Linux DEs

ITT we discuss our favorite desktop environments on Linux. State the following: >Your Linux distro >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. Take a screen cap and share with us what it looks like.

I like Debian. It has a wide userbase, so if I were to have any trouble, possibly somebody else had it and solved it. I installed the xfce, and it's my favourite.

I'm more of an Arch/Gnome guy, but since I'm using a macbook air laptop without an ethernet port I had to install something pre-built. I installed Netrunner (basically Debian) with KDE and after some customization is pretty good.

>>2694 W-what does the Rei icon do?

>>2697 It summons a Macopix little Rei on top of the window. It's the one siting on the browser (And just happened to blink)

I'm currently using Arch with Cinnamon but I'm thinking about changing it to maybe Xfce or something similar. I just like DEs that are easily customizable. Any recommendations?

>>2710 Excuse me for the earlier lack of screencap but I wasn't on my laptop. I know I haven't done much with it. I like gray colours but now I'm feeling like something darker. Sadly, most darker themes for Cinnamon I've tried are pretty buggy and/or bad looking. That's why I'm thinking about changing my DE.

>>2700 Damn, I just assumed it was an Amor theme (Amusing Misuse Of Resources). You just opened up a whole new world for me.

I use openbox for the sole purpose of being able to watch movies, see pictures and render html5, css3 pages. other than that %80 of my computing is done on Emacs. Debian is my goto distro since it is %100 wholly free software system (unless you desire to install some on top of it, which I don't unless a hardware requires non-free firmware)

Glad to see some fellow archers. You should try a tiling wm and see if it's for you. I'm currently running Xmonad + Xmobar, but I lost my Xmobar config and that's why everything looks so barebones right now.

Gentoo hardened None i3-gaps

I use Debian testing as I both get something that's stable as a rock and that gets the latest software version(with a delay of 10 days). It doesn't have a default DE. I prefer to use i3wm. I also have gnome, kde and lxde installed besides it so that I can use some of their default programs.

freebsd/arch linux with gnome

This screenshot is 5 years old now but I hope it still counts. I still use the same configuration but I really don't put as much effort into making it look pretty anymore, this is how it looked at its best. Gentoo with Compiz (0.8). Just Compiz. I don't need a desktop environment. I use Scale to switch windows (top and bottom right edges), and top left corner spawns a new terminal.

>Debian Unstable >None (minimal netinstall) >i3 I've used Arch for a few years but decided to switch to Debian. The reason is that I'm running my servers on Debian stable and prefer to have superior knowledge of one distro rather than so-so of two distros. I feel that anything that can be done on Arch can also be done on Debian. It took me like few hours to learn how to set my Debian to be as "bleeding edge and minimal" as arch is. The community is also much bigger, so easier to solve problems. + free software for the win, the only proprietary thing that I'm using is Nvidia drivers. However I still believe that Arch Linux was somehow easier and more desktop-friendly. It was the first (after noobuntu) distro that I installed on my desktop, so maybe my point of view is a little bit queer.

>>2731 fuarrrking disgusting.

>>2731 Nice one. Were the Umineko VN's over wine or? How did you get this neko nyan textbox?

>>2692 >Your Linux distro Gentoo >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it None >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. None, I use i3wm. If I need a DE then XFCE is my go-to choice.

Dear DE users, I really can't tell whether you are trolling or have a soykaf sense for aesthetics. All those screenshots look like dog soykaf.

mine's >arch >none >i3 fairly typical here i expect >>2731 part of me has always really wanted to do this, but i doubt i ever will. kind of reminds me of a point of sale computer.

>>2742 getting compiz setup as a standalone is one of the most painful fuarrrking things I've seen anyone try.

>>2731 Ive seen that picture in imagesearches before.

>>2738 Can you post your background?

>>2736 Nope, I used onscripter. Touhou was all Wine though. The neko nyan textbox was just little GTK application I wrote when I was learning C. I don't have the source code anymore sorry. >>2743 >try Bitch, I fuarrrking succeeded. I just have to remember to never minimize windows because there's not way to get them back with Compiz 0.8...

>>2746 Sure, I edited it a bit so posting the original too. I'm still looking for a better one. Dumping a few more you might like too.

