Ask HN: What's your Linux window manager and/or desktop environment?

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  • lain

    Awesome WM complements

  • awesome

    awesome window manager (by awesomeWM)

  • I like my setups to be as configurable yet minimal and resource light as possible.

    Lately AwesomeWM[1] with Lain[2] seem to provide the flexibility and easy configurability I like with the minimal overhead I love.

    [1] https://awesomewm.org/

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  • inter

    The Inter font family

  • - Tray Icons Reloaded: https://github.com/MartinPL/Tray-Icons-Reloaded

    I also change a few things using GNOME Tweaks; namely setting the application theme to Orchis-grey-dark-compact (https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-theme), icon theme to Flatery-Dark (https://github.com/cbrnix/Flatery) and system font to Inter (https://rsms.me/inter/).

    I've been using this setup for quite a while and I've been very happy with my computing experience, both in terms of aesthetics and overall UX. I tried tiling WMs for a while (first KWin and then i3 / Sway) but I found that I'm just a messy person who tends to be more productive with a floating WM.

  • ArcMenu

  • I'm running Arch Linux with GNOME on Wayland. It's mostly perfect for me out-of-the-box, however I have customized it to my liking with the help of a few extensions:

    - ArcMenu: https://gitlab.com/arcmenu/ArcMenu

  • dash-to-dock

    A dock for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash out of the overview transforming it in a dock for an easier launching of applications and a faster switching between windows and desktops.

  • - Dash to Dock: https://micheleg.github.io/dash-to-dock/

  • gnome-shell-extension-lockkeys

    Numlock and Capslock indicator for gnome-shell

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  • Tray-Icons-Reloaded

    GNOME Shell extension which bring back Tray Icons to top panel, with additional features.

  • - Tray Icons Reloaded: https://github.com/MartinPL/Tray-Icons-Reloaded

    I also change a few things using GNOME Tweaks; namely setting the application theme to Orchis-grey-dark-compact (https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-theme), icon theme to Flatery-Dark (https://github.com/cbrnix/Flatery) and system font to Inter (https://rsms.me/inter/).

    I've been using this setup for quite a while and I've been very happy with my computing experience, both in terms of aesthetics and overall UX. I tried tiling WMs for a while (first KWin and then i3 / Sway) but I found that I'm just a messy person who tends to be more productive with a floating WM.

  • Orchis-theme

    Orchis is a [Material Design](https://material.io) theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments.

  • - Tray Icons Reloaded: https://github.com/MartinPL/Tray-Icons-Reloaded

    I also change a few things using GNOME Tweaks; namely setting the application theme to Orchis-grey-dark-compact (https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-theme), icon theme to Flatery-Dark (https://github.com/cbrnix/Flatery) and system font to Inter (https://rsms.me/inter/).

    I've been using this setup for quite a while and I've been very happy with my computing experience, both in terms of aesthetics and overall UX. I tried tiling WMs for a while (first KWin and then i3 / Sway) but I found that I'm just a messy person who tends to be more productive with a floating WM.

  • Flatery

    Flatery is icon theme for linux in flat style licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

  • - Tray Icons Reloaded: https://github.com/MartinPL/Tray-Icons-Reloaded

    I also change a few things using GNOME Tweaks; namely setting the application theme to Orchis-grey-dark-compact (https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-theme), icon theme to Flatery-Dark (https://github.com/cbrnix/Flatery) and system font to Inter (https://rsms.me/inter/).

    I've been using this setup for quite a while and I've been very happy with my computing experience, both in terms of aesthetics and overall UX. I tried tiling WMs for a while (first KWin and then i3 / Sway) but I found that I'm just a messy person who tends to be more productive with a floating WM.

  • NsCDE

    Modern and functional CDE desktop based on FVWM

  • NSCDE (https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE) which is an adaptation of FVWM to resemble CDE. I can't comment how precise an adaptation it is, as I never used CDE.

    I have originally switched to Linux ~8 years ago because I was fed up with how Windows doesn't help in managing windows. I then spent most of the time with i3 and xmonad.

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