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by approxim8ion 1922 days ago
I'm there too right now. Went from using BSPWM on Arch with all kinds of custom hijinks to just sitting on KDE because it lets me go about my work without much hassle. Both have their merits, and if I was on weaker hardware I'd have no qualms going back to my WM-only setup. But KDE keeps getting leaner and lighter, and it's smooth and hassle-free for the most part.
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stemcc 1922 days ago
And now we get Wayland by default on 5.22.
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the_only_law 1922 days ago
I have a super petty reason for disliking wayland. There are no cool retro Desktops/WMs for it. On X I can run shit like WindowMaker, CTWM and if I want to CDE.

That and my xdotool scripts don’t work.

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martin1975 1921 days ago
Kind of have to agree w/you. I run KDE on Wayland, it's pretty good, but I'd like to have a really slimmed down desktop like XFCE run on Wayland, possibly on BSD too as well as Linux. That would indeed be killer. CDE? Man..I didn't even know CDE is around anymore.
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the_only_law 1921 days ago
It’s open source now and somewhat fragile / buggy. I haven’t been able to get it working on Linux yet but the FreeBSD port was quite easy to build.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1921 days ago
> the FreeBSD port was quite easy to build

Forget easy to build; it's in the official ports tree; you can `pkg install cde` :)

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/cde/

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approxim8ion 1922 days ago
Think of it this way: we get to use "cutting edge" things on Wayland now which people will be calling retro in a few years.
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approxim8ion 1922 days ago
Surprisingly usable, but I'm still holding out because one of the things I need (auto-type on KeepassXC) is still not available on Wayland. It's an active issue[1] and will hopefully be sorted soon. MOST of my workflow looks and works just fine on it though, which is very impressive.

[1]: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/2281

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