Re: Lighter window managers
> I *could* see xfce being a viable option, except that when I ran it, it
> just didn't look, well, all that good. The icons looked like they were
> drawn by someone that *had to put something there* to identify the
> buttons, and there was a lot of *reinventing the wheel* with
> applications that were essentially the same as existing generic X
> applications. My understanding is that CDE, on which I had been told it
> was based, has been effectively sidelined in favour of KDE and Gnome. My
> *(very) personal* opinion is that if you want to run an entire separate
> reimplementation of basic software with no identifiable enhancements,
> install OpenWindows, which is very fast and surprisingly capable.
Give fluxbox a try. Highly customizable, fast, and cuts out all the
non-necessary fluff.
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