Prefered Xwindows GUI?

[Penguin Chick]

This may have been posted before, but my reputation for finding stuff with a search is highly questionable.

Anyway, what Linux GUI do you prefer and why?

[rtr]

blackbox; dont need the tabs.

[sandeep]

FLUXBOX rulz........................... Originally posted by some LNO member
Atlast I could find a WM as fast as I am


:D

[Any]

Blackbox because it works nice and fast on the older PC's im using at the moment :-)

Any

[bjornredemption]

Where the 'eck is the blackbox check box??

[Penguin Chick]

Didn't know about BlackBox.

Maybe a moderator can edit the poll to include that one and any others that I don't know about.

[knute]

I really don't have a favorite.

I used to use the gnome/sawfish combo, but then I got bored and tried enlightenment. That was fun for a while.

Now I'm currently useing fluxbox, with my own theme that I wrote. It's kinda cool actually. :)

As long as I can set up keyboard shortcuts for everything from opening programs, to moving/resizing/closing/shading windows. If it don't have that, the wm or de or whatever don't stay on my comp to long. :D

[think_penguin]

i like penguin chick am new to linux, so excuse the newbie question.
i was wondering where you could get new DE so that i could try out things other hten KDE and Gnome that came with my distro.
also how do you then install the new DE?
any help is most welcome. thanks.

--if everything sucks| unistall windows and try again--

[mdwatts]

I'll move this to the Desktop Manager forum where it will hopefully give you the incentive to read all the previous DM/WM polls and which one is the best threads.

[Dawa13]

w00t! enlightenment rulez....

[skidhmor]

Gnome2 in Mandrak9.0
KDE3 in Gentoo because I just can't seem to get thing to look they way I want them in Gnome2 with Gentoo,
maybe I should've just taken the risk and added gtk2 to my USE settings, oh well :rolleyes:

[MMA]

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[matt95z]

I am addicted to the tabs!!! Easy to use once you get the hang of it and it is super fast on my machine.

[MMA]

Oh did i mension fluxbox! :D

silly me :)

I currently am using gnome with fluxbox, after seeing Cheeky_Zombie's screen shot of it. But i can't seem to get rid of the silly desktop, in windows. Yes windows, weeeiiirrrddd. and i do aldo have the fluxbox background and stuff, but i get the gnome desktop on a window. :rolleyes: , don't ask me why that is. I just started using it yesterday.

Have fun!

fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox! fluxbox!

[saturn-vk]

enlightenment for life!!!!

too bad that it seems it has died :(

[jglen490]

Most of the choices are, in fact, not "GUIs", but letting that slide -- IceWM, right now. When I feel real patient with my old laptop, I'll fire up KDE 3 just for the shear beauty of it :D !!

[MMA]

Hey, i just noticed, i'm sure the moderators can edit the pole and change it to whatever they want to win, heheh :D

i'm no moderator

[nillo]

Originally posted by knute
Now I'm currently useing fluxbox, with my own theme that I wrote. It's kinda cool actually. :)

How do you write themes? and is that the "styles" submenu in fluxbox settings in the right click menu? where can i get more themes?

[Metalhead01]

It takes about 5-10 mins to write your own Fluxbox theme, and they turn out hella-cool! And you can get more themes at themes.freshmeat.net

[nillo]

yes but how do you go about doing it?

[nillo]

dingdong

[MMA]

All you do is edit the config files in ~/.fluxbox.

Like init, and menu (for the menu :) ), and styles (for all the colour shape size and stuff for the windows.

[carrja99]

I'd have to say that, once I get a new monitor to replace this temporary monitor with 800x600 resolution, I'll be making a permanent move to Enlightenment. It's just one of those cool, graphically pleasing window managers (take a look at my current screenshot at www.geocities.com/jay_c_the_man/). The coolest thing I like about that particular desktop is the special FX feature it has... in the screenshot you see the water actually moves!

For the time being, however, with my small resolution that is availble and the fact that leaves Enlightenment kind of cluttered, I've been switching back and forth between KDE and fluxbox. I enjoy KDE because of the cool themes that I have for it, but I use fluxbox from time to time to play around with. Once I install Slackware on my older PC, I'll probably just run fluxbox on it due to it's speed.

[endoalpha]

IceWM ... Easily themeable and configurable , familiar interface to introduce new users to, stable,stable,stable, fast, gnome compliant, mostly kde compliant... small mem useage...

[Hooloovoo]

I used fluxbox very heavily for a long time, but I think I'm in love with Waimea.

BTW my favorite GUI is GTK on Xfree86 ;)

[DarkJedi9]

Waimea. Fast, light, relatively easy to install and configure at will. Plus 0.3.4 just came out and they made the action files much more user-friendly to edit. And it can run many gnome/kde apps as long as the proper libs are installed (hint, if gnome and kde are installed, you've got the proper libs).

[Dun'kalis]

GNOME 2 m/Metacity.

Sleek, lightweight (as I prefer GTK/GNOME apps, all libs are loaded at login), and just plain cool.

[MMA]

wow, Waimea, never heard of it before. I'll check it out :D

[MMA]

I can't believe eyes :eek:

i saw in there website a screenshot where Waimea, uses gnomes panel and KDE's panel at the same time. WWWEEEEIIIRRDDD, i mean whats the point it :D

any way it looks good.

