[conspire] Debian DE/WM/X11 screenshots: Re: Desktop survey

[Michael Paoli]

For quite a while now, Debian has included and made available
screenshots of various (at least mostly?) X11 packages
(and WMs and DEs, among them).
E.g.:
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fvwm
These can generally be found linked off of the package page,
e.g.:
https://packages.debian.org/
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fvwm&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=stable&section=all
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/fvwm
https://screenshots.debian.net/package/fvwm

That doesn't exactly give one a full overview, but does at least
help provide some useful information. "Of course", many/most
DEs and WMs being quite configurable, those are just representative
sample(s), and may reflect mostly (or just) default, and maybe
also some other configuration(s).

Looks like they also make it quite easy for folks to contribute screenshots
too. :-)

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:43:15 -0800
Subject: Re: [conspire] Desktop survey
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For X11 (well, if you really want more than just text ... sometimes a
picture or diagram, etc. is useful), all you really need is some
window manager (WM). Too many choices? Ooh, ooh, lots more than for
just the (bloated!, buggy!, ...) DEs.
site:debian.org window managers
https://wiki.debian.org/WindowManager
If you *really* want DE ...
https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment
And if some of that information/documentation is out-of-date, hey, it's
a wiki, you can fix that! :-)

As long as we're providing that sort of link, Matt Chapman's is a
perennial classic: http://www.xwinman.org/
It's venerable enough that the site actually predates the concept of a
'Desktop Environment', which in a way is why it's calleed XWinMan -- but
Mark has added coverage of (some) DEs to his prior coverage of (some)
window managers. One notable attraction to the pages there is
user-contributed screenshots, so you know what an asserted-typical setup
looks like.