>>2748 Original

>>2748 >>2749

>>2748 >>2749 >>2750 Done.

>>2748 >wallpaper explaining what `ls` does. I'm going to use that wall at work and see if I get fired.

>>2755 Your boss will read it and learn stuff and fire you because now he can do it himself.

Trisquel Gnome-flashback

>>2747 OK I installed onscripter... Now how do I get Umineko vn's? How do I point onscripter to them?

My laptop is in the shop. Bought a desktop from the local cash converters and stuck Ubuntu on it. Not very cyber I know.

>>2775 I don't remember dude, find a guide. I mentioned onscripter so you could Google it.

>>2692 Slackware None, you're asked during install XFCE Used to be big into windowmaker, but xfce is the better option these days for me anyway.

qubes xfce awesome

>>2714 >other than that %80 of my computing is done on Emacs. lol Emacs can be almost everything you need file browser? emacs text editor? emacs internet explorer? emacs ide? emacs watching movies..? emacs? dunno about this one Personally I use awesome. I made this system before I learned emacs. Had I known emacs I prolly would've gone with something simpler solely for watching videos and internet soykaf.

>>2779 Fine, will crack it myself.

>>2792 Emacs is the SystemD that doesn't suck. :P

>>2692 Arch None LxQt, but on my desktop Openbox threw a tantrum with multiscreen so I put up Budgie. They're both alright. LxQt is light as a feather with everything I need, takes a bit of effort but it can be made pretty too. Budgie is based on Gnome and is comfier out of the box but also sensibly heavier and not too alright with vertical multiscreen. It's pic related.

>Devuan >none >icewm on my desktop machine, dwm on my laptop No screenshots atm because my laptop is down for reinstalling after drive failure and my desktop dropped its Linux drive too but I have not gotten around to replacing it yet. Stuck using **windows, which I use for gaming and work** for the time being.

Bought a cheapo laptop recently to try using 9front as a daily driver

Meow~ Installed Snow Leopard on my old macbook, really is like kicking dead whales down the beach that there is nothing to do on here with no up to date applications. I suppose that's what you get with a 10 year old proprietary OS. Currently trying to sell this thing, might put debian on it so it can at least be useful.

>>2805 What the fuarrrk is that package manager program tell me now theres also, very, very, very significantly, the fact that theres no goddamn video player

>>2818 Mercurial, git alternative.

>>2818 >>2818 % mkdir -p /dist/replica/client % 9fs sources % /n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install -f fgb/contrib then launch with contrib/gui

I've been trying to rice my i3 with just i3status and i3bar, and I'm very pleasantly surprised by the result. I'm using pywal to randomly select one of my desktop backgrounds and generate a matching terminal color theme. Also using fontawesome for the icons. Overall, I would definitely recommend i3, it's easy to set up and it takes a minimal amount of effort to make it look good

>>2843 Cool pape anon. I love Beksiński. Would you mind sharing it?

ive always like kde and i still do. dont judge me.

>>2855 I'm judging you but in a good way, that looks schway as fuarrrk. What conky theme is that?

>>2856 themes are all "ghost". never had any of my stuff called shway before, ty.

>>2851

>>2806 Macs can run debian without too much trouble. You just have to find the right drivers for your wifi. You can also install something that is less 'gnu' like arch.

>>2797 It's the chaotic good of program 'the thing's SystemD is the lawful evil

>>2862 Thanks.

>>2731 Omg, this looks beautiful! <3

>>2799 can you share the wallpaper please?

i'm testing things in a virtual machine before i get a personal computer and can do this in a real one > Arch Linux > i3-gaps with i3blocks > xfce4-panel for the bottom bar i'd like to be able to launch apps from the i3bar so i can get rid of xfce4-panel, i think it's doeable with i3blocks but don't know how to do it.

>>2920 Hey. It's definitely doable from both i3bar and i3blocks. https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_mouse_button_commands https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-simulate-a-button https://www.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/6ej6cx/how_to_make_a_simple_i3blocks_button_launcher/ glhf

>>2731 This whole desktop is a window to a time that's now more than a decade past. I love it.

