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What desktop/window manager do you use?

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What desktop environment/window manager do you use?

GNOME 2
86
28%
GNOME 3
20
6%
KDE
41
13%
Unity
0
No votes
XFCE
85
27%
LXDE
7
2%
Enlightenment
3
1%
Openbox
27
9%
Another window manager/desktop not listed
41
13%
 
Total votes: 310

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MoaTib
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#81 Post by MoaTib »

Xfce, nothing else. :wink:
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itchyballs
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#82 Post by itchyballs »

GNOME 2 and then GNOME 3!

What's the big deal with xfce, windows 95 clone? And thunar is such a piece of crap i can do more with windows 95 file manager.

KDE sucks so bad. Dolphin is such a piece of crap, cant mount? fail authentication blah blah. its like an unusuable nautilus. Who needs all these stupid plasmoids widgets?

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#83 Post by dmhdlr »

itchyballs wrote:GNOME 2 and then GNOME 3!

What's the big deal with xfce, windows 95 clone? And thunar is such a piece of crap i can do more with windows 95 file manager.

KDE sucks so bad. Dolphin is such a piece of crap, cant mount? fail authentication blah blah. its like an unusuable nautilus. Who needs all these stupid plasmoids widgets?
Is that you rainbowpops?

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#84 Post by itchyballs »

Whos that, your fun time man? Ill take human over sleekest machine on earth for fun times any day homey!

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jezzivi
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#85 Post by jezzivi »

KDE on desktop, XFCE on netbook.

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walkerinthewoods
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#86 Post by walkerinthewoods »

FLUXBOX
Debian Sid

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Abdu
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#87 Post by Abdu »

KDE. I also think it should be default for new installs, as the most user friendly environment for those who switch from Windows.

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#88 Post by Tadeas »

Abdu wrote:KDE. I also think it should be default for new installs, as the most user friendly environment for those who switch from Windows.
++, though we still should wait until it gets a little less buggy. For example now Plasma often "freezes" so I cannot click anything, although the mouse moves and works properly inside programs, it doesn't highlight any items on the panel and I cannot click close buttons etc.

So for the time being I use Gnome 3 and I quite like it - there's only one annoyance (but really big) and that's alt+tab behavior which shows windows from all desktops and thus making the whole virtual desktops concept pretty useless.
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#89 Post by secipolla »

We should be able to choose more than one option.
I'm using GNOME 3 now, but I've been using LXDE, IceWM, Xfce and Openbox (from the most to the least used).

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Llewton
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#90 Post by Llewton »

this pool should've had a *box and tiler options, at least, or listed the most relevant from the two categories. what, there's "unity", but not fluxbox or awesome wm? nice. i guess linuxers running debian are more likely to choose "unity" than either fluxbox or awesome, eh.

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dust hill resident
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#91 Post by dust hill resident »

Llewton wrote:this pool should've had a *box and tiler options, at least, or listed the most relevant from the two categories. what, there's "unity", but not fluxbox or awesome wm? nice. i guess i have a small rod, eh.
I would change the options, but I dunno. It's not all that important, only 20 people voted the 'other' option.

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#92 Post by Llewton »

^obviously i can't even spell so what do i know.
yeah, just 20 out of what 60 total, that's negligible :)

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#93 Post by Mr James »

We can come up with a damn near perfect OS and repo of applications using FOSS all while fighting the software patant system and mega corporations and yet can't come up with a single decent method of taking a poll. Face-palm.

The board should implement a way to let people add new entries.
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#94 Post by rent0n »

Mr James wrote:We can come up with a damn near perfect OS and repo of applications using FOSS all while fighting the software patant system and mega corporations and yet can't come up with a single decent method of taking a poll. Face-palm.

The board should implement a way to let people add new entries.
Adding new options if possible, with the little disadvantage that votes are zeroed.
The "Arch Forums way" is quite effective in the end, imho. :D

EDIT: I voted for Xfce, btw.
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#95 Post by Llewton »

arch forums are good - arch wiki is good - it's just the distro that sucks :D

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#96 Post by ivanovnegro »

Also an Xfce user here.
Its interesting as here the second DE is Xfce and not KDE as it use to be often.
In addition the smaller/lighter DEs/WM seem to be quiet popular under Debian.

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#97 Post by MekkaGodzilla »

I just switched from GNOME 2 to KDE 4.6 in Wheezy, I was just fed up with a compiz bug with Iceweasel 4 menus disappearing.
So far so good.
I might give GNOME 3 a serious try when it lands in Wheezy.

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#98 Post by Ibidem »

jheaton5 wrote:Icewm
+1
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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#99 Post by vrkalak »

I have been using the antiX M11 (Debian-based) with Fluxbox for about 6 weeks, now. :D

Fluxbox is a very well documented and supported Window Manager.
I have learned a lot about Fluxbox and how it works.
Fluxbox has replaced Xfce as my primary desktop. :P

I have found Fluxbox to be easier to use and configure than Openbox, with many additional features.

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Re: What desktop/window manager do you use?

#100 Post by dmhdlr »

Llewton wrote:arch forums are good - arch wiki is good - it's just the distro that sucks :D
Eh the wiki is vastly overrated. A few good pages are fine resources. The rest isn't exactly better than what you'd find at Ubuntu.
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