What DE/WM does everyone use?

[Grifulkin]

What DE/WM does everyone use?

Also I use Arch+Openbox on my desktop, almost have it set up exactly how I want it, and I use Arch+LXDE on my Netbook. And I use way less memory on my Netbook then I do my Desktop, oddly.

[earthpigg]

I use way less memory on my Netbook then I do my Desktop, oddly.

it's almost as if your operating system is aware of how much memory the computer has and makes adjustments accordingly! :D

voted for lxde.

arch+lxde on primary desktop.
Masonux 9.04 on rest, which uses lxde.

[Grifulkin]

it's almost as if your operating system is aware of how much memory the computer has and makes adjustments accordingly! :D


Actually now that I think of it, I think it is around the same ratio of memory usage compared to total memory.

EDIT: Yup, right around 5% disk usage in each.

[23dornot23d]

I use ......... Elives Desktop ....... ( Enlightenment E17 ) ........

Not sure if the Windows Manager has a seperate name ..........

[XubuRoxMySox]

Debian/LXDE on my primary "mission-critical" 'puter, Xubuntu on my "mission-exploration" 'puter, and Crunchbang (Openbox window manager) on my "mission-portable" laptop. I use three of the choices, so I dunno how to vote... I'm on the Xubuntu machine at the moment so I just voted Xfce. But LXDE and Openbox apply too.

-Robin

[gnuvistawouldbecool]

Voted for Openbox, KDE and GNOME. Those are currently used in Crunchbang, Mandriva 2010 and Mandriva 2009.1 (in that order).

I have a tendency to use KDE with Openbox as WM a lot of the time though.

[Tibuda]

Openbox or Compiz.

[Grenage]

KDE at work, Gnome at home. I like to stay handy with the two 'top dogs'.

[KenJackson]

Gosh, OpenBox has as many votes as XFCE and I haven't even tried it! I'll have to.

I've been using IceWM for years and find it to be very practical and lightweight. I rely heavily on menus but I find desktop icons to be both unhelpful and messy looking. IceWM is excellent for both of those reasons.

[Bachstelze]

KDE all the way since 1999.

[dragos240]

Gnome.

[Grifulkin]

Bump trying to get more people to vote and post.

[chucky chuckaluck]

i pretty much always come back to openbox. i get bored with it and try other things, but when the novelty wears off, i'm back.

[kk0sse54]

FreeBSD awesome-wm
Arch Xmonad

Occasionally I'll use KDE4 on Arch and Xfce on FreeBSD

[Exodist]

I like threads like this.. They remind me that if Gnome3.0 goes to crud, I have plenty of other options.

[RiceMonster]

Fedora: GNOME
Arch: KDE 4.3

I used to use Openbox and play around with all kinds of lightweight wms, but later I finally stopped caring about how much ram I'm using and started using desktop environments. I'm a big fan of Xfce as well, but I sort of got bored of it after using it for a year.

[ve4cib]

Depending on which computer/VM I'm using, and what mood I'm in I'll use Gnome, LXDE, Fluxbox, or JWM. Gnome is my far my most-commonly-used DE, followed by Fluxbox. LXDE and JWM I don't use often aside from a couple of low-memory VMs on an over-worked server.

[tacantara]

I've switched between KDE and GNOME, but I prefer GNOME as it is just a better user experience for me. To dress it up a bit, I ditch the Human theme and go for a Win Vista/7 look using Emerald, and I top it all off with Cairo Dock.

[coldReactive]

I use GNOME and Metacity.

Will be using XFCE in the future thanks to GNOME Shell.

[Xbehave]

from popcon (http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_inst)
desktop
ubuntu-desktop...........................969901 [82%]
kubuntu-desktop(KDE3 +267).....150768 [12%]
xubuntu-desktop...........................60556 [5.1%]
lubuntu-desktop..................................50 [0.0042%]

window manager
metacity........................1162025 [78%]
kwin................................152737 [10%]
xfwm4.............................105801 [7.1%]
openbox...........................21803 [1.5%]
fluxbox..............................19905 [1.3%]
icewm.................................7722 [0.52%]
fvwm...................................4756 [0.32%]
lxde.....................................4528 [0.31%]
jwm.....................................1468 [0.099%]

It seams that gnome users are less social or a lot of people have gnome installed but don't use it (the usage data is meaningless for most of them). The poll results here are going to be biased by people only voting if they care (and people who care are more likely to have changed form the default than those that don't), However it seams to break down as
GNOME 16 : KDE 2 : xfce 1

[tjwoosta]

I voted fluxbox because thats what I usually use, but I also use awesome.

