 (Wed) 21:14:11 No.3523

I've personally started using MATE with XFCE4 Panel in the last few months. It's pretty good, but that's just me.

i3 though is the best if you can master it.

Anonymous 10/08/15 (Thu) 17:51:28 No.3527

>>2977

WM Openbox

DE Xfce /Cinnamon/ KDE

Anonymous 10/11/15 (Sun) 17:37:45 No.3560

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I'm using KDE5 on Gentoo. It isn't so bad. I was using xmonad, but felt like giving KDE a go. The childish candy look is gone. Its window manager is still fucking stupid though. They need it to tile and remove the title bar in favour of snappy keyboard shortcuts. They also need an autist to comb their plugins for redundant text and add desirable settings. Just look at the inches of wasted space on all these. I know what everything is by the label, they don't need giant ass title bars.

I'm probably going to end up using the default shell, vim, and links browser again since firefox has gone off the rails and I don't trust chromium at all. konquerer is ok, but inconvenient. You may as well use the popular spyware browsers at that point. I feel like I'm in hell honestly. I don't know why anyone would make this shit if they weren't going to make it well.

Anonymous 10/11/15 (Sun) 18:34:26 No.3563

MATE with i3.

Anonymous 10/22/15 (Thu) 18:50:41 No.3646

If you want a WM, go with

>awesome

If you want a DE, go with

>Cinnamon

Anonymous 11/09/15 (Mon) 13:19:20 No.3754

Cinnamon or XFCE

Anonymous 11/24/15 (Tue) 22:56:18 No.3845

>>3560

wait for fiber.

Anonymous 11/25/15 (Wed) 03:12:05 No.3846

I prefer XFCE and MATE, LXDE is a good alternative and they all include their associated accesories (file manager, image viewer, etc...). I have also notices that some themes are cross compatible, so thats nice.

Anonymous 11/25/15 (Wed) 06:44:56 No.3848

https://medium.com/@josh8chan/why-i-quit-8chan-former-lead-developer-tells-all-e67b3a4891f7#.ab9nqpsr9---------

Anonymous 11/27/15 (Fri) 08:04:36 No.3852

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>pic related

Cinnamon is bloated, slow, RAM eating shit and you should all be ashamed for recommending it to anyone.

>>3013

>>3560

>pic related

KDE and Gnome 3 are also bloated shit.

Basically all DE's are bloated shit (especially Gnome and Cinnamon though) and you should just get a WM (i3 for tiling, PekWM for stacking) and install all the utilities you need manually, unless for some reason you actually need or want all the bloat.

>>3248

The fact that the Openbox config is written in XML instantly makes PekWM a better option.

>>3846

LXDE uses GTK themes.

Anonymous 12/05/15 (Sat) 18:27:40 No.3906

>>2977

i3 is nice if you are into twm

Anonymous 12/07/15 (Mon) 19:24:04 No.3931

>>3852

"Basically all DE's are bloated shit and you should just get a WM"

this

Anonymous 12/09/15 (Wed) 18:36:36 No.3948

Never used pure window manager because I am the laziest of the fucks.

DE choice is Cinnamon - kind of the halfway point between the GNOME-based environments (stability) and Plasma (pretty and customisable).

If you don't mind something breaking every five minutes Plasma is the shit that you need in your life. Personally won't go back until 5 is nice, stable and the move to Qt5 is mostly over.

XFCE is also a nice choice, but I find that it's irredeemably ugly without a large amount of effort.

Anything else is pretty but fucking pointless, or just fucking pointless if you've got an even vaguely competent system (and if you haven't I question why you'd use a full-blown DE in the first place).

Anonymous 12/14/15 (Mon) 02:19:51 No.3981

xfce is only acceptable DE.

i3 & bspwm are my fav WMs.

Anonymous 12/19/15 (Sat) 21:07:17 No.3998

...DAE windowmaker?

Anonymous 01/03/16 (Sun) 19:01:50 No.4065

>>2977

>Xfce if you want a light weight DE

>Openbox if you want a light weight mess

>Tiling, if you want keyboard shortcuts for everything and don't like using a mouse

>KDE, if you want to use a DE so shitty that its vsync doesn't work with Intel GPUs, without tweaks

>Gnome, if you support the year of the Linux Desktop

>Unity if you want a stable, accelerated graphical experience

Anonymous 03/08/16 (Tue) 16:33:02 No.4339

>>3004

# pacman -S seamonkey dummy

$ pacman -Ss search-for-something

Anonymous 03/12/16 (Sat) 10:52:36 No.4352

>>3852

Do you live in some 3rd world shithole?

Anonymous 03/20/16 (Sun) 05:52:18 No.4374

nice to see that unlike 4chin/g/, this /g/ doesn't go full autism at the mere mention of Arch Linux.