Wow. It seems that desktop environments and window managers are like "standards" - "the good thing is that there are so many of them". :-) Well, then: which DEs and WMs are MOST likely to be still around (and have major usage and development) in 5 years? In 10 years? And which are LEAST likely? On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:45 AM, bob <bdjor71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I use i3 with xfce4 session, It took me a while to figure out, but in the > session and startup dialog for xfce4 you canchoose a display chooser on > login, I disable all xfce4 sessions except xfce4-panel and xfsettingsd, > install i3 with urxvt and all the plugins for urxvt (tabs, perls etc). In > my ~/.cache/session I have the sessions xfce4 and i3 beneath eachother.So > now when login from tty, the display chooser appears (when checked in xfce4 > session and startup manager) with i3 or xfce4 as wm.The xfce4 is only > xfce4, the i3 is in combination with the xfce4 whisker menu, and 2 panels > with mainly xfce4 features. > Also took a while to make the i3 config as I want, but to be honest, with > this setup I am 10x times more productive.Switching workspaces, with dual > monitor setup , the second monitor almost feels as overkill.Especially with > laptop or 1 screen, things are super. > So for me i3 and xfce4 > >
