Re: Recommended desktop environment?

[Pedro Pinho <pmppinho%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the answer.
I see Enlightment as a DE and not just a WM. Awesome, on the other hand is
a WM with a bar and I'm very happy running awesome :-)

As for i3, there's i3, https://i3wm.org/
and i3-gaps, https://github.com/Airblader/i3

There are plenty of tiling WM's.



Den lör 8 sep. 2018 15:30Thomas Mueller <mueller6726%twc.com@localhost> skrev:

>
> from Pedro Pinho:
>
> > Here's a complete list of WM's for *nix systems
> > https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
>
> > What exactly do you mean with " I tried awesome some years ago, but the
> > "awesome" decoration/artwork just got in the way and confused me"?
> > Don't take me wrong, I would just like to know what was so confusing.
> > Awesome user here ;-)
>
> I looked through that list of WMs web page, found i3 but not i3w.
>
> Steffen Nurpmeso's preferred ahwm was listed as discontinued; is also not
> in FreeBSD ports (category x11-wm).  So I might not be able to try it even
> if I wanted.
>
> When I tried awesome, it was on version 3.5 (approximately).  I believe
> the website was awesome.naquadah.org .  I couldn't separate the substance
> from the glamour.
>
> I like substance as opposed to hot air, hence would stay away from
> something like Enlightenment (seemed poorly documented, at least in the
> time of NetBSD 7.99.1.
>
> When I had NetBSD 7.99.1 installed (and still do thanks to GPT even if I
> hardly ever use this outdated version), I was apparently in pkgsrc
> directory instead of proper package directory when I updated packages.
> System just tried to update everything in sight, and I got unexpected
> package installations including Enlightenment, but this accidentally
> installed Enlightenment crashed the system every time I tried to start it