where is fluxbox!? its the best gui ever made

Fluxbox

I voted Gnome. But that is not the whole truth. But CDE r00lze! :^D kidding.

But seriously, on a machine with the horse power to spare, I marginally prefere Gnome to KDE. But I can live quite comfortably with either. However Gnome seems lighter on calories but just as filling and perhaps a bit tastier. (More eye candy)

But on my low horse power 486DX2/50 it is definately flux box. I just don't like the limited and mostly ugly available themes. Well, the ones provided with DSL (Damned Small Linux) anyway.

I use my trusty ol' laptop nearly as much as my desktop. So I really have two primary desktop apps.

Fluxbox on my DeMuDi Linux system as its very light on RAM,
my system is a PIII-500 with 256Mb of RAM, Gnome + KDE
really slow my system down, with Fluxbox it speeds along :-)

After playing around with them all I got stuck with FluxBox. The only one that stayed stady and is small to do everything.

KDE = to much Win-like (that one operating system I never used, yes those people exist :-))
Gnome = does not work for me
XFCE = I did use for a long time, only since release 4 nothing seems to work like you want to
Enlightenment = lumpy
WindowMaker = to big, yet not configurable like it should be
iceWM = also nice, only not handy
and so on ....

ION I use because I'm coming from DOS and not Win... So I still love that keyboard. This gives you just what you need in combination with 3ddesktop.

Actually I do not like icons on my desktop. So everything that supports that is not for me.

Fluxbox - a/k/a son of Blackbox. I have used
IceWM in the past, and like it very much, but
I find Fluxbox (even) lighter and (even) easier
to configure.

At first, I was using Gnome. That was until one time I decided to have a look at the rest of the window managers that came with Fedora 2. I've been using KDE ever since because of it's high-tech look and fairly quick load time.

For me, GNOME was a bit.. well, fat?

Also, I like the way they put k.... on the front of EVERY application and it still looks okay!

This puts me in a VERY small minority here, I'm sure, but I've been using Ion for three days now, and I love it! There's no extra graphical garbage to get in your way, the few applications I regularly use (Firefox, gnome-terminal, xine, vi) I can easily start from the F3 prompt, and just leave running, I can add new workspaces as I need them, and I'm using the mouse less and less (and wondering why I used to use it so much...). It's a great window manager for keyboard junkies. And, even though I'm looking forward to the release of Gnome 2.10, I'll probably continue to use Ion.

Why?

I do not want to throw away about 250 MB of memory for the desktop (like KDE)

You should investigate the memory use of GUI's and applications, so that on memory tight systems you can still do your thing...

(1 kterm = 35 MB, 1 Gnome term= 29.5 MB, 1 aterm = 3 MB)

The ability to use Fluxbox's tabs & grouping is something hard to give up. It's also light-weight enough to make it usable on my old P133/32meg laptop

Fluxbox

I use both on this old laptop.. The system defaults to flux, yet I can bring up KDE from here..

I use FVWM2 it's simple it works and I can get to what I need faster than with those other desktops and all their pretty icons and backdrops.
Black background no icons and the pager set at 4x4- takes care of my needs completely

I use fluxbox.. Who needs all those stinking icons anyhow... Besides with the right wallpaper and a aterm with transparecy it can look pretty good... KDE has too much eyecandy, and you can run kde applications in flux anyhow.....

fvwm2

Better for you...less filling.

Yeah, the subject pretty much says it all:-)

Ordinarily, I use Blackbox as my windowmanager, but on occasion, I use other WMs instead. It comes down to what features I need at the time, and what "suits my fancy".

I regularly use WMX and XFCE/XFWM and KDE, but have, on occasion, used Gnome and FVWM95 and FVWM and UDE/UWM.

That's the beauty of this environment; you're not stuck with one 'official' desktop any more than you are stuck with one 'official' OS. Instead, you have the choice at any time to change any part of your Linux experience to your own satisfaction.

I don't use "desktop environments". Just good ole' FVWM2 configured the way I like it.

Fvwm, with the iconbox disabled for ultra simplicity and speed.

Fluxbox again - it's very configurable through files like init, menu, and keys... Even the themes are easy to edit, changing fonts and so on.

With key bindings defined in the "keys" file and the "Fluxter" pager, you can have different backgrounds for each workspace, and bring up the menu , navigate to different workspaces, or execute any command you wish without having to click your way through menus or minimise windows to find icons.

I recommend the latest versions (the 0.9.9 or 10 development ones), which still have the tabbing functionality, but without the actual tabs themselves. You can also have translucent menus and other eye candy if you wish!

Thorough documentation with examples : http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/docbook/en/html/book1.html

I generally have two desktops running concurrently - one running fluxbox (for gentoo related emerges etc.) and the other running KDE.

So I'm weird.

Openbox one of the branche of BB. And second choice is XFCE

Motif Window Manager
OpenMotif 2.1.30-5

Use Fluxbox (Blackbox fork).

I use fluxbox. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/

I am extremely partial to Dropline GNOME on Slackware Linux.

It's easy on these old eyes of mine. Plus it has never faulted out since installing it or lost any documents.

I've been Redmond XPloder free since October 2003 and loving every minute of it.

I currently use the latest version of XFCE - 4.2 RC1. It installs very easily in Debian using apt and the repository given in this article: http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=37

I use Afterstep.

evilwm has an option to start without any decorations, that is the main reason for using this window manager. I've not seen a window manager with this capability other than evilwm. Hence my choice.

evilwm!!!
evilwm.sourceforge.net :)