Which window manager do you(Slackware user) use? and what set of tools(emacs, vim, mutt, gnus,kde etc.) do you use?
 

(Please let me know if such questions are not allowed in this forum)

Slackware has philosophy of keeping it simple, stable and safe. I am curious to know what set of tools do its users prefer. I am using Fluxbox WM and Gnus as a mail client since last few years. I want to know Which Window manager(if you are using it) and which console based mail client do you use? Why? (Not just WM and mail client, you can share the specific set of tools you prefer)

Fluxbox, rxvt-unicode, tmux. I don't use console based mail client, I use roundcube with seamonkey.

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Hi,

Depending on the hardware, I will use a DE and preference is KDE for daily use on my Dell XPS702xl. For lesser hardware, I will use XFCE for a light DE. When possible I will use Thunderbird as my mail client, Thunderbird meets my mail needs on most hardware. Fluxbox at times but not that often. Most of my local work is on the command line on my systems.

When moderating here on LQ I will use X to have a GUI based environment to make things clean and easier. I do prefer Mozilla Firefox with addons to make things easy and secure.

For my Pi setups, I will use LXDE but mostly on the cli to get things done.

Have fun & enjoy!
:hattip:

I like KDE if the computer has the resources for it. Otherwise my choice has become XFCE.
EDIT - I use webmail
ANOTHER EDIT - I am playing with a netbook 210-1000 c/w 1 Gig of RAM. Anyway, I find myself becoming fond of Fluxbox. Didn't see that one coming

Slackware 14.2 + KDE + web-browser
 

Hello! I use Slackware 14.2 + KDE with KDE setting from this thread of woodsman
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...le-4175456065/
As author says
I like this configuration for KDE 4.14.3, fresh installed Slackware occupies with generic kernel 4.4.14 ~300MB of RAM (Slackware flyes as bird with that, that's why I loved KDE again), no composit. Just plain very basic KDE interface ready for modification and configuring vith heavy visual settings.

I don't like any mail clients - I think this is crap of the past, as well as different cd|dvd burners.

I use a lot of cloud clients: OneDrive, Yandex Disk, mail.ru - cloud, Google drive on my Slackware Box.

I don't use any Skype - that is also crap from the past. Instead I use Viber, WhatsApp with my Linux and my iPhone (There is SlackBuilds for that on SBo).

ksh, xfce4, claws-mail, libreoffice, virtualbox

But it is well known that I am a little eccentric!

cheers
pete

pete hilton
saruman@ruvolo-hilton.org

OpenBox, because I like the keybindings.

Just did a fresh install of 14.2. Currently using XFCE as my DE. I always found KDE to be beautiful but I'm not a fan of Kapps. If not XFCE, then i3 TWM works for me.

Another vote for xfce4/sylpheed. I prefer OpenOffice (rpm binary release from openoffice.org converted using rpm2txz) for documents and I replace xetex with texlive from slackbuilds.org.

The oldest hardware I have at present is a Thinkpad X60 from December 2006 - dual core/1Gb RAM/Intel graphics which appears to have no issues running the xfce4 DE.

I prefer XFCE. If I have older hardware I'll choose Fluxbox. I use Thunderbird for e-mail.

XFCE. I don't even install KDE, because I'm apparently incompatible with it. My computer could surely run it, but I just cannot.

I just stated using i3 which is pretty cool. I used fluxbox before that...

Mate with compiz-reloaded here. I use Thunderbird for mail client.

vtwm, sometimes fvwm2 or fluxbox, depending on what I am doing. Mail was mutt for quite a while, but my ISP changed things 18 months ago and I had to go to thunderbird. With mutt 1.6.x, when I get some time, I plan on setting up for IMAP and if I get it going will return.

John

KDE5(by Alien Bob) -> default

XFCE + compiz + emerald (http://blog.northfield.ws/compiz-rel...cement-0-8-12/)

Firefox -> default
Chromium(by Alien Bob) -> Netflix

I use webmail.

KDE 5 + kmail for me.

Openbox and Mutt.

