I want to build a void linux based system with awesomeWM window manager
But immediately there was a question about the choice of DE
After googling I realized that xfce and lxqt are suitable for me.
Which one should I use?
Do you need a DE? I use sway and a few kde apps (konsole, okular, gwenview, dolphin) + firefox and thunderbird, I wouldn’t call that a DE…
I don’t want to autostart all programs by myself, most of DE control autostart and dbus session by it self… Furthermore,DEs are contain settings manager etc
Lxqt is lighter weight and more future proof. Xfce is more mature, full featured, and easier to find gtk apps to use
What about lxqt customization?
Are you looking to rice? If so, both will offer basically the same tools and impediments as you’ll have to redo everything. If you just want to tweak some settings, XFCE should be easier to tweak. Though I might be working with outdated information
Im already using fork of picom:)
The idea of those window managers is to ‘skip’ having to use desktop environment.
On WM you do stuff differently. Mostly configured on your WM config. You don’t really need to use DE.
Both have good file managers. XFCE has more options for visual customisation in my opinion. Memory usage is similar. I think XFCE works better with multiple monitors. I use LXQt and it is a little quirky—but that may be related to Openbox.
For a long time my setup was mate with Compton and awesome but I had to switch to just mate as my family and kids started using the computer more. Mate’s gtk suite is lightweight and complements awesome well as it gets out of the way, and caja/pluma/etc worked well with very few rough edges.
I’ve never used a DE with Awesome. How would you even do that?
Just use session manager like lxsession
