David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
After reading the newsletter article about old boxes with minimal hardware
collecting dust in a closet, I thought about the openbox desktop I had just
given a run-through and thought I would pass it along. You have several
lightweight desktops to choose from, icewm, fluxbox, etc.., but also add
openbox to the list. As a minimal desktop, it is pretty cool. Damn fast,
easily configurable, and well implemented. (it even ran Virtualbox with a XP
guest for me)
All in all, I was as impressed with openbox as I was with icewm. Both
are great lightweight window managers that will get the job done and, if you
are on older hardware, they will definitely blow the doors off KDE/Gnome from
a performance perspective. Pretty cool.
Haven't tried openbox, but I like fluxbox a lot which is quite similar
IIRC. I use flux as my "lightweight window manager" from time to time,
when I don't want the bloat and/or slower load time of full-blown KDE.
(e.g., I always use fluxbox as the WM inside of any VM.)
DR