[vox-tech] Window Managers

[Scott Miller]

*reaches for popcorn*

Hey Rod, have you checked out Xfce? It's somewhat between the
super-minimal ones and something like Gnome.

http://www.xfce.org/about/screenshots

I think it is the default desktop of Xubuntu?

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:47, Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
> I have a hosted server running Ubuntu 8.04 and would like to install
> a simple, lightweight window manager for use with VNC.  Mostly this
> is so I can conduct shared sessions for working with others.  Ideally
> it would be reasonably intuitive for those familiar with Windows,
> Gnome or KDE.
>
> Problem is, there are too many choices!  aewm, blackbox, evilwm,
> flwm, fvwm, icewm, jwm, lwm, metacity, tinywm, twm, and more.
>
> I tried twm and metacity so far.  twm is ugly.  metacity is nice but
> doesn't do much by itself (e.g. no task bar or launcher), and adding
> gnome-panel or gnome-control-center brings in a whole bunch of stuff
> that I don't want or need.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks....
>
> Rod
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