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Linux Window Managers Which do you use?


Poll: Which Window Manager do you use for Linux? (12 member(s) have cast votes)

Which Window Manager do you use for Linux?

  1. KDE (4 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  2. Gnome (2 votes [16.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.67%

  3. WM (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. IceWM (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. WindowMaker (1 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  6. FVWM (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. TWM (1 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  8. Terminal (1 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  9. Other (3 votes [25.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.00%

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#16 User is offline   kyle 

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Posted 13 November 2004 - 12:57 PM

I mostly use Openbox.

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Posted 13 November 2004 - 09:28 PM

Just to keep current, I'm now using Xfce on the laptop and Window Maker and Enlightenment on the desktop. GNOME is still my default environment on the latter, but there are now more often than not mutiple users on that machine and GNOME's memory consumption is onerous when only one session is running, let alone two.

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Posted 14 November 2004 - 12:53 AM

jcl, on Nov 13 2004, 07:28 PM, said:

Just to keep current, I'm now using Xfce on the laptop and Window Maker and Enlightenment on the desktop.  GNOME is still my default environment on the latter, but there are now more often than not mutiple users on that machine and GNOME's memory consumption is onerous when only one session is running, let alone two.

That's another reason why I mostly use KDE. My computer is old and KDE uses less RAM than Gnome.

#19 User is offline   jcl 

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Posted 14 November 2004 - 02:50 AM

hitest, on Nov 13 2004, 10:53 PM, said:

That's another reason why I mostly use KDE.  My computer is old and KDE uses less RAM than Gnome.

Whoops, I'd forgotten about KDE. You're right, I do recall it seeming lighter than GNOME. All things considered, that's pretty weird.

Time to fiddle with .xinitrc again.

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Posted 14 November 2004 - 11:52 AM

jcl, on Nov 14 2004, 12:50 AM, said:

hitest, on Nov 13 2004, 10:53 PM, said:

That's another reason why I mostly use KDE.  My computer is old and KDE uses less RAM than Gnome.

Whoops, I'd forgotten about KDE. You're right, I do recall it seeming lighter than GNOME. All things considered, that's pretty weird.

Time to fiddle with .xinitrc again.

Yes, on my box KDE is markedly faster than Gnome. I like Gnome and it seems that the newer version of Gnome 2.6 in my distro is more stable than what was on my Red Hat 9 box. If and when I get a new PC with more system resources then I'd run Gnome for a bit.
I've run IceWM (it is faster than KDE), but, I guess I like eye candy. KDE 3.2 for me right now. :D

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Posted 06 December 2004 - 12:47 AM

Using a late XFce4 CVS... I wrote a lot more information on this matter here

-uberpenguin

#22 User is offline   TheLetterK 

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Posted 21 December 2004 - 02:00 PM

I'm currently using Ion2.

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Posted 12 January 2005 - 11:48 PM

TWM with Gnome! B) B)

My dads old co-worker was the author of twm.



Tom....

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Posted 27 February 2005 - 11:44 AM

On my Fedora Core 3 box I'm mostly using Gnome 2.8.0 and sometimes XFce.
XFce is very fast, hardly uses any RAM at all.

#25 User is offline   shanenin 

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Posted 27 February 2005 - 12:20 PM

I switch back and forth between KDE and Gnome, I am currently running gnome. Kde was acting kind of buggy for me, so I switched back to gnome. The one thing I miss from kde is the klipper(clipboard). It would allow you to copy multiple items , then choose which one you want to paste. I have not found anything like that in gnome, but I have not really looked.

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Posted 23 March 2005 - 12:39 AM

http://obscurethough...mp/openbox3.png

Odd people would say Gnome has video problem... its actually a fact Gnome has better hardware support than KDE, though im not sure as both just upgraded 2.10 and 3.4. I personally cant stand using KDE for more than 5 seconds. It is way to bloated. The people on LUGRadio made an interesting comment. Someone should make a KDE Accelerated, KDE without the extra crap, just a nice lean DE.

For now, OpenBox3 with PyPanel is the bomb. I boot to X. I hate GDM and KDM. I hate fancy stuff. Haha.

This post has been edited by p0ize: 23 March 2005 - 12:41 AM

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