I like Floating Penguins, Key Bindings.Shortcut menus. Styles. Speed. Ram Usage <conky shows firefox open ram usage on Desktop 1>. Cpu usage.Tiling Windows feature. Ease of configuration. On my Icewm Window Manager.

Heh. I picked up OpenBox for my desktop on this post, and I've found I use the mouse just as much (quite a bit). When I'm at my desk I don't use the keyboard much to drive my WM outside of Alt+Tab. Even then, shading (mouse wheel up on the title) or moving the window to the bottom of the stack (middle click the title) gets me there, too. Can't say I've ever used another workspace unless by accident, in either case.

One thing that I like about either (OpenBox/Fluxbox) is the (Dock/Slit) because I can park gkrellm and my tray apps in it and set it to auto-hide. They're both easy to setup and add things to. Though, I don't yet know how to make my own OB theme, but it can't be too hard.

Piece of cake: http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Themes

Copy an existing theme, and start from there. The themerc is a plain text file, no css or anything like that - just key: value pairs and a few images.

Can you give me an example of how OpenBox's keybindings are better than FluxBox's?

Thanks for asking this. I actually formed my opinion over a decade ago, and it's quite possible that I should give Fluxbox another try.

My impression is that I liked OpenBox's workspace hotkeys (switch workspace, move window to workspace, etc) better, but the current Fluxbox manpage has them as being (now?) almost the same as OpenBox's.

99.9% of the time I'm using Fluxbox.

(The other 0.1% of the time I use what came with the live distro. )

I only eat broccoli...

Here doing roasted brussel sprouts in the oven sprinkled with garlic butter and spices.

Posting tonight from Ash Window Manager.

I love those slightly blackened (just olive oil and seasalt last I did! My post was[sarcastic][/sarcastic] in case anyone missed that. Spice of life! )


I'm giving Gnome a try for the first time in a while and I still dislike it. Likely back to Xfce (tho I may try this

again for sometime first?



http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5642586

most keybinds can be configured the same way in both *boxes, but openbox has some nifty functionality for resizing & moving windows, effectively being able to do rudimentary manual tiling with the keyboard.
i haven't found that in fluxbox?
i'm not being a fanboi here, just trying to find out.

I use Openbox exclusively. Both with mouse & keybindings...

Yep, half the fun is piecing together what works for you.

WM: OpenBox
Menus: Some custom pipe menus in Python
Panel: tint2
Conky: Serene

Cinnnamon desktop by far for DE, its very tweakable and quite stable these days.
For a featherweight WM I rather like JWM

The first DE I ever used would have been gnome, but I switched to KDE because (at least back then anyways) gnome kept crashing on me. Personally I think KDE has better bundled software than gnome ever has. And have used KDE ever since, but it is a matter of taste.

Doesn't sound like a fanboi response to me. I guess I'd have to explore OpenBox's keybindings. At the moment I do have a couple keybindings with Fluxbox that use wmctrl.