What DE would you suggest

freestylelaws · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 25

What DE has the most customization?

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

For DE: KDE has the most amount of customization. There are lots of arguments against KDE-4.* so you will probably need to evaluate your requirements. KDE-3.5* may suite you better if you want less (nasty) surprises.

For WM: FVWM has the most amount of customization ( I personally believe that the extent of the customization is limited to your imagination), but you will lose out on the integrated feel of a DE. Also on the down side, FVWM is quite hard to customize.

Somewhere in between lies enlightenment-DR17. It has lots of (easily accessible) customization options, but it is not a DE.
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freestylelaws · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 25

What do you think of X-Window? Compared to KDE

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freestylelaws · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 25

x.org?

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:58 pm Post subject:

I think he means the X Window System. :wink:

(Or, are you pulling our legs?)

freestylelaws, all of these DEs and WMs (including KDE, Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment, ...) are built on top of X. You can't have them unless you install X. Now, you can have X without another DE or WM, but I don't think you want to.

- John
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freestylelaws · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 25

ohh ok. How simplified is X Windows System? When I installed Gnome it had made my mouse "jumpy" and would jump to the top right when I would lift off the pad and put finger back on to mover further across the screen. This is probably a kernel issue but I have susption is started with Gnome

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:06 pm Post subject:

Well, X has a small built-in window manager called twm. Follow Gentoo's guide on the topic, The X Server Configuration HOWTO if you want to look at it. However, quoting from the guide:

freestylelaws · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 25

Oh ok thanks!

Do you have any idea about the Mouse thing? I am going to reinstall Gentoo right now and was also wondering how I would go about getting the latest .30 kernel because it seems the latest one it picked up yesterday was .29

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject:

You probably want to avoid the unstable kernels (all gentoo-sources 2.6.30 kernels are marked unstable right now) unless you know that a specific issue you're having is addressed.

What does "lspci" or "lsusb" show as your mouse hardware?

- John
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freestylelaws · n00b Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 25

It's a symantec touch pad on an asus m51sn. It has been the only time I have ever seen it glitch. Even works in the UNIX parted Magic GUI. I would tell you more but I am currently unpacking a stage3 for a new install

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject:

Did you mean, "Synaptics"?

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Shauder · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

ya sorry! lol

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