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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday October 08 2020, @05:41PM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday October 08 2020, @05:41PM (#1062166)

    In my experience across the decades, going with the most mainstream window manager you can stand is usually the course of least trouble: incompatibilities in applications, weird problems to debug, etc.

    People love to hate the various Window Manager changes put out by Ubuntu, but I found the default WM to be the first to properly support high resolution displays (higher than 1080p), and overall the least trouble to setup and maintain.

    On the other hand: minimalist managers like XFCE are tempting in certain applications - but switching to them always ends up being even more of a time suck than just customizing the default.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday October 16 2020, @04:32PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday October 16 2020, @04:32PM (#1065459)

    On the other hand: minimalist managers like XFCE are tempting in certain applications - but switching to them always ends up being even more of a time suck than just customizing the default.

    Or you just install a distro like Mint XFCE that comes with it by default already...

    Having to go into two separate places to get your taskbars and window borders to match is a bit annoying but otherwise I love XFCE. It's simple and clean, I set my preferences and then it stays the hell out of my way.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday October 18 2020, @04:34PM (1 child)

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday October 18 2020, @04:34PM (#1066152)

      When we were Cent based, I was using XFCE as a window manager for our very basic needs, and it was fine - as you say: stays out of the way, for the most part. But... switching back to Ubuntu, it was more trouble than it was worth to switch over to XFCE - even if switching off all the special key functions of Gnome is a PITA...

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      • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Monday October 19 2020, @04:34AM

        by DECbot (832) on Monday October 19 2020, @04:34AM (#1066331) Journal

        That's why I was running Xubuntu up until systemd came along. All the best of Ubuntu, XFCE, and GTK without the pain of Gnome. Now it's Devuan which defaults to XFCE.

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