Why only KDE, XFCe and Fluxbox

[Melber]

@LinuxSpring1

Mx Fluxbox screenshots

there are a few on the home page
https://mxlinux.org/


and what users do with mxfb
viewtopic.php?t=55055&start=1190

[siamhie]

@siamhie are there any screenshots of the WM only Linux systems?

Whenever I change background images, I like to match a style to go along with it.

Here's a Purple theme I put together.




Green theme




Blue theme




This is a style I wrote based on the colors from the XMMS (audio player-top right) skin called N_Log that pairs well with black and white photographs.

[LinuxSpring1]

You could check out Bunsenlabs distro, which is based on openbox and Debian Stable.

And for a huge number of other WMs contained within 1 distro, check out our sister distro, antiX.

They use various other independent (ie, non-DE) programs to sort out wallpaper, panel, etc.

And lots of tasks can be done by simply right clicking on the desktop.

Isnt antiX a rolling distro like Slackware and Arch?

@siamhie are there any screenshots of the WM only Linux systems?

This is a style I wrote based on the colors from the XMMS (audio player-top right) skin called N_Log that pairs well with black and white photographs.

This one is great. . Almost looks like batman with his mouth agape.

[asqwerth]

You can choose Debian Stable or Debian Sid when you install antiX.

[siamhie]

This one is great. . Almost looks like batman with his mouth agape.

It's like a bridge to the bat cave. It's called St. Johns Bridge in Portland Oregon.
The bridge has been featured in the televisions series Grimm and The Librarians.

Isnt antiX a rolling distro like Slackware and Arch?

Slackware is a stable distro just like Debian. The latest release 15 (Feb 2022) comes with the 5.15 kernel.

[Joseph DeGarmo]

I've been exploring the idea of creating a Budgie respin. The Budgie desktop brings better system video performance than Cinnamon, but at the expense of losing all those Cinnamon applets, desklets, and extensions. The thing is I want it to have the same suite of applications as CinnaMX and add Plank. I could remix CinnaMX into such, but installing Budgie and removing Cinnamon will cause Budgie to start up into an error screen when restarting the session after logging out. The problem does not occur if I leave Cinnamon intact. So I could go one of two ways:

Install Budgie as an alternate desktop session on CinnaMX, configure its own desktop layout / theme color / wallpaper, install the Firefox ESR browser on it (to avoid keyring issues), and attempt to force LightDM to default to the Cinnamon session. Or...

Install Budgie on CinnaMX, configure it and set it as the default session, change the Cinnamon desktop to fallback to the Budgie theme / wallpaper, and rename the project as MX Linux Budgie Remix or something else which would involve a dual-desktop distro.

The other issue with Budgie is that you cannot add custom wallpapers to the Budgie Control Panel settings and Nemo cannot set images as desktop backgrounds. But the recently-added Pix application will address that issue, so it will be required for changing the desktop background.

[DukeComposed]

I've been exploring the idea of creating a Budgie respin. The Budgie desktop brings better system video performance than Cinnamon, but at the expense of losing all those Cinnamon applets, desklets, and extensions

user-green has published Budgie respins for both MX-21 and MX-23. They may prove useful for study.

[jeffreyC]

To give a comparison the Linux Mint team some years ago made releases with at least six DEs and WMs, they have since dropped all but three Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce due to only having so many devs and other resources.

There are other distros that do make releases with more DEs and WMs, but from what I have seen they have few to no tools developed in house.

[Joseph DeGarmo]

As for a Budgie respin, I discovered that I could install the Budgie session on CinnaMX, but keep Cinnamon the default session by renaming the Budgie session as "MX Budgie" in the xsessions directory in the file system. That way, since LightDM lists the desktop sessions in alphabetical order, it will keep Cinnamon on top instead of falling back to Budgie for new users or live sessions. Therefore, I could add the alternate Budgie session with its own appearance settings and upgrade the project into "CinnaMX Plus". But while the Budgie desktop will use the generic or MX logo for the menu launcher, Neofetch will still display the distro as CinnaMX, which will kind of look out of place on the Budgie desktop. Unless, of course, if I revert the ascii logo back to the MX logo and just update the distro name. What do you think?

[Tony45]

---->> What do you think ?
I think you should try !
I certainly will download, install and comment !