This page documents, in a spirit of sharing known recipes, my current and older desktop setups. You can also read a narrative of the history behind all this an more in history (2012).

Current setup
Older setups
Other configurations

Current setup

I'm now (2022) using wayland with Sway, see the wayland page for the full documentation of the transition away from x11.

See also the documentation specific to firefox.

Older setups

x11 (using wayland now), which include:
- twm, afterstep, blackbox/fluxbox/openbox, englightenment, fvwm and GNOME 1 (time immemorial, probably turn of the millenium, and apparently before 2005, afterstep itself is 1997-2008, according to the news section on the website, GNOME 1 is 1997-2002, twm is from 1987 and, amazingly, has seen a release in 2022)
- sawfish and rox (???-2005)
- gnome2 (~2006? GNOME 2 itself is 2002-2011)
- wmii (2006-2010)
- awesome (2010-2015)
- xmonad (2015-2019~)
- i3 (~2019-2022) see x11 for the documentation on that

Other configurations

chromium (using firefox now)
the gnome3 exception, when I don't want to get complicated
I have also tested and used KDE from time to time
emacs has its own page

Created 2012-11-01 02:08. Edited 2025-03-04 15:35.