>>>accidently screwed up my last post or didn't get confirmation on it. Void Linux No DE I use i3 All my installs generally wind up sitting at around here and for comfort I generally go on a trimming spree to get stuff down to 440-480 packages. >2694 Do you have a copy of that macopix for download?

>>2935 oh thanks for the hint sadly it seems you can only make one button (unless you want to mess up with X and Y coordinates) so I made a "-> run" button which starts rofi, so i can control almost everything with the mouse. I made it so that starting rofi with Win+D fills all the screen, and with the mouse it does not fill all the screen so that I can click away without having to press Escape. The only thing it misses now is a "shutdown options" button, but I already have a keyboard shortcut wich opens an i3 mode for this.

arch linux i3-gaps with i3status-rust I use KDE(!) when I need virtualbox

>>2726 I couldn't find anything that showed their release cycle with any sort of consistency or a list of updates and the dates, and since they seem to only be on Debian 9.1 after a month since the release of Debian 9 on the stable branch, I'm a bit worried how outdated things will become. I want to switch to Linux because I've now reinstalled Windows 10 about 3 times and it's still corrupted, despite using a different ISO each time. Steam is only officially supported on Ubuntu, but from what I've seen after looking into it is that it barely works on Ubuntu, if it works at all, with it trying to use libraries that make it work like it did on a previous version of Ubuntu. The repository for Steam for Linux is loaded with bugs, and it seems that the most common way to fix it not launching is a work-around that works on most distributions. Should I go Debian or Manjaro? I want customization, but I also want my games to run, though with the only 'officially supported' release being extremely buggy, is it even worth trying to use only distribution (Or rather, the core) they support when it might work just as well on one they don't?

>>2954 Windows10 isnt the problem, my money is on the drive. Ive installed steam on mint and buntu and have never had any bugs, games on the other hand dont like linux very much. S You should just go with ubuntu.

>>2955 It's not the drive, I've been on two different ones: One HDD and one SSD. Out of curiosity, which did you prefer? I want something customizable and stable, but also not months behind schedule with supporting the newest version of WINE. Linux Mint supposedly has had issues with lag lately (Saw that on reddit, but it might be an isolated case), and Ubuntu and Unity is kind of meh from what I've heard.

>>2957 fedora is relatively stable. I also haven't stability issues with Arch in a very long time

>>2958 Fedora isn't based on Debian though, and Fedora seems to be more of an enterprise-focused OS. Arch seems great, but the setup is killer, and if I'm going to learn it, I'd rather do so though Manjaro. I want something that can do gaming but also is highly customizable.

>>2959 >Fedora seems to be more of an enterprise-focused OS This statement has no meaning

>>2963 Enterprises aren't focused on gaming, they're focused on productivity software and enterprise applications. If I need to host a server that handles credit card data for my online business, I don't use SteamOS, a distribution that focuses on easy gaming. Yes, it does have meaning.

>>2965 if all you care about is gaming on steam, literally only Ubuntu or SteamOS will be usable. Steam's support for linux is hacked together as soykaf and it takes a lot of effort to get it running properly.

>>2967 I'm using steam on gentoo. It works a lot better than "not supported".

>>2967 Yeah, at this point, I'm just trying to decide what distribution I should go with based on those. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, and Debian doesn't seem bad, except for possibly the release cycle and installer, or I could just go for straight Ubuntu. The problem is that I also want customization. >>2968 This is exactly what it sounded like when I was looking at Steam: While Ubuntu and SteamOS are the only officially supported platforms, it doesn't really work well on any platform, or at least it works the same. Also, sorry for de-railing the thread a bit.

>>2969 What "customization" in particular? You can switch out the DE on any mainstream distro You can change themes and icons Install pretty much any program you want If you want to avoid systemd, your pool just changes from a blacklist situation to a whitelist, though. Pretty much Gentoo is the only thing even approximating mainstream/well-supported that doesn't use it.

>>2971 Not the guy you were talking to but I figure if he's looking for a distro with some repos(minus systemdildo) he could try vine linux; but getting support in english might be a pain. I figure if he's comfortable looking for something outside the anglosphere he might have some luck, if not compiling from source usually just requires. sudo (pm) install git sudo (pm) install make

>>2957 Linux always very customizable, linux mint is about 95% the same as ubuntu, which like 90% debian. Being a windows lad you might prefer KDE to other DEs, like i do. You can install any DE on any flavour of linux, pretty much. Sure unity is soykaf, just go with kubuntu or xubuntu.