Openbox because it's relatively light on resources and extremely stable. My WM usage went from Blackbox in the late 90s to early 00s, then Fluxbox until around 2007, and finally Openbox to present day.

Mutt because it's what I've used for the last 15+ years and I haven't had a reason to change.

Fluxbox. It does what I need without getting in my way.

fvwm2 xterm elm netscape and acroread. Anything else I code in perl.

I've had to modifiy some of these recently :-( so I use firefox and claws-mail.

I use WindowMaker as my window manager. It is light and quick to start. It allows me to use my dual monitors on my desktop as I want. On my little netbook, the dock icons are easy to select, despite using a trackpad on a moving train during my daily commute. On my work Windows machine, I have cygwin installed and use WindowMaker there, so I have a constant user experience. The interface looks a bit quaint with sharp corners compared to modern design, but can be softened by adding compton. Over time I have accumulated a set of keyboard shortcuts and custom menus that allow me to do what I want very efficiently. If you add wmsystemtray from SBo, then system tray apps like nm-applet and orage are easily used.
Like others, I also use webmail.

I eschew webmail.

I use Seamonkey mail on my Mint box (because of the integration with the browser) and Mutt on my Slackware box.

I find managing email in my browser to be clunky, but that's just me.

I regularly switch between Fluxbox, wmii, dwm, Xfce, WindowMaker and ratpoison. For every day use I stick with Xfce. For productivity I run Fluxbox. However, I am a recent KDE convert and am happily enjoying the DE integration of all the applications.

EDIT: For mail I use Thunderbird + Enigmail.

Fluxbox wm.
Emacs rmail-mode for email.

When I was using text-based email, it was mutt, getmail and msmtp.

On my desktop, mostly fvwm. On my laptop, xfce.

Been using fvwm for almost 20 years now. Sorta comfortable
with it.

I'm using KDE4 at the moment. Before that I used windowmaker. Before that some old version of gnome. I didn't care for old versions of kde. Gnome and KDE about 13 years ago I thought were buggy (I was new to linux at the time so maybe it was me). I haven't used gnome since slackware dropped support but since Slackware 14.1 I've liked KDE. Its very polished. It requires a lot of resources on my p7807u fx but I can run as much as I want without issue. I can control the volume with my laptop buttons which is nice. Its just the mounting system for udisk2 that confuses me still.

How is KDE5 compared to KDE4? I'm scared to switch because I got it setup like I want it at the moment.

My WM of choice is xmonad. It is stable and fast.

Heavily modified 'dwm' for window manager.

Mutt for Mail User Agent.
OpenSMTPd and fetchmail for Mail Transfer Agent.

Rationale for 'dwm': No dependencies outside of Xlib. Simple to modify 'C' source, gets out of my way during use.
Rationale for 'Mutt': primarily the 'limit' filters.
Rationale for OpenSMTPd: not wanting to deal with the ugliness that is sendmail.cf files.

i3 wm, zsh (with oh-my-zsh)

Same here, never liked KDE, don't even install it anymore. Used Fluxbox/Blackbox in a past life, but since years XFCE does most things so much better.

i3-wm for me :)

KDE5 uses more memory, more get more corrections.
In a matter of usability, there is not much difference.

KDE 5 does a little better at not looking as cluttered at first blush, and IMO it looks better, especially by default. Other than that, there's not a whole lot of difference.

Which window manager do you(Slackware user) use?
 

Another i3wm user here. Just tried it a few months back and can't imagine using anything else now!

It extremely lightweight and configurable. I use xfce4-terminal, and mutt (a bit hard to configure but have a wonderful multi-tabbed mail client for my 7+ accounts now).

The goal for me is to use mostly terminal based apps. They are lightweight and the keyboard shortcuts make them very powerful in my opinion.

Edit : compton for eye-candy, dmenu/rofi for ease. KDE 5 is installed from AlienBob but never launched. Chromium and qupzilla for browsing.

XFCE (for users) and i3wm (for me).

KDE is fine but brings a lot of applications and things I do not use, so XFCE works very well for me.
I like minimalism, so I also want to try other WM like fluxbox, openbox, notion, i3 ...

KDE and Claws Mail on all my machines.

