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Re: [PLUG] Moving from KDE to a leaner GUI
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John Von Essen wrote:
> If you want a real lightweight wm, try blackbox. Haven't used it in a
> few years, but I remember at one point the entire code base for it was
> only 300KB.
>
> Has a nice integrated right-click drop-down menu that is completely
> configurable via a text file setup.
>
> -John
I would suggest Fluxbox over Blackbox. Fluxbox has nearly all the
features of Blackbox with many additional ones that make it much more
enjoyable and useful without adding much bloat at all. In fact, if I
recall correctly, Fluxbox was a fork of Blackbox. One of the niftiest
features Fluxbox offers over Blackbox is the application tabbing. You
can group several applications together (either the same type of apps or
different) into one window and the title bar becomes sectioned into
tabs. This makes the available screen real estate that much larger and
more efficiently used.
I use Fluxbox daily on both my laptop and my desktop. I've tried going
to more "full-featured" desktop environments like XFCE & even KDE, but
keep coming back to Fluxbox because it works so much faster & so much
more the way *I* want it to.
Good luck!
--
Benjamin Krein
www.superk.org
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