Hi all,

I've been using OpenBox for a little while now and I would like to try something new. Before i totally jump ship with OpenBox, I'd like to see what everyone else prefers and why.

i like xfce (a lot like openbox, but probably less customizable) but most of the time i just stick with gnome as i look at my desktop less than i do my vmware window :P

nice. I've been thinking of xMonad. Ever tried it Maz?

haven't even heard of it

i started going through the list that is included in knoppix, but a lot of them were buggy and had issues

I'm using ArchLinux and everyone on the forums seems to like window managers with all keyboard shortcuts and no mouse use.

Don't get me wrong i love shortcuts and all just now that much

xmonard is really nice !!! :)
its a very nice tilling window manager !! many users like it! =)

Typically I use Gnome for desktop environment. Though I do use xfce from time to time, mainly on LiveCDs.
It really does depend on what you want/need in a desktop really. If you just want to keep it simple, a click here or there or running a low memory computer, xfce is great. If you want a frilly type of desktop, KDE, or openbox might be for you.

If you REALLY want to get eye candy going, Gnome with Compiz-fusion is an eye catcher.

I'm running a Thinkpad T40 with 1.5gb of ram. Generally, this computer can run any desktop environment I want it to. I find KDE and gnome to be bloated. Every time I use these two, they are just not as responsive as I like it to be. Fluxbox is great and is very responsive, and I can run all of my programs on it. Firefox, conky, mpd, and others. I'm just wondering if there is another window manager that may be a bit better. By better I'm talking about overall functionality and usability.

i've yet to find one i like better than standard fluxbox when i use it on BT3, i agree that gnome and KDE are slow and take longer to load up menus and such, of course there is openbox and i think blackbox as derivatives of it

Maz could you enlighten me as to what BT3 is? is it a Linux distro or a unix or FreeBSD derivative?

back track 3

it's a distro relay good for penetration testing

slackware based linux distro made for pen testing