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Really COOL, thanks for the share Head_on.

The only non-Debian Linux install I have nowadays is my router - which is powered by IPFire.

Not really a desktop per se, but it's the desktop I use if I do anything with it.

Linux Lite 5.x with MS Edge browser.

https://www.dbts-analytics.com/ll5emeralddsktp.html

TC

This is my current desktop, planning to improve it soon. I'm just a tad greyish/dark, it's easy on me eyes.

GNOME 40. I like it. It's good.

It look's good!

How does it perform? I suspect I will die soon. But I suspect I will look better than gnome 4 when dead Looking good but having crap performance is crap. I want good looks like Sean Connery and performance like Ron Jeremy ( I realise I'm showing my age here But the point is still valid).

BTW. I'm using icewm, notion4, and TWM IMHO all better than Gnome or KDE..... I see a wayland thread emerging

oswaldkelso wrote:How does it perform?

It's fast & smooth on my hardware but I play CS:GO on that so it is pretty beefy. My 10-year-old ThinkPad X201 runs (old) GNOME just fine though.

oswaldkelso wrote:I'm using icewm, notion4, and TWM

Are you not bothered by the codebase for X going into maintenance mode? GTK2 is now EOL as well. Bitrot much?

Have you tried sway? It's just as light as i3, if not more so because the DRM stuff is handled natively under Wayland.

Here's my Alpine Linux box running sway:

oswaldkelso wrote:I see a wayland thread emerging

Please do, that might be interesting.

After i bought a new desktop, the first distro in the spotlight Fedora.

Two different Dell Optiplex
2007 / 2020

Devuan 5

Fedora 35


Background & Photo gallery, Thanks to Joe Motohashi.

2009 era MacBook (Debian 11)

Refurbished Lenovo T400 (Debian 11)

HP TouchSmart 310 all in one (Debian 12 test mule)

HP Pavillion 1150z (Debian 11 daily driver)

VM (Debian 12 testing)

FreeNix Laptop. notion4, mc htop all with treaked themes. Seamonkey running searx from my Freedombox

Slackware Desktop. Base setup for both machines. mc and htop


Notion is the only WM I don't really need to change much from the default settings. Because I use mc and htop I switch F2 to F11 in notion to avoid clobbering the keybinds in MC & htop that use the first 10 Fkeys by default. F2 on notion is xterm but I use super+enter anyway. As I'm a mouse lover the only keys I use regularly in notion is super+v super+h super+. super+space super+tab super+i super+shift+i F12 and escape. When I think of the days and days and hundreds of lines of editing I spent getting the same result in openbox I could cry. Thank goodness they changed the license.

Been playing around with shod a mouse driven tabbed wm.

It's based on ideas from notion (my daily driver) plan 9 and others and very unixy. Very easy to build and use. Beta or better quality atm but most definitely usable now. Light weight (1MB in ps_mem). I have it running with fittstool and wmbubble and that's enough once setup. i.e. workspace switching with mouse wheel, killing session etc..

I also have xclickroot, xmenu and pmenu from the same developer just to check them out.

https://github.com/phillbush/shod

clean

pmenu (pi-menu)

dirty nested/tabbed terminals

dirty nested/tabbed guis

typos:

oswaldkelso wrote: ↑2022-01-25 17:38 Been playing around with shod a mouse driven tabbed wm.

It's based on ideas from notion (my daily driver) plan 9 and others and very unixy. Very easy to build and use. Beta or better quality atm but most definitely usable now. Light weight (1MB in ps_mem). I have it running with fittstool and wmbubble and that's enough once setup. i.e. workspace switching with mouse wheel, killing session etc..

Hey, shod developer here, I'm glad you're using and liking it!

I'm working on it continuously and every now and then I add something (and remove another).
The last additions were X resources to order the dockapps on the dock (until now they were mapped on the order they spawned) and Xft font for the title bar text (and some bugfixes). I also renamed the X resources, some of them have a different name now.
If you have any feature request or bug report, please contact me via email or open an issue on github, so I can keep the project living.
I have bound shodc commands to keybindings in order to control shod with the keyboard. shodc is shod's remote controller.
Some operations cannot be done with shodc however, and must be done with the mouse (like tabbing and tiling). I'm thinking in ways I can make shodc perform those actions.

