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What light-weight window manager do you recommend for wayland as xfce replacement? (piefed.social)

submitted 2 weeks ago by adhd_traco@piefed.social to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Heya,

I really like xfce as an out-of-the-box window manager to dump on any old machine. In my experience it makes a very noticeable difference compared to gnome, kde, and the likes performance wise. Sometimes you gotta fiddle with compositors to get rid of screen tearing, but that's about it.

Are there any you could recommend that are similar to xfce? The main priority is performance and out-of-the-box sane defaults and usability.

Thank you!

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Maybe LXQT. Its missing some features even xfce has. But it's had wl support for a year or so.

I don't know your use case or hardware, but I've found KDE fairly light if you don't load it up with electron apps. It does seem to load up after a while, rebooting once in a while clears some shit out. Might get you by until xfce gets further with their support.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

In KDE, you might also want to check that there aren't any useless desktop effects (Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects).

One nice feature in KDE are KWin scripts. You can use them to turn KDE in to tiling window manager like environment. For example, Krohnkite is akin to tiling window manager, and Karousel is scrolling tiling window manager. You can install them from Settings -> Window Management -> KWin Scripts -> Get New Scripts.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! I don't remember why I ditched LXQT some years ago, but as an xfce user, I quite liked it generally. Will try again!

[–] halet@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How about one of the more recent quickshell-enabled setups. DMS or Noctalia come to mind.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Looks cool. But it also doesn't look like it's very low on resource usage, compared to xfce. Efficient maybe for what it does, but if I think of putting this on a 15-year old low-quality office laptop, I have doubts.

Thank you. Will try :)

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems xfce is getting Wayland support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-xfwm4-Merges-Wayland-Code

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing! However:

It is not clear yet which Xfce release will target a complete Xfce Wayland transition (or if such a transition will happen at all).

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

[–] onTerryO@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have been using xfce on top of wayfire (on Arch) for several months now and it works for me. If you want, you can even try out wayfire by itself and easily switch back and forth between the two.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, useful info!

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

LXQt and Xfce can both run under Wayland. I'd recommend using LabWC as the compositor.

Cinnamon and MATE also have experimental Wayland support.

[–] adhd_traco@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you. Though cinnamon is a lot heavier than xfce oob.