Openbox or Fluxbox.

[Frak]

Easy question, if you had a choice, would you use Fluxbox or Openbox.:)

[BOBSONATOR]

I use fluxbox as my "escape" from gnome and absolutley love it.

77mb of my sysmemory = awsome, and fast.

LOVE IT!

[fuscia]

openbox. in my experience (making it universally absolute), openbox is a little faster than fluxbox. obmenu is a huge plus in openbox's favor.

[po0f]

Openbox. I've used Fluxbox and hated it. I haven't used Openbox, so I don't hate it yet. ;)

[Kindred]

Openbox is what Fluxbox wants to be when it grows up. :)

[JoeC21]

Openbox is what Fluxbox wants to be when it grows up. :)

lol, agreed. One more vote for openbox!

[fuscia]

Openbox is what Fluxbox wants to be when it grows up. :)

openbox is to fluxbox what porn is to star wars.

[PurplePenguin]

openbox is to fluxbox what porn is to star wars.

I'm confused... which one is better? :-D

[fuscia]

I'm confused... which one is better? :-D

uh...neither one is better. it's all a matter of which better suits your needs.

[K.Mandla]

Openbox. Can't beat reaching the desktop in 33 seconds and on only 22Mb ... on a 750Mhz machine. ;)

[dbbolton]

fuscia, what's obmenu ?

[fuscia]

fuscia, what's obmenu ?

awesome stuff. it makes editing the right-click menu drunken child simple, for those of us who find xml a bit 'duh, now what do i do'-ish. http://obmenu.sourceforge.net/
it's a bit of a pain to get installed (you have to create a menu.xml file in one of the openbox directories and make sure you get all the dependencies right), but once you do, editing the menu becomes very easy. i even created a bunch of wallpaper options so i could switch off between about 25 wallpapers just from the right-click menu.

[K.Mandla]

Ditto that. ObMenu should be on every Openbox fan's machine.

Okay, well maybe that's exaggeration.

[dbbolton]

i'm definitely going to check into that.

[kerry_s]

For me only Fluxbox fits me like a glove. I've run just about every WM in the repos & always come back to fluxbox. I just find it so easy to use & you don't have to add other apps to make using it easier.

[Tux Aubrey]

I "discovered" fluxbox only about a month ago when I reclaimed an old P3 I'd given to my son a few years ago and he was now using as a doorstop. I tried the "Fluxbuntu" distro first but had too many config issues so I just did an clean edgy install and installed flux from the repos. Vrooooom! went the old P3. Rox goes Vroom; Abiword goes Vroom, Swiftfox sorta goes Vroom(ish). Following bohdi.zazzen's HowTos, I now have it as an alternate desktop on my main Ubuntu machine too. Ctrl-Alt-F9 and I'm in flux heaven.

Don't know much about Openbox but if its faster and cleaner than flux, I'll give it a go.

No hassles with menu configuration (and you can set up wallpaper selection easy as pie).

Flux is to Gnome as a Margarita is to a Super Supreme

[bodhi.zazen]

I agree openbox is a little faster then fluxbox, but I feel fluxbox has a few more features then openbox and I enjoy those features. Nothing heavy mind you, but I do like a panel and I find Flucbox is very easy to configure.

[Somenoob]

Openbox here, i think it should replace Ubuntu's default Metacity WM .

[dbbolton]

i've been using ob a lot more lately. emerald is fun, but it seems so wasteful, as i am a ram penny-pincher. metacity actually does too.

[PapaWiskas]

Openbox....why? Because it is just so much more sexy than the other.

[fuscia]

yikes! editing fluxbox's menu is a pain in the butt compared to obmenu. looks nice, though. i think the theming is little less primitive in fluxbox.

[RAV TUX]

Fluxbox.

[bonzodog]

Openbox for me, I already use it as my main desktop, and absolutely love it.

