How about a Linux gallery?

I admit things like dwm/monsterwm/awesomewm (I use awesomewm) take a while to configure and even longer to get used to, but there isn't a shortage of threads and people on the arch forums willing to help out. Plus isn't the configuring part of the fun? :D
 
Well after a few hours in xfce i think i've taken a few steps in the right direction.

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I'm definitely interested in tilling, but i think that might be a good thing to play with when (if) i get a RasPi... for now :D

That's Adwaita GTK, window decorations are axiomd, icons are Faenza-Ambience (i guess i'll have to life with the ubuntu logo for now ;)). And (quite clearly) AWN.
 
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Harvey616 said:
I would like a nice clean desktop that is nice and easy to use for programming and multimonitor.
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Yeah... You're not going to get any kind of consensus on that :p

My suggestion is to try some different ones and see what appeals to you :)

I like AwesomeWM these days, and I think it would probably be especially well suited to multiple monitors. But it has a somewhat steep learning curve (compared to something like Gnome or KDE) and the configuration is in LUA.
 
I'm going to assume that since you're asking you probably aren't after a tiling wm... yet ;)

Have you used Linux before? If not then i'd stick to Gnome, KDE or XFCE just to get used to how things work. You could try LXDE or Openbox (i think a lot of Archers go with that) but i didn't really get on with it personally. Gnome can be good, but it's taken a bit of a weird turn of late. Depends on your tastes i guess. KDE is probably the most resource intensive, but you wouldn't have a problem with that. I've heard a lot of good things about 4.8 so it's definitely worth considering. XFCE is the lightest of the three, but will take a little more effort to get it looking nice. It's defaults are pretty rubbish :p
 
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PermaBanned said:
I'm going to assume that since you're asking you probably aren't after a tiling wm... yet ;)

Have you used Linux before? If not then i'd stick to Gnome, KDE or XFCE just to get used to how things work. You could try LXDE or Openbox (i think a lot of Archers go with that) but i didn't really get on with it personally. Gnome can be good, but it's taken a bit of a weird turn of late. Depends on your tastes i guess. KDE is probably the most resource intensive, but you wouldn't have a problem with that. I've heard a lot of good things about 4.8 so it's definitely worth considering. XFCE is the lightest of the three, but will take a little more effort to get it looking nice. It's defaults are pretty rubbish :p
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I've used Ubuntu for a few months quite regularly. I like the look of KDE, XFCE and Openbox, so will probably give those a go tonight.

Tiling seems like an interesting option, I have read a bit about window managers that use tiling. Could you recommend one I could maybe try in the future?

Cheers for your help :)
 
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Yeah... You're not going to get any kind of consensus on that :p

My suggestion is to try some different ones and see what appeals to you :)

I like AwesomeWM these days, and I think it would probably be especially well suited to multiple monitors. But it has a somewhat steep learning curve (compared to something like Gnome or KDE) and the configuration is in LUA.
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I like the look of AwesomeWM, it seems good with many monitors. I will most likely try that out in the future, cheers. :)
 
Harvey616 said:
Tiling seems like an interesting option, I have read a bit about window managers that use tiling. Could you recommend one I could maybe try in the future?

Cheers for your help :)
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Oh god, that's a massive question. I heard someone say that it's practically a ritual that when you've been an Arch user for over a year you have to make a tiling wm. There are dozens, some you move windows about using shortcuts, some they go to a certain spot based on the config file. Some are configured (just so you know how tired i am i was convinced that word was "configurated" :D) using programs, some using Lua, some using C... whatever. The main thing they do have in common though is that they're all massively customizable - you can do pretty much whatever you want with them. So the important thing to bear in mind is not to judge which ones to try based on screenshots.

The only one i've actually used (so far) is Subtle, which was i feel a good introduction. But i've heard great things about tons of others, Awesome, DWM, WMFS, pretty much everything. And that isn't even an extensive list :p
 
Just managed to get Arch to play nicely and have got XFCE running. I would certainly have to agree that its defaults are rubbish :P

I need to start editing things and am following the Arch wiki- hopefully I can get a good looking DE soon. :)

Tiling looks like a nice idea- but there seems to be a huge amount of them. I think I will follow the ritual, and stay un-tiled for now. :)

EDIT: Is a window manager needed? I am trying to find some folders I need to have to edit settings, such as .gtkrc-2.0 but I am having no luck finding them. :/
 
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If you have XFCE then your window manager is XFWM. The guide i used to get themes and such was the official XFCE one, not the Arch one:

http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/install_new_themes

That doesn't cover replacing the panel, but there's plenty on google once you've made up your mind - Cairo, AWN or whatever.

What display manager are you using? I found that it was quite important to have dbus launch with xfce...
 
Okay, I will have a look through there now. There seems to be lots of things for me to sort before everything is right. :)

I am enjoying the customisation of just about everything.

I have dbus launch with xfce. I think I am using xdm. :)
 
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