Hello everybody. I'm fairly new to Linux and have been using KDE since I started using Linux. The main reason for this is that there was virtually no learning curve in switching from Windows. I have been using linux strictly on a desktop that runs fast enough to handle KDE, but I recently got a laptop (a PIII 600 with 128 ram) and KDE is just way to sluggish on it. I finally got my Linksys WPC54G running, and I plan on using the laptop for school, and I know I will run out of patience with KDE very quickly.
I've tried enlightenment a bit and I used Xfce on a reallly old laptop about a year ago, but I have some trouble learning all the ins and outs of these window managers. Currently, I've been playing around with window maker, but I don't really like it either, although it seems quite a bit more stable than enlightenment or Xfce. Does anyone know of any good info sources on various window managers or have any opinions on what would be a good alternative to Gnome and KDE? Maybe I just need to spend more time tweaking and playing around with some different wm's and find one I like. I'm just not really sure where to start. thanks,
Kris

Yeah, I tried fluxbox a while back....maybe it was an old version or something, because it was so buggy it was pretty much useless. Maybe I'll try it again.

You could take out some of the eye candy of KDE. I also like icewm

Hi, I'd definitely recommend the development version of fluxbox (I think it's 0.9.10 now, while the stable version is 0.1.14) - I find it full-fledged, fast and stable.

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Max

I found the Mandrake 10 rpm for fluxbox 9.9... and I'm trying to install it. I'm having some dependency issues however. I got the libstdc++.so.6 dependency taken care of, but I just tried to install again and now I'm getting an error now due to unsatisfied libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4) I tried searching for an rpm and all I can find is glibc_2.2.x or something similar. Supposedly the glib_2.2.x adds the libc.so.6, but it doesn't seem to be working. I installed the libc packages on the mandrake cd, but I'm still getting the unsatisfied lib error. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or where I should look for the correct lib?
-Kris

Try XFCE 4. I run xfce on my all linux distros. I must say I'm very impressed.

www.xfce.org

Man alive, I always have such stupid problems with fluxbox. So the rpm installation wouldn't work and I got the source for version 9.10 and compiled and installed without a hitch. Now that fluxbox is installed I can't run it because of my stupid KDM login manager. It's crap. Does anyone know how to get rid of kdm so I can just log in from the command line and edit my xinitrc file accordingly....or maybe there's a way to add another window manager option to the stupid dropdown menu. Jeez this is characteristic fluxbox for me...I always have a ton of stupid and probably really easy to avoid problems. ARg.