[arch-general] Openbox - great lightweight desktop, similar to icewm, but better in several regards

[David Rosenstrauch]

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