What desktop environment are you using? Post your favorite desktop environment. No Aero peasants.
>>52004698
>2015
>not using a tiling wm
>>52004698
Isn't Aero a WM?
>>52004727
aero is what windows uses
>>52004727
End shitposts
Mate
Recently started using XFCE because I got tired of trying to make everything look uniform on a tiling wm
>>52004698
XFCE is the best
prove me wrong
>>52005732
Personally ive never used XFCE so i wouldnt know. I've only used Unity, KDE Plasma 5, Gnome 3 and Cinnamon. Care to tell me what makes XFCE so good?
>>52005921
It's slightly more coherent than LXDE. They're both Windows 95 tier.
>>52005921
It's very lightweight yet very customizable. You can have as many panels as you want and make them behave and look how you want them to. Also XFCE is very fast and feels very responsive. Try it, I think you might like it.
>>52005991
Never used LXDE either.
>>52006020
what distros does it come pre installed on?
>>52004698
I'm on Xfce. I really like cinnamon as well
>>52006046
I don't know if there are any other ones but it comes pre installed on Xubuntu
But of course you can install it on any distro
>>52004698
Cinnamon mustard race!
>>52006077
Picture from last week
>>52006022
Have you used Windows 95?
>>52006022
LXDE is super light, but suffers a bit as far as looks and features. It's very reminiscent of Win95.
>>52006110
What theme are you using?
>>52006096
I know I just wanted to be able to try it through a USB without having to do anything.
>>52006142
Vertex for WM
Menda for Icons
>>52006116
no but ive used windows 97
>>52006161
thanks
>>52006266
That was Xfce btw, But it's doable in cinnamon
>>52006279
I know, I'm using XFCE too
ChromeDE
Its 90% material Design, 10% Absolute random shit
>>52006362
Needs a zany icon theme to complete the look
>>52006362
Why would anyone use Chrome OS?
>>52006382
i was thinking of changing all the icons to windows 95 icons, but its difficult in chromeOS to fuck with that kind of stuff
>>52006395
because i like it, it runs clean
>>52006397
Do it anyways! You gotta commit to it! Can't just go half way!
Cinnamon > *
>>52006362
That's a rad as shit 90's thing you got going
>>52004698
Gnome 3
>>52004709
I want to try, but I am a scared babby, are there any easy ways to live boot it from a usb? what distros come with a default titling wm?
GNOME 3 (this time, without SystemD)
What window manager should I get for Fedora?
>>52006522
mutter
>>52006535
This is what 4chan did to you, Michael. Remember the time you used to have friends in real life?
DE: Aqua
Theme: Graphite
Operating System: OS X 10.11.2
>>52006631
>A wallpaper + a bloated panel
>>52006631
Spotify went boogaloo in the background hence the 96 Celsius temps...
>>52006631
I think it looks pretty good but the panel is way too bloated
>>52006686
That's all he is showing
>>52006631
Why the fuck do you need your panel to show the year?
>>52006699
I've cleaned up the panel. I usually keep the dock out of the way. however here's the reset of the details
Cinnamon I like it and I have other things to do in my life than stare at a fucking terminal all day arch fags I'm looking at you
Linux DEs are generally terrible wastes of time that require far more customization and troubleshooting than regular window managers
Advanced users are left frustrated by the "modern" software architecture and newer users think it just doesn't work
>>52006631
Brought to you by the people that think cut and paste is unintuitive, harmful, and confusing, and harmful but still put folder-specific metadata in the folders themselves instead of a user-specific database and create faux-resource forks on sane filesystems even when they're not used.
>>52006866
>impling Arch users can't install Cinnamon
>>52006898
cut and paste is very unintuitve
an object vanishes from location A when you move it to location B? nonsense. you'd probably forget where the file was.
