Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

In comp.os.linux.misc, Borax Man  <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

So, what Desktop Environment/Window Manager do you use, and why?  Also,
what do you think your choice of environment has to offer that isn't
found, or rarely found in others?

I've been using Unix or Unix-like for almost 35 years. I've changed
window managers only a few times in that span. My most recent change
was maybe twenty years ago when SUSE packages dropped what I was using
previously (I think that was sawfish, but I'm a little hazy now) and so
I went through the available WMs until I found one that was not a lot of
work to get how I like it. The one I settled on is IceWM.

What I like is a minimal UI from a window manager, easy keyboard
shortcuts, and a low noise theme. I do not want window transparancy. I
do not want a desktop image. I do not want a desktop with icons. I do
not want bells and whistles. I want xterms, Firefox, mplayer, and
xmodmap.

On my Asus Eee 900 device, with a tiny screen, I modified one of the
default themes to halve the size of all the window decorations. That was
about 2009. I don't have a screen shot handy and I stopped using it. I
think there was a minor issue with the theme after the icewm 2 to 3
upgrade.

For $WORK, I was using Centos 6.x in 2019, which was late for Centos 6,
and I had a really hard time getting a window manager to work, even
icewm compiled from source had issues and I didn't have all day to deal
with them. I settled on twm for that machine. I ended up hacking simple
lemonbar script together to give me a status bar with xterm launchers
and a clock, and then I found it reasonably okay.

Elijah
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has not explored what's new in window managers in last twenty years