On Wednesday 14 May 2003 04:57, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 15:08, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Dennis Tuchler wrote:
Is there a desktop, a little less loaded down with features than KDE or Gnome, but still reasonably useful? I am using SuSE 8.2 and find that both desktops are much slower than they were under 8.0, and suspect that with less stuff going on in the background, I can get a little more speed up front.
Have a look at XFCE: http://www.xfce.org/
Bye, LenZ
Thank you for the reference to the xfce site. I left some questions there.
XFCE is also included on the 8.2 discs and I find it very fast, lightweight, and more configurable - as far as ease of use ragarding end user configurations. Another lightweight wm is blackbox. It is similar to XFCE insofar as being fast, lightweight, and configurable - but not quite as user friendly as XFCE IMHO. And lastly, my two favorite WMs outside of KDE (Gnome maybe back in the running now that is seems more functional - the jury's out still) is: WindowMaker; it is fast and configurable, has many of it's own applets yet SuSE has folding in access to a full range of programs via the menu. It has a couple of package that go with it - WMs own config and settings programs. These to make the look and feel customizable and the other makes it possible to tweak menus and things deeper down in the WM. The only thing is that while tweaking the look and feel is pretty easy and harmless. The other can get you into a tad bit of trouble if you make a mistake with the config tool - this is remedied by deleting the folder in the /home/<user> for WindowMaker and then relog in - but they all do this IIRC (you don't loose anything like docs, etc, but go back to the defaults). It also has many themes and looks. Pretty nice Enlightenment: My other favorite. And I'm much happier with the latest version in 8.2. It to has all the KDE/SuSE and Gnome entries in the menu preset. You can add more if you want, but takes a bit of work since it isn't exactly intuitive to a newb/end-user - though doable. However SuSE, by popular demand I suspect, put back and configured a full set of "Epplets". Applets that are fairly small, fast, and easy to setup and use - the defaults are set in th menu already. It's very configurable and has many themes and the look and feel can be changed easily - not to mention added on later. I have been spending a fair amount of time in this lately getting reacquanted :) Check these out. That should keep you busy! :) Cheers, Curtis.