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I don't even use a desktop environment. Gonna be using a window manager for ever. Most of everything is run on the command line anyway.

knighthack 4y ago
How do you browse the Internet then?
- xvector 4y ago
  You can use normal applications in a window manager. Window manager ≠ terminal
- reshie 4y ago
  you can start programs with just X. i use simple WMs but have put kodi in its own dedicated session. its kind of like kiosk mode.
- aenis 4y ago
  Lynx? Lynx still works for a lot of sites I frequent.
- hulitu 4y ago
  Seamonkey, Firefox, etc. You do not need a desktop environment to run a webbrowser.
- lelanthran 4y ago
  > How do you browse the Internet then? I assume by > using a window manager for ever I've used WindowMaker as a Window manager for decades. Only recently did I decide to switch to Mate because I wanted a taskbar at the bottom with useful things like applets to show and switch Wifi/network, volume control and often-used icons/launchers. TBH, if I could get things like tint2 and yabar working with the mate applets, I'd probably switch back to WindowMaker in a heartbeat.
  - anthk 4y ago
    use Fluxbox, you could set some applets with standalone software. Pnmixer for Pulseaudio, NM-applet/connman...
  - alxlaz 4y ago
    FWIW: most systray applets work with any of WindowMaker's dockapp systrays, and there are a few dockapps (wmappl, wmbutton) that allow you a slightly more compact often-used icons/launcher thing. Mate panel applets do need the Mate panel of course but you can generally find equivalents for just about anything. I don't run Linux anymore (not natively, for everyday use, in any case) -- like most people in this thread I also think the desktop is a shitshow these days but it's a particularly bad shitshow in Linux, and I was using Linux in 2003 so I know what a shitshow looks like. But when I do still need to touch a Linux machine, WindowMaker is still my WM of choice. It's really good.

knighthack 4y ago

How do you browse the Internet then?

xvector 4y ago
You can use normal applications in a window manager. Window manager ≠ terminal
reshie 4y ago
you can start programs with just X. i use simple WMs but have put kodi in its own dedicated session. its kind of like kiosk mode.
aenis 4y ago
Lynx? Lynx still works for a lot of sites I frequent.
hulitu 4y ago
Seamonkey, Firefox, etc. You do not need a desktop environment to run a webbrowser.
lelanthran 4y ago
> How do you browse the Internet then? I assume by > using a window manager for ever I've used WindowMaker as a Window manager for decades. Only recently did I decide to switch to Mate because I wanted a taskbar at the bottom with useful things like applets to show and switch Wifi/network, volume control and often-used icons/launchers. TBH, if I could get things like tint2 and yabar working with the mate applets, I'd probably switch back to WindowMaker in a heartbeat.
- anthk 4y ago
  use Fluxbox, you could set some applets with standalone software. Pnmixer for Pulseaudio, NM-applet/connman...
- alxlaz 4y ago
  FWIW: most systray applets work with any of WindowMaker's dockapp systrays, and there are a few dockapps (wmappl, wmbutton) that allow you a slightly more compact often-used icons/launcher thing. Mate panel applets do need the Mate panel of course but you can generally find equivalents for just about anything. I don't run Linux anymore (not natively, for everyday use, in any case) -- like most people in this thread I also think the desktop is a shitshow these days but it's a particularly bad shitshow in Linux, and I was using Linux in 2003 so I know what a shitshow looks like. But when I do still need to touch a Linux machine, WindowMaker is still my WM of choice. It's really good.