>250mb ram idle >runs on a potato >decently customisable >best de to run inside a vm >best suite of software out of the box (i.e thunar, xfce-terminal)
Same. I'm either going to do: >GNOME >Wayland
or >Xorg >DWM
I don't frick with shit somewhere I between. Either polished DE with new technologies or boomer Xorg tiling wm.
Same. I'm either going to do: >GNOME >Wayland
or >Xorg >DWM
I don't frick with shit somewhere I between. Either polished DE with new technologies or boomer Xorg tiling wm.
>decently customisable
CSD (although they seem to want to make it optional in the future) >best suite of software out of the box (i.e thunar, xfce-terminal)
Isn't Dolphin and Konsole better?
im using a nocsd gtk3 fork which at least lets me have normal titlebars. not saying thats not still ass but plasma also has to deal with gnome 3+ garbage if you install anything
Not sure about these days but about a decade and a half ago it was pretty much the DE to go with a limited hardware that wasn't way too limited as in case with standalone WMs the resulting fragmented UIs. Nowadays it's largely superseded by various GNOME 2 forks and stuff like LXQT.
It's like a full desktop environment but it runs on systems with less than 192mb of memory! Oh I mean 256... no wait 512?
Even the lightweight shit is bloated now.
I cant set up custom buttons on my taskbar to auto download a URL based on my clipboard contents, and then do special tasks based on its domain named. None of the other DE/WMs do this as well imo.
Exactly, that's the problem. A good DE like GNOME does and you'll see the exact same RAM consumption in GNOME or KDE that you will in Xfce. Xfce really is useless if you think about it. No purpose unless you specifically want a relic of the past and even then LXDE is a perfect imitation of Windows 2000 while MATE has the classic GNOME 2 desktop and more options overall.
Custom shell scripting from the right-click menu built into Thunar. In Thunar there is a tool to create custom context menu items (fThe menu that comes up when you right click on shit in the file browser window. You can basically take any CLI command or script or tool and incorporate it into a menu item within Thunar that accepts the current selected file or folder as input like a script. But also, if you modify these commands with a tool like Zenity, then you're able to have a graphical window that accepts user input and also displays output or does lots of different GUI things.
This, combined with the easily customizable "accels" shortcuts means I have a Linux file manager that for the first time isn't a clunky and inefficient waste of time and all it took was knowing some Bash scripting.
Nothing too complex, but I was able to make small changes that saved a lot of time. I made one that creates a new text file in the current folder and contains the context of the clipboard. So I could just highlight info on web pages or passwords in text and then drop them into archive folders quickly as text files.
I have one that I'm constantly altering for archiving and curating of downloads or media. The sort of thing you would not leave completely to a script. But because it's based on parts of my existing Bash scripts I could make the single command interactive and all-purpose like the CLI scripts, but with the Zenity widgets or whatever. I just haven't gotten around to trying yet.
Another is just a better "open a terminal window in the current folder" sort of deal. That's really where the power is. Lots of tiny time savers that make the file manager feel faster.
The config language fvwm uses is complete garbage and almost all the complexity you can achieve is through external scripting, which you can also do in xfeces without using a hideous wrapper. You can also create nicer window decorations with xfeces and there are various panel plugins which are difficult or impossible to implement in fvwm.
>250mb ram idle
>runs on a potato
>decently customisable
>best de to run inside a vm
>best suite of software out of the box (i.e thunar, xfce-terminal)
Why not take the xfce pill anon?
Because I like GNOME's innovations and Wayland.
Same. I'm either going to do:
>GNOME
>Wayland
or
>Xorg
>DWM
I don't frick with shit somewhere I between. Either polished DE with new technologies or boomer Xorg tiling wm.
>innovations
like what?
