[QUOTE=Ca5bah;23735509]Lubuntu is still more lightweight :/.[/QUOTE]
I tried it. XFCE > LXDE. Though Openbox is pretty epic.
XFCE but replace XFWM with Openbox and shit's the shit
What's open box? And Gnome isn't all that bad, it's not a resource hog, but I don't like that it's trying to look like Mac OS X. Can somebody give me a good pic of xfce? Google images is giving me all sorts of different looks.
Openbox is a window manager.
google is giving you a ton of different looks because the point is that it's extremely customizable.
My XFCE looks like this:
[img]http://imgkk.com/i/j2js.png[/img]
but it's pretty unlikely that you'll find anyone with the same look.
Looks good, any way to switch to open box or any other desktop without installing a whole new operating system?
just install it via your package manager, you'll have the opportunity to use it when you log in from GDM
sudo apt-get install openbox obconf obmenu xfce4-panel
In the login screen after you install this you will have the choice to go into either gnome, gnome safemode, some other shit, and openbox. Go into openbox. Right click and bring up a terminal. type "nano ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh"
put this in there:
[code].$GLOBALAUTOSTART
xfce4-panel &
feh -bg-fill *whatever background image you want* &
[/code]
Restart with "sudo reboot", go back into openbox and you're good to go. That will give you what I think Buttsex has. I don't know if he uses openbox, but you should because it is awesome.
actually I've got all my shit in .xinitrc, since I use the SLiM login manager because it is sex
the relevant part:
[code]
conky &
xfce4-panel &
(sleep 2 && feh --bg-scale .wallpaper) &
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
[/code]
I use SLiM but I still put my programs for startup in autostart.sh, I've read it's more flexible. Plus, it forces the programs to run after Openbox has started, meaning you don't have to use sleep.
Thanks, I suppose you can do a similar method with other desktops? Also what if i don't wan't to use Xfce all the time, do i just make it so It doesn't auto start?
the only reason I use sleep is because SLiM messes with the root window and that occasionally fucks shit up with other programs that do the same.
Using Xfce and openbox now, looks great! Very lightweight, uses 277 mb of Ram with chrome running, gnome used about 1 GB. I'm configuring it right now, It's a great choice.
Gnome used 1 GB? :gonk:
I seriously hope he means that all his processes totaled to 1GB instead of GNOME only.
No, Gnome with Chrome used 1GB, XFCE with chrome only used 300MB. Gnome alone used about 200-600mb. Mostly around 250 Also how do you configure conky, i can't find any settings at all.
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Re-check, just removed a bunch of default crap applications from ubuntu, now only uses 400mb with chrome with Gnome.
[QUOTE=Wombo194;23758388]Using Xfce and openbox now, looks great! Very lightweight, uses 277 mb of Ram with chrome running, gnome used about 1 GB. I'm configuring it right now, It's a great choice.[/QUOTE]
It's chrome's fault. I can get chrome using 500mb of RAM easy.
Is games like TF2 also coming to Linux with Steam? Probably gonna switch to Arch or Debian with that config then (Openbox, Xfce4-panel, SLiM)
[QUOTE=thf;23762190]Is games like TF2 also coming to Linux with Steam? Probably gonna switch to Arch or Debian with that config then (Openbox, Xfce4-panel, SLiM)[/QUOTE]
Yes, Steam and most of VALVe's games are coming out for Linux.
I just love the games Steam makes :downs:
Just noticed that, crap. Fixed.
Also, using LXDE now, I'm liking it better then xfce. Very fast but I'm probably only going to use it for watching videos and playing games.
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;23751612]actually I've got all my shit in .xinitrc, since I use the SLiM login manager because it is sex
the relevant part:
[code]
conky &
xfce4-panel &
(sleep 2 && feh --bg-scale .wallpaper) &
exec ck-launch-session openbox-session
[/code][/QUOTE]
He uses Ubuntu. I doubt he has any slim.
It's easy to get slim in ubuntu
[code]sudo apt-get install slim[/code]
Ubuntu broke for me four days ago. (No login screen)
Reinstalled the next day, the problem appears again.
Frustrated, I install Arch. After somehow getting it to work, I'm still trying to figure out how I gotta configure GNOME and my WLAN. All seemed to go well [B]until I accidentally the whole /usr dir.[/B]
Oh well, reinstalled yesterday and now everything seems to work - including WLAN. Although I dunno if it'll still work after I reboot :D
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Oh, look at that, had to configure manually again. Sdfdfdsdfsdf.
[QUOTE=esalaka;23776889]I accidentally the whole /usr dir.[/QUOTE]
how did you manage that one?
[QUOTE=Wombo194;23748775]What's open box? And Gnome isn't all that bad, it's not a resource hog, but I don't like that it's trying to look like Mac OS X. Can somebody give me a good pic of xfce? Google images is giving me all sorts of different looks.[/QUOTE]
I hope that you realize that Gnome is not trying to look like OSX in any way. It looks like that because that's the default theme the ubuntu theme gave it.
You can change the theme completely.
You can also download themes:
[url]http://gnome-look.org/[/url]
yeah outside of Ubuntu, Gnome's default configuration looks totally different than anything else.
Ok thanks for the info, I'm still learning.
Also, Openbox is a lightweight window manager that uses right click to show the menu. It's really fast and customizable.
Posting from Ubuntu Netbook Edition, installed from within Windows. I like it so far, I really like the Email/Calendar.
[QUOTE=Killuah;23787424]installed from within Windows.[/QUOTE]
wubi? :geno:
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