I am looking for a new X, what is your favorite x window system?
 

What is your favorite x window system for speed mainly and then any other reasons?

I am looking to install a new X windows system since gnome is so slow on my computer and I have heard that blackbox and fluxbox are quick. Any others or ones you prefer?

Let me know why too, thanks.

Hello.

I like to use WindowMaker for speed. It works very well on my old Dell Latitude CPi laptop.

The user-interface is very simple, with little clutter and no frilly graphics (except for a few icons here and there). Instead of a "start button", WindowMaker has a right-click menu that holds everything.

It loads very rapidly. No more waiting on that Gnome splash screen.

It is very customizable.

And, it has a menu effect similar to ones used in Microsoft Encarta. When you select an item, it'll blink for a short time. I think it looks cool.

Next in line is IceWM (at least in my opinion). I never really cared for Fluxbox or Blackbox because they just don't "feel" good to me.

Anyway, that's all I have to say.

Good luck!

I went to fluxbox for now, but am flexible. How did you find fluxbox for against windowmaker? Especially loading speed?

Nobody should be posting threads like these for awhile - I just saw one on 'favorite distro' and now there's this on 'favorite gui' - the LQ Member's Choice Awards are going on right this minute in the very top forum - that answers all these questions.

But, yeah, fluxbox.

Thanks I didn't see that earlier. I will look.

Just saw another one on KDE vs. Gnome - that one got closed. In the polls, there's actually two threads - one about window managers and one about IDEs. If you're looking for people's opinions on the faster lighter stuff, be sure to check out the wm one. :)

I prefer Fluxbox myself. Next in line is definitely IceWM, which, as stated earlier, "feels" better than flux. But fluxbox looks EXTREMEMELY sexy with a nice theme combined with artwiz fonts and transparent xterms. A fluxbox desktop can truly be a work of art if you're willing to work a bit (but definitely not as much as you'd have to in IceWM)

I gotta say I prefer XFce over all these wm's mentioned. I have used black, hacked and flux boxes, but I find XFce4 to be the fastest. Although it does have a slightly larger footprint it seems to more efficiently use resources then others . Just my humble observation, no real bench marks to prove it. Good Luck!

www.xfce.org

Couldn't say it any better myself.

AfterStep
 

AfterStep is awesome! It's really fast and looks great

http://www.afterstep.org/

But, if you are new to linux or don't want to bother with setting stuff up you may not want to use it!

Hope I helped!

i use windowmaker. it's fast and slick. i love it.

All I can say is to try a bunch of them and see what you like. Of course, you'll probably have to spend a few hours fiddling with each in order to see what they're capable of. I used KDE for a while; then Gnome for a long while; then tried Fluxbox and loved it, and finally I'm settled on Blackbox (since I never used the extra features of Fluxbox anyway). Tried XFCE, IceWM, and a few others but I think I've met my match.