[TriLUG] Lightweight X Desktop

[Roy Vestal]

I use Virtualbox on my laptop, Mac Pro, and Windows installations. It's 
a wonderful drug ^H^H^H^H app!


Jason Evans wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> Steve Litt
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>>>       
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