>>2969 Linux is Linux. The difference between distros comes down to different initial configurations and different ways to install and update packages. Some applications might only be officially supported on 1 or 2 distros but with enough effort there is no reason why you can't get it running on something else. Like >>2976 said, if a distro doesn't have a package you need you can always compile from source. So don't worry about customization. What you really want is something mainstream and well supported to you can get help when things don't work. Ubuntu and Mate are good choices in that regard.

>>2968 I'm using it on Arch. Updates break everything and I have to reinstall libraries all the time. Steam officially doesn't support anything but Ubuntu using certain drivers.

>>2990 with enough effort technically universal Turing However that doesn't mean you're going to be able to just sudo apt-get update the latest version of Audacity, Git, and Pipelight Not to mention "initial configuration" implies a TON of stuff Down to the way udev interacts with pam to manage graphics cards and removable drives, has been and must be orchestrated by either the distro maintainer or systemd

>Debian >Nothing >i3 =! DE

>>2986 >>2990 >>2992 Thanks all for your help! I've decided on XUbuntu! I'm glad someone mentioned how bad it is on Arch, as I otherwise could have made a huge mistake installing Manjaro. Hopefully Steam will support more distributions in the future, though they should probably work on making their Ubuntu version work consistently first. Linux Mint is largely Ubuntu, but I'd rather be safe and just go with what supposedly will work. Thanks again for all your help all, and have a great day!

>>3003 I will say don't discount arch, but considering you're a beginner with linux anything a stone's throw from Ubuntu's Windows Lite is a step in the right direction. I want to recommend to you that when you feel you're comfortable enough with linux to strip down and remove bloat and leave the bare essentials to run what you need off it. Having a bunch of stuff for no good reason on the system slows down boot time and can suck up memory for no reason whatsoever.

>Your Linux distro Void Linux, because runit. >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it I used the minimal install, so it came with no DE/WM >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. I used XFCE for a long time, but recently switched to MATE because xfce4-power-manager on Void is like kicking dead whales down the beach.

>>2998 >However that doesn't mean you're going to be able to just sudo apt-get update the latest version of Audacity, Git, and Pipelight You think you need to run a Debian derivative to use apt-get. That's cute. >Down to the way udev interacts with pam to manage graphics cards and removable drives, has been and must be orchestrated by either the distro maintainer or systemd Must be? As long as you have root access you can do what you want. Distro maintainers are not magic fairies. They are human beings using the same open source operating system and tools that you have access to.

>>2942 I finally understood how to make more than one button (it was so simple, i feel dumb) Here's my new "layout" if you may call that, the only thing I want now is a way to align the bottom icons to the left without having to define a precise min_width for the [mediaplayer] block.

>Your Linux distro Debian >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it Gnome >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. i3

been running lubuntu on my x230 for half a decade now no complaints it just works

>>3045 nice vaporwave collection

>>3046 thanks man

>>2863 I actually just removed debian so I could sell it. It's essentially trash so I never use it anyway.

>>3051 debian also offers a debian+firmware distribution http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/

>>2692 >Your Linux distro Arch >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it XFCE >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. Not a DE but i3. I also like Mate and Xfce.

>>3069 What browser is that?

>>3089 Firefox.

>>2843 best one in the thread imo, looks super clean

So this is a desktop thread in some kind? >distro Arch >WM Arch comes without wm. >favorite DE I don't really use DE. I use herbstluftwm + lemonbar and i totaly love love it. Best tiling wm for me. But i guess unity and xfce are pretty good.

>>3118 what is herbsluftwm ? In what it is different from other wm ?

>>3123 it's easy to use and really easy to config. I'm not sure if it's any better then i3, but it feels more comfy for me. You should read info on their site if you want to now some tech specs. I'm not really into it.

>Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS >Xfce4 >Xfce4 (Arc-Dark theme, Vertex icons)

Arch, bspwm + polybar. I don't think DE's are good. If there's a prog you want from them, you can get it seperate from your package manager (usually). Graphical display managers are nice but do you really need it just for logging in? WM's are better than full-on DE's imo. >>2843 I've seen you before on unixporn I think. I use wal similarly, pic related.

i3 + KDE on Arch. My day to day desktop, too small of a screen to get very small A E S T H E T I C look or have useless anime girls.

>arch >lol >neurosuggesting that you should use a DE

>>2738 font?

>>3358 what kinda ls is that?

>>3390 It's "colorls", a ruby script for displaying icons with their files. I tied the ls aliases to it so it's always invoked. Here's the sauce - https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls

>>3394 thanks

I use Debian with Mate, large user base and rich repo it is my preferance on desktops, servers and embeded devices.

>Your GNU/Linux* distro Source Mage GNU/Linux (it's fun, you should try it) >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it none >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use I usually use i3, but I'm currently using evilwm while trying out Source Mage. It's a very small floating wm, although it accepts a few basic parameters (that you can either pass as arguments to it in ~/.xinitrc or put in ~/.evilwmrc), you need to recompile it for some major reconfiguration if you're not pleased with the defaults. It's good enough for my needs and I kinda like it.

xfce on fedora.

>>2692 trying out devuan on my desktop/ void on laptop xfce4/none i3/i3-gaps I want to try alpine or gentoo also before I make a decision on my desktop I'm really liking void as well, feels like living on the frontier

>>3696 >source mage Why, oh why would you torture yourself like that?

>>2692 Pentoo hardened. None. CLI only.

>>3807 >torture What do you mean?

>>2881 Bit late but here you go lainon.

Pritty based, but I love it

>>3696 >Source Mage >soykafty Icelandic Black Metal >Spooky font and wallpaper >Evilwm For fuarrrk's sake you're not even trying to hide your edge

I like to use Ubuntu. it really just works, although i get better battery life on windows (about 4 hours more)

>Debian Stable >I think xfce? >i3-gaps

>>2692 Debian Nothing, but I chose XFCE at the time Xmonad

>>2843 Spoopi

Went from gentoo+i3wm to ubuntu+i3wm because I never took the time to properly learn to use gentoo anyway, so it was just a mess. Most comfy I've been in my life I think.

>>5533 Thats not very lain of you

>>5548 That's why she's looking so sad here. Presently I'm more /hum/ than /tech/ but I'l get to it someday I promise.

I run Xubuntu with FVWM as my main driver, and XFCE when I need to do fiddly screen stuff like projecting. Working on making it act like CDE (like pic related, which is not my desktop.) I'm kind of sad to see FVWM not getting more attention, it still gets updated, it's super configurable, and it's got that 90's computer sheen to it, that I know a lot of computer nostalgia freaks, and functionality minded people like.

>Your Linux distro Fedora. I had FreeBSD installed on this laptop, but decided to switch back to linux due to some problems with drivers and incompatible programs. My initial thought was to create a custom distro with a separate init program and daemon manager, some changes to the FHS and Nix or Guix as package manager, but then I remembered I have better things to do with my time. I've already had my fill of gentoo and figured I just wanted something that worked, so here I am. I think I'll just try to keep my dev environment separated from the rest of the system with a chroot. (I do loathe systemd, but I also recognize that it does things better than any linux init system out right now.) >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it GNOME, though I had no idea it would be installed with the base system. I think I used it for about 30 minutes before I ripped it out. >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. I've installed StumpWM, and while I'm highly dubious about its floating mode and tiling practices, I'm surprised by how pleasant to configure it is. I managed to add it to LightDM and I've started building a small DE with it, including some functions I've wanted for a while like a small menu to paste links to play with mpv. It's not very riced up right now, since I spent most of the time setting up the basic stuff.

>Your Linux distro VoidLinux >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it None >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. None I use bspwm as my window manager and basically 90% things I do are done through ranger and qutebrowser. It's magical when you learn to configure them according to your needs. I haven't used a DE since forever, personally preffer to do things in the cli because finger gymnastics, power and the need to constantly learn.

>>3696 >>3831 what is using source mage like? would you recommend it as a daily driver on a laptop

>>5909 Source Mage requires you to have an intimate knowledge of Linux Gentoo doesn't even require. I feel like you should have at least completed an LFS install once to use it daily.

