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chrissacchi
 Post subject: What's your favorite Window Manager for GNU/Linux?
PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:07 pm 
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What is your favorite Window Manager for GNU/Linux?

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 Post subject: Re: What's your favorite Window Manager for GNU/Linux?
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chrissacchi wrote:
What is your favorite Window Manager for GNU/Linux? Mine is LXDE.

LXDE isn't a window manager. LXDE ships with Openbox for its WM.


Anyway, to answer the poll question, I deved on Compiz for a bit and I've stuck with it since. It's been a major inspiration for my own compositor / window server.

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 Post subject: Re: What's your favorite Window Manager for GNU/Linux?
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X window managers, not Linux.

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Fluxbox / dwm.exe (yes, ignoring 'GNU/Linux' remark is kind of a ~bad joke) + screen.
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Best way of managing all the windows? gnome-panel :mrgreen:


Seriously, the window decorations are just a part of the experience - as long as they are not broken. Metacity works fine in that regard.

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To be fair there is more to window management than just decorations. Tiling window managers operate quite different compared to the norm.

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KDE. I switched from Windows 7 to Kubuntu a few months ago, and I chose KDE as it had most of the things I love about the Windows 7 desktop environment. Hopefully sometime I'll get round to compiling KDE myself, and I'll try and make it even better (for my purposes) than Win7 :)
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I've been using Fluxbox for about 5 years. It doesn't do that much, but I've never had a problem with it. I mostly just fullscreen things (chrome/gvim/xterm).
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I've lost track of what is a window manager and what is a desktop manager and what is a library and it's just way too complicated.

In any case, I use Cinnamon. It's pretty much Windows XP, but in a good way.

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