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  • Also no, standalone WMs (the ones I’ve seen, anyway)

    OK, so I guess I don’t know the “official” name for “standalone window managers”. Which is what I was trying to get at with OSGUI, since WM is built into desktop environments, which leads me to :

    Most dynamic/stackings WMs (e.g. Openbox)

    https://openbox.org/

    It says here that Openbox is to be used in Gnome or KDE. Can you use it as a standalone WM? I don’t see it in my listing in my little fedora UI testbed VM :

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    $ dnf environment list --available 
    Updating and loading repositories:
    Repositories loaded.
    ID                                Name                                 Installed
    custom-environment                Fedora Custom Operating System              no
    workstation-product-environment   Fedora Workstation                          no
    server-product-environment        Fedora Server Edition                       no
    cloud-server-environment          Fedora Cloud Server                         no
    kde-desktop-environment           KDE Plasma Workspaces                       no
    kde-mobile-environment            KDE Plasma Mobile                           no
    xfce-desktop-environment          Xfce Desktop                                no
    phosh-desktop-environment         Phosh Desktop                               no
    lxde-desktop-environment          LXDE Desktop                                no
    lxqt-desktop-environment          LXQt Desktop                                no
    cinnamon-desktop-environment      Cinnamon Desktop                            no
    mate-desktop-environment          MATE Desktop                                no
    sugar-desktop-environment         Sugar Desktop Environment                   no
    budgie-desktop-environment        Budgie Desktop                              no
    cosmic-desktop-environment        COSMIC Desktop                              no
    developer-workstation-environment Development and Creative Workstation        no
    basic-desktop-environment         Basic Desktop                               no
    i3-desktop-environment            i3 desktop                                  no
    miraclewm-desktop-environment     Miracle WM Desktop Environment              no
    sway-desktop-environment          Sway Desktop                                no
    

    don’t encourage you to launch applications as fullscreen windows. Tiling WMs specifically are about putting multiple windows on the same desktop, visible at the same time.

    Yes, I get that. Do you also get that it’s pretty hard to see the 5th or 8th level of fibonnachi tiling and use it to read text? I mean this in contrast to being able to float them about and whatnot. You either move it to the next desktop or tile it. there’s not much flexability and it’s all designed to be navigated by keyboard shortcuts, wheras gnome does something similar, but expects you to move the mouse to weird places on the screen to get them.



  • OK, maybe you haven’t tried any of them.

    Basically, some people are making interfaces for the operating systems that only have a windows manager, and isn’t a complete desktop environment, so it’s basically one step above a terminal. Things like i3 or dwm, as opposed to more fleshed out things like KDE or Gnome.

    Gnome3 basically encourages the user to launch their programs as fullscreen things and scroll between them. The WM based UIs also do this, but call it “desktops” and tile the windows you have in each desktop.

    I went through a craze of shoving different ones into VMs and felt that things like i3 and dwm behave similarly to the way I dislike Gnome3.













  • In this context,it’s to make newcomers get used to a more open ended version of Linux that has derivatives, to get more mainstream versions of packages so that if they eventually want something more specific, they are learning slight tweaks.

    Ubuntu is Debian with a layer of idiosyncratic things applied to it, the new user will need to unlearn those idiosyncrasies and apply new ones.

    Also Ubuntu has some controversies associated with it, so the new user should stick to something more … Whatever the antonym of controversial is