Here's my OpenBSD desktop from some days ago (Xft fonts had not been implemented yet).
The screenshot features my newest project: paginator, a desktop pager that can be docked into the dock.

FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p8
Thinkpad W520
Intel Quad Core i7-2760QM @ 2.40GHz
8 GB RAM PC3-10600
Hitachi Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
Nvidia Quadro 1000M
15.6" TFT display with 1920x1080 (FHD) resolution with LED backlight
Enhanced DVD Burner II
Intel HD Audio

Kali GNU/Linux Rolling x86_64
kali-rolling 2022.1
Thinkpad T61
Intel Core 2 Duo T7700 @ 2.40GHz
4GB PC2-5300 RAM
Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 GPU
100GB Lenovo HDD @ 7200RPM
Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo II Drive
TFT 14.1" 1440x900 (WXGA+) widescreen
Intel HD Audio

Kali 2022.1
5.16.0-kali6-686-pae
IBM Thinkpad T43
Intel Pentium M processor (Dothan) @ 2.00GHz
2GB PC2-4200 RAM
Hitachi GST Travelstar 7K100 100GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
RV370/M22 ATI Mobility Radeon X300
15.0" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4242N 0J05
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG

This is the IBM Thinkpad I'm using now. St. Vincent is shown in the video on the desktop.
Kali, Goddess of Death, adorns al my other Kali desktops but this is my treasured IBM with correct wallpaper

FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p10
Lenovo Thinkpad T400
Intel Core2 Duo P8600 @ 2.4GHz
8GB PC3-8500 RAM
Hitachi Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200RPM
Switchable Graphics with Intel GMA 4500MHD and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
14.1" 1280x800 (WXGA) with LED backlight
Intel HD Audio
CD-RW/DVD
Intel Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) PCI-Express

Switched from the default Kali Linux Xfce DE to Fluxbox WM like I run on my FreeBSD boxen for a noticeable improvement in performance.
Kali GNU/Linux Rolling 2022.1
Fluxbox WM
Gateway NV53A
AMD Phenom II x 3 N830 Triple Core @ 2.1GHz
ATI Mobilty Radeon HD 4250
4GB DDR3 RAM
Hitachi Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
Matshita DVD-RAM Super Multi drive
15.6" 16:9 HD LED LCD
Realtek ALC272 Audio

Kali GNU/Linux Rolling 2022.1
Fluxbox WM
IBM Thinkpad T43 (with correct wallpaper)
Intel Pentium M processor (Dothan) @ 2.00GHz
2GB PC2-4200 RAM
Hitachi GST Travelstar 7K100 100GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
RV370/M22 ATI Mobility Radeon X300
15.0" TFT display with 1024x768 resolution
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4242N 0J05
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG

reeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p11
Thinkpad W520
Intel Quad Core 2nd Gen i7-2760QM @ 2.40GHz
8 GB RAM PC3-10600
Hitachi Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
Nvidia Quadro 1000M
15.6" TFT display with 1920x1080 (FHD) resolution with LED backlight

FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p11
Lenovo Thinkpad W520
Intel Quad Core 1st Gen i7-2760QM @ 2.40GHz
8 GB RAM PC3-10600
Hitachi Travelstar 500GB HDD @ 7200 RPM
NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 2GB DDR3, 96 CUDA cores,and Optimus
15.6" TFT display with 1920x1080 (FHD) resolution with LED backlight
Intel HD Audio with a CX20585 codec
Serial UltraBay Enhanced DVD Burner II
Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
Microsoft Optical Trackball USB mouse
170W AC adapter

Grimes as Princess Kali-GNU gracing my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 General Purpose Desktop running Kali 2022.2 while using Fluxbox as a WM, urxvt as a terminal emulator, Xfe as a File Manager, gKrellm for meters, Audacious for Her listening pleasure and Gimp for the shot.