On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:24:06 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
After reading the newsletter article about old boxes with minimal hardware collecting dust in a closet, I thought about the openbox desktop I had just given a run-through and thought I would pass it along. You have several lightweight desktops to choose from, icewm, fluxbox, etc.., but also add openbox to the list. As a minimal desktop, it is pretty cool. Damn fast, easily configurable, and well implemented. (it even ran Virtualbox with a XP guest for me)
All in all, I was as impressed with openbox as I was with icewm. Both are great lightweight window managers that will get the job done and, if you are on older hardware, they will definitely blow the doors off KDE/Gnome from a performance perspective. Pretty cool.
Haven't tried openbox, but I like fluxbox a lot which is quite similar IIRC. I use flux as my "lightweight window manager" from time to time, when I don't want the bloat and/or slower load time of full-blown KDE. (e.g., I always use fluxbox as the WM inside of any VM.)
DR
I'm using openbox on my oldish machine, without panel or anything, and it's quite nice so far. Some apps I use or can recommend: 1) parcellite, so you can copy stuff, close the app you copied from, and still paste it. 2) obtheme, I only know it from the newsletter but it looks nice. 3) the nice wallpaper rotation script: #!/bin/bash WALLPAPERS="$HOME/.wallpapers" ALIST=( `ls -w1 -B --ignore=*.sh $WALLPAPERS` ) RANGE=${#ALIST[*]} SHOW=$(( $RANDOM % $RANGE )) feh --bg-scale $WALLPAPERS/${ALIST[$SHOW]} But I'm really tempted to try a tiling WM like awesome.. Regards, Philipp