[Grifulkin]

I will bump again.

[hoppipolla]

K!

And I'm quite happy here for the foreseeable future :)

In the past I have been on Gnome and Flux as well as a ton of short bursts in ones like e, XFCE, Openbox, awesome, and others!

For me though, I love the combined maximalism and refinement of KDE, and the ambition of the developers :)

[jollysnowman]

xfce + openbox!

[Tux Aubrey]

e17 almost always (but sometimes fluxbox for a change). I love my desktop menus.

[Grifulkin]

Alot of people have picked e17 I should have included that instead of FVWM. Oh well, personally I don't remember my first post but I use Arch+Openbox+Pypanel on my desktop. I think it looks very nice, the only problem I have had so far, I spent a few hours getting it to mount things the way I wanted and making Pypanel look right. Also I am all for the lightweight WM and then your regular programs. I run Firefox3.5 and Pidgin and others on top of Openbox I have a bunch of RAM but for somereason I don't like to be bogged down by a DE.

But my last problem that I wanted to fix the other day is how to make the picture you set as your wallpaper stay everytime you boot. I google and google but I am sure I will eventually figure it out, I feel way more accomplished and proud of my set up this way. Not just oh here is a DE and a theme. Ya know?

[antenna]

dwm, fast and simple.

[renkinjutsu]

We need more Pekwm users... i'm sick of being lonely :-x!

[lisati]

I normally use Gnome.

As I type, I'm attempting a CLI install of 9.10 on my old desktop using the minimal CD, the jury is still out on which DE/WMM I'll use on it (if any), it will depend in part on how the installation goes. (whoops odd disk identifier for the "format disks" dialogue, clicked on "continue" in haste. Might need to restart, will post elsewhere if I feel so inclined)

[chucky chuckaluck]

But my last problem that I wanted to fix the other day is how to make the picture you set as your wallpaper stay everytime you boot. I google and google but I am sure I will eventually figure it out, I feel way more accomplished and proud of my set up this way. Not just oh here is a DE and a theme. Ya know?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox look for the "wallpaper" section. it'll give you several options. hm, i wonder if you can be done via .bashrc, as well.

edit: it does work by putting it in .bashrc, though it flickers at first (no idea why. i just sort of guessed at it).

[sujoy]

where are the tilers!

xmonad and stumpwm user here :)

[lightningfox]

KDE 4.3 on Ubuntu 9.10.

[fromthehill]

ubuntu 9.10 with gnome

don't like the way kde looks
too much eyecandy for my taste

[jwbrase]

Gnome on this machine.

Experimented with quite a few on our desktop back home, but generally used Gnome until I upgraded that machine to Jaunty, at which point Gnome became unusable and I was forced to LXDE. I'm not sure if that machine counts, though, since there's now an ocean between me and it.

[t.rei]

KDE + Compiz.

Kwin is not configurable enough yet, for instance compiz has at lease basic "place window" functionality.

Too sad, kwin doesn't provide the option to remember window positions+sizes anymore. I'd switch in an instant.

[XubuRoxMySox]

Experimenting with KDE. I always thought it's beauty and way-cool apps was a trade-off; that speed would be hugely sacrificed if I used it. That was true in Jaunty with kubuntu-desktop installed.

It's not true in the latest release of Mepis (https://www.mepis.org/), though. Very surprising! It's delightfully fast even on my old dawg.

-Robin

[Tibuda]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox look for the "wallpaper" section. it'll give you several options. hm, i wonder if you can be done via .bashrc, as well.

edit: it does work by putting it in .bashrc, though it flickers at first (no idea why. i just sort of guessed at it).

wouldn't be better to put it on ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh?

[Grifulkin]

Bump

[tjwoosta]

KDE + Compiz.

Kwin is not configurable enough yet, for instance compiz has at lease basic "place window" functionality.

Too sad, kwin doesn't provide the option to remember window positions+sizes anymore. I'd switch in an instant.

I also like to control individual window placement. I asked a kde user about it while ago and he said it is possible then posted this image as proof. Is this what you are looking for?

http://a.imagehost.org/view/0005/snapshot3


wouldn't be better to put it on ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh?