>>52006898
>DEs require far more customization and troubleshooting than regular window managers
I completely disagree. I tried i3 and openbox. You have to customize way more to make them work like you want them to. DEs just werk
>>52004698
xfce
>>52006898
i hate how OS X deals with metadata as well as it's naff filesystem. however for doing my work it's great, our office uses exchange for email, arranging meetings and IM, and i detest pidgin, and thunderbird just doesn't play right with exchange. besides, it's still unix so we're all playing on the same field :)
>>52006962
>that theme
>>52006962
you have a HP Icon in your application launcher. why?
>>52006975
Except linux users don't use bastard mach-based UNIX, they use linux, which is far more advanced at the cost of breaking with 1970s standards. Shame about the lack of good UIs and professional suites, though.
>>52006948
DEs just werk except when they don't
WMs werk if you can read the docs
>>52004709
>le tiling wm maymay
>>52006984
he said no arrow, so i specifically located one that looked like arrow just to piss him off
>>52007001
my laptop is a hp.
>>52005732
>gtk2
>compositing is still managed by xrender
>no plans to move to wayland or gtk3 at least
>it's practically dead
>>52007016
>arrow
>my laptop is a hp
Fuck off
>>52007010
I never had any problems with XFCE
WMs werk too but they're way harder to customize than DEs
>>52004698
I'm using Gnome 3 in korora 23. Really a fucking nice experience. Oh, and I'm using it on wayland. Super stable and snappy.
>>52007027
It uses GTK 3 now
>>52007027
>gtk3
>gobject
>unstable API, not backwards compatible because poor design decisions all around
>file picker is part of the toolkit, file picker also sucks and will always suck
>typeahead search in file picker disabled with a three line patch (THREE LINES)
>"themes are harmful to our brand image"
>more padding than OS X 99% of the time
>>52007033
>getting buttblasted over decorations
jej
>>52007057
Since when?
Any plans to implement compositing in GLX? And porting to wayland?
XFCE is nice but KDE plasma is very comfy, im perfectly find using up some of my ram anyways
>>52007010
My one major criticism of OS X now is that they've rewritten the USB Drivers in 10.11 now my HP workstation doesn't initialise USB at all on boot due to the ACPI Tables not matching up to what it's expecting... ho-hum :/
>>52007063
>not using QT anyways
>>52007070
Gtk2 is in maintenance mode and nobody who matters is writing anything that matters for gtk3, sorry. Gtk is the toolkit for hipsters because of all its hipster language bindings and its GNU associations, and that's about it.
Qt is our only hope.
>>52007070
Oh wait it actually doesn't
But why should I care?
>>52007067
>openBSD with windows maker
But you can install XFCE on it, anon..
>>52006362
A E S T H E T I C
>>52007099
But I want to use WindowMaker
>>52007099
masochism.
>>52007096
The problem is that if they don't port to GTK3 (Or QT that's the sanest option) they could not move to Wayland. And I want XFCE on Wayland.
>>52006898
Babyduck the post
>>52006898
>source: me
I haven't doing any tweaking to my GNOME box besides putting some plugins and it's nice. Fucking nice.
Literally, Baby duck with autism, the post.
>>52007155
I value my hands too much to command-option-v.
Do you use pic related?
>>52007206
>I value my hands too much to command-option-v
More like you don't know how to use your hands.
>>52004698
Xfce+Kwin (KDE's window manager).
The only bad thing about Xfce is the window manager, but it can be replaced easily.
>>52007198
That's what everyone does. Then their plugins and themes break next release and they're stuck with terrible defaults again, or they scream "LAG!" and switch to KDE on the spot because their GPU isn't well supported on wayland and GNOME mistakenly thinks it can't use hardware acceleration on it with X.
>>52004698
I'm currently using awesome. Are there any better alternatives?
>inb4 i3
lemme know when xfce gets client side window controls
>>52006489
Logos comes with wm
>>52006586
Yfw I use Arch as my main OS, visit 4chan daily and still have lots of good IRL friends.
>>52007260
Cry moar.
The plugin I use it's only a weather related shit. Stop talking by people who actually use a DE and keep your self you tiling WM.
