Looking for WM suggestions please

964racer · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 57

This is my second gentoo system..The first one quickly became a test bench/playground for different versions of X/gnome and KDE and over time it became a mess. It was fairly troublesome to upgrade gnome or kde without running into a lot of cross dependency issues and over a period of time, my system became fairly polluted.

This time around, I'm really interested in going with something very simple, light and easy to upgrade/customize. I used fluxbox for a while and it was pretty fast/nice. What I would like to have is file icons on the desktop (with associations) - ie not just launcher icons, - but I was hoping I wouldn't have to go to kde or gnome to get that.... Also being able to configure themes is important as well.

Any suggests on desktop environmens or add-ons for a WM that will give you this. ?

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

KDE
Gnome
XFCe

mixing stuff will slow things down.
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crzy · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 6

hey i have used gnome,fluxbox,xfce4,enlightment. The easiest and fastest was xfce4. the WM had everything i needed. launch box task bar and very easy to setup the way you want it. try it

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dmartin · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

I fun xfce4 with Nautilus to get what you are talking about. Just be sure to add the app menu to the panel, because running Nautilus will keep you from right-clicking on the desktop to see the app menu.

Great thing about xfce4 is that the menu pulls in both KDE and Gnome apps into the same menu.