I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.
Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon
I’m using Cinnamon
Just i3, very simple. I am considering testing wayland (sway probably) sometime soon, but i’m not too knowledgeable in case something goes awry and my laptop has a discreet nvidia so RIP.
I have tried tiling WM’s but they are not for me. KDE Plasma offers the right balance of customisability, look consistency and features to always come back on top again. It’s been my go-to desktop environment since KDE3.
I recently switched to hyprland and I love. I used plasma before but wanted to touch base with a tiling wm.
Sorry for the spam. These are my first activities with Lemmy, guess I should click less and be more patient
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I use a window manager, Openbox. It’s great once you have your personal config file and shortcuts! Also, I can’t be sure but I think @[email protected] recently switched to Hyperland lol
Lol read this comment first then understood the last sentence after a short stroll. Take my up vote!
I’m surprised you mentioning that after I only sent that twenty times :-D
I use Cinnamon which is quite a niche I think, but I really like the minimalistic design. My main requirement for a DE is for it to not get into my way.
Sway. I look around every few months but nothing usually, um, erm pendulates my interest. I have hyprland installed…but my config file breaks with every update, and it’s rice first, function later. I’m an opposite-ricer. I like to strip all decorations.
I just started using sway as well! Care to share any tips, tricks, or your favorite config snippets?
Just keep the config file(s) handy and always be playing with them. Join IRC #sway@Libera. Oh…and you can use the majority of the i3wm docs outside of anything doing with output or input. While I love man pages…I prefer web content for my docs.
XFCE with the WM replaced with Openbox. Ask me about my Openbox keyboard bindings for window moving and resizing :)
I kind of want to try KDE again, but I still feel it’s too laggy, at least on my machine with intel graphics.
I am asking about your Openbox bindings
Win+ijkl moves the window to the next edge with the “MoveToEdge” function, snapping it around the screen.
Win+Shift+ijkl grows the window from any edge.
Win+Ctrl+ijkl shrinks the window from any edge.
Win+Cursor switches desktops, Win+Ctrl+Cursor sends window to other desktops.
It seems intuitive to me because ijkl is used for actions within the desktop, cursor keys (reaching farther) are for between desktops.
Makes sense to me too. That’s pretty nifty
I just jumped up on the Hyprland band wagon (4 weeks ago). Very pleased with it so far!
I’ve switched to LXQt recently. I like KDE and use mostly Qt apps, but KDE itself has too many features I don’t really need. So far so good, I can’t say I miss anything.
Gnome. It just seems simple, elegant and smooth. It does what I need from a DE (not that much, I do a lot in terminal and Emacs). It has good keybindings out of the box and good virtual desktop mechanisms. It was also the first DE with good Wayland support. At first I was unsure if I liked Gnome’s concept and restrictions, but I’ve grown to like it fast.
I use windowmaker and plasma. I also dabble in icewm
Haven’t heard of windowmaker before
I am a die hard Cinnamon guy. I used to like MATE and then I played with Linux Mint for a short while and Cinnamon became my thing. Cinnamon works really well in Arch too. I just wish that its window manager, Muffin, would support Wayland. I really want to drop xorg like a bad habit.
KDE, for kwin’s superior window management tools.
Kwin is pretty cool
herbstluftwm - I remember there were reasons why I chose it, but I don’t remember them xD
