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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Alex Alexander
<alex.alexander@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> fluxbox is a nice, lightweight, usable WM :)
I have used IceWM (http://www.icewm.org/) for years on an old P2
233MHz with 64Mb RAM. But you had to edit the menu by editing a text
file.
Ubuntu has a lightweight version (Xubuntu) which uses XFCE
(http://www.xfce.org/). You could download a xubuntu iso image and run
it from the live-cd to experience it's features.
XFCE seems to have a more active development (more recent releases)
than IceWM. That's also true for the e-builds:
http://www.gentoo-portage.com/xfce-base/xfce4/ChangeLog#ptabs
HTH,
Martin
P.S. anyone noticed that this time I didn't forget to send only plain
text instead of all the HTML stuff? :-D
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