Im not an openbox user but I think it probably would. I use fluxbox and the best way to do wallpaper in fluxbox is to put it in the ~/.fluxbox/startup file. If you use .xinitrc it executes regardless of which wm you start where if you put it in the WM's autostart file you can easily switch WM's with gdm or slim or whatever session manager and each can have a different wallpaper. Other then that I don't think it makes much difference. I wouldn't use .bashrc though.

[zagz]

I been on Gnome since the year dot, now with the upcoming Gnome3 I have slowly started runnign kde (live DVD) to become familiar as I don't like Gnome3, not one bit.

[RATM_Owns]

Openbox and Awesome.

I also used to use Xmonad and dwm.

[ZankerH]

Gnome on Ubuntu and Fedora, awesome on Debian and Arch.

[Grifulkin]

Gnome on Ubuntu and Fedora, awesome on Debian and Arch.

I have never even heard of Awesome.

[tjwoosta]

Awesome is awesome! I used to use it, and I still love it, but too often other people need to use my laptop and cant grasp how to use it so I switched back to fluxbox. Its a tiling wm like dwm, xmonad, wmii, stumpwm, ratpoison, and ion. There are probably others that I just can't think of right now.

http://awesome.naquadah.org/

[crimesaucer]

Xmonad in xfce4: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_XFCE

[Greg]

Xmonad- also still play around in StumpWM on occassion.

[Tux Aubrey]

where are the tilers!



Poland mostly, I think. Although our last one was a German for a change ;-)

[K.Mandla]

screen-vs.

[wojox]

screen-vs.

More fun than a bag of cats?


Gnome/Metacity I'm a default kind of guy.

[rudihawk]

XFCE for me!

[Virtual Liberty]

Server - Awesome, Desktop - Openbox.

[guillelo11]

Kde!

[cookiecruncher]

I'm using KDE 4.3.2.
Effects? WM?... I don't know. How do I find out? In 'System Settings, desktop effects' I have 'enable desktop effects' checked, so what am I using? Everything, I would imagine, is default.

[cookiecruncher]

I'm using KDE 4.3.2.
Effects? WM?... I don't know. How do I find out? In 'System Settings, desktop effects' I have 'enable desktop effects' checked, so what am I using? Everything, I would imagine, is default.
Bump
Anyone?

PC specs:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)

*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHzGraphics driver :- 'nvidia-185'

[RiceMonster]

I'm using KDE 4.3.2.
Effects? WM?... I don't know. How do I find out? In 'System Settings, desktop effects' I have 'enable desktop effects' checked, so what am I using? Everything, I would imagine, is default.

If you're using KDE, it's KWin, unless you changed it, which I doubt you did. KWin manages the effects, too.

[hessiess]

Xmonad

[LookTJ]

Gnome

[Grifulkin]

I do enjoy how more people use Openbox than XFCE. Openbox seems to be one of the most popular WM's. That being said I didn't put any Tiling WM's in my poll. So I would assume they are up there, seeing as most of the 20 (others) posted saying some sort of Tiling WM. Just saying.

[jollysnowman]

Right now I'm also using Compiz as a standalone WM, but I'm still trying to configure everything, like compiz-deskmenu, action buttons, etc...

[denago]

FVWM all the way. The configurability of it is second to none.

[Tibuda]

Right now I'm also using Compiz as a standalone WM, but I'm still trying to configure everything, like compiz-deskmenu, action buttons, etc...

When I'm using Compiz standalone I use xfdesktop to display my wallpaper because it can display a right-click applications menu like Openbox. I think it is better than compiz-deskmenu, but that is only an opinion.

[kellemes]

XFCE with a little Compiz.. or xmonad.

[nothingspecial]

Main - ubuntu server + openbox
laptop ubuntu minimal + openbox
netbook ubuntu minimal + openbox
server ubuntu server + screen + dvtm

[Sahkolihaa]

Xfce - did use it with Compiz, but it kept causing the top and lower panels to swap or stick to one position (so both at top or both on the bottom) and would also cause some system-lock ups, so I just use the compositor in Xfwm4.

[jollysnowman]

When I'm using Compiz standalone I use xfdesktop to display my wallpaper because it can display a right-click applications menu like Openbox. I think it is better than compiz-deskmenu, but that is only an opinion.

Ah forgot about that one! Yeah, compiz-deskmenu is a little sketchy. I appreciate the guy's work, but I'm looking for something that works.

What did you use to logout/reboot/shutdown?

