Which window manager?

petteyg359 · Apr 30, 2005

So from reading around I see that other people have the opinion that KDE sucks, Gnome is bad, IceWM is good, and fluxbox rocks. I've always liked KDE... I might try fluxbox, but does it have stuff similar to KDEadmin, KCron, etc?

Kendan · Apr 30, 2005

try XFCE-4 http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=overview&lang=en

Also opinions don't really tell you the whole story it is easier to try them out for yourself and see what you like.

eNightmare · Apr 30, 2005

I personally never really liked the look and feel to kde...I like the minimal look to gnome...i haven't tried many others, except IceWM (which i almost hated!)...but i'm on my way to checking more out.

MRD · May 1, 2005

I find KDE too slow (and too windows-ish). Gnome is much faster / more responsive. I like Fluxbox too.

Just emerge them all, that's what I did. Then I tried them all out. I pretty much use either Fluxbox or Gnome.

Luie · May 1, 2005

I have KDE but that is because it was "default". I want to try other window managers (and I did search and did goggle but didn't find my answer...)
Question: How do I change from KDE to another windows manager without installing the OS again and select the windows manager there?

Gnufsh · May 1, 2005

What distro are you using?

If you're using a login managed (eg gdm, kdm, xdm), they should allow you to select which of the installed WMs to use. If you just ise startx, you need to modify .xinitrc to start your preferred WM instead of kde.

Luie · May 1, 2005

WOW! Thanks for the super fast reply.
Ok. Thanks very much. I did a search again with those key words and found my answer.
It is at:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/changeman.html

I need to modify .xinitrc

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