What Window Manager (WM) and/or Desktop Environment (DE) Do You Use?

[Spíosra]

Hello,

I'm currently using Enlightenment as my WM. Very easy to like. Smooth transitions and an appealing minimal yet beautiful GUI.
What about you? What WM or DE do you use? Which do you like the best?

[Kiwii]

KDE Plasma 5, I like me some eye candy bling bling. has a keyboard shortcut to toggle compositing on/off (ctrl+alt+F12) so it doesn't hog gpu while I'm gaming. maybe I'll switch to lxqt+kwin in the future; thinking about it but currently I don't really have a reason to.

[Nyamiou]

I used Gnome 2 and then 3 for 7 years, but not anymore, KDE 5 is way better.

Originally posted by kiwii:

has a keyboard shortcut to toggle compositing on/off

Compositing goes off automatically if you play fullscreen.

[Kiwii]

Originally posted by Nyamiou:

Compositing goes off automatically if you play fullscreen.

nope, it doesn't; it might unredirect the fullscreen window but it doesn't turn off compositing for other windows. I have a second monitor and see drop shadows around windows and transparency in my conky unless I turn it off manually (or have a custom window setting in kwin to turn it off).

[twin sitters 2]

Xfce 4.12 with xfwm4 and compositing turned off. Very lightweight and customizable.

[SHONUFF!!!]

There is no perfect wm environment... IMHO you have to make one! I pieced together: Openbox + PCManFM desktop + LXPanel + docky......it's been the best for me... faster than all and functional.

[Brian [Linux]]

XFCE with compositing off as well. Lightweight and snappy.

[Fibbs]

XFCE with Compton for hardware compositing (and a script to kill the compositor whilst gaming).

[Joey The Saint]

OpenBox with no DE. I've never found a DE that didn't seem like largely a waste of resources to me. But my first years with Unix were all command-line and then I had an X Terminal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal) so I think it's fair to say I'm a little "old school".

[JamieLinux]

Terminal with X server then just run whatever you wwant with Display: whatever display you want it in.
Very lightweight.

[halifax]

LOL, you guys are making me remember my first company I worked for that got me into UNIX, SunOS, Solaris, OpenWindows, telneting into servers and setting DISPLAY=host:0.0;export DISPLAY to display GUI apps back to our terminals, then moving to Windows workstations from SPARC workstations and running Hummingbird Exceed X server clients

They really wanted to make a senior system admin out of me back then, and must have sent me to about 12 SunEd classes, Advanced Kernel Tuning, NIS+ Administration, etc etc... Then after three years of moonlighting writing Linux C CGI programs to run websites I landed a real programming job and handed in my two-week notice - never looked back. I'm perfectly happy to let others be the advanced system admins and stay on the ASP side of the house :-)

Now I'm middle-aged and don't even write code anymore, I'm a "scrum master" and supervise other programmers, good times...

Vanilla Unity, Ubuntu 15.04, here. I keep meaning to block of some time to experiment with other DE's, but Unity being so damn good right out of the gate as the first modern Linux desktop I tried, kinda took the impetus away to keep looking for something better.

[Kiwii]

Originally posted by halifax:

Vanilla Unity, Ubuntu 15.04, here. I keep meaning to block of some time to experiment with other DE's, but Unity being so damn good right out of the gate as the first modern Linux desktop I tried, kinda took the impetus away to keep looking for something better.

I can understand that. Was quite happy with Unity back when I used Ubuntu. Only switched to KDE Plasma Desktop because Unity isn't in the official Arch Linux repos and I didn't want to use third party repos.
I've used or seen people use most of the current and last generation of GNU/Linux desktops and I can't truely say I dislike any of them; they're all quite usable and run circles around Windows desktops.

[NeroDivergent]

why XFCE of course the master race of DE's

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[twin sitters 2]

Originally posted by mountainlio:

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[Jiaqi]

DWM, a tiling window manager with settings configured by hardcoding it in. Very minimalist and fast.