Re: [opensuse] Desktop Environments

I'm using xfce4 since many years: lighweight, fast Karl Am 04.02.2017 um 18:56 schrieb Patrick Shanahan:

* Jeffrey L. Taylor [02-04-17 12:47]:

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For a long time I used Blackbox (a window manager). Each update of SuSE required downloading and building it again. I had several packages like this and it became time consuming. So I moved to use more "standard" packages. I started using KDE because it was the default Desktop Environment (DE) in SuSE, later OpenSuSE. I've noticed that I use no KDE applications by choice, only default. And my swap file even with 4MB of memory is becoming frequently half full with occassional crashes due to an yet unknown application runaway. Maybe switching to a lighter weight DE or window manager (WM) would be a cheap solution. What lighter weight DEs or WMs are people using?

Note: I use GNU emacs and Xemacs for my editor, LibreOffice for some word processing, and TeX for higher quality word processing/typesetting. Multiple desktops/workspaces are a requirement. Fancy effects are pretty, but ultimately disposable. I suspect a WM that is likely to remain part of OpenSuSE will fill the bill.

Other suggestions and/or experience?

I believe icewm is pretty standard, included in openSUSE, and has multiple workspaces and is quite configurable.

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