Heya,

I really like xfce as an out-of-the-box window manager to dump on any old machine. In my experience it makes a very noticeable difference compared to gnome, kde, and the likes performance wise. Sometimes you gotta fiddle with compositors to get rid of screen tearing, but that’s about it.

Are there any you could recommend that are similar to xfce? The main priority is performance and out-of-the-box sane defaults and usability.

Thank you!

  • onTerryO@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    11 hours ago

    I have been using xfce on top of wayfire (on Arch) for several months now and it works for me. If you want, you can even try out wayfire by itself and easily switch back and forth between the two.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    LXQt and Xfce can both run under Wayland. I’d recommend using LabWC as the compositor.

    Cinnamon and MATE also have experimental Wayland support.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    17 hours ago

    Maybe LXQT. Its missing some features even xfce has. But it’s had wl support for a year or so.

    I don’t know your use case or hardware, but I’ve found KDE fairly light if you don’t load it up with electron apps. It does seem to load up after a while, rebooting once in a while clears some shit out. Might get you by until xfce gets further with their support.

    • Classy Hatter@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      15 hours ago

      In KDE, you might also want to check that there aren’t any useless desktop effects (Settings -> Window Management -> Desktop Effects).

      One nice feature in KDE are KWin scripts. You can use them to turn KDE in to tiling window manager like environment. For example, Krohnkite is akin to tiling window manager, and Karousel is scrolling tiling window manager. You can install them from Settings -> Window Management -> KWin Scripts -> Get New Scripts.

    • adhd_traco@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Thanks! I don’t remember why I ditched LXQT some years ago, but as an xfce user, I quite liked it generally. Will try again!

    • adhd_traco@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Looks cool. But it also doesn’t look like it’s very low on resource usage, compared to xfce. Efficient maybe for what it does, but if I think of putting this on a 15-year old low-quality office laptop, I have doubts.

      Thank you. Will try :)