What Window Manager/DE do you use?

What graphical enviroment do you use?

  • twm

    Votes: 7 6.5%

  • CDE

    Votes: 5 4.7%

  • XFCE

    Votes: 31 29.0%

  • KDE

    Votes: 15 14.0%

  • GNOME

    Votes: 10 9.3%

  • MATE

    Votes: 6 5.6%

  • Cinnamon

    Votes: 4 3.7%

  • LXQT

    Votes: 3 2.8%

  • Other

    Votes: 54 50.5%
  • Total voters
    107
RetroComputingCollector said:
Oops. Forgot to add an "Other" option. Would you reccomend awesome? I am looking at trying out something new.
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There are a bunch of others. Maybe fvwm2 and fvwm3? I'm not sure how many people use MWM or EMWM. I use MWM on occasion when I simply want a scaled down WM to do something quick before shutting down the laptop to run somewhere, like catch a plane.

The windowing environments you have listed are all stacking window managers. There are a lot of people who use tiling window managers, like i3. If you google tiling window manager vs stacking window manager you will read a lot of heated discussion about which is better. From what I gather the younger crowd like tiling window managers while older people stick with stacking, because this is what we had back in the 90's and 00's. And Windows is stacking as well.

Maybe tiling vs stacking may be a better discussion to start. It will certainly become a grab the popcorn kind of discussion.
 
cy@ said:
There are a bunch of others. Maybe fvwm2 and fvwm3? I'm not sure how many people use MWM or EMWM. I use MWM on occasion when I simply want a scaled down WM to do something quick before shutting down the laptop to run somewhere, like catch a plane.

The windowing environments you have listed are all stacking window managers. There are a lot of people who use tiling window managers, like i3. If you google tiling window manager vs stacking window manager you will read a lot of heated discussion about which is better. From what I gather the younger crowd like tiling window managers while older people stick with stacking, because this is what we had back in the 90's and 00's. And Windows is stacking as well.

Maybe tiling vs stacking may be a better discussion to start. It will certainly become a grab the popcorn kind of discussion.
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These are just the ones mentioned in the handbook + the ones I use (CDE, twm). I use stacking WMs exclusively, because my personal style of use of my DE requires overlapping windows. I don't know what tiling WMs are available for FBSD, simply for the reason I stated. That's what "Other" is for!
 
XFCE for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD (my main system). I use Cinnamon for Linux Mint, but I did try KDE years ago and thought it was the best, until I discovered something about it that I did not like.
 
fvwm2

Will test soon if I switch to a tiling WM, e.g. herbstluftwm, i3, or spectrwm

By principle I'm a tiling WM guy. I don't see no sense in having windows usings parts of the screen, only, showing cutouts from what you're working on, while large parts of the screen are unused, showing a wallpaper only.
If I can resize and reorganize windows with keybindings instead pushing mouse-miles, I can spare those windows decorations as well, too, which in my eyes are additional wasted space.
But since I got never used to one (Amiga, Windows, Solaris - all stacking WMs) this not only needs some config and learning effort, but retrain my habits. And at the moment I'm still too lazy to do this, even while I'm pissed everytime I start a program and always have to click it for fullscreen usage first.

Once I read there actually is a standardization that forbids apps to be started in fullscreen mode by default. This one who decided this in my eyes shall receive 36 lashes on his hands, and shall not allowed to come closer to any computer as 20 meters for the next 50 years.
 
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