Other desktop environments

Pirx · 2025-03-12 09:07:07

Is anyone using BunsenLabs with a different DE?

Pirx · 2025-03-12 21:28:02

Has anyone tried?

darknetmatrix · 2025-03-12 22:07:43

in the past i have run it (hydrogen) with xfce without any problems

PackRat · 2025-03-12 22:54:14

I've used BL with i3, fluxbox, and dwm. No issues; a few minor tweaks.

Pirx · 2025-03-12 23:29:22

Here is my LXDE version:

As you can clearly see, I like minimalism.

johnraff · 2025-03-13 01:55:51

Pirx wrote:

Is anyone using BunsenLabs with a different DE?

What do you mean by "with a different DE"?
Simultaneously, or installed side-by-side as alternatives at login time?

BL itself can easily be tweaked to use a different window manager than Openbox. (There is some documentation in 'man bunsenlabs-session'.)

I'm not sure what exactly an "LXDE version" would be, since LXDE also uses openbox as its window manager.
Various BL components can easily be replaced, eg tint2 by lxpanel, thunar with pcmanfm etc etc...
At the point where some other DE's session manager (eg lxde-session) is being called at login time, it becomes hard to say the desktop is still BL.

But BL is intended to be modular so people are totally free to cherry-pick certain packages and use them along with packages from other DEs.

eightysixed · 2025-03-13 02:10:34

PackRat wrote:

I've used BL with i3

Is there a Community flavor spun up with this, or AwesomeWM? dwm would be fun, but recompiling to change a font seems excessive

PackRat · 2025-03-13 02:16:09

eightysixed wrote:

PackRat wrote:
I've used BL with i3
Is there a Community flavor spun up with this, or AwesomeWM? dwm would be fun, but recompiling to change a font seems excessive

No. I just installed different window managers in BL and made some changes to the startup applications/services.

johnraff · 2025-03-13 02:37:35

PackRat wrote:

I just installed different window managers in BL and made some changes to the startup applications/services.

This is meant to be easy to do in BL.

johnraff wrote:

There is some documentation in 'man bunsenlabs-session'.

Also see the comments in ~/.config/bunsen/autostart
Contributions to either are welcome of course.

Anyone hitting trouble trying to use a different window manager, please start a support topic!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-03-13 07:14:07

eightysixed wrote:

recompiling to change a font seems excessive

The trick is to use the sans & mono font aliases in the dwm configuration and then use ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf to change those without having to recompile.

Example file here (ignore the name): https://git.sr.ht/~head_on_a_stick/dead … local.conf

Pirx · 2025-03-13 08:22:56

johnraff wrote:

What do you mean by "with a different DE"?

You're just complicating things unnecesarilly. I know that different DEs can be build with the same components, but "I use Gnome/KDE/Budgie/Cinammon/Mate/XFCE/LXQT/LXDE..." statement is pretty self-explanatory in Linux world.

johnraff wrote:

I'm not sure what exactly an "LXDE version" would be...

Me neither. I installed LXDE, customized its look, replaced its logo with the one of BunsenLabs, downloaded the wallpaper, tweaked its colors so it worked better with the icons and here it is - my BunsenLabs with LXDE. I'm not trying to develop a flavour or anything like that. It's for my use only

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johnraff · 2025-03-13 08:32:32

Pirx wrote:

johnraff wrote:
What do you mean by "with a different DE"?
You're just complicating things unnecesarilly. I know that different DEs can be build with the same components, but "I use Gnome/KDE/Budgie/Cinammon/Mate/XFCE/LXQT/LXDE..." statement is pretty self-explanatory in Linux world.

Sure. And "I use BunsenLabs" likewise.
But I don't know what you would mean by "I use BunsenLabs with KDE". Hence my question: simultaneously or side-by-side?

johnraff wrote:
I'm not sure what exactly an "LXDE version" would be...
Me neither. I installed LXDE, customized its look, replaced its logo with the one of BunsenLabs, downloaded the wallpaper, tweaked its colors so it worked better with the icons and here it is - my BunsenLabs with LXDE.

That sounds to me more like LXDE with BL decorations than a version of BunsenLabs.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-03-13 08:35:25

Is this like Trigger's Broom[1]? How many components can be changed before it isn't BunsenLabs any more

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM (Ship of Theseus, if you prefer Greek references.)

Pirx · 2025-03-13 08:49:18

johnraff wrote:

That sounds to me more like LXDE with BL decorations than a version of BunsenLabs.

Of course, it is not a version of BunsenLabs. I'm talking from a user perspective and you're talking from a developper perspective.

It is possible to apt install other DEs, hence my question ("Has anyone tried to do it?"). I'm a BunsenLabs user. I'm not talking developement or technical details here.

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Pirx · 2025-03-13 09:00:15

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Is this like Trigger's Broom[1]? How many components can be changed before it isn't BunsenLabs any more

I'm pretty sure there are folks out there who think that there is no BunsenLabs at all. It's just Debian with some decorations.*

*Before someone jumps to a wrong conclusion - I'm not one of them.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-03-13 09:04:04

Anybody who claimed that would be speaking from profound ignorance — there is a tremendous amount of work that has gone into the BL desktop. I can say that with some authority as the lead dev of deadbang, which is just Debian with some decorations

PackRat · 2025-03-13 09:54:38

johnraff wrote:

PackRat wrote:
I just installed different window managers in BL and made some changes to the startup applications/services.
This is meant to be easy to do in BL.

And it is. Mission accomplished.

brontosaurusrex · 2025-03-13 21:20:38

PackRat wrote:

I've used BL with i3, fluxbox, and dwm. No issues; a few minor tweaks.

Same here, dwm was probably the most persistent. p.s. Looking at hyprland/wayland/arch (and sway) at the moment, but I need to find a laptop specifically for that as it seems (hyprland is crawling under virtualbox).

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