Re: Window managers-which one?



On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I
may get bored and try something else but fluxbox is lean mean but pretty
functional.

I went pretty much the same way, but then one day I thought fluxbox was
kind of slow to draw menus etc... And I found openbox! It's fast, looks
just like fluxbox, except that it doesn't have the extra fluff. :-)
You may want to give it a try.

J.


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