mhoyeMy personal machine boots to an oldschool console, and then nothing. The GUI environment starts with a blank background, a mouse pointer, and nothing else. And I am, regrettably, thinking about this a lot these days:
Chris Siebenmann@mhoye Fortunately my desktop aesthetic involves too much clutter to probably be mistaken this way (even though fvwm is probably considered a 'minimal' window manager these days). But I do use dmenu, although it long ago diverged from upstream, and sometimes the associations there make me twitch a bit.
(Wayland will make me replace it, before then it's too much work, or so I tell myself.)
brennen@cks i've found rofi to be a real nice drop-in dmenu replacement, fwiw:
@brennen Sadly I have a collection of custom hacks on top of a ten year old dmenu that I'd have to port to anything new because they're now critical to my reflexes.