I always felt KDE was too sluggish. I am an avid Fluxbox user, and got used to it on my 300MHz PII machine with 64MB ram. On that machine, KDE would run, but it was pretty damn slow. Anyway, sence then I have siwtched to a much faster machine (1.4GHz Celeron M processor, 1GB DDR2, 80GB hard drive... it's a laptop), and it is very capable of running KDE, even at full graphics settings, but even so, I keep falling back to Fluxbox. Fluxbox just seems so much more crisp to me. I want to be able to click things and make them happen, but have my stuff look good doing it, and thats what Fluxbox does, taking 1/10th of the memory that KDE does. Fluxbox feels like it was designed to do one thing, and stuck to that topic, where as KDE feels like it was a buncha different things that were tacked togather with ductape and had the same theme slapped on them so they looked semi-congruent. I donno, I've actually grown to perfer the interface of Fluxbox to that of KDE, along with the look and feel. The funny thing is, you can customize KDE to look and feel almost exactly like Fluxbox, but Flux still gets the job done 10x faster. Gotta love it.

My goal for right now is to convert to a minimal (I use that in a loose sense) window manager (not Gnome or KDE). I know my machine is capable of the big ones, but it's a good habit to have.

Does anybody know if there would be any obvious problems with running Fluxbox with Xgl? I would be really dissapointed if it wouldn't be a clean port, or even if Fluxbox needed a full overhaul to work on it, it'd take a long time. Anyway, I'm all for cool graphicsy stuff, but having wobbley windows is a bit contrary to Fluxbox culture, I would feel a bit like a heratic. Unless it was uber fast and seamless, then I would just be the master of desktops.

>>Does anybody know if there would be any obvious problems with running Fluxbox with Xgl?
I think FB can run fine with XGL. The problem is running FB with special effects, since they're part of Compiz, which is a completely different window manager.

Isn't that kind of the point?.. lol

The only problem I'm having (Celeron 1.5G/512MB RAM/GForce6600 - Viglen laptop) is that with xgl enabled firefox crashes as soon as I try to play any kind of visual media that calls mplayerplug-in.
(This is on Suse 10.1)
Am searching for a solution...

Wait but I thought I saw the weird effects and stuff running with KDE and Gnome too? I thought they figured out some way to have KDE and Gnome run inside Compiz or with Compiz or something like that, but maybe I've got it wrong. Is there a way to do that with Fluxbox, or would Fluxbox it's self have to be heavily modified to make that work?

KDE and Gnome are desktop environments. With the effects, you run Compiz with the KDE desktop instead of Kwin, and the same for Gnome. Fluxbox is just a window manager, and would be replaced by Compiz.