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Old 08-01-2004, 08:38 AM   #76
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FVWM2, I like to run without a desktop to accumulate clutter. At start the only thing I have loaded is the wallpaper. Everything is bound to keystrokes, menus, and gestures. It's great because you can literally tailor everything to how you want the environment to work. Unfortunately it does take a while to get it there, especially if you start with the .fvwm2rc that comes with Slack.
 
Old 08-01-2004, 09:03 AM   #77
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gnome:
gnome-terminal 95%
gnome-other 5%
 
Old 08-01-2004, 09:04 AM   #78
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fluxbox
 
Old 08-01-2004, 09:06 AM   #79
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XFCE but without panel, i use Pogo instead for my desktop.
FVWM on my server.
 
Old 08-01-2004, 09:34 AM   #80
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command line or terminal most of the time. otherwise gnome. kde just seems slugish at times.
 
Old 08-01-2004, 12:16 PM   #81
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IceWm and fluxbox
 
Old 08-01-2004, 02:39 PM   #82
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fluxbox, by far the best wm imo
 
Old 08-01-2004, 03:16 PM   #83
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dropline gnome
 
Old 08-01-2004, 03:48 PM   #84
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XFce 4, or sometimes KDE.
 
Old 08-01-2004, 04:00 PM   #85
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Blackbox wannabe

Gnome all the way!

I used to use Blackbox in Slackware 9 but recently got interested in Fedora C2 and switched over.

I'm also an x-kde user. KDE has a nice easy interface for changing settings but it has too much eye-candy and too many extra features.
 
Old 08-01-2004, 04:27 PM   #86
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Fluxbox, probably the smoothest and the fastest, but CLI rules no mater what people say...
 
Old 08-02-2004, 10:03 PM   #87
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Quote:
Originally posted by flamesrock
XFCE 4.0 right now, but I'm experimenting with pekWM and 3D-Desktop
Pek - me, too. It's like second time's the charm with both ice and pek.

Update: now the system has ice, pek, and ctwm (surprisingly good with some tweaking... well, okay, a lot of tweaking).

Coupla pek screenshots

Ice still rocks but looks a bit 'bald' without icons, so you have to mess with them and I got sick of messing with them. Some other issues, such as suspecting it in a stability problem though it turns out to probably not be ice's fault. Still, it got me to roaming again and I wound up back at pek after trying it briefly once before. Nice to have the tabbed windows like flux's (and others) again, and keychains out the wazoo and so on. Very little 'looks' tweaking necessary and lots of 'functionality' tweaking. Nice.

I'm getting tired and annoyed of the whole GUI thing, though. Been spending some time in text mode, lately. bash, vim, mc, w3m. All good but I never have bothered with any MUA but mozilla -mail and haven't rigged up my console browsers with all my site information and so on. Pretty much addicted to mozilla, and thus the GUI.

BTW, Mephisto - I passed through fvwm2 again on this trip and configuring that thing about made my head explode. Waaay too complicated for a window manager, but nice if you want it.
 
Old 08-02-2004, 11:01 PM   #88
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kde
 
Old 08-02-2004, 11:07 PM   #89
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Quote:
Originally posted by digiot

BTW, Mephisto - I passed through fvwm2 again on this trip and configuring that thing about made my head explode. Waaay too complicated for a window manager, but nice if you want it.
It takes a lot of work to get right, that's for sure. I spent the better part of 16 hours over the last 2 weeks tweaking it for my main system. But when you get it right... It is right, not just good enough. Sort of like Slackware if you ask me. (Though I recommend getting 2.5.10 from slackpackages.net, I did this afternoon and there are some really useful extra functions.) I don't think there is a more configurable WM out there.

What's a couple of days tweaking for a desktop you will use for at least a year?
 
Old 08-03-2004, 02:54 AM   #90
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plain old GNOME 2.6
 
  


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