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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.
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...
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.
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