>>52007286
No you don't. to any of those statements...
>>52007290
Most non-autists who try gnome just quit, FYI.
Most people who can stand gnome are like linus torvalds and only use firefox and a terminal emulator.
>>52007306
>gud for linus
>gud for me
>default in many distros
>even applel knows its gud and they rip'd it
>>52004698
I've been using xmonad for 5 years now and it is my favorite tiling WM, others tiling WMs just don't get it right (looking at i3 and awesome particularly).
I used gnome 2 before that and it was OK, but using a tiling wm fit my workflow better than a window-oriented wm and haven't looked back.
My work gave me the option to take an rMBP and used it for a couple of years but when they replaced our work computers I chose a pc and went back using xmonad again.
>>52007299
Whatever dude, stay delusional.
>>52007336
>even applel
It's the other way around
The gtk crowd has been aping apple's designs for better or for worse since before they were apple's designs
>default in many distros
Freetard grudges and historical inertia.
>>52007306
>source: me
Literally this --> >>52007290
GNOME
>>52004698
I like KDE4, KDE5 is nice but not ready for primetime yet.
Mate
>>52004698
CDE, Xfce and GNOME 2 are my most commonly used DEs, ordered by favorites
I have to use KDE at uni but it looks ugly as fuck and I hate it
Xfce
>>52007410
If you actually use a linux DE it's pretty obvious that you don't do shit and have no valid opinion
Install windows
>>52006362
"It's all right cuz I'm saved by the bell!"
>>52006046
antergos has an option for xfce as well as gnome, kde, cinnamon, mate, and pure openbox. good distro
>>52006362
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTLPQ9h659A
>fitting
>>52009354
dank
in all seriousness though, 90's colors and patterns are some of the best shit ever made, it was meant to be both vibrant and classy at the same time, it appealed to everyone before modern sci-fi made people want sleek gray/black/blue stuff
>>52007411
What icons are these?
>>52009596
Moka.
>>52008266
Can u post ur wallpaper here!
>>52006124
Agreed. I love LXDE, then again, I'm on an ancient T60 shitpad.
>>52005330
theme?
I've been liking Openbox.
>>52010566
Theme is Glare with SimpliX window decorations
>>52007411
Please tell me how you made this pos website look nice
I've been fooling around with DE's and WM's for almost a decade now. Used to love GNOME, but after version 3 it got too heavy. I "stayed" with MATE.
XFCE is too easy to break. KDE is HEAVY, and I don't think it's OK to use all those system resources in the OS itself, no matter the functionality or whatever. LXDE is super light and fast but it lacks customization. Cinnamon is this weird KDE/XFCE/Windows Shell hybrid and I just can't get around to like it. All WM's are good if you don't mind CLI for a lot of stuff but in my case I eventually start missing a "smarter" GUI.
MATE is my choice. Fast, lightweight, can be customized a lot and it just werks. GNOME3 is OK too I guess if you don't mind the additional resources.
>MATE is my choice. Fast, lightweight, can be customized a lot and it just werks.
Until everything in the places menu starts opening your music player.
>>52004709
What would you recommend? Preferably something available in Debian Stable.
>>52011064
I use the good'ol GNOME menu.
I prefer kde.
I try other things on my desktop so I know if other things are usable but I keep kde on my main machine.
The kde applications is usually better than the alternatives.
Dolphin has a built in terminal, file dialog has thumbnails and user input in the filter.
Hotkeys and settings are searchable so it doesn't take long to find the setting you are looking for.
Hotkeys are aware of other hotkeys and warns you if you are setting multiple actions to the same keys.
But krunner is my main reason.
Krunner is the hotkey for everything that usually does not deserve a hotkey.
Open applications.
Go to an open application.
Find files.
Calculate one liners.
>>52011087
>Preferably something available in Debian Stable.
Literally nothing
>>52004709
>tiling wm
>windows 1.0
>>52006927
>an object vanishes from location A when you move it to location B? nonsense
That's called moving files, from point A, to where you need it (point B) why the fuck would I cut and paste if I didn't need two fucking copies?
