Fluxbox like GUI's?
 

There is a bunch of Fluxbox like GUI's right? I'm curious what the other ones are called and how they differ from one another and which might be the best for a novice user to try and set up and configure.

what is "typical fluxbox"?
there's openbox, widespread, stable, standards compliant and lightweight.
there's blackbox, even more lightweight, but undeveloped for ~10 years now.
these 3 are actually related to each other, i think blackbox was the mother.

there's loads of other minimalistic window managers, most of them tiling (so not like fluxbox).

OpenBox has great default keybindings, is configured using very readable XML files (or with GUI configuration tools like obconf), and works great when you add things like tint2. It doesn't have its own taskbar or system tray.

Note there is a difference between 'window managers' and 'desktop environments'.
Look at the table at bottom of this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...indow_managers

Hope it helps.

Here is my OpenBox screenshot from 2011, with tint2, wbar and conky. When the system is fully loaded RAM usage is about 105 MB.

Just stumbled across this:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/learn...s-496799.shtml

a quick overview.

are you serious?
i mean, of course everyone should use syntax highlighting and apply proper indentation, but without that i find xml very hard to read...
:)

Look here
http://xwinman.org/

My personal notes are

Blackbox has no built-in facilities other than window management: add panel, pager, and clock, with bbkeys for shortcuts.
Openbox is based on Blackbox, with the same tools available. ObConf provides (poor) GUI configuration.
Fluxbox is based on Blackbox and offers more facilities.

Icewm. GUI configuration tools available. Panel with clock and pager, which can show icons.

Fvwm. Very complex configuration and odd defaults: e.g. no Alt-Tab.

Jwm. Panel available with menu, pager, clock, etc. Side panel possible.

Pekwm. Minimalist: no panel or pager installed, but supports shortcuts including key chains.

WindowMaker. Emulates NeXt, like Afterstep but with better (although not entirely adequate) documentation. No panel, but a dock and taskbar (both very large) are provided. Limited graphical configuration is provided by WPrefs.

Rat poison. Tiling, mouseless system with very strange shortcuts.

Wmii. Odd keyboard shortcuts that have to be changed because the use of Alt conflicts with programs.

Thank you guys! I'll research each one and make a decision.

Yes, actually I was serious about OpenBox's XML files being easy to read. And I mean "easy to read." Not "easy to read for XML."

Fluxbox itself can be a lot of fun and once you have you the config set there is little upkeep. Screenshot:

http://www.andrews-corner.org/images..._slackware.jpg

All run by a handful of very simple text files in ~/.fluxbox