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What is your favorite wm available in Artix repositories?

awesome
[ 0 ] (0%)
blackbox
[ 0 ] (0%)
bspwm
[ 0 ] (0%)
herbstluftwm
[ 0 ] (0%)
i3
[ 0 ] (0%)
icewm
[ 0 ] (0%)
openbox
[ 1 ] (100%)
spectrwm
[ 0 ] (0%)
sway
[ 0 ] (0%)

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What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

I'm thinking about migrating from XFCE to some minimalist wm.
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Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #2 –
It is a long task but I recommend you to use each of them from 1 week to one mont each so you can have an idea of them all
There is no best one, it all depends on you and your use

Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #3 –
It all depends on how you use it.
As I mainly do graphics, I prefer Dolphin which I add to XFE.

Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #4 –
I am using an old laptop.
I have KDE Plasma and it is OK. (I like dolphin and baloo file search and the start menu!)
I wonder why in the poll there is no KDE Plasma and Gnome as they are the two most popular DEs.
Including them will give a better view of the topic.

Thanks.
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Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #6 –
Quote from: strajder – on
Window manager and desktop environment are two separate things.
Sorry for being that illiterate!
I have seen some distros offering during installation to chose from KDE, XFCE,... and openbox which is on the list.
I don't understand this. So, this means you can have for example KDE Plasma "desktop environment" on your choice of "window manager"?
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Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
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Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: limotux – on
Sorry for being that illiterate!
I have seen some distros offering during installation to chose from KDE, XFCE,... and openbox which is on the list.
I don't understand this. So, this means you can have for example KDE Plasma "desktop environment" on your choice of "window manager"?

It's possible to integrate a WM (for example openbox and xmonad) in a DE like KDE.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager

Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #8 –
Missed a few important ones in the category, xmonad, qtile & leftWM.

Re: What is the best window manager available in Artix official repositories?

Reply #9 –
Quote from: calvinh – on
It's possible to integrate a WM (for example openbox and xmonad) in a DE like KDE.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager
Thank you very much.
I'm now reading the link.
Thanks a lot.
System:  Kernel: 6.4.10-artix1-1 , KDE Plasma 5.27.7, HP Spectre x360 Convertible 13-ae0xx
Dual Core  i7-8550U bits: 64
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