[Psumi]

I use xfce because of gnome-shell in the future.

[Grifulkin]

I use xfce because of gnome-shell in the future.

It has been so long since I really messed with Gnome, that I could care less what 3.0 looks like or the gnome-shell. I am sure people will like it and I'm sure there are others that won't. Prime example I love KDE 3.5 and don't think KDE 4 was better and still don't think that KDE 4.3 is better.

[purgatori]

Wmii.

[graabein]

Been using GNOME forever with some short stints of Openbox and Window Maker. Installed xmonad the other day and I like it a lot! :D

[stanca]

Gnome,Fluxbox and E17-Ecomorph.:P

[t.rei]

Back to gnome+compiz with a bit of mac-flair in aspects of layout and functionality of the ui (compozé, cairo-dock for starters and windowlist, ...)

But with all the goodies of a 'proper' desktop: virtual desktops, all the free software in the world,... \o/

KDE was great, but it's not done yet at a point where its usable for my everyday work. Like when I work on something as simple as a samba share and the saved file is empty without telling my any error or the popup of the network-management not hiding again... or those pesky folder-view-popup-things (sry, I hate popups)...
But I'm shure it'll get there, and I should probably start looking for something to use when gnome goes into experimental 'not done yet' state. ;)

[Techsnap]

KDE since 2001, always has been always will be.

[Rodney9]

Fluxbox for it's minimalist simplicity.

[Pogeymanz]

Ah forgot about that one! Yeah, compiz-deskmenu is a little sketchy. I appreciate the guy's work, but I'm looking for something that works.

What did you use to logout/reboot/shutdown?

I think using xfdesktop without XFCE is a little broken. Not to mention it uses a bunch more memory and you might as well run all of XFCE at that point. Try using myGTKMenu instead of compiz-deskmenu. It's a little nicer, but ideally I'd like to see Compiz have its own menu.

[infestor]

gnome...not because it is *awesome* but habits stick

[stanca]

Update:Now I'm using/trying Openbox too,alongside Gnome,E17-Ecomorph and Fluxbox.;)

[arele]

Fluxbox. Fast, simple and easy to use. Now I am going to try openbox and perhaps some tilling wm

[Post Monkeh]

to any of you people who are used to trying different de/wm, please take a look at my thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1412420) about my difficulties in getting openbox to login for my normal username. i can, as mentioned, create a new user to log in to openbox with, but that isn't really what i was hoping for.

[urukrama]

We need more Pekwm users... i'm sick of being lonely :-x!

I'm using Pekwm occasionally again.

[Grifulkin]

to any of you people who are used to trying different de/wm, please take a look at my thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1412420) about my difficulties in getting openbox to login for my normal username. i can, as mentioned, create a new user to log in to openbox with, but that isn't really what i was hoping for.

I have no clue.

[Post Monkeh]

I have no clue.

urukrama (the one who posted above) got himself onto my christmas card list by sorting the problem for me.

haven't used openbox a great deal yet though. it was very jumpy when minimising/restoring opera and firefox (took maybe a second to draw my opera window, piece by piece). i'm sure it's just another little tweak needed somewhere but i haven't had the time (read i'm too lazy) to look into it yet.

[Mark76]

I use the ROX desktop environment with the OroboROX window manager.

[n0dix]

Gnome > Xfce > Fluxbox > Openbox > Awesome WM > Dwm WM > Xmonad > Wmii > etc.
------------- Past ----------------------------------------------| -- Present - | -- Future -----------------

[msrinath80]

Windowmaker always :)

[Zoot7]

Debian and Xfce4 here.

[SomeGuyDude]

I alternate between Openbox and Compiz.

[Fred the Penguin]

E17. I did a minimalist Ubuntu install and then installed Enlightenment. I really like it, but I can't get ecomorph to work and I have a few things to work out (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1454425).

[swoll1980]

Gnome/Compiz

[WinterMadness]

I have KDE on my main computers.
On my netbook I have gnome, because it seems to be a little better for smaller screens

[Khakilang]

Gnome on my main computer and LXDE on my old computer.

[purgatori]

I have been using Scrotwm for some time now. It's extremely simple and elegant to configure through the human-readable config file, and the default settings are so sane (especially for vi users), that it needs very little customization in order to be usable. Another thing I appreciate is its dedication to maximizing screen real-estate, and minimizing resizing/repositioning of clients (esp. with a mouse).