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Mocheeba
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 Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: Advice for a newbie, please:) |
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After a good five hours of work I've finally managed to install Gentoo  However, now I wonder what to do next. I would really like a graphical environment, the question is just: what should I go for? As of now the only apps I need to run on my box are OpenOffice and Fontforge. Therefore I see reason why I would want to install a heavy DE such as Gnome or KDE. Does anyone have suggestion as to what I should install? I would like it to be very lightweight...
Thanks.
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Mocheeba
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| ... I would like the WM or DE to be very lightweight, that is |
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kimchi_sg
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Any of the *box window managers (Openbox, fluxbox, blackbox etc) fits your bill. fvwm is also very popular.
For lightweight desktop environment, try xfce (emerge xfce4).
By the way, you can edit your posts in this forum, your second post was unnecessary. |
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Mocheeba
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Thanks a bunch! I'll try that...
(I didn't notice the edit-function, so thanks again) |
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i92guboj
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You have all these options 
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[ /etc/portage/profile ]-[1]: ls /usr/portage/x11-wm/
aewm evilwm jwm oroborus-extras treewm
aewm++ fluxbox kahakai papuawm trswm
aewm++-goodies flwm larswm pawm vtwm
afterstep fvwm lwm pekwm waimea
amiwm golem matchbox plwm windowlab
blackbox icewm metacity pwm windowmaker
blwm integrity metadata.xml qvwm wm2
ctwm ion metisse ratpoison wmi
e ion2 openbox sawfish wmii
enlightenment ion3 oroborus selectwm xpde
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Well, there are tons of topics about the thing. Search a bit on these forums.
I will try to give a summarized overview of the options. First of all, you need to decide if you need a desktop environment (DE) or a window manager (WM) is enough for you. If you have a very specific purpose for that machine, then I would go with a WM. A DE includes a WM amongst many tons of applications, like a desktop manager, usually a pager, a taskbar and all that fancy toys that Widozed users like a lot.
A window manager is (relatively) small application that put the tittle and borders around the windows and, maybe, has some basic features, like a task manager or a pager. DE's are KDE, Gnome, Xfce4 and E17. All the rest in that list are WM's. If need a DE, the lightest is Xfce4, if you need a WM, well, its all about tastes, but I would advice you to use fluxbox is you are not a power user. I also like a lot enlightenment and windowmaker, and my favourite (but also more dificult to give a shot into) is fvwm. There is a very huge thread regarding fvwm in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-333503-highlight-fvwm.html where you can find some configuration tips and screenshots. There is also a fvwm-crystal package, that is a pre-configured version of fvwm (I never tried it, though). |
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GNUtoo
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look on wikipedia...
there are screenshot and explaination about a lot of well-known and unknown WM
unfortunately ede (http://ede.sourceforge.net/page/) is not present in portage |
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