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penguinstarship

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 52

This is the end....

I've finally found it! The best desktop environment ever, for my needs at least....

XFCE4

Shocker?

Xarturkhann

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From: Ankara

Registered: 2006-02-17

Posts: 55

Re: This is the end....

Good choice...

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: This is the end....

...i bet this is not the end though

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tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: This is the end....

No shocker. I think of myself as a KDE user, but honestly, I haven't fired that up over the last week or so. XFCE and I may have had a number of false starts with each other - right now, things are more harmonious. But still, I like to think of that as a beginning, rather than the end of something else.

Honken

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Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 79

Re: This is the end....

XFCE is what I started with, I moved over to *box rather soon though. I still love Mousepad and Thunar though.

But yeah, XFCE is a good choice.

Last edited by Honken (2007-03-21 19:06:35)

penguinstarship

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Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 52

Re: This is the end....

I like it's simplicity, and through that I feel that there's a greater quality in the simple features it has

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: This is the end....

XFCE is what I started with, I moved over to *box rather soon though. I still love Mousepad and Thunar though.

But yeah, XFCE is a good choice.

pretty much sums it up for me too

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There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums.  That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: This is the end....

I started with fluxbox, then tried openbox and then switched to KDE and used it some longer time.
but then I discovered xfce...

Last edited by SiD (2007-03-21 21:40:44)

Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

Posts: 342

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Re: This is the end....

Nice choice, thunar is specially nice. I'm tied to gnome through deskbar-applet and the clock in sync with google calendar through evolution-data-center. Give me that in xfce and I'll inmediatly switch.

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: This is the end....

maybe this is interesting for you...
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/12390/

Master One

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 249

Re: This is the end....

I like Xfce 4.4.0 very much as well, I like the look and feel, Thunar and the few other specific apps (like Orage) are great, but the problem is, that you can not just keep it as a "lightweight" DE, because there are too few programs out there, that just need GTK+ or QT, but pull in most of Gnome or KDE anyway, leaving you with a mix Xfce/Gnome/KDE, that does consume about the same amount of memory, with less functionality (no integration, no VFS and such). Do get everything up and running (things, that work out of the box in Gnome and KDE), you have to make your really hands dirty, which is time consuming and in some cases even does not lead to the desired results (like I tried to substitute KDE's kmilo functionality with tbp+xosd for support of my ThinkPad's extra buttons, which partly worked, but mostly just died during use, and I never found a solution for that problem).

In the end I gave up on Xfce 4.4.0, because it was too much of a hassle. I was spending too much time in playing around and setting everything up (the same goes for all the WM's I recently tried), instead of being productive, that's why I have decided to go back to either KDE or Gnome, they are just more complete and better suited to just get work done (although I am still unsure which of the two I should prefer).

Zoranthus

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From: muc

Registered: 2006-11-22

Posts: 166

Re: This is the end....

I'm using KDE at the moment, but actually I'm using Conky for displaying stuff (system- and netstats, mpd status, livestream playlist, RSS feeds, Inbox, etc.) and Xbindkeys for launching and controlling stuff where "stuff" is mostly URXVT and Swiftfox.

The actual DE/WM plays a rather minor role in my eyes.. I switched from Openbox to KDE mainly because of the fact that KDE has nice window decotations with close buttons that actually sit in the top right corner of the screen and a launch menu button that actually sits in the lower left corner, so you can just hammer your mouse into the vague direction and click.

Last edited by Zoranthus (2007-03-22 10:07:28)

phildg

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Registered: 2006-03-10

Posts: 146

Re: This is the end....

I started off with gnome and then went to fluxbox and blackbox with a brief stop with xfce, then back to xfce where I think I'm settled. I aviod apps that use gnome and kde libs like the plague so my system remains some what lightweight