Old style GNOME UI

Posted Apr 28, 2011 16:14 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (guest, #3032)
In reply to: Old style GNOME UI by tjc
Parent article: Ubuntu 11.04 released

I've also found Xfce to be tunable to suit my expected GNOME experience rather effortlessly. I can't say that I'm missing any of the additional integration that GNOME offers. The switch has also reduced the boot time of this ageing laptop from 65 seconds down to 45.

Fluxbox

Posted Apr 28, 2011 18:56 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (1 responses)

If you have an aging laptop, may I suggest that your tweaking time may be better used with Fluxbox?

While I appreciate there is better *promised* integration in the large DMs+WMs like GNOME, KDE, and XFCE, I know that when I've tried them, there is always some hacking needed to get them right. So, I then asked myself "what's an environment that is *designed* to facilitate 'hacking to get right'?" Answer: Fluxbox. :)

Just a suggestion, please no flames. :)

Fluxbox

Posted Apr 29, 2011 0:15 UTC (Fri) by wertigon (guest, #42963) [Link]

I find that if you go with one of the *box variants, might as well go all out with awesome. :)

Just my personal op though.