Fluxbox

[Neil Winchurst]

>> Art Alexion wrote:
> 
> Neil, I am not sure what you are doing, but for what it's worth:
> 
> People generally choose the lighter WMs to preserve resources taken up by the 
> bigger environments like Gnome and KDE.  But if you run a KDE app, like 
> Konqueror, under xfce or fluxbox, it loads the KDE libs in order to function.  
> So now, you are not only using the substantial resources that KDE alone uses, 
> but you are using them on top of the smaller, but still significant, fluxbox 
> resources.
> 
I was looking at an alternative to KDE partly to see what is out there. 
It is not lack of resources, I have a fast computer with a huge HD and 
two GB of RAM. It is just that, reading some of the comments about KDE4, 
I am wondering if it is all getting too heavy for my needs.

I know I said that it is possible to run KDE apps under Fluxbox, but it 
is not something I would normally do. Only on the odd occasion if I had 
not yet found the Fluxbox way of doing something.

> Now there are gnome programs that load gnome libs, and GTK programs that only 
> load gtk+ libs.  I am not sure about KDE, but I assume that qt programs (as 
> opposed to full blown KDE programs) only load qt libs.
> 
> So, if you are going to run gnome, or KDE, apps regularly, you are better off 
> running them under gnome or KDE than running them under Fluxbox.  If you only 
> run them rarely, that's another story.
> 
> 

Yes, very occasionally and hopefully eventually not at all. I am using 
Kubuntu Gutsy at the moment and I am still wary of trying out Hardy, let 
alone Intrepid. I suspect that it is all getting a bit too heavy for me 
and my needs, especially KDE in its new version.

Anyway, that is why I was trying out various window managers.

Neil