In 2021 What DE are you using or switching to?

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What command did you use to get that info, did you use archfi or do it the arch way just curious. Want to compare it with my install of the same thing.

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inxi -A
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Thank you!

Edit: Haha i didn’t have inxi installed. :rofl:

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I just copied it out of inxi -Fxxxz which shows all harware but you can show what is running also with inxi -A

Edit:

[ricklinux@Archlinux ~]$ inxi -A
Audio:     Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x 
           Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.11.11-arch1-1 running: yes 
           Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
[ricklinux@Archlinux ~]$
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Heres mine

[dad@archlinux ~]$ inxi -A
Audio: Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.27-1-lts running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
[dad@archlinux ~]$

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KDE… maybe I’ll actually do it this time.

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I think you should. :wink:

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Maybe Deepin 20.2, the original…

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I tried out GNOME on GNOME OS Nightly and… it got me. :exploding_head:. Enough so I wiped out Plasma and set GNOME as my secondary DE :scream::scream:. Don’t hurt me!

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If you did that, can you find out, where Gnome 40 stores the touchpad gestures conf file? There’s many gestures missing atm.

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I’ve spent the last few years testing every single old and new Desktop Environment, Window Manager, all sorts of forks & hacks. Recently I decided I wanted a complete desktop for daily tasks, and settled with Gnome (plus a few extensions) because it’s fast, configurable, and makes it easy to get things done.

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Are using Wayland? It seems that there are quite a few gestures that aren’t supported ‘out of the box’ for X11 … though you could check into the X11 Gestures extension if you aren’t using Wayland.

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Wayland on Gnome 40

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I think Wayland uses libinput to handle gestures. There is a section of the libinput FAQs for Where is the configuration stored. Maybe you can get some insight from there? I haven’t had time to read and digest any of the details, but your question has triggered my curiosity … </enter rabbit hole>

edit: learning more as I read… it sounds like libinput doesn’t support much in the way of remapping buttons or gestures. I found a decent blog post with some rationale why that you can read here: why libintup doesn’t have a lot of config - the comments were fairly informative as well. (Note that the post is from 2016, so could be outdated info by now?)

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We are a nice community, aren’t we?! :slight_smile:

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Yes, except for those members who trigger my attention deficit disorder and send me off on snipe hunts to learn things I don’t really need to know but now can’t let go!! :nerd_face:

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Done.

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Currently using Cinnamon, but I’m considering testing Qtile.

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I always come back to Gnome, for me it does everything i want in an easy way. I have a couple extensions to tweak to my liking but nothing serious as i mostly like Gnome as is with some themeing

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I use MATE, interesting history with this all - started with GNOME but it was just too heavy for my old laptop at that moment, then i used to use Xfce but fsr it used a lot of RAM with my favourite theme so i switched to LXQt and finally gave MATE a go and loved it. Might switch to KDE Plasma though.