XFce
Norberto Quintanar
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Mar 2 17:25:02 2004
I'm a huge fan of fluxbox. If you have access to a high speed
connection download phlak at phlak.org. Unfortunately, it'll only
work on a PC. You can make a PC bootable CD and use fluxbox to get
used to it, w/ installing it. The default is Xfce, which you already
enjoy.
--- Greg Hamilton <gregh@object-craft.com.au> wrote:
> OK, it compiled and installed without a problem. It looks really
> good.
>
> It's not as quick as Blackbox, but it looks much nicer with it's
> anti-aliased fonts and such. Starts much faster than KDE and Gnome,
>
> uses GTK+ so it looks very Gnomish and the apps I tend to use work
> a
> treat.
>
> I really like the default window manager. I haven't checked to see
> what
> it is yet, but it has a couple of configuration options that are
> missing from Metacity, the Gnome default. Rubber-banding on window
> resizing and moving for example, really good on a slow box. Must
> try
> the window manager with Gnome.
>
> Haven't seen Fluxbox in action yet.
>
>
> On 02/03/2004, at 11:18 PM, Phil Darling wrote:
>
> > I haven't run XFce on YDL, but I have run it on my gentoo ppc
> box.
> > It's lightweight and very nice indeed. Another nice alternative
> to
> > blackbox is fluxbox, which is what I currently run...
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> > On Mar 1, 2004, at 9:04 PM,
> > yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
> >
> >> Re: XFce
> >
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--Norberto Quintanar
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