Nylex:

Sorry, I was slightly mistaken, yes I can paste with the middle button in xterm, emacs, but just not into firefox.

Randux: Thats my main issue, just pasting to firefox now.

No chaos. I figure a thread is more of a 'pass the mike to me' conversation...

Heck, when was the last time you tried to have a discussion with one person that stayed totally 'on course'?

It ebbs and flows...

Don't know how to help you there, I'm afraid . I'm using Firefox and Fluxbox right now and pasting works with the wheel button for me.


I don't know, I don't usually have conversations with people, heh.

I put down KDE although it's only the primary window manager on only one of my slack-boxes, tho I switch over to blackbox to play unreal tournament. I use fluxbox on the other boxen, but find that I use alot of KDE app's like konqueror, komparator, kwrite, kpim, guarddog, and koffice and my favorite app "KJOTS". So I guess that's why I put KDE as my primary tho there are more boxes using fluxbox. I guess when i figure out how to get some of the amigo slackbuilds to work for me I can switch over completely, but I'm still trying to get fluxbox fully tweaked.

I really like the way flux handles multiple windows, sticky states too. I actually cant get it to go right on kde 3.5.3 yet.

one annoyance I have with kde is that it doesnt really work too well with 'xkill' and app's die in kde at times, but they dont in flux, it could be me tho i dont know.

since i learned about xmod map now I can get lefty mouse in fluxbox too

I dont mind editing config files, it's just that I've been working on getting all my pc's over to slackware so it's taken time. KDE fit the bill mostly as the work was done for a noob like me to start off. But I plan on getting away from it. Then again, maybe not becuase ABIWORD may not be in slackware 11 so I dont know. Schools not out on this one.

I choosed other, both because I used to use FVWM, I did a upgrade on it everytime I installed Slackware but still it was included. So I count that, but now I have changed to WMII-3 and it is a great Window Manager in my opinion, easy to handle with just the keyboard.

On my laptop I still use FVWM, so I think my vote should be valid.

My dreamed system.

1) Every aplication can be used as consol aplication
2) Some aplication can be used with better design template
3) This design template is made by CSS technology.
- I can change design of aplication by changing CSS file - there is many chances
4) I can setup, that every aplication will using my default CSS template => every aplication will have same design
5) Aplications not depend on
- operatin system or desktop
6) Aplications can looks like as whatever
- operatin system or desktop
7) Desktop is, for me, only next aplication
- I don't need desktop so badly for my happy life.

What do you tell on this?

Sounds pretty much like Java's SwingX interface

Yea, that's _one_ of the reasons why I don't like KDE. If I had a dime for every time I've seen that 'bomb' screen, I'd be a rich man. Reminds me of Windows...

I didn't vote cause' I use Gnome but I guess if I had to pick, It would be Fluxbox.

I run KDE 3.53 on Slackware-(un)current (sometime around mid June, because I just got my laptop back from Dell), and I really have to say I prefer it over other options for daily use.

KDE has an aesthetically pleasing GUI and numerous applications (AmaroK, for example) which make doing things with media much easier by default.

If I'm going to be doing something that uses a lot of CPU or GPU, I'll switch to fluxbox.

Actually, I use them all.

If I'm feeling particulary lazy about the cli, and just want to point and click for awhile, and have no memory/process intensive thing going on, KDE kinda, almost works. If it doesn't crash. With the included apps/GUI frontends, it can almost be pleasant.

XFce is for when I'm not quite as lazy, and need a little more horsepower. It's ability to run most KDE and gtk apps make it a handy, all around DE. But it's still a bugger in some areas, such as limited apps, crashing with certain plugins, etc.

Flux is my main WM, whenever I go GUI and need to compile at the same time. It's also the one I shock Windows slaves with. I sit down with them, they with their 2+Ghz, 1GB DDR2 ram, warp speed video, and me with my 1.3 G Celeron, 256MB, integrated everything, and say "Let's race and restart our versions of windows. 1,2,3,GO!". Since I don't really care, I just ctrl-alt-bkspc, log back in, and its up by the time they click'logoff'. Gotta love it. Plus, the customization abilities are fairly extensive. Not as much as KDE or XFce, but still has alot.

Overall, I guess I use XFce most, followed by Flux, the CLI, then KDE.

I started using KDE, then after a few days I move to Gnome and nowadays I use XFCE4, 'cause it's pretty fast and lightweight

I run KDE and XFce on the standard install, then I download, install Dropline Gnome which is a very nice DE. Dropline has a nice update feature which is convenient to use.

Gotta say WindowMaker...
A friend got me using it...
Used to be E all the way but it doesn't seem to be in the mainstream anymore....
Great libs though...

Fluxbox for me. I am not big no having all these icons on my desktop. It also seems that fluxbox does not have a lot of overhead like Gnome and KDE. I am not a big fan of XFCE but we all have are opinions right. Enlightenment well lets just say I took one look at it and said ok next. I just really like fluxbox. It's like slackware. When you try and leave, it sucks you right back in.

Agreed, it seems to me that if your going to go with Slackware as your *NIX Distro then Fluxbox should probably be the Window Manager which represents it...

At one time or another I've tried all the WM's mentioned above, but Flux was always the one that made the most sense to me. Like Slack you configure it via text files by default, unless of course you choose to use Fluxconf, but I prefer to edit the files manually, there seems to be a greater sense of control. I never liked the look or feel of KDE and GNOME, too slow, the only version of Enlightenment worth using is E17, however thats way too much of a pain in the ass to maintain. The only other WM I ever liked using was FVWM, the options are literally endless....