[burek]

openbox. in my experience (making it universally absolute), openbox is a little faster than fluxbox. obmenu is a huge plus in openbox's favor.

fully agree
but no workspace wrapping with openbox (draging windows alt mouse 1 throuhg desktop , I dont like wheel)

I choosed fluxbox for that and themes are much nicer in fluxbox than openbox in freshmeat
openbox has sitlll lot of and quite cool too. difficiult choice.
the high-tech themes are for sawfish more cplx

[shrimphead]

fluxbox all the way... it's ninja on any system

[lotusleaf]

I like them both, but Openbox is nice and lean.

As for the panel, you can choose from several panels for use with Openbox.

I like using pypanel (http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/) with Openbox:


PyPanel is a lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C for X11 window managers. It can be easily customized to match any desktop theme or taste. PyPanel works with EWMH compliant WMs (Openbox, PekWM, FVWM, etc.) and is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2.

Some of the customizable features include:

* Transparency with shading/tinting
* Panel dimensions, location and layout
* Font type and colors with Xft and shadow support
* Button events/actions
* Clock and workspace name display
* System Tray (Notification Area)
* Autohiding
* Application Launcher
* Custom Application Icons
- quote source (http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/)

Pypanel is in the repos, btw. =)

As for others, according to the Openbox FAQ (http://icculus.org/openbox/faq.php):

Does anyone know of a taskbar that works well with openbox?
There are several, the ones that keep popping up on the mailing list are fspanel, fbpanel, pypanel, perlpanel, gnome-panel (yuk) and possibly kicker.

[ahaslam]

Openbox all the way ;)

They're really like the lightweight versions of Gnome & Kde. In the end simplicity & ease of use win over bells & whistles, not forgetting that the bells & whistles diminish the speed advantage of a lightweight DE.

Tony.

[tbroderick]

pekwm

[yabbadabbadont]

yikes! editing fluxbox's menu is a pain in the butt compared to obmenu. looks nice, though. i think the theming is little less primitive in fluxbox.

There are plenty of programs for configuring the Fluxbox menu, just as there are with Openbox. Some of them can create the menus for both WMs and more. (Denu, http://denu.sourceforge.net/) Fluxbox, as released by the flux team, includes a simple script, fluxbox-generate_menu, that does a good job of finding most software on the system. What it misses is easily added (if you can use a text editor ;)).

[ice60]

i've never used openbox, so if i vote it will be for fluxbox. i've never had a problem with the fluxbox menu, altogether it took me a split-second to generate it, then a few minutes to make it how i like it :)

i took a picture of it :mrgreen:

maybe i'll get openbox too :-k why is it better apart from the menu and it's abit faster?

[ice60]

took another picture of my menu. that is the menu you're all talking about isn't it? i don't want you all to think i'm somekind of nutter lol

i think i used menumaker to generate it.

[fuscia]

fluxbox all the way... it's ninja on any system

ninja vs. fedor = adios, ninja.

[WalmartSniperLX]

I personally like fluxbox more. I used openbox for a while but I just kept going back to fluxbox. I guess it suits me better. Its all about what suits you most 8)

[yabbadabbadont]

ninja vs. fedor = adios, ninja.

Yeah, but Chuck Norris beats them both (with one hand tied behind his back :D).

[robert@debian]

Fluxbox here.
I've never had a problem with the menu in fluxbox.
I use the fluxbox-generate_menu script and it does all the work :o

[maddog39]

I like openbox, but my other favorite would be xfwm (the xfce window manager) I like alot too. Those are my favorite so far. I dont really like Fluxbox.

[patrick295767]

I prefer openbox because it is much lighter than fluxbox

and openbox has its great : obconf

Greetz

[fuscia]

Yeah, but Chuck Norris beats them both (with one hand tied behind his back :D).

lol! fedor by armbar.](*,)

[Anubis]

Fluxbox>>Tabbed windows.:guitar:

[cardinals_fan]

I have always found the Fluxbox configuration files far more intuitive. It is my favorite desktop (other than Xfce, of course).

[fedex1993]

OPENBOX ftw lol joking but i love openbox. I can run it at about 56mb depends on what programs i am running on my desktop which has 4gb of yestarday it only ueses 122 but i do miss the tabbed windows but openbox is way more customizable to panels the menu and also those nice little pippe menus that kick some butt