Fvwm, xterm, vim, firefox/vimperator.

wm: herbstluftwm
mail: mutt
editor: nvi
shell: ksh93

fvwm for myself, KDE 5 for others; xterm and tmux; vim with the intention to move to an evil-enabled emacs; tcsh for interactive shell, mksh for programming shell; Opera 12 for email, with as many browser settings as possible disabled; Gnus when I finally commit to emacs ;-) ; Firefox for browsing; TeX baby brother n-t-roff (active github, not older sourceforge) and/or groff for document formatting.

It's been TWM for the last few years on the laptop with a load of xterms running things like alpine (mail/usenet), newsbeuter, irssi.

The desktop currently runs i3 for myself and XFCE for other family members.

i3wm, firefox, thunderbird, xterm, emacs, vim

fvwm - safe, sane, simple forever. It does what I need and no more.

bash is what all my employers' servers have used, so I've slowly converted over from tcsh.

mutt for mail. Woof! Dense display, fast operation, powerful features.

jove for text editing -- an emacs-like, but leaner than vi. http://ciar.org/ttk/public/jove.txt

palemoon for browser -- a fork of firefox 24 (just before it went all crazy), with mostly bugfixes and security patches. It usually goes 30-35 days between browser restarts.

xterm and mrxvt for terminals, with screen(1) for remote permanence.

xpdf for reading books and papers.

Most every other task gets handled by perl one-liners or perl scripts, some of which are here -- http://ciar.org/ttk/codecloset/ -- of these, calc dy sel mssh are every-day tools for me.

I've usually run KDE, which is good, but I installed awesome on my laptop and will probably convert my desktop over too when I upgrade to 14.2. With that I add xscreensaver, xbindkeys (for running various dmenu scripts and controlling xscreensaver), redshift-gtk, and unclutter (to hide the mouse pointer when it hasn't been moved), and that's about all I need. SpaceFM for graphical file management. Firefox still seems to be the only serious web browsing option with its addon system (e.g. KeySnail with HoK plugin is excellent, follow links with the keyboard, vimperator style but actually better).

On the terminal urxvt with zsh (using my own config, which is just grml-zsh + some extra plugins and config, but it fixed a lot of weird term/keys/tmux/emacs problems that I was having). Emacs in daemon mode (with AUCTeX, ESS, polymode, Helm, helm-bibtex, projectile, ace-jump-mode, yasnippet, lots of good things). $EDITOR as "emacs -nw -Q" for quick term stuff. Tmux when going over SSH. Unfortunately still Thunderbird for email, I've looked at mu/mu4e, notmuch emacs, and mutt, but still getting around to all that.

Recoll is great for searching through a repository of documents (like PDFs). PDF viewing, usually zathura, although okular is good too. Libreoffice when necessary. VirtualBox and Win7 if MS Office and friends are totally unavoidable ;)

Forgot to add, Task Warrior for task management/tracking, and Pass for password management (using zsh completion and the nice dmenu script), which is really just an interface to freeform GPG-encrypted text files.

JWM (or fluxbox)
nano, vim (writing code)
mutt or thunderbird (if I can't figure out mutt)
xterm, roxterm (for a tabbed terminal)
htop, xpdf, leafpad
links, firefox, wpa_supplicant

Window managers: Enlightenment or Fluxbox
Browser: Vivaldi
E-mail: Alpine or Thunderbird
Editors: Vim and Cutter
Terminal emulators: Terminology or rxvt-unicode
Word processor: FocusWriter

Xfce ftw!

KDE *without* any animations or fancy-shmancy things going on, claws mail, medit, and krusader for file manager. I'd use Palemoon, but it won't work on 14.2 for unknown reasons, so I had to fall back to Seamonkey (which I prefer over Firefox, though Konqueror would be the next one I'd use over Firefox also). If I need something a lot more powerful than medit, I use Apache Open Office.

Xfce, but I use a hodgepodge of tools from Xfce, KDE, Gnome, etc.

Since the title changed to "set of tools"... I have a few additions:

I also use vim, Zim wiki, and KVM/Qemu with virt-manager.