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Which DE would be a better fit for awesomeWM? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by minicx@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I want to build a void linux based system with awesomeWM window manager

But immediately there was a question about the choice of DE

After googling I realized that xfce and lxqt are suitable for me.

Which one should I use?

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[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@minicx What's the reason for installing a DE alongside #AwesomeWM? Is it just for a file manager, terminal, etc? Could be those are better installed separately vice a whole DE for a few programs. There also may be similar programs that suit your needs that are not part of any DE.

[–] minicx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The main reason is that I don't know how to run background programs like pipewire normally.

If you do it via xinitrc, it will work only for one user.

Also I'm not sure that for example vscodium or lightdm
without dbus.

Also DE automounting usb drives

[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@minicx #PipeWire service should be fired up via services management and depending on how void sets it up, there may be something you need to launch when the wm starts. AwesomeWM uses ~/.xinitrc for auto-starting programs.

If you're worried about each user's initial $HOME configuration, /etc/skel/ is where you can throw that base xinitrc and any other configs you want every new account to start with.

I know nothing about #vscodium, sorry, can't help in that department.

Automounting could be handled quite user-frienlyful by udiskie, it has a tray icon to make things easier. I'm pretty sure the Thunar volman plugin is also able to handle this. You don't need all of #xfce for #thunar.

[–] minicx@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soo, if i want to use timeshift i will need polkit,so what about it?

[–] eshep@social.trom.tf 1 points 1 year ago

@minicx I'm no good to you on that front, sorry. Never messed with timeshift. As for polkit, I'd assume you'd set it up as you would any other time.