alternate environments

nin881 · 02-26-2006, 03:20 PM

In my quest for more speed on an older computer I want a different Windows environment. I think this is the best distro I've tried. especially for beginners. I tried Debian and liked it then I tried this and love it.

Anyway are there any alternatives to Gnome in Ubuntu? I don't want KDE, that is the most bloated thing other than MS windows itself.

I'd like to get it off of a repository like synaptic. I'd like to try enlightenment

peter_89 · 02-26-2006, 03:31 PM

Look at OpenBox. It's a light, fast, and sleek replacement for GNOME's default window manager, Metacity. There might even be a .deb file for it, which would make installation on Ubuntu (or any other Debian-based distro, for that matter) fast and easy.

aysiu · 02-26-2006, 09:20 PM

Try XFCE:
http://www.psychocats.net/linux/xubuntu

You can also make KDE less bloated, too. Just install KPersonalizer:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kpersonalizer

and when you're asked how many "effects" you want, get rid of all the effects except desktop wallpaper and image previews. I have that kind of KDE running on my 128 MB RAM/ 766 GHz processor computer, and it runs quite well.

wrj · 02-26-2006, 09:24 PM

I replaced metacity with openbox on my ubuntu machine and it's been running great.
You can either run openbox alone or within gnome if you like.
Check out this thread for some more info:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75471

samuelmp · 05-20-2006, 06:45 PM

get Enlightenment as it is what you want it is realy prity

as you have seen it is probly what you want

Enlightenment

nin881 · 11-03-2006, 08:04 PM

I'm using enlightenment now it it is great.