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Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 1:01 pm
by machinebacon
Gnome2.3 in Sid/Q will be impossible, I'm afraid, without locking out all "new" Gnome3 packages and compiling 2.3x from scratch. After all this is just a hobby project and not a replacement for Real Life ;)

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 7:49 pm
by Verändert
I can totally understand that. And Mate is mighty fine after all. So was MacOs 9.2.

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 12:25 am
by Anaconda
I've been doing a little distro-hopping for a while now and after playing with several versions of BBQ over the past few months and a few other Debian based things, I have settled on Fluxbox running on Debian as my main OS. So I voted "other" cuz Fluxbox rocks. Since that is not likely to happen here I cast my second vote for Openbox. (not LXDE) I've been using it more than anything else since about 2008 and am comfortable with it.

In any event, if it's kept fairly minimalistic and people are given the usual guidance for tweaking, I think anything you guys did would turn out well.

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 12:14 pm
by apprentice
Verändert wrote:You should take a look at Fuduntu though (there are still images around even if the distro is defunct)
reborn
opensuse consort

just like solus
now thats gonna be nice

@bacon
it does work well
little rough here and there
siduction does a good job
and seeings as how poeple like openbox

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 4:26 pm
by hinto
I recently configured an XFCE4 desktop to mimic (99.9%) of the Gnome 2 interface that Fuduntu had. It (Fuduntu) had a menu at the top, cario as the dock, and composting. People were lamenting the loss of Gnome 2 since gtk2 was going the way of the buggy whip and was consuming a lot of time tying to manage a fork. I had mentioned that XFCE could provide most of the existing look and feel and be gtk3 at the same time. (I heard crickets chirping). I suppose some people do get "married" to a particular LAF, but if you go Debian, then everything is pretty much built for you. I comes down to what is provided as a starting place and how determined you are to get things the way you want. Luckily with Linux BBQ, I can be pretty lazy. It provides great starting places.
-Hinto

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:01 pm
by o.g.
Hello

My choice is a tiling WM, like awesome.

About Democrat : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_paradox

O.G.

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 5:29 am
by machinebacon
^ Haha, thanks - yes! The solution is, however, around the corner :)

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 8:56 am
by chris
Tiling: i3wm
DE: xfce

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 6:37 pm
by vic
Openbox/LXDE

Re: BBQ Democrat - Window Manager/DE

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 5:11 pm
by sunfizz98
Vote: openbox and spectrwm

Wmfs2 is also another nice tiler