XFCE
dwm, dmenu, and st, desktop environments are a waste of space and computing power desu
>>52010941
css
>>52013488
Try synapse instead of dmenu. It's god-tier.
>>52006898
Noice bait, faggot. Otherwise consider suicide
Budgie is looking pretty fucking sweet for me. Unfortunately that's still in early development.
I'll probably use Gnome, I'm trying it on my new PC which should be able to handle it just fine.
Should I go with Debian with Gnome or any other distro with it by default?
>>52013747
Something like this was needed in lunix for a long time, thanks for the suggestion m8
>>52013904
Go see a shrink.
>>52010979
nice blog
upvoted
>>52007038
>WMs werk too but they're way harder to customize than DEs
>cant acknowledge that wm is part of de
there are actually people like this one that come here... this whole board is a circlejerking meme
>>52014047
Don't fall for his words. You understood pretty damn well what he meant.
Gnome 3, plus extensions.
Any thoughts on MATE compared to Xfce. Should I leave xfce?
>>52014196
No. Mate currently looks like windows 10.
>>52006535
>that unused screen space
Tilling is literally shit.
>>52007572
Theme please
>>52014254
so the last bastion of gnome 2 is dying out
>>52004698
I have been an LXDE user for around 2-3 years but mere days ago I moved to xfce4. For only like 50 MB more memory usage it packs quite a load of features, I'm liking it more than LXDE
>>52014268
Tiling with all that wasted space is not tiling, it's shit.
>>52004698
I like openbox. Simple, quick, lightweight, that's all I care about. XFCE is also great.
how would I replace xfce panel/menu with MATE's. I just want that part from MATE..
>>52004698
Aero is pretty good now actually. Windows + left/up/right/down and you have functioning keyboard based tiling
>>52014553
Keep in mind that I'm not running neither rn, but try this:killall mate-panel && xfce4-panel &
>>52014553
>>52014634
Ok, I screwed up, switch the xfce4 with mate
>>52014648
but i dont want/need the rest of programs , managers , etc from mate...I already have them with xfce
>>52014661
In theory mate-panel should just run the panel
That is, if it runs like xfce4-panel runs.
>>52014675
thats what I thought so , just if somehow mixing parts of different DEs wouldnt fuck up the system.. The problem is that creators were probably not thinking on making this level of freedom and customization that DEs would be compatible with each other.
>>52014689
Well, at least xfce4-panel can integrate with pretty much every WM/DE that is ICCCM/EWMH compliant
Most components of xfce are modular as well. I'm using xfce4-power-manager with i3, for example.
>>52006110
The wallpaper is awesome! Can I have it? =)
>>52010979
>KDE is HEAVY
it's lighter than gnome/unity
>LXDE lacks customization
define customization
thanks to openbox it is extremely flexible, has a great file manager and all the tools needed to set up your visuals, in less than 20MiB
>>52014938
>MiB
check your head i think fedora just appeared there
>>52011285
i3 and awesome are both available, didn't bother to search for other ones.
>>52013941
Doesn't really matter, use whatever distro you like. I would still recommend debian.
>>52014412
Literally the exact same scenario:
Used LXDE / Lubuntu, just migrated to XFCE.
Huge fan.
>>52014957
suck a cock bro
>>52006110
>>52006110
Is that Unity?
>>52016270
>>Is that Unit
see>>52006077
>>52007572
Fuck that looks nice
>>52007281
How do I even get logos
>>52014288
Theme: https://github.com/horst3180/Arc-theme
Icon: http://samuelhewitt.com/paper/theme
>>52005330
And proceeded to literally shit in every config file until everything looks like the contents of their config files? I don't see any other way to end up with something as horrible as that.
>>52006198
There is some difference, but not really that much.
>>52017158
>>52006198
windows 97?
