jaunty slow on laptop

[Jayson Williams]

> Jesus man, why don't you go back in time and install twm and run term
> and xclock, yuck!
>
> Really, I found fluxbox unusable and font size was inconstant between
> themes.  Makes me remember how awful X started out.
>
> Gnome or even KDE is light-years ahead of fluxbox.  Sure the screen
> shots of flux on the web "look" good, but it's not what you think.  Just
> another reason to not ditch ctrl+backspace!


Not to hijack the OP thread, but I guess in the end it boils down to
what you want your system to be able to do. All the eye candy of Gnome
was great, but the steady decline in performance was not worth it for
me. Could have been my ineptness in configuring Gnome, but why should
I have to be a guru to make my display manager behave the way I want
it to. Not sure when you last had a look at fluxbox, but in my
opinion, fluxbox does with simplicity what it says it will do. Three
or four configuration files that clearly control the look and feel of
everything. If your want the eye candy thing, gdesklets offers a
plethora of options. Fluxbox takes a small bit of getting use to, and
I was not a fan when I first tired it out. But after being frustrated
with Xfce and Gnome, (admittedly I have never given KDE a whirl),
Fluxbox allowed me to configure everything exactly the way I wanted
it, with no surprises. As an added bonus, my login time dropped from
almost 20 seconds to about 5 seconds.  If your priority is fancy
transitions, animated icons and all the other compiz like bells and
whistles, Fluxbox may not be for you (although you can do most of that
in Fluxbox as well). But if your priority is efficiency, speed and
complete yet simple control of your window managers configuration,
then I would highly recommend Fluxbox 1.1.1.
Its not just for cavemen anymore : )