[TriLUG] Lightweight X Desktop

[Tom Eisenmenger]

I really dig Fluxbox on low-performance machines.  I had Fluxbox for  
a long while on my old Dell 1GHz PIII notebook and it was fast -  
really fast.
My current notebook has plenty of horsepower to run Gnome so that's  
what I use, but it may be fun to install Fluxbox and see how fast it  
can be.  Woo hoo!

Tom Eisenmenger

On Nov 28, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Roy Vestal 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
>>
>> Steve Litt
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