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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by cm3 on Saturday August 13, 2016 @04:28PM (#12282970)
You're right and the memory use of KDE, GNOME, XFCE is unjustifiable. Even sway (the i3-inspired Wayland compositor) uses a lot of money for a simple tiling compositor that doesn't have fancy "bling". It's three times the memory use as xmonad and xmobar, but maybe it's an architectural issue with wayland. I mean, Weston isn't light-weight either.
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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by cesnja on Sunday August 14, 2016 @01:15AM (#12284352)
Wayland compositors must also do (some) actions that were previously handled by X server. Ergo your comparison is a bit unfair, you should try comparing sway vs i3 + Xorg.
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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by cm3 on Sunday August 14, 2016 @05:47AM (#12285015)
That's what I suspected by saying "maybe it's an architectural issue with wayland".
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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by anewhnaccount on Sunday August 14, 2016 @06:20AM (#12285065)
More of an architectural goal than an architectural issue.
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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by gnarbarian on Saturday August 13, 2016 @04:37PM (#12283004)
Give lxde a shot then.
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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by cm3 on Saturday August 13, 2016 @04:59PM (#12283074)
I never felt comfortable with desktop envs, going back to KDE1 in the 90s. Used FVWM, Enlightenment, WindowMaker, LarsWM, Ion, WMI, DWM, spectrwm, Xmonad, sway, Weston, but never a desktop env due to missing flexibility and harder and harder config portability. My FVWM config still works, but GTK3 and GNOME configs are highly unlikely to work the same after 12 months.
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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by gnarbarian on Thursday August 25, 2016 @03:08AM (#12357340)
Hey I hear you. I would say lxde is like e16 except less fancy looking.

VERY basic. like, you get to write a script to bind the print screen key to take a screenshot.

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Re:Way Cooler: A tiling window manager for Wayland written i... by LukeShu on Saturday August 13, 2016 @05:45PM (#12283234)
I don't use a DE, for much the same reasons you name, but I do use several pieces of LXDE, as they are generally built configurably and work well outside of the DE.
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