window managers

[Brian Pack]

On Thursday 24 March 2005 09:55 pm, toyfactory wrote:
> Hi, I'm thinking about trying to find an alternative to Gnome.  A few
> years ago I had a vaguely functional Red Hat 7 setup using Enlightenment
> window manager.  I was able to run a whole load of Gnome apps, so
> presumably I had all the Gnome libraries installed.  I guess I would be
> possible to do the same with Ubuntu.  I might try KDE as another
> heavyweight alternative to Gnome.  But what about all the other,
> lighter, managers like Enlightenment, Xfce, Fluxbox, Icewm, Afterstep
> etc.  Is anyone here using something other than Gnome or KDE?  How easy
> was it to get configured (I'm happy with text files, provided they're
> easy to find and well documented) and was there any difficulty getting
> already installed Gnome or KDE apps working with it?

I'm running fluxbox, and setup was as simple as installing menu and running 
update-menus.

I'd suggest grabbing Blackbox, Eterm, and the old XV viewer packages to 
maximize compatibility with most style files. (You'll need to Google for XV. 
It's not in the Ubuntu repositories.)

I've done minimal tweaking in my .fluxbox setup files. I have just a couple of 
items that don't register when I do update-menus, and I have the --no-desktop 
option for Nautilus. Other than that, I've just had to tweak the style files 
to make them play well with gdesklets. Even that was just replacing xv or 
bsetbg with Esetroot.

The only thing I haven't been able to get the way I want it is automatically 
running gnome-settings-daemon when Fluxbox (or KDE) starts. I've just gotten 
into the habit of going to Apps -> System -> GNOME -> Gnome Control Center. 
If I select something like fonts or sound, it'll start gnome-settings-daemon. 
I'm running GDM, if that helps anyone who might have suggestions here. :)
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