Just wondering if you use Gnome or KDE
 

Just a little research ...

I always used gnome, never liked KDE, and I thought before that Slack users used more gnome too, but now Im a litle in doubt... so lets see what YOU use :D

thkx

The world is a lot bigger than just Gnome or KDE. Heck, Slackware comes with a bunch of others installed. Why limit your environment to those two?

because Im with this doubt...I just want to know what of this 2 are more used...
but okay so what more do you suggest?

I cant edit the pool, but if any moderator make this favor and put more options I will apreciate. :)

On Slack, Mandriva and Suse I prefer KDE. On Fedora (inc CentOS) and FreeBSD I use GNOME.

hi there,
startx+windowmaker..... nice combination...
and remember that windowmaker is developed, most of its part, by a brazilian guy...
regards
slackie1000

I use fluxbox, no need to tell why ;)

Have a look at the 2004 LQ Members Choice awards

Window Managers

Desktop Environments

yeah, but I was thinking just to see what the Slack users uses ...

sometime I heard that mostly slack users use Gnome, but Im seeing that this is just a myth

I cheat :P

I use flux but I have the gnome-style-daemon running to apply styles

Eh, I use KDE pretty much exclusively. But I also like to play with developing with QT and C++. For some people they quote resource factors but for me I don't really have to worry with a gig of ram.

Even though I rarely see my system go beyond 150-200 megs used. I also setup my desktop to be quite minimal. With only the taskbar at the bottom with only open apps showing, no program shortcuts and no K menu. My logitech MX duo keyboard can do all the shortcuts from multimedia buttons and such or use alt+F2. And the system tray at the top by itself and they both hide. Thats on my second monitor though too. That and 3 gkrellm monitors for my desktop and servers. I don't like icons on my desktop and don't have any. Its a very clean desktop and you probably wouldn't think it even was kde if you saw it at first.

I also honestly can't live without kioslaves. I use 'fish://' so much that there's nothing that could replace it.

I also do like xfce. It's an awesome environment. Same with blackbox and fluxbox. I *love* those 3. Blackbox is my favorite minimalist window manager. I've made a couple usb bootable distro's just for myself to play with and I always use blackbox. It's so clean, just like xfce and fluxbox(pretty much blackbox), that I never to have to "taylor" it really other then maybe theme or menu options.

To each his own though.

I use KDE so that my mom can use Linux, but I like IceWM for resource-less computers

you have used some driver to make ylu function keys of your keyboard to work?

No, but the solution is stated in the /etc/icewm/keys file:
1. Figure out your function key keycodes in xev
2. Map those keys to certain variables or edit the keys file to use those keycodes directly
3. Use those keys

Nope. Xev and the list of already set Xfree86 unused keysets.

Just open a terminal in X then type 'xev' in it. You will then hit the keys that are "unusable" and it will show you that there is no name for it but it will give you a 'keycode'. This keycode means that it knows the key is there it's just not given any kind of association for X to be able to use it.

After writing down all the keycodes for all the keys you will go to open or make a file called .Xmodmap in your home directory. It will in the end look like this:

The XF<whatever> is called a keysym. A list of possible keysyms can be found in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB

Then if you use KDE open kcontrol and go to Regional and Accessability and then Khotkeys then just create hotkeys for all those keys. I don't know howto set it up in other DE's or environments. The plus is that the XF86 Audio Volume keys and mute automatically work in KDE. You can use them right away without setting khotkeys. After you're done setting up the .Xmodmap be sure to restart X too.