who uses a popular gui and who has a light wm?

rusty_slacker · 11-06-2004, 05:13 PM

hey...
i know gnome and kde are the most popular, but they are also the heaviest

there are a number of small wms like icewm, wmaker, blackbox, and fluxbox

but who uses which?

Zuggy · 11-06-2004, 09:17 PM

I mostly use IceWM with some Xfce thrown in on my laptop. I use KDE on Fedora but since I use my laptop a lot more I voted light

Lleb_KCir · 11-06-2004, 09:58 PM

i use both gnome and kde, but that is just because im still a mega newbie and dont know enough to configure other Xwindow GUIs yet.

maybe someday ill check out the others, but for now ill stick with what comes bundled with the distros i use.

sutley · 11-06-2004, 10:05 PM

Eh, Gnome is heavier, but my computer seems to run pretty darn fast for a 733Mhz, I'm not hurting for space, and it easier on the eyes.

cb_linus · 11-07-2004, 01:29 PM

voted for light wm - Pekwm at the moment

beaucoup · 11-07-2004, 01:45 PM

I'm a recent convert, myself. I was addicted to IceWM for years, but just a few weeks ago, when I changed distributions, I put in a full-fledged KDE 3.3.1 desktop, to try it out. I never realized how much I was missing!
I'm of course going to keep Ice on my low-speed/low-res machines, or for when I work over remote X11 from my Mac, but here on my Linux desktop, I don't think I'll ever go back.

Mortus Canis · 11-07-2004, 08:21 PM

I use XFCE4, because it is light, but still uses the gtk, so it looks kind of like gnome. I run it on my AMD 2600+ system.

stonecrest · 11-07-2004, 08:39 PM

xfce here and i love it!

theYinYeti · 11-08-2004, 01:59 AM

I like Matchbox.

oneandoneis2 · 11-08-2004, 02:31 AM

FVWM, myself. But I have GNOME & KDE installed for my gf. . .

bones996 · 11-08-2004, 03:28 AM

I really like icewm on my 2500 xp machine, but I use the newer kde on my production box (1800 xp).

sendas4 · 11-08-2004, 12:35 PM

I use fluxbox. I cant stand a huge wms. Main reason i hated windows was becuase of the gui with tons of stuff i would never use.

ror · 11-08-2004, 12:53 PM

I don't like my window manager to configure my system/hardware, which is why I use a window manager instead of a whole desktop environment like kde/gnome/xfce.

reddazz · 11-09-2004, 05:06 AM

I like working in KDe/GNOME unless I am administering a server or workstation in which case I use fluxbox if I need to use a GUI at all.

J.W. · 11-09-2004, 03:32 PM

Not that it matters, but KDE is what I would recommend to anyone, so long as their hardware can support it. The more RAM, the better. Just my 2 cents -- J.W.