Which WM do you like?

mss wrote:


forgive my bad grammar (too much going on just at the moment!)

later on,
Mike

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On Tuesday 17 January 2012 20:28, mss conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.slackware...

What do you guys like to use for (or on) your desktop?

I've always liked KDE because of its general polish in the visual
department and its customizability.

My standard layout is to have a standard panel at the bottom with a
pager and a task bar, a clock and a few tools which I must be able to
call up immediately - e.g. a calculator, Firefox, KWrite and Konqueror -
and to have a thinner panel at the top which holds the menu of the
active (KDE) application; it doesn't work for non-Qt applications. This
thinner panel also holds a small number of icons, including the KDE menu
itself - I've removed that from the bottom panel - and a bookmarks menu.

I have the desktop icons aligned vertically on the right of the screen
for some often used but not necessarily "instantly required"
applications, such as Gimp, KNode and KMail (I normally have both of
those opened all the time anyway), KAddressBook, the Home directory
(using Konqueror, not Dolphin), KVIrc and Knights (i.e. gnuchess with a
KDE front-end). There's also a Trashcan icon but I never use that.

I also have Yakuake [*] running in the background. It's a drop-down
terminal emulator - it borrows its name from the drop-down "terminal" in
Quake - that drops from the top of the screen when you press F12.
Everything else that's GUI-related I do via the menus.

I also start X manually, and I often switch to regular character mode
terminals via Ctrl+Alt+F[1..6], for instance for when I'm using emacs or
vi, or when I have to do more complex commandline stuff. (The version
of emacs I use is however X11-aware and will show as a GTK window if I
start it from a terminal emulator window.)


[*] Very useful, and also exists in Gnome and XFCE varieties. I'm not
sure on what it's called for XFCE, but the Gnome variant is called
"guake".

= Aragorn (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

On Tuesday 17 January 2012 21:52, Aragorn conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.slackware...

On Tuesday 17 January 2012 20:28, mss conveyed the following to
alt.os.linux.slackware...

What do you guys like to use for (or on) your desktop?

I've always liked KDE because of its general polish in the visual
department and its customizability. [...]

I forgot to add that I've also tried most other desktop environments and
window managers, and that of those, I like Enlightenment and BlackBox
the best. ;-)

= Aragorn (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

On 2012-01-17, mss wrote:

Me? Using (& really enjoying) a fork of dwm entitled monsterwm.

Its a tiling wm, keyboard (or maus) driven...

common tiling mode:

| | W |
| |___|
| Master | |
| |___|
| | |

bottom stack (bstack) mode:

-
| |
| Master |
|--|
| W | | |
-

grid mode:

-
| | | |
||||
| | | |
||||
| | | |
-

monocle mode (aka fullscreen):

-
| |
| no |
| borders! |
| |
-

floating mode:

-
| | |
|--' .. |
| | | |
| | | |
`'--


Along the top of the screen (4 virtual desktops) I've an information
bar (use lots of the one liners for its we talked about recently) made
possible by a nifty tool called 'dzen2'

dzen is pretty cool, you feed it it stdin & its displays that data as
stats & the like. Here's how it works...

while :; do

echo $CPU | $RXB | $FUBAR...

sleep 59

done | dzen -x -y -z

What I like about about dzen, is that you can define 'clickable areas':

^ca(button1, xterm -e 'htop')$CPU^ca()

But hey I run a slim desktop, certainly not everyone's idea of 'linux goodness'.

What do you guys like to use for (or on) your desktop?

Still using good old fvwm. Have been ever since I got X11 up on Slackware
some 15 odd years ago [1].

Bud

[1] And they've been very odd years.

On 2012-01-17 Tue 16:09:54, William Hamblen wrote:

Still using good old fvwm. Have been ever since I got X11 up on Slackware
some 15 odd years ago [1].

Bud

[1] And they've been very odd years.

Ditto on the fvwm, though I didn't get to it right away (trying almost
every wm along the way and requiring two tries with fvwm before I "got
it") and have only been using it for almost 7 (also odd) years.

(You=whoever's reading. If you've ever seen/used evilwm (titlebar-less
1-px border windows, keyboard-centric, no desktop furniture (except a
transparent root-tail and gkrellm)) and know of all the configurability
and cool "invisible" things you can do with fvwm, then you have a pretty
good idea of my fvwm. Evilwm on steroids.)