>>52006535
Can't you tile chrome properly (I know it doesn't always want to be the size you want it to be) or are you just trying to hide the downvotes Trump gets by hiding the like bar from view?
>>52007411
> This.
>>52017274
this
is so gay and impractical
>>52010908
Do you also like sucking cocks? It seems like you do.
>>52017189
some bootleg versions of 95OSR2 were distributed as "97"
>>52006535
>trumptard playing a logic game
well, you're going to fail that one
What dock program do you guys use?
>>52004727
If I recal correctly, Windows uses something called 'dwm'. I saw it once while I was bored at work and peeking at the processes on the computer that I was using.
>>52011087
Do they not have ratpoison? I like ratpoison.
>Ratpoison
>dwm
>bspwm
>i3wm
...
To the OP:
I used Gnome for a while. But I did not like it too much. I use XFCE on occasion.
Mostly I use ratpoison. it works nicley.
>>52017274
The new Gnome is even worse than Unity
It's easily the least user friendly GUI currently
>>52010908
Mind sharing background?
xfce desu senpai
I'm messing around and changing things around in LXDE. I should've started with openbox and added stuff on top of it.
>>52004698
Xfce
>>52017158
>Wow LXDE configured to look like Windows 95 wow
You're so salty anon
>>52017616
Why do you think so? It's actually really simple. Maybe a bit too simple even. That's one of the things I dislike about it. Like, they're making a new IRC client called Polari. It doesn't even support registering with NickServer. Devs are usually dicks and unwilling to meet users wishes.
The other thing is that it's relatively unstable on Arch.
>>52014731
Sure
>>52016270
Xfce4
>>52010979
>>52011225
>>52014196
KDE 5 is master race desu.
>Uses less resources than Unity/Gnome.
>Is far more consistant than Gnome.
>Has more features than Gnome and XFCE.
>Looks actually passable out of the box and has a built in dark theme
>Dolphin is 9/10 file manager
>Decent taskbar management
>It's all QT so it's runs fucking fast and looks crisp, and also is all vector so scales
Has some problems though:
>Detecting when monitors are unplugged fucks up sometimes
>Some of the desktop effects can produce artifacts if misconfigured
>The Super key does not open app menu/cant without a 3rd party addon
>Networking can be finnicky in the taskbar widget, won't detect new devices etc.
>On OpenSUSE at least the fonts are fucked and need to be tweaked first
TBQH KDE is the best DE I have used so far. People told me it was bloat garbage but I guess that has changed. Now, if only more people would use it and make it better so we can have the yar of the loonix desktop (and KDE can easily support wayland due to QT api).
>>52004698
Either my personal sets of software based around dwm or nowm maintained with salt stack. Otherwise i just install lxde do what i need, wipe everything and its back to the usual setup.
Gnome 3, it had a rocky start but I think it's great these days.
What de has the most themes?
>>52019648
Any GTK2-based, so I would go with XFCE
>>52007411
Css?
>>52013747
All those dependencies, vala, i use dmenu for a reason. My system is set up in a sane way so i know where everything is. That crazy source, no, hell no.
>>52004698
Plasma 5 master race, anon
>>52006362
nice Rugrats wallpaper.
>>52019362
FYI there's actually an alpha LiveCD of KDE with wayland support.
Buggy as hell, but it is a start.
>>52019735
https://gist.github.com/rolf1304/df0ddb1fd148be7cd405
it will probably look a little different unless you block 4chan's own css
>>52014938
Except that it's not.
https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops-part-2/
>>52006110
Ahh, it's you again m8. Still using your wallpaper. I really like it so far.
>>52020321
>that image again
>>52017835
A little late, but here you go.
Awesome Window Manager.
>>52004698
Aero is the equivelant of a composite manager and a GTK theme. DWM is the windows wm (not the other dwm)
>>52020783
You can't
>>52004698
What distro/ theme is this?
>>52019632
Could you please tell me what you used for your taskbar?
what is the best DE and why is it GNOME?
it just werks
