Hey guys,
So how's your #linux desktop?
Over here is Cinnamon with lightdm
i3 on Arch, nothing else. Suits me just fine and is very easy to set up.
How do you use/set up i3? I've been toying around with it, and want to switch from XFCE at some point, but don't really know what I'm getting into.
Usage is like most tiling WMs, a little odd if you've never used one, but I quickly found myself addicted. Basically, when you open a window it opens full screen. Open a second, and it divides the screen exactly in half. You can then use keyboard shortcuts to move them around and resize them. It's easy enough to set up and i3 is well documented. I have a minimal install so I can't speak for more complex setups. I came from xmonad which I found really hard to configure... This is all plain text and lots of what I wanted comes out the box anyway. Check out their official site and the Arch wiki - there's info on shortcuts and setup there. If you have any questions fire away.
It's okay. I'm running Mint 17 now that Crunchbang is no more. I flirted with Elementary for half an hour before saying "fuck this GUI. I have no idea what's going on." Can't get my printer to install. Don't really care. Have to reinstall a new distro ever since I found out about a stupid leak involving Debian/Chrome/Chromium but since I don't have mics or cams on my desktop, I'm not freaking out that much. I'll probably do it this weekend. What's more patriotic than tinkering with your computer on the 4th of July?
You can always install openbox on top of Debian and tweak it to stay like Crunchbang xD
Launching fireworks with your computer on the 4th of July while it plays the national anthem - all of that while having an animated background of a bald eagle in flight.
xmonad and awesome are great wm, I don't use one of them cause I'm not the only one to use my pc and I also like an eye candy DE, like Cinnamon.
I used Awesome WM for 2 years but switched to i3wm 6 months ago: http://i3wm.org/ The major difference is, Instead of cycling through a list of master column+row layouts per window, one recursively splits the screen using a small set of generic commands. Additionally, the keybinding configuration is a bit more straightforward and declarative.