[arch-general] lxde + fluxbox.
Hi, I'm not a DE (desktop environment) user, and I'm not planning to become one. I'm pretty comfortable with plain fluxbox... However when people wonders about how to start on a linux kernel based OS, specially to be able to run on old or low end machines, they really expect a DE, not knowing that both major ones (gnome and kde) are really bloated and they better stay out of their way, :-) So LXDE sounds like the DE I'd like to experiment with, but I'd like to use fluxbox instead of openbox. I'm not familiar with LXDE, so perhaps a pointer to a tutorial or howto for this WM switch might be useful. I'd guess is not just calling startfluxbox in some configuration file (like ~/.xinitrc), but some care is required for keyboard management as well since fluxbox offer its own keybinding, :-) Also I'd liek to know what problems are to be faced because of using fluxbox before hand if possible... Any help will be greatly appreciated, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.
Hi, On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>wrote:
I'm not familiar with LXDE, so perhaps a pointer to a tutorial or howto for this WM switch might be useful.
I'm neither a LXDE nor a Fluxbox user but you may find answers there: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#Replacing_Window_Managers -- Cédric Girard
2011/10/3 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>:
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>wrote:
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I'm neither a LXDE nor a Fluxbox user but you may find answers there: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#Replacing_Window_Managers
-- Cédric Girard
Thanks a lot, definitely what I was looking for, :-) Thanks, -- Javier.
On Mon 03 Oct 2011 05:38:52 PM CEST, Javier Vasquez wrote:
2011/10/3 Cédric Girard <girard.cedric@gmail.com>:
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:02 AM, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v@gmail.com>wrote:
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I'm neither a LXDE nor a Fluxbox user but you may find answers there: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#Replacing_Window_Managers
-- Cédric Girard
Thanks a lot, definitely what I was looking for, :-)
Thanks,
you can safely just use fluxbox + lxpanel + pcmanfm and basically have all you need... maybe some minor things missing, but most things should work already...
participants (3)
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Cédric Girard
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Javier Vasquez
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Rasmus Steinke