Comments on: Alternate Desktop Manager – Xfce / Fluxbox / Enlightenment / Blackbox / Openbox / Afterstep / FVWM / WindowMaker : Ubuntu (6.06.1 / 6.10)

By: Remodeling

Remodeling — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:08:09 +0000

Xfce has just enough “eye candy” with the Xfce4 window manager. I don’t add Compiz or any other stuff just to make it prettier. I have translucent panels, a panel that is invisible unless I mouse over it, and sweet little apps in the bottom panel that I like (weather, analog clock, stuff like that). It runs speedily and sweetly on my poor old hand-me-down Dell with it’s scant 512 RAM. I agree, Xfce strikes the perfect balance between features and speed. But most of all I love it’s simplicity! What can I say, some kids prefer simple things.

By: Kesha

Kesha — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:59:44 +0000

I started using XFce back in the early 3 series. It was great, fast, small footprint and yes it resembled CDE; which is my work environment in the lab. Made transition from desk to lab easier. I even got 3 people hooked on XFce. I shall convert the world, I tell you, oops did I say that out loud.
Well, I have noticed in the 4 series, more prettiness; me likes that, and a longer start up time. Well, the system I am running on is not a slow machine by any account. So, I don’t mind the pokey startup, but at the same time, how often do I start XFce? Once a week, unless the power here at work takes a dive. Try running KDE or Gnome for a week straight. I get increased memory usage as time goes on with them.
Just thought I would put my thoughts out.

By: jordan

jordan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:10:21 +0000

manager does not have any pop up gui for when I move or copy one file to another location. I almost accidently moved all my home files to another folder trying to move the icons around in

By: jack

jack — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:00:01 +0000

Fluxbox is not only for low-end PC, I has many benefits on any level of PC, such as speed, stable, powerful/easy apps/menus/keys configuration.

By: Vistaus

Vistaus — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:03:55 +0000

Yes, it works on KDE. The command is “sudo update-menus” (without the quotes)

By: Sourav Mohanty

Sourav Mohanty — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:58:48 +0000

Does it work with KDE version as the command update-menu is not there in KDE.

By: tmx

tmx — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:11:52 +0000

Sorry, it seem there is a progress bar, but it will not show up if I move files to the dekstop or around the desktop.

By: tmx

tmx — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:21:23 +0000

I am using xfce, but the main thing that is seemed missing for me is the thunar file manager does not have any pop up gui for when I move or copy one file to another location. I almost accidently moved all my home files to another folder trying to move the icons around in the desktop.

By: jmage

jmage — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:45:19 +0000

now wait im used to the normal gnome desktop. and though you are correct that WM is as you say a windows manager not a desktop manager, it isnt bad. and it isnt that hard to get used to. it has a learning curve of about 5-10 minutes for someone with a decent amount of linux experience. I just found this page and apt-got (lol) it about an hour or two ago and i havent booted back into gnome.or any of the other ones. I have found Xfce to STILL be slightly taxing. If you have limited memory i recommend fluxbox or WM. and openbox, enlightenment, blackbox, should be saved for the ppl who really love them, because honestly the end user of Ubuntu usually wont use the others all that much.

By: r5d

r5d — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:36:03 +0000

You’re adressing people used to clicking things, right? The typical ubuntu-user?

I seriously doubt that recommending WMs (yes, it’s called a “window manager”, the definition of the term “desktop” varies) like fvwm will have any effect other that an angry ‘apt-get remove $WM’ after some minutes