[SOLVED] Desktop/Window Manager?

[slughappy1]

I am looking for a new Desktop/Window Manager. I am currently using Gnome with Metacity ( well actually Emerald since I use a little bit of Compiz ), but I find that I would like to try something faster. Don't get me wrong I like Gnome, it is just that I do not need most of the things that come with Gnome. I would like to have something... minimalistic I guess. Any thoughts? Oh, but I do use GNOME-DO, and would like to keep using it.

I tried Enlightenment17 using this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=546746) guide. I liked some of it, but it just wasn't for me.

I was curious what you all had to say.

[jualin]

how about xfce. You can install it using xubuntu-desktop on the Synaptic Package Manager.

[nkri]

XFCE. It's much lighter-weight, and depending on your machine, potentially faster (usually on older computers; on new ones, it probably won't make too much difference).

Good Luck!
-nkri

[stevoo]

You can disable all the visual enhancement from it and it will work just fine.

It does for me :)

[slughappy1]

I have thought about XFCE, but can it run Gnome programs ( Gnome-Do )?

[Troll_the_Great]

I have thought about XFCE, but can it run Gnome programs ( Gnome-Do )?

Yes, no problem.You can run KDE and X-Face programs in Gnome and vice versa (if you install the needed libraries - but I think they would be installed automatically anyway).Those are just desktop environments, it's the same kernel that you are using.
Cheers!

[snowpine]

I have thought about XFCE, but can it run Gnome programs ( Gnome-Do )?

Yes, the core system is the same, you are just looking at it through a different window.

[cardinals_fan]

Xfce is lightweight but powerful.

[bodhi.zazen]

Personally I like Fluxbox

You can look here :

http://xwinman.org/

[Korrode]

I also suggest you try XFCE.

If you want something even lighter than XFCE; Openbox and (the previously mentioned) Fluxbox are good choices as they both have (optional) graphical configuration interfaces, provide good menus, and have familiar window dressings.

...unless you're comfortable adjusting settings via text-based configuration files and/or using additional apps for menus/panels/etc.

Openbox is my personal choice :)

EDIT:
Just found something that looks quite interesting... LXDE
http://lxde.org/

Ubuntu specific instructions here: http://lxde.org/wiki/Ubuntu

...think i'll go try this out myself ^^

[toylas]

My personal vote would be for pwm or fluxbox unless you need some kind of full fledged desktop environment. In that case I would go with the majority and vote for XFCE.

Right now I'm using PWM on my desktop. It is very small (just one executable of ~532Kb and a bunch of text config files) and minimalistic window manager with a lot of configurability options. Just to emphasise it once more, it is not a desktop environment so you will not get the "click-click" leisures of GNOME, XFCE etc, no panels, no icons (you could use xtdesktop if you want those), nothing.

But it is very fast and productive (at least for me). You can tab a lot of windows, get multiple workspaces, you still can use all the GNOME, KDE, XFCE utilities (from command line only). I have attached a screenshot of my desktop to give you some feel of how it looks.


http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/pwm.html (http://modeemi.fi/%7Etuomov/ion/pwm.html)

Best,
Toylas

[toylas]

Edit : Duplicate post.