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What windows manager do you use?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Glider, 19 Feb 2007.

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What window manager do you use?

  1. Gnome

    25.0%
  2. KDE

    17.9%
  3. XFCE

    17.9%
  4. Flux/Blackbox

    32.1%
  5. CLI

    7.1%
  1. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    Well, since Linux is all about choice, I was wondering, what WM do all the Linuxians over here use?

    * Gnome
    * KDE
    * XFCE
    * Flux/Blackbox
    * Windows? a mouse? I use CLI!

    I use Fluxbox, small, powerfull, core, customizable... Exactly what I like...
     
  2. hobbs

    hobbs What's a Dremel?

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    beryl
     
  3. MixWizard

    MixWizard Minimodder

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    Gnome atm
     
  4. Zidane

    Zidane What's a Dremel?

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    i use kde (for my works machine, an ancient thing that sits there, all lonely, gathering dust). flux and cli for my lappy and home machines. although i do use flux, about 99% of the time i actually do my work on the cli, i just like to have a pretty desktop piccie to look at (and because its my personal laptop, the boss cant complain about it having bewbies on it. >:) )
     
  5. AJB2K3

    AJB2K3 What's a Dremel?

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    XFCE, i prefere the speed advances over gnome or kde.
     
  6. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    When I have my machine on, it's fluxbox.
     
  7. Philipp

    Philipp What's a Dremel?

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    I use Fluxbox, but only to get as much xterms on the screen as possible :p Most of the time I use the command line interface. Therefore I voted for CLI :D

    On other machines of mine I don't even have X installed ;) But those machines have mostly unsupported hardware...
     
  8. DMAthlon

    DMAthlon What's a Dremel?

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    GNOME is plenty customizable for me.
     
  9. shotgunefx

    shotgunefx What's a Dremel?

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    Recently gnome, but was using KDE. I've warmed up a bit to gnome, but still think I like KDE better.

    One thing driving me batty with Gnome is trying to figure out how to get rid of window borders. Not on all applications, just one.

    With KDE, this was trivial, just right click and hit the appearence menu. :\
     
  10. trigger

    trigger Procrastinator

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    I've tried most of them in my time with Linux, but after trying fluxbox, I've not turned back (although I was once tempted away for a week by Enlightenment...). It's just so fast and configurable - just perhaps a little scary at first :)
     
  11. simon w

    simon w What's a Dremel?

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    Xfce, Fluxbox on the older machine where resources are precious.

    Is there a "Always on top" options for windows in Fluxbox?

    Edit: What desktop managers do people use?
     
  12. BjD

    BjD What's a Dremel?

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    XFCE with beryl as the window manager. Was a big fan of fluxbox (still use it on my laptop) but was swayed by the XGL eye-candy.
     
  13. Woodstock

    Woodstock So Say We All

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    ive been running Linux for everything but gaming for about a month now, and have got hooked on fluxbox - tried kde, gnome, xfce (was nice but full of real weird problems - when i login now it wont even load the menus - but i dont care)
     
  14. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    CLI for me atm. Nothing better or faster. Previously used Gnome.
     
  15. ajack

    ajack rox

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    Using Gnome on my desktop and XFCE on my lappy, might hook my lappy up with Beryl soon to see what all the fuss is about :)
     
  16. ozstrike

    ozstrike yip yip yip yip

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    Using flux on my laptop right now, even XFCE seems sluggish on it.
    Whenever I have a linux install on my main PC (haven't since I formatted) I have either fluxbox or Gnome.
     
  17. macdude425

    macdude425 What's a Dremel?

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    KDE. GNOME reminds me too much of Fedora, a part of my Linux-using background I'd like to forget...
     
  18. ZenX

    ZenX How are you gentlemen?

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    I use OpenBox :) Shame it isn't on the list, maybe you should put another option there called something like "Other, what?"
     
  19. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    Right click on the titlebar => Layer => Above Dock

    Maybe I should, but it seems that I can't alter the poll :sigh:
     
  20. woodshop

    woodshop UnSeenly

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    Window Maker
     

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