[DarkJedi9]

It's at waimea.sourceforge.net by the way. I can answer most basic questions about it if you need help getting it up and running. And of course now I'm going to plug my own style file for it: ClearBeauty.:D It's in the screenshots section at the waimea site.

[MMA]

I might actually take that offer for help up, THNX :D

[vhg119]

gnome2 with metacity.

its perty!!

[DarkJedi9]

Originally posted by MMA
I might actually take that offer for help up, THNX :D

No prob.:)

[GaryJones32]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by think_penguin
[B]i like penguin chick am new to linux, so excuse the newbie question.
i was wondering where you could get new DE so that i could try out things other hten KDE and Gnome that came with my distro.
also how do you then install the new DE?
any help is most welcome. thanks.

http://www.plig.org/xwinman/index.html

[novafluxx]

yeah, for some reasons switchdesk doesn't do anything, command not found...heh. Anyway, where is .xinitrc lovated, so I can edit it and choose betwen different desktops when I run startx

[vestar]

Use IceWM for the moment. I like the way it handles virtual desktops.

Though, I haven't really invested very much time in custumizing any WM's.

[thereal-systemx]

Iv only been using linux for about 4 months i have a p1.5 and use fluxbox, it isnt just for people who have slow computers it forces you to do more things like make your own menu and use terminals more, well thats what it did for me anyway plus the themes are super cool and flux looks kewl to, oh ya the tabs are a must. you can even impress your friends with something that doesnt resemble windows=(kde,gnome,icewm)

go to themes.org and go to the fluxbox themes and looks for SystemX's Spooky Fluxbox Theme its really kewl

[Saptech]

On my home tower it's running WindowMaker and on my laptop its using Fluxbox!!

[z0mbix]

I've always been a huge Fluxbox fan but never used/needed the tabs. I've recently found Openbox (http://icculus.org/openbox/) and love it! It's like blackbox with Anti-Aliased fonts and no tabs :) No task bar, but I don't use that anyway.

Although this morning I've been looking at Waimea and screenshots like this (http://130.239.134.83/waimea/shots/waimeaSS-45/shot.png) and this (http://130.239.134.83/waimea/shots/waimeaSS-8/shot.png) and getting me very interested in it. We'll see...

[ThomasTraynor]

I prefer WindowMaker. On the p200 it is lighter on the system than Gnome or KDE. I have played with most of the others, but, my personal preference (at this time) is WM.

[DarkJedi9]

Originally posted by novafluxx
yeah, for some reasons switchdesk doesn't do anything, command not found...heh. Anyway, where is .xinitrc lovated, so I can edit it and choose betwen different desktops when I run startx

Mine is in /etc/X11/xinit, but that may vary by distro; I'm not positive. Either way, locate .xinitrc should be helpful for narrowing it down.

[MMA]

actually he wants to edit startx , right. So he needs to edit or create a file called ~/.xinitrc

[DarkJedi9]

Originally posted by MMA
actually he wants to edit startx , right. So he needs to edit or create a file called ~/.xinitrc

I think we're both right. I know that I don't edit the home directory one and it works just fine. It's possible that it checks both spots and finds the newer one maybe?

[kemical]

Originally posted by DarkJedi9


I think we're both right. I know that I don't edit the home directory one and it works just fine. It's possible that it checks both spots and finds the newer one maybe?

i find it better to edit the ~/.xinitrc, because if im not mistaken it overrides any xinitrc file anywhere else, because it is infact specifically set for th ehome user.

so go with ~/.xinitrc

although only having one user with no ~/.xinitrc and using the the one you mentioned would im sure work to . just better practice the other way :)

[kemical]

screen and ratpoison :)

screen for my console apps, allows me to detach at my workstation and reattach using putty at my work winnt pc.

ratpoison let me use gui's like mozilla, gftp, etc :) small, fast, stable.

[dunbar]

I like displaying 'nothingness', it leaves computer 'spys' completely disoriented without a clue on how it (the PC) works. 'I am the master of the PC, BWaaahhahahahaha' and all that ego stuff.

I suppose Fluxbox would do the same.

:D :D :D

[DarkJedi9]

Yeah, with Waimea I love moving to a blank virtual desktop (I have it set so that you must hold control, not just push against the edge of the screen). It leaves people very disoriented to see the blank desktop. Plus it's fun to then move back to the one you're working on; people never notice the keypress. And Windows users have no comprehension of virtual desktops, so they assume you magically made all the windows reappear with some mouse gesture or something.

[GaryJones32]

Hi guys,

Fascinated at the popularity of the more traditional type Linux WM
like blackbox however i'd like to point out so people can mess with it.

I think fnwm2 is faster than blackbox and even the scaled down hackedbox.

When I boot to login I'm using 35620 ram
after booting fvwm2 and opening rxvt I'm using 44004 ram
that's with a task bar, pager, and a button that sets the cursor on kill.

That's probubly comparable to blackbox, but bottom line fvwm2 is faster
and more feature rich.

I love the way blackbox is easy to use and configure
but fvwm2 will do everything blackbox will do and lots more in
infinite variety just a litle harder to figure out.
With the exception of some of the visual shading.

[DarkJedi9]

Waimea is based on Blackbox. It can even use Blackbox styles with a few modifications to the Blackbox style files. I don't know my RAM usage but I know it runs pretty darn quick.