I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.
Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon
I just jumped up on the Hyprland band wagon (4 weeks ago). Very pleased with it so far!
Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnome’s concept and restrictions, but I’ve grown to like it fast.
I’ve switched to LXQt recently. I like KDE and use mostly Qt apps, but KDE itself has too many features I don’t really need. So far so good, I can’t say I miss anything.
I use GNOME.
I enjoy gnome with the arcMenu extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3628/arcmenu/ I will include usually some other extensions, but arcMenu is what makes the experience a lot better than the stock one for me.
I use windowmaker and plasma. I also dabble in icewm
Haven’t heard of windowmaker before
I am a die hard Cinnamon guy. I used to like MATE and then I played with Linux Mint for a short while and Cinnamon became my thing. Cinnamon works really well in Arch too. I just wish that its window manager, Muffin, would support Wayland. I really want to drop xorg like a bad habit.
Sway. I look around every few months but nothing usually, um, erm pendulates my interest. I have hyprland installed…but my config file breaks with every update, and it’s rice first, function later. I’m an opposite-ricer. I like to strip all decorations.
I just started using sway as well! Care to share any tips, tricks, or your favorite config snippets?
Just keep the config file(s) handy and always be playing with them. Join IRC #sway@Libera. Oh…and you can use the majority of the i3wm docs outside of anything doing with output or input. While I love man pages…I prefer web content for my docs.
I’m using xfce. It’s on endeavros as I like to belong to the arch crowd without working with the lengthly set up from scratch.
I prefer xfce as anything of note is accessible with a few minor exceptions due to endeavros security concerns such as Bluetooth which requires a quick systemctl command.
I started off with it after discovering ubuntu and trying the xfce version. I liked it and went through a few distros including crunchbang with openbox but ultimately xfce is a very straightforward experience for me and fairly customisable. The only drawback is it doesn’t look like some of the awesome screenshots I’ve seen of i3 or other tiling managers but as a teacher I don’t do development or have that much knowledge to tinker so xfce is my go-to.
herbstluftwm - I remember there were reasons why I chose it, but I don’t remember them xD
XFCE with the WM replaced with Openbox. Ask me about my Openbox keyboard bindings for window moving and resizing :)
I kind of want to try KDE again, but I still feel it’s too laggy, at least on my machine with intel graphics.
I am asking about your Openbox bindings
Win+ijkl moves the window to the next edge with the “MoveToEdge” function, snapping it around the screen.
Win+Shift+ijkl grows the window from any edge.
Win+Ctrl+ijkl shrinks the window from any edge.
Win+Cursor switches desktops, Win+Ctrl+Cursor sends window to other desktops.
It seems intuitive to me because ijkl is used for actions within the desktop, cursor keys (reaching farther) are for between desktops.
Makes sense to me too. That’s pretty nifty
KDE, for kwin’s superior window management tools.
Kwin is pretty cool
