Kde + Twm
 

Here I have a fast unit that runs KDE and to my left is a slow unit that most often is used command line only.

However there are times when I need just a little more screen space. At those times the slow unit runs TWM and the fast unit exports a GUI to the slow unit. Also, running x2x on the fast unit allows me to work on the slow system display with the fast unit keyboard and mouse.

My wife thinks KDE is Slackware. As long as she is happy, life is good.

I use fvwm which is very flexible.
Sure you have to spend a lot of time to tweak the configuration but at the end you have the desktop that YOU want.
I use also ROX-Filer as the file manager.

Just started using wmaker couple days ago, so i voted on that.If i had faster PC i guess i would be using KDE.

On my slack boxes I use KDE or FVWM2 depending on my mood.

I used FVWM for years and only recently have started switching to KDE. KDE provides quick and easy setting of keyboard macros, which is important to the way I work. I find KDE to be a bit heavier than I am used to but on my modern machines it is snappy enough.

I use icewm, but that was not in the list of options for the poll

Fluxbox all along. Even on my newer machine (An Dell Inspiron 9400, with Centrino Duo at 1600Mhz) I only run fluxbox. Why? Well, I like how much and how easy it is to configure, I like the fact that it loads up fast, and I also like to leave the processor power to the apps, not the WM/DE. Plus, I've never liked having icons on the desktop.

fluxbox for me seems to be my favorite.

icewm should have been an option. Polls or estimates of all users in the linux world usually put it ahead of fluxbox. Used to be lots of gnome users around here, but once PatV dropped it they seem to have scattered -I noticed a distinct drop-off of activity on this forum when the announcement was made. Even though there are third-party providers of gnome for slackish systems, most gnome users simply went away. Of course, activity on this forum is no indicator of what Pat's paying customers thought or think about the current choices.

Some of the polls provide some very interesting figures though, like the one where over 30% of users here are running on computers 7 or more years old and that around 75% use slackware as a desktop distro and not as a server. I have a strong suspicion that the figures for paying customers are pretty different.

yes i should have atleast put an option called "Xother".

icewm : i used it long back

gnome : i was a true fan of gnome, even after gnome is removed from slack, first i tried linuce's gnome, then freerock, then finally dropline, and i can tell u dropeline is quite good, once i created a dvd with dropline included for slack (i think it is for slack 11 - also with openoffice). these 2 are the two great part missing in slack

exactly... i never tried gnome for slack12

insted moved on to xfce

for the past 6 yrs i am using slackware, first and only one linux i used (personal), i have installed many linux for my friends, even used gentoo on a laptop for my friend - longest ; usage nearly 6 months,

the funny thing is i tried slackware only because of its blue logo, and the color on slack box(shipping)

regards

The WM/DE I prefer really depends on my mood and what I am doing. As a general rule, however, I tend to prefer using a keyboard over a mouse, and this is true even when computing in Windows environments. I am very fond of scrolling pages with a mouse wheel, though. I almost never use application menus, but I always use keyboard shortcuts for my common programs, and I typically either use a 'run' box or the command line to launch other programs. However, sometimes when I am too tired I may start using the mouse more instead of just going to bed.

I don't like desktop shortcuts for programs what-so-ever, and I dislike having minimized windows going into "desktop shortcuts". However, I do like having a nice picture on my desktop, along with some type of weather program. I like to have things like a clock, and a workspace switcher, though I only really need to see them. Even though I dislike desktop shortcuts I regularly store files on the Desktop. However, I only stores files there on a (hopefully) temporary basis. Kind of like an Inbox, it represents the work that I need to get done. I probably would just keep them in a folder, but I like to be able to visually group the files, and I am encouraged to get some work done when I have a bunch of files covering my beautiful desktop picture :)

As most people do, I also want something that is responsive, and preferably it would be fairly usable or configurable "out of the box" (no twm, please).

As a result of all these preferences, on decently fast machines (like the one I am using now) I use KDE. KDE has way more than I need, but it is easy to setup for using keyboard shortcuts, has all my desktop needs (I like Liquid Weather), I like some of it programs (kate, k3b, Akregator), and in Slackware it works great with DBUS/HAL. I don't care for konqueror, though, and only use it as a browser in Akregator. I sometimes use Dolphin, but I usually just use the command line (maybe some mc) for file management.

If there was no dolphin I'd probably use thunar, which brings me to my other choice: Xfce. In all actuality it has everything I need and I tend to use its programs over KDE's (Terminal, mousepad), but the built-in support in Xfce for Slackware is not as good as KDE. Sometimes (one of those times I should be in bed) I don't feel like using pmount-hal to mount X and I'd rather have it mounted via my filemanager. I know Xfce and other WMs/DEs can have this, but I don't use it often enough to make it worth my time. However, if I am using an older machine such as my Thinkpad 600E (400MHz PII 288MB RAM) then tweaking out Xfce is very much worth the effort. With all the SlackBuilds out there for Xfce this is much easier than it has been in the past.

Fluxbox is also one of my favorites, and I am pleased it is the default on many LiveCDs. On older machines I sometimes use this instead of beefing up Xfce a little.

However, since I do prefer the keyboard over the mouse sometimes I'm more in the mood for something really minimal like Ion or ratpoison. I am a big fan of using screen sessions, so using these is kind of like a natural extension (I really like the fact that it is quick to organize windows by splitting the screen). These take some good effort to setup to how I want them, though, and I miss the motivation of files covering my desktop picture (perhaps I can accomplish this with Ion :)).

Overall, I'd say Xfce and Fluxbox represent the best balance for me, and if I don't care about wasting resources then going with the prettier KDE is also nice.

My Prefs concerning KDE vs GNOME
I don't care for GNOME that much even though it gets a lot of the same stuff done with a quarter the amount of code as KDE. As said before it hides too many settings and using GConf to manage them reminds me all too much of regedit. Some programs (eg. Firefox) do seem to integrate better into GNOME than KDE, but if Slackware had dropped KDE and kept GNOME instead I'd probably be using Xfce or Fluxbox on this machine.

KDE, then XFCE, then Fluxbox/Blackbox or IceWM.

shadowsnipesi like konqueror, the only thing i like in kde ;)
it has the split view, fish: for accessing ssh, and is all in one

wht i like xfce, use it with risteto, and xarchiver and thunar pluggins, all transparencies without any difficulty(in kde it is buggy)
gnome

I use ion3. It is a lightweight tiling window manager . This basically means that you split the screen into smaller subscreens in which each window is maximized.
The cool thing is, that your windows cannot overlap and it is easy to split a window and resize an application. Although it has a steep learning curve it is well worth it. As Tuomo put it "Usability simply does not equal low learning curve, and hiding system details from the user, as the Official Truth seems to be these days."

If you ever feel like trying something totally different give ion3 a try :)

I doff my cap to the3dfxdude for using twm.

My sencond fav is missing though.
I use KDE on my laptop, but I use IceWM on my second box which is a bit slower.

Why KDE? I don't know, in the war between GNOME and KDE I allways say, everyone uses what he wants and what he's used to. So I guess I'm just used to KDE, but I always find great usability in it's easyness of accessing to SAMBA networks and other neat stuff.

Why IceWM? Because it's EXTREMELY adaptive I even used it on my laptop for a long time, and still use it from time to time on the laptop. And because its the fastest WM I've tried out, and because it was developed by someone who comes from the same country as me. And because I just LOVE configuration files to configure everything. I'm just faster with the keyboard than I am with the mouse.
Why I stopped using it on my laptop? Because I've figured out that I use the same SW as on KDE and KDE is not that much slower on the laptop so why not use it, and again, because I'm used to KDE(Read above).