[arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

[Francis Gerund]

Wow.

It seems that desktop environments and window managers are like "standards"
-  "the good thing is that there are so many of them".   :-)

Well, then:  which DEs and WMs are MOST likely to be still around (and have
major usage and development) in 5 years?  In 10 years?

And which are LEAST likely?


On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:45 AM, bob <bdjor71 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> I use i3 with xfce4 session, It took me a while to figure out, but in the
> session and startup dialog for xfce4 you canchoose a display chooser on
> login, I disable all xfce4 sessions except xfce4-panel and xfsettingsd,
> install i3 with urxvt and all the plugins for urxvt (tabs, perls etc). In
> my ~/.cache/session I have the sessions xfce4 and i3 beneath eachother.So
> now when login from tty, the display chooser appears (when checked in xfce4
> session and startup manager)  with i3 or xfce4 as wm.The xfce4 is only
> xfce4, the i3 is in combination with the xfce4 whisker menu, and 2 panels
> with mainly xfce4 features.
> Also took a while to make the i3 config as I want, but to be honest, with
> this setup I am 10x times more productive.Switching workspaces, with dual
> monitor setup , the second monitor almost feels as overkill.Especially with
> laptop or 1 screen, things are super.
> So for me i3 and xfce4
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