[TriLUG] Lightweight X Desktop

[Jason Evans]

This may not be any help to you, but it's been a real thrill for me.
I'm using a (relatively) ancient P3 laptop that is painfully slow even
with XFCE.  My desktop is a pretty sweet AMD64 X2 box that I am
running Virtualbox on and I've been remoting into from the emulated
sessions with RDP and it is pretty smooth.  Much smoother than
tightVNC or X over SSH.  The only downside is that the mouse and the
virtual machine mouse do not match up 100% until after you install the
Virtualbox tools on the virtual machine.  Other than that, it's been
really cool.  The emulated virtual machine is much faster than my
laptop and the lag time is tolerable.

Best Regards,
Jason


On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> To answer the few questions, I normally use KDE, with many keystrokes
> configured. I used Fluxbox for a while, which I was thinking of using
> but I wanted to see if anyone else has tried others. I've used joevm via
> DSL before, but it's not what I'm really looking. XFCE is a little heavy
> for me.
>
> Steve,
> As to your question, I'm using VNC over SSH from work to home on this
> box. KDE and Gnome are obviously too thick for this. TWM is too user
> unfriendly, as i do need some basic menus, more than the one with TWM. I
> have a couple of X based programs that I would like to "click" as
> opposed to opening via shell.
>
> I guess I'm back to fluxbox (openbox fork). I'll look into ratpoison.
> See how tiny it is.
>
> Thanks for all the feedback.
>
> :)
>
> Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> On Monday 24 November 2008 03:31:28 pm Roy Vestal wrote:
>>
>>> I'm building a system that needs a simple lightweight desktop. I have
>>> twm but it's not doing what i need. I'd like to get suggestions from
>>> folks that use them.
>>>
>>
>> By the way, what are you doing with this box?
>>
>> SteveT
>>
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