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By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:11:08 +0000

I like the look and feel of XFCE, but I really don’t feel that it can truly be called “lightweight” anymore. It’s footprint isn’t all that far removed from Gnome at this point.

As a general rule I prefer IceWM over JWM, simply because I find JWM looks outdated, even though it is perfectly functional.

I’m currently enjoying Openbox a great deal. It forces me not to abuse my desktop, and has a nice elegant way of doing things. Plus I love the fact that it gives a really fast boot time.

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:49:07 +0000

I wrote an explanation of the differences between a DE, a WM, and a window decorator.
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2008/12/compiz-emerald-metacity-what.html

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:44:53 +0000

i use WMII at work, been using it for around a year, I can’t stand dragging windows around with a mouse now, haven’t used any other tiling window managers however I think WMII despite being pretty basic does everything you could want, tag based window management so that windows appear on a range certain desktops, simple customizability, and a pretty code base what more could you wish for?

By: youknow

youknow — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:06:00 +0000

actually it looks like ulite is the way to go.

http://www.u-lite.org/

By: youknow

youknow — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:02:56 +0000

I tried xubuntu on my parents old p4 256 ram. The 256 ram was the bottle neck and made the system suck. so I installed lxde. which I loved and made the system much faster and a decent usable speed except for the rox desktop. I found it unintuitive after using the folder style file managers all my life. While I don’t have a problem relearning things like that my parents would hate it and never use it. They ended up upgrading ram but I found this link that might be of interest. Haven’t tried it myself.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=746131

Just a thought

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:59:15 +0000

e17, when setup like it is in Elive w/ Compiz and the new OpenGEU is the most beautiful desktop. I prefer it heavily over even GNOME and KDE. It actually gives me better battery life, somehow, than wm’s like openbox, it seems, which makes no sense to me.

However, I’m an Arch user, and I personally love FVWM-Crystal now. Even large applications open obsurdly fast and, without ever having programmed in my life, my friends are in awe at what I can do to my desktop by just changing one config file (or even just typing into the FvwmConsole). Try Fvwm-Crystal.

The one problem is that when used in conjunction with Nautilus (as a Desktop Manager) FVWM (the Window Manager) takes about 10 seconds to turn on after log in, as compared to a usual 0.5. I’m looking for an alternative, but I don’t like ROX.

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By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:52:08 +0000

To install Enlightenment, you have to type in

sudo apt-get install e16

e17 is not in the repo yet.

By: Matthew C

Matthew C — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:05:40 +0000

I really like Fluxbox, it’s better than many window managers and doesn’t use much screen space.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:41:00 +0000

I can’t believe the author missed ROX-Desktop.

Then again, maybe he just doesn’t like it

By: serbianlad

serbianlad — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:33:35 +0000

I’ve just installed fluxbox. Well I’m using it right now. It’s a rather new experience. I love the “almighty right mouse button” Is there any way to create shortcuts on the desktop or that is considered too heavy

I tried to install enlightment as well, but apt-get says that package isn’t available or something like that… Do I need another repo or is it something else that’s causing the problem?

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:13:59 +0000

Using a lightweight DE definitely help in your case. I would recommend any of the above 8, especially fluxbox (or openbox).

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:30:10 +0000

serbianlad, you’re definitely looking for Xfce (though 128 might be a bit tough for it). If you install Xubuntu, it’s about as user friendly as GNOME (that screenshot above really doesn’t cut it much slack – take a look at my current desktop). Admittedly, it’s not that quick on 256 MB either, but it’ll do

By: serbianlad

serbianlad — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:59:37 +0000

A few days ago I have installed a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 on my cousin’s old computer. At this point I can’t recall weather it has 128 or 256 megs of RAM, but either way I was somewhat underwhelmed because it turned out that windoz xp used to work faster…

How likely are things to improve if I install XFCE or some other DE instead of Gnome? I must stress that these people were pretty much struggling with windows. So, these minimalistic enviroments won’t do. Which one of these would you say is faster, but not (much) uglier than Gnome?

Thanks in advance!

By: Mikko

Mikko — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:54:28 +0000

WindowMaker, OpenBox, Pekwm.

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:19:15 +0000

Thanks for that. I didn’t know about this feature.

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:42:07 +0000

A nice feature about Fluxbox (my preferred window manager on all my systems now, although on my higher spec systems I use it with a lot of KDE apps and utilities) is that you can tab together windows. For instance, I always run Pidgin with the messaging window and buddy list tabbed together to save space:

http://jake.wasdin.net/files/Screenshots/flux-tabs.png

By: jacki

jacki — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:29:13 +0000

Looks like LXDE is Good.

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By: Enzo

Enzo — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:45:31 +0000

all of those look like shit.

By: David Zmick

David Zmick — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:13:45 +0000

WMII is the best, it takes some getting used to, but then it is excelent

By: Frank J

Frank J — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:36:03 +0000

An absolute goldmine! This article was an eye opener. I use Openbox and it’s my favorite so far.

By: somedood

somedood — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:16:51 +0000

I have a laptop with a fried ide controller and I installed puppy linux to a usb for it. Must say I’m really starting to like JWM, would have never even tried it without the broken hardware. For a lightweight desktop it’s great. I used to run Blackbox on the older stuff but JWM is taking that spot over, still run a version Blackbox on the windows boxes.

By: lapubell

lapubell — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:03:09 +0000

Why show a screen shot of Enlightenment 16? 17 isn't in the stable state yet, but it is totally usable. Check out ELive if you don't believe me. That is desktop art.

By: web design

web design — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:43:02 +0000

XFCE ftw. xStep wms are horrible. That have that mid-90s look and feel.

By: Robsku

Robsku — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:29:23 +0000

I use Ion3, one of many (as someone already mentioned) tiling window managers that were all left out here… Considering ratpoison way too stripped on features for mee, Ion3 seemed like a good, ultra-lightweight, 100% keyboard operable and extensible (via lua scripting) it seemed like something I wanted to try and never could really go back to fluxbox (I love fluxbox & Enlightenment DR16 when it comes to floating window managers though). I have considered trying out if I’d like wmii even better – it does seem great.

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