[Novalug] fluxbox - alternative to gnome3/xfce

John Holland jbholland@gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 17:00:38 EST 2011


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I installed LXDE, it seemed very well done. It found all my apps and
added them to its menu. I see it is said to be very efficient in terms
of use of power etc.

But I logged back into Fluxbox. I just like it for some reason. It seems
more - UNIXy. LXDE looks to be very closely modeled after Win 95-XP.
Fluxbox is more out of the FVWM, Windowmaker, Afterstep etc school. I've
been enjoying that. I see enough of a Windows desktop during the day.

But LXDE is definitely more the ticket for people coming from Windows
who want something more familiar. It is probably more actively developed
as well judging from what I saw about it.

On 11/15/2011 7:59 PM, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> I was also going to suggest LXDE.
>
> And I wouldn't exactly call Fluxbox cool.
>
> JIM
>
> On 10/25/2011 1:45 PM, The Doctor wrote:
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>> On 10/18/2011 07:42 PM, John Holland wrote:
>>> Fluxbox is cool. Here is a site with good info for how to set up.
>>> I yummed it onto Fedora 16 beta and it does not interfere with
>>> anything, when you log in and enter your password it is an option
>>> on the session list.
>> After getting burned by Gnome 3 and KDE v4.7n I installed LXDE
>> (http://lxde.org/) and haven't looked back.
>>
>> - --
>>
>> The Doctor [412/724/301/703]
>>
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