what alternatives are there besides Gnome, KDE, fluxbox, XFCE, LXDE - what others ?

[kraymore]

I am looking for a lightweight desktop environment other than Gnome, XFCE, fluxbox, LXDE, and KDE. something with alot of development will be nice. ideally lightweight. i tried LXDE and found that I did not like it because of the layout being similar to windows. fluxbox, haven't used it in years. i'm thinking that would be my favorite out of the ones i listed. i'm not really low on resources but what I would like accomplish is speed, being able to execute tasks quicky.

thank you

[ShodanjoDM]

Enlightenment E17 (http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/e17&l=en)

Simply put, all eye candies possible without 3D accelerator cards

[canistra]

Openbox, PekWM, blackbox, awesome, TWM

But i'd go with Openbox - The Best :)

[urukrama]

Openbox and Pekwm are, in my opinion, the nicest. For help to set these two up, see the links in my signature.

Other popular window managers are Icewm, FVWM, and jwm, and some of the tiling window managers (wmii, dwm, awesome, etc.)

For a full list of window managers, see http://gilesorr.com/wm/table.html




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[markjensen]

Technically, the "LXDE" mentioned earlier is already Openbox. Just bundled with a few extras, like a panel, desktop icons, and a text editor.

More just a Openbox with stuff pre-bundled than a separate Window Manager or Desktop environment.

[kerry_s]

JWM is sweet, she's the new girl on the block that most light weight distro's are switching to. she's small, fantastic on resources, very customizable. :lolflag:

i love her, mine->

[smartboyathome]

I would also recommend E17. It does have the lack of a system tray, but it is extremely light weight, and allows people to have just as much eye candy as XFCE/KDE/GNOME.

[PCMan]

I am looking for a lightweight desktop environment other than Gnome, XFCE, fluxbox, LXDE, and KDE. something with alot of development will be nice. ideally lightweight. i tried LXDE and found that I did not like it because of the layout being similar to windows. fluxbox, haven't used it in years. i'm thinking that would be my favorite out of the ones i listed. i'm not really low on resources but what I would like accomplish is speed, being able to execute tasks quicky.

thank you
For LXDE, the "DEFAULT" layout looks similar to Windows.
However everything in it can be freely changed.
The panel can be configured to mimic the layout of gnome or xfce.
The window manager can be changed to anyone you like.
I'll post some tutorials later when I have time to share with you
how to make LXDE looks like the default Ubuntu with gnome.
Well, here is a screenshot. Believe me, this is LXDE.
http://people.linux.org.tw/~pcman/lxde/lxbuntu.png

[modestmelody]

FVWM-Crystal

Or just straight up FVWM. Takes a lot of learning to get working right but the results can be pretty ******* cool and it's blazing fast. I'm back to using Gnome after a 6month period where I flew around with all different desktop environments. I use XFCE on my laptop, however.

[orengolan]

I don't think you can beat awesome window manager when it comes to speed and efficiency - http://awesome.naquadah.org/

(it has no desktop, only terminals and small menu bar)

[orengolan]

after 1 week with awesome, 1 week with xmonad and 1 day with
dwm I think I love dwm the most.

it's tiny, fast and written in c.
it's easy to configure - simply by changing the header file and compiling it again. (don't get scared, it's 1 line in the terminal).

http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm/

[kaiju]

if all you want is an xsession with windows for your apps, evilwm is the way to go. no menus, no panels, no tray, no pager, absolutely no bling - except for a one-pixel-wide border around windows ;).

[mashcaster]

Technically, the "LXDE" mentioned earlier is already Openbox. Just bundled with a few extras, like a panel, desktop icons, and a text editor.

More just a Openbox with stuff pre-bundled than a separate Window Manager or Desktop environment.

Apparently LXDE is simply OpenBox with some extras. Which extra does LXDE have which OpenBox does not to give it desktop icons?

[Marzata]

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell. In a normal WM, you spend half your time aligning and searching for windows. xmonad makes work easier, by automating this.

[oldos2er]

Closed. Please don't bump old threads.