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Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activi
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Jorge P. de Morais Neto |
Subject: |
Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activists |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:58:06 -0300 |
Hi. I love digital ethics, GNU and Emacs! Which keyboard-driven
hackable window manager (WM) or desktop environment (DE) do you
recommend? I currently use GNOME 3 DE. Years ago I used Enlightenment,
Xfce and Fluxbox but then I migrated to GNOME to learn a good libre and
user friendly DE so I could assist unskilled users such as my family.
I have now reconsidered---I want a hackable keyboard-driven WM or DE.
I'll keep GNOME installed as plan B for difficulties with the hacker WM.
Also, once in a while I will use GNOME just to preserve useful knowledge
for assisting unskilled users.
I also want to remap keys, so for example in IceCat and Gajim C-n will
mean <down> as in Emacs. I have read this is easy on StumpWM, I hope it
is also easy in i3 and EXWM. I would also prefer a WM with a system
tray, so it is easy (for example) to check for new messages on Gajim.
So far I am divided between i3 and EXWM. EXWM would likely be cooler
and more hackable but lacks Wayland support, and Wayland is the near
future. I don't want to have to learn another hacker WM for Wayland.
So the leading candidate is i3, since Sway implements i3 concepts on
Wayland. I read it even accepts i3 config files. Thus:
* Poll: best hackable and keyboard-driven WM/DE for sw freedom activists
1. i3/Sway
2. EXWM
3. Ratpoison
4. StumpWM
5. Awesome
6. bspwm
7. xmonad
8. GNOME
9. Mate
10. XFCE
11. LXDE
12. Other---specify:
Should support key remapping and be future-proof (Wayland). Ideally
hackable in Elisp, Guile Scheme, Common Lisp or Bash; Python and C OK.
Low resource usage is desirable but good features take priority.
Regards
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- Poll: best hackable window manager or DE for Emacs-loving freedom activists,
Jorge P. de Morais Neto <=
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