I'm basically a person who has no IT experience at all. I like all of these cool looking setups, but am basically incompetent when it comes to using Linux this way because it involves a lot of command line stuff. I always end up doing something stupid as root, then fuarrrking up the entire system and having to do a fresh install. is like kicking dead whales down the beach. Right now running plain old Debian with Xfce on my laptop. I've got things such that they look like Windows 95, I feel like that makes me feel more productive for actual work. I used to have Debian with Window Maker (windowmakerlive) on my desktop, but fuarrrked that up somehow. It was really cool though. I'll probably re-install it when I have some free time.

Mint with Cinnamon. It was my first DE and I really like the simplicity of it, though for daily use I sometimes have a pain with compatibility, for example I cant get the AMD Driver to work on my desktop with it, so I mainly stick to use it on my notebook. Been thinking of either using a new interface (i3 maybe) or get a new DE, really been looking at Debian and it looks nice, any thoughts? Apparently there's more support for it in form of drivers and other software.

>Manjaro >Xfce Actually using Xfce with Openbox. I don't like tiling wm because my resolution is soykafty.

>>5911 so as a linux user who wants to go deeper into linux and be forced to learn and have something somewhat usable its a bad idea?

>>2731 I don't know why but that desktop has some special charm to it. Back then themes were a lot more interesting. I'm bored of this modern flat, metro look we have today. Perhaps it's time to bring back more interesting themes. (Pic related some themes cobbled together and some colors tweaked, still only in draft state as I'm experimenting with creating/modifying GTK themes) As for distro I use debian testing as it has most packages that I need and is generally trouble free. Mate is my DE of choice as is relatively lightweight and has a traditional style interface.

>>5969 Thats a simple and nice looking desktop. I agree that this whole flat theme are getting boring nowadays, I wonder where this was born, mobile apps? Do you also get the bug of keys getting stuck after minimizing Touhou 7 ingame on Linux?

>>5973 >Do you also get the bug of keys getting stuck after minimizing Touhou 7 ingame on Linux? I had same issue, but enabling "Don't use Directinput for pad input" fixed the problem.

>>5974 Interesting, I've never tried that before, will try next time. How Nvidia drivers work on Debian? Got somre trouble for AMD Drivers on my Mint.

>Distro AntiX >Default DE rox-icewm >Actually use regular ole icewm Recently installed so I have not really done much of anything to it other than make it usable and change the theme. I actually rather like the default wallpaper so I have not bothered to change it yet. I am rather comfortable in most window managers, I just use icewm to avoid the jarring feeling after gaming in XP. I am comfortable with using others just fine otherwise (dwm is great on laptops btw). I chose AntiX because I had success with it on other machines, and I have grown bored/tired of constant feeding of other distros while still avoiding the systemd cancer.

>>5984 Can you tell me how you display your system info like that?

>>5986 It's a program called Conky

>>5980 Nvidia proprietary drivers work with no issue for me. My previous card was AMD and I used only free drivers as they worked better. So if you have AMD card don't waste time installing flgrx or what's called now as it's difficult to get them working in my experience. Free AMD drivers also have equal or better performance than proprietary in some cases.

>>5993 I use the POLARIS which was the default Mint recommended me, I got to play some VNs, Wargame Red Dragon, Touhou and some other games fine onto it, but I did had some shuttering when scrolling some PDFs which was weird.

How do I make my DE look exactly like macOS

>>6102 Install Pantheon. If you're using GNOME, install the Dash to Dock extension and customize it.

>>6109 I need a 1:1 exact copy of mac down to font and icons so I am going to have go to the motawhoa

>>6109 does this work on a gentoo with openrc? and what about elementaryli

I use manjaro with KDE, it's comfy

currently using KDE. i made a theme to make KDE look like WindowMaker. planning to switch to lxqt soon, so next will be porting the kwin theme to xfwm4 and the plasma theme to lxpanel. >>3709 very nice

Not very cyb but attractive as hell. Xfce can look great with some modification. Copland window manager is un-obtrusive and beautiful, retrofukation theme goes great with it. Would recommend for less tech-savvy lains. I still have a WindowMaker desktop on the side as a sort of hobby, but this is what I use for daily work. Debian is great because there's a lot of support for it. I don't see much reason to use other Distros unless you don't like the bloat.

