Besides KDE/Gnome, what other desktops are there?

[r0ck]

This may sound like a simple question but besides KDE/Gnome, which are installed on most distros, what other desktops are there? And how would you go about installing it fully? I have CentOS 3.5 and 4.1, but I guess I can install any distro just to check out other desktops. What are the more popular ones that have good support

[Daedrus]

fluxbox
blackbox
enlightenment
IceWM
FVWM
WindowMaker
etc

just check out the sites for each one and installation instructions are usually there. I know fluxbox is easiest to install with ./configure, make, make install, not sure on the others.

[r0ck]

Good stuff. I will check out fluxbox for sure. Looks like there's a lot of talk about it in the community. Thanks for the help

[r0ck]

Humm. Doesn't look good so far :
Doing a make.

In file included from fluxbox.hh:30,
from Basemenu.cc:37:
Resource.hh: In constructor `Resource<T>::Resource(ResourceManager&, T, const std::string&, const std::string&)':
Resource.hh:74: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct ResourceManager'
Resource.hh:59: error: forward declaration of `struct ResourceManager'
Resource.hh: In destructor `virtual Resource<T>::~Resource()':
Resource.hh:77: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct ResourceManager'
Resource.hh:59: error: forward declaration of `struct ResourceManager'
make[3]: *** [Basemenu.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-0.1.14/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-0.1.14/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/fluxbox-0.1.14'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[cybertron]

I think it's very unlikely that CentOS doesn't include an RPM for Fluxbox. Check in the software installation section of whatever control center that Red Hat uses. I don't use any RH distros myself, but I'm sure they've got something like that and then it will just be point and click easy to install it.

[r0ck]

Ya, found an rpm, just not too sure what to do with it :D

[Hayl]

Click here for our Window Manager / Desktop Environment list (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111081)

[trc]

or check here as well (http://xwinman.org/)

[cybertron]

Well, you can try "rpm -ivh nameoffile.rpm", but installing it using the GUI would probably still be easiest since that will take care of dependencies automatically (if any).

[retsaw]

XFCE4, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned it yet, it's quite popular after KDE and Gnome, and it's my DE of choice. I've read it has a very nice GUI installer if you need to compile it from source, although it's been included with the distros I've tried.

[r0ck]

Thanks for all the help guys, as usual.