[SOLVED] New Desktop Enviorment

[Nxion]

Hi all,

I have been using Ubuntu for quite awhile now. I have used KDE and Gnome, mostly Gnome. I'm in search of a new desktop enviorment to play around with and learn on.

I have heard of Fluxbox, Openbox and so on. Can any one recommend one for me to try ?

Thanks

[kellemes]

http://xwinman.org/

[urukrama]

http://xwinman.org/

Actually, http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/ is much better and more up-to-date.

Try Openbox. It is a light and flexible window manager, that is aesthetically pleasing, very customizable, and has a large user base (which is always useful if you need help). It has some nice graphical configuration tools (obmenu and obconf) that make it very easy to configure, and there are plenty of good looking themes available from box-look.org.

Follow the link in my signature to install and set up Openbox.

[mali2297]

Xfce (http://www.xfce.org/) is a nice and easy desktop environment.

If you want more of an adventure, you can try one of those tiling window managers like awesome (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) or wmii (http://http://www.suckless.org/wiki/wmii).

[Nxion]

Awesome looks awesome !.


Thats is pretty much what I am looking for. How hard was it to get configured ?

[mali2297]

Awesome looks awesome !.


Thats is pretty much what I am looking for. How hard was it to get configured ?

There are two tutorials available here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=675292
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678902

The problem is that it is developing rapidly and with each new version the configurations must be changed somewhat. Version 2.0 is available in Hardy's repositories but you might want to compile the latest version from source.

[Nxion]

Thanks to all for there suggestions. I thnk I am going to use Awesome and Openbox for my desktop and laptop!

[Anzan]

Once I can get wireless reliably working in Xubuntu on the Asus Eee I'll be using Awesome on it.