>>6717 >Discord >Skype Nice wallpaper, though.

>>6721 Yeah sorry but as much as I like free software, I have a lot of friends I want to keep up with, and they aren't exactly the types who would go out of their way to use it.

>>6736 You have two choice anon >make them or leave them

>>6736 >having friends

Yup. i3 gaps on arch, with polybar and pywal. Originally I used Ubuntu mate, and after that I used Gentoo for a bit, which I left because I couldn't get my trackpad to work

Hey guys, could you help me? I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask about it, but I'm a fool and also I've installed Linux (Debian) yesterday. I'm trying to put a wallpaper but I still without succeed. I wrote the following command: $ feh --bg-scale /path/to/image.file and it works. Then to restore the background on the next session, I added the following to the xinitrc file that i created: $ ~/.fehbg & I also tried with: exec --no-startup-id feh --bg-scale ~/Pictures/Dark-pattern.jpg exec feh --bg-scale ~/Pictures/Dark-pattern.jpg eval $(cat ~/.fehbg) sh ~/.fehbg What should I do?

>>7259 Have you tried adding just ~/.fehbg to your .xinitrc? What happens when you run ~/.fehbg in a terminal? Can you show us the content of your ~/.fehbg? Have you tried adding feh --bg-scale /path/to/image.file directly to your .xinitrc? Are you sure your .xinitrc is read when you log in? (It might not be depending on your desktop environment/login manager.)

>>7261 > Have you tried adding just ~/.fehbg to your .xinitrc? Yep > What happens when you run ~/.fehbg in a terminal? Nothing to be honest, is that normal? > Can you show us the content of your ~/.fehbg? #!/bin/sh feh --bg-fill 'home/image/path.jpg' > Have you tried adding feh --bg-scale /path/to/image.file directly to your .xinitrc? yep > Are you sure your .xinitrc is read when you log in? (It might not be depending on your desktop environment/login manager.) I guess? How can I check it? Thank u anyway anon

>>7265 >Nothing to be honest, is that normal? I don't think so, it should change your background. Are you sure ~/.fehbg is executable? Is /bin/sh in your path? >I guess? How can I check it? Add something like x-terminal-emulator to your ~/.xinitrc. It should start your terminal emulator whenever you log in and probably log you out when you close it, depending on your de/wm. What desktop environment/window manager are you using?

>>7293 > I don't think so, it should change your background. Oh sorry, yeah, it change it. >Add something like x-terminal-emulator to your ~/.xinitrc. Done it. Still without work. > What desktop environment/window manager are you using? I3 I guess.

>>7293 Oh I just had to modifiy the WM, sorry I'm a fool.

>>2711 Have you tried adapta-nocto? It looks good and is a dark grey scheme

Does anyone know a tiling wm with i3 like keybinds but allows a vertical status bar panel? Or at least a good guide to configuring something to that point such as xmonad or ratpoison?

>>2717 I love i3 on my laptop for the sole reason that I hate trackpads, but can't stand using a tiling manager with my desktop machine

>>2692 ZorinOS Lite Xfce Xfce / KDE

>>2731 Pretty

>>2731 How would one begin customizing their desktop like this? I have recently started using Ubuntu and would like to start messing around when I am bored.

>Your Linux distro Debian, for years >The default DE that came with your distro when you installed it KDE, which i chose at that time >Your preferred and favorite DE you actually use. LXQt i just switched to it, and i love it so far, it's like using KDE, only without all the useless stuff that makes it slow (like plasma), and nothing keeps me from still using the good applications from KDE (like dolphin, kate, etc). plus i found it can be made to look like windowmaker better than kde, which is my main requirement anyway :-)

slackware and crux notion The general purpose utility layout. i3 might finally win me over if they ever get a sane way to save layouts.

Currently fedora 27. I got a spin that came with KDE plasma, but I have since installed xfce and i3.My favorite DE is probably MATE, but I'm trying to use different DE's to learn more about linux. I also like to just use the tty's and split them with GNUscreen