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

Borax Man wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

To get away from crappy politics, I thought I'd start a thread for my
own curiosity.
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One of the big selling points of Free Software OSs like Linux for me, is
choice of Graphical Environment.  Being able to custom my environment
the way *I* envisage it should be, as opposed to someone elses vision is
probably more important for me than the GPL licence itself.
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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?
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I myself use FVWM and have so for years now.  Previously I was a KDE
person, then before that GNOME, but FVWM is light and highly
customisable.  It is more like a framework you can build your own
environment out of, and there is not much it can't do, as long as you
are willing to dive into learning how to configure it.
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I've used other Window Managers, but haven't seen one that is as
flexible as FVWM.  FVWM to me represents the ideal philosophy.  That is,
have no preconcieved ideas of what the user needs or wants to do,
present a sane default (the default set up used to be crap in the past),
and all the information they need.

Fluxbox.

    -   Human-readable files for all of the configuration
    -   Menu file(s)
    -   Keyboard mapping files, including window movement, resizing, macros
        chords . . .
    -   Toggling window decoration
    -   Detachable menus that stay in place
    -   Pseudo transparency (though I use picom/compton now)
    -   . . .

Minimizes the need for the mouse. Keystroke navigation in menus is great, no
need for accelerator keys.

Sometimes I'll set up Xfce to work roughly the same, but always come back
to fluxbox.

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