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m416415 · 2020-07-29 16:13

Hi all, is there desktop environment that does not require hald and
dbus? Thanks in advance.

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FUZxxl · 2020-07-29 17:06

It would help if you were to use a more descriptive title.

That said, plain X11 with `twm` doesn't.

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nawcom · 2020-07-29 20:49

you don't need to use complete desktop environments if you don't want
to. Fluxbox is a very minimal window manager with a task bar and a
right-click menu you can access for launching apps and configuring
things. Openbox is more customizable but if you want a setup that's
ready to go, and the menu config file being simple to edit, then try
Fluxbox first. I'm also a fan of awesome WM.

There are also tiling window managers like i3 which are a different
way of handling windows, if you ever want to get into that.

There are a number of other ones you can try as well. Just google. You
don't need a desktop environment equivalent to GNOME, KDE or Xfce for
a good X11 experience.

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m416415 · 2020-07-31 10:18

Finally it works! And it was actually really simple! Fallowed by
various tutorials I overcomplicated things. Thanks to all!