*grashes*
I already took it, using fedora xfce spin i had no problems for 8 months whatsoever
>decently customisable
CSD (although they seem to want to make it optional in the future)
>best suite of software out of the box (i.e thunar, xfce-terminal)
Isn't Dolphin and Konsole better?
im using a nocsd gtk3 fork which at least lets me have normal titlebars. not saying thats not still ass but plasma also has to deal with gnome 3+ garbage if you install anything
nostalgia
ram idle
>>runs on a potato
not true since GTK3
comfortable and customizable interface that doesn't tax the cpu
i heard that next release is going to make csds optional
Using it right now, pretty comfy. I love this rat so fricking much~ EVEN MORE than that dragon thing is.
that it’s not gnome
nothing but it has less things I hate than the rest
Not sure about these days but about a decade and a half ago it was pretty much the DE to go with a limited hardware that wasn't way too limited as in case with standalone WMs the resulting fragmented UIs. Nowadays it's largely superseded by various GNOME 2 forks and stuff like LXQT.
I like the dropdown terminal.
The logo
I like that it looks a bit like GNOME 1
Can XFCE still look like this?
yes u just have to find that theme
doesn't make shitty decisions to appeal to small group of people like gnome and doesn't require 2 GB download every update like KDE.
>doesn't require 2 GB download every update like KDE.
archgay hands type this kys
It just works, no customization needed, just werks in vm
It's like a full desktop environment but it runs on systems with less than 192mb of memory! Oh I mean 256... no wait 512?
Even the lightweight shit is bloated now.
I cant set up custom buttons on my taskbar to auto download a URL based on my clipboard contents, and then do special tasks based on its domain named. None of the other DE/WMs do this as well imo.
Nothing is good in linux until video drivers and the compositor get its shit together
Xfce got bloated and it doesn't manage processes very well, KDE is nowadays better for that.
Unless you take the minimal tilting window pill
xfce doesn't manage processes at all
Exactly, that's the problem. A good DE like GNOME does and you'll see the exact same RAM consumption in GNOME or KDE that you will in Xfce. Xfce really is useless if you think about it. No purpose unless you specifically want a relic of the past and even then LXDE is a perfect imitation of Windows 2000 while MATE has the classic GNOME 2 desktop and more options overall.
Designing my own wacky Thunar context menu entrees was way more exciting then I thought it would be.
elaborate please
Custom shell scripting from the right-click menu built into Thunar. In Thunar there is a tool to create custom context menu items (fThe menu that comes up when you right click on shit in the file browser window. You can basically take any CLI command or script or tool and incorporate it into a menu item within Thunar that accepts the current selected file or folder as input like a script. But also, if you modify these commands with a tool like Zenity, then you're able to have a graphical window that accepts user input and also displays output or does lots of different GUI things.
This, combined with the easily customizable "accels" shortcuts means I have a Linux file manager that for the first time isn't a clunky and inefficient waste of time and all it took was knowing some Bash scripting.
Do you have any examples of the scripts you use? The only one I have set up is to run "java -jar" on .jar files.
What kind of custom context menus did you add?
Nothing too complex, but I was able to make small changes that saved a lot of time. I made one that creates a new text file in the current folder and contains the context of the clipboard. So I could just highlight info on web pages or passwords in text and then drop them into archive folders quickly as text files.
I have one that I'm constantly altering for archiving and curating of downloads or media. The sort of thing you would not leave completely to a script. But because it's based on parts of my existing Bash scripts I could make the single command interactive and all-purpose like the CLI scripts, but with the Zenity widgets or whatever. I just haven't gotten around to trying yet.
Another is just a better "open a terminal window in the current folder" sort of deal. That's really where the power is. Lots of tiny time savers that make the file manager feel faster.
It's just a shitty fvwm clone with less features.
Actually xfce is much better than fvwm
t. read entire fvwm manual
And why do you think that?
What makes it better besides easier configuration?
The config language fvwm uses is complete garbage and almost all the complexity you can achieve is through external scripting, which you can also do in xfeces without using a hideous wrapper. You can also create nicer window decorations with xfeces and there are various panel plugins which are difficult or impossible to implement in fvwm.
Mainly I like that it doesn't change.