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
I use lxqt, openbox, kde on my systems. There may be a mate or cinnamon on one or two of them though. I don't remember. My kids really like kde.

Edit: I have moved my icewm systems to lxqt but I also used to run icewm. I still install icewm on my systems in case I break another de. Icewm is a solid de.
 
@ nxjoseph I also use x11-wm/dwm mostly on my main workstation with a large 32" monitor. I also sometimes use openbox, and on occasion, fluxbox.
I occasionally use dwl and labwc to be sure I can use Wayland if I have to. For whatever reason when I hook my laptop to the TV, using dwm or openbox gives me a very choppy picture and I get a much better one with dwl.
 
scottro said:
@ nxjoseph I also use x11-wm/dwm mostly on my main workstation with a large 32" monitor. I also sometimes use openbox, and on occasion, fluxbox.
I occasionally use dwl and labwc to be sure I can use Wayland if I have to. For whatever reason when I hook my laptop to the TV, using dwm or openbox gives me a very choppy picture and I get a much better one with dwl.
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I can recommend picom for use with openbox. It's a small compositor.

FreshPorts -- x11-wm/picom: Lightweight X11 compositor

Picom (formerly a Compton fork) is a standalone compositor for X11 for window managers without built-in compositing. Features: - Rendering with optional VSync via OpenGL or XRender - Transparent windows, menus, titlebars, borders - Shadows and colored shadows - Fading effects - Bluring of...
www.freshports.org www.freshports.org
 
If I'm in single user mode system system maintenance then I fire up trusty ole twm. I was an FVWM guy for a long time but a couple of years ago I updated to openbox with a tint2 taskbar and for the most part is suites me. I am not overly happy that it is difficult to propogate my shell environment into openbox since I use bash and openbox defaults to one of the other variants.
 
nobody said:
Mate or IceWM are my favorites. Also KDE 3 was good, and I do not know if Trinity desktop is available for FreeBSD? Trinity is fork from KDE3.

Edit: Trinity is available for FreeBSD also.
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/FreeBSD_Trinity_Installation_Instructions
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You can compile trinity.There is no pkg available or ports available. You would build from source from the project homepage. I would love to run trinity. But my last attempt to compile failed.

FreeBSD Trinity Installation Instructions - Trinity Desktop Project Wiki

wiki.trinitydesktop.org wiki.trinitydesktop.org
 
trev said:
twm since FBSD 2.0.5 and Mark Williams Coherent before that.
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I remember Mark Williams Coherent.

Do you remember its kernel config procedure. It was exactly the same as NCR AT&T SYSVR4 which was kind of neat. People who used Coherent could use it to gain experience with AT&T SYSVR4 without blowing up a mission critical system on the raised floor.
 
Q: are any of these file managers console based?

Years ago, IBM internals had a DOS based file manager that was superb.
It was console based so no need of a GUI environment.

I don't know if this is possible in FBSD environment, but I can't think of why not.
 
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