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Just installed Arch for my first time. Using lxde right now but sadly theres now way I can rotate my 2nd monitor (since I have it vertical). What desktop environments do you guys use? Should be lightweight/fast/not many animations and shit.

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  • 2
    7y
    Budgie Desktop! No discussion.

    Stable. No bullshit. No animations. Lightweight.
  • 0
    7y
    @tracktraps building it rn. It says its not stable on their homepage but I'll just give it a try.
  • 0
    7y
    @b3b3 V 10.3.1-2 is absolutely stable.
    pacman -S budgie-desktop

    https://archlinux.org/packages/...=
  • 0
    7y
    @b3b3 btw: install arc-theme-solid and arc-icons too. They're perfect for Budgie.
  • 1
    7y
    Nvidia says the WM for Budgie isn't good enough for games, so if you're a gamer, I'd stay away for the moment.

    XFCE is good and lightweight, but I can't stay away from Cinnamon...
  • 1
    7y
    I3/Sway/Bspwn/... Well I tried a lot of tilling manager, currently on I3 becaise wayland was bothering me
  • 1
    7y
    @RiderExMachina No problem with NVIDIA. There is an option in Budgie "Window -> Disable unredirect" that fixes the performance problem - if it actually occurs.
  • 0
    7y
    @tracktraps
    https://geforce.com/drivers/...
    "Disabled G-SYNC in desktop environments, such as Budgie, that use libmutter-0.so.

    An existing rule to disable G-SYNC for libmutter.so no longer applied after the library was renamed to libmutter-0.so."
  • 0
    7y
    Leaving this here because I would like to try budgie at some point and I have nvidia
  • 0
    7y
    @tracktraps jup realized that its available from the official repo after it failed compiling and I was looking for a solution 😌 sadly not exactly what I wanted but I'll keep it (because it allows screen rotation) until I find something else
  • 0
    7y
    @b3b3 V. 11 is on its way.
  • 0
    7y
    I use Awesome WM (^_-) and arandr for set up my two monitors, also you can set the rotation
  • 0
    7y
    I think it depends on your machine. If it is old & low ram, then you should choose lightweight without animation else go for high animation & sexy Environment👌😆
  • 0
    7y
    I've come to like Cinnamon lately...

    Shouldn't X(/A)randr be able to rotate your keyboard even on LXDE (Arandr is basically a GUI for the command line tool xrandr)?
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