[solved] What DE/WM to choose?

T-Punch · 2009-01-10 05:48:51

Hi ppl,

I'm am new to Arch. I have currently installed only Openbox and I'm am looking further to install a DE as well. I need a DE that is light and effecient, to model after Arch. Where does XFCE, KDEmod stand against each other? And what does KDEmod offer from KDE?

Thanks in advance.

T-P

Last edited by T-Punch (2009-01-10 08:00:50)

cdwillis · 2009-01-10 05:54:56

You may want to try LXDE, which uses openbox as the window manager. That's probably the lightest full desktop environment. I'm not experienced with KDEmod to help you with that.

Allan · 2009-01-10 06:11:13

Welcome to the forums. There is a wealth of information available if you do a bit of a search through old posts.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62545
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62247

oni5115 · 2009-01-10 06:14:40

I'd recommend LXDE, as long as you're ok with no recycling bin. Other than that I think it's really awesome. (Well, actually I've gotten so used to the no recycling bin on other OS's I'm like... aww I have to delete it twice! lol)

T-Punch · 2009-01-10 06:38:35

Thanks for the replies.. I will try out LXDE. Happy to be on Awesome Arch!

T-Punch · 2009-01-10 08:01:09

I will try KDEmod too

ShadowKyogre · 2009-01-10 15:05:20

KDEMod gives you much more flexibility than the normal KDEMod.

Allan · 2009-01-10 15:07:55

ShadowKyogre wrote:

KDEMod gives you much more flexibility than the normal KDEMod.

Huh...

Zeist · 2009-01-10 15:15:15

Allan wrote:

ShadowKyogre wrote:
KDEMod gives you much more flexibility than the normal KDEMod.
Huh...

I think that was supposed to say "KDEMod gives you much more flexibility than the normal KDE."

InfernalH · 2009-01-10 15:27:53

oni5115 wrote:

aww I have to delete it twice! lol

Recycle bin (or Trash) was not created without a good purpose - one main human-computer interaction heuristics is ability to undo destructive actions.

heleos · 2009-01-10 16:48:12

Why not just use thunar with lxde? That way you have a trash if you wnt one

oni5115 · 2009-01-11 00:30:25

InfernalH wrote:

oni5115 wrote:
aww I have to delete it twice! lol
Recycle bin (or Trash) was not created without a good purpose - one main human-computer interaction heuristics is ability to undo destructive actions.

Oh I do agree, hence my warning about the trash bin not being in default LXDE.

I haven't tried using Thunar in LXDE, well ever actually. Does it handle backgrounds as well like Nautilus/PCManFM?

I like PCmanFM for the speed and tabs, the only bad things are the no recycle bin and no/little network support. (Though a few months ago I was reading that both are being worked on.) Neither are a deal breaker though, since my NAS actually runs much faster using FTP.

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