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Juan J. Martínez wrote: > El mar, 30-03-2010 a las 10:38 +0100, Roland Tarver escribió: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I'm a fan of XFCE especially on older hardware, although LXDE is a better choice >>> for really old hardware, or maybe FWM2. Can't think of the other lightweight >>> Window Managers out there. >>> >>> Rob >> I have heard of the IceWM, Fluxbox and Ratpoison window managers. From >> what I read they are supposed to be lighter than xfce. I have no >> personal experience of any of them however. > > I guess the difference is IceWM, Fluxbox, etc are window managers, and > XFCE and LXDE aim to be lightweight desktop environments. > > Today seems that it's assumed that there's only one thing (the desktop). > It's a subtle difference, but in "the old days" it was important (when > Gnome & KDE started up, I was a WindowMaker fan... but I think today it > would be difficult to me to go back to that way of work). > > Cheers, > > Juanjo > I have never looked at LXDE. Must give it a go. I have tried Fluxbox but for me it is too minimal. But I do like Xfce now that I have become used to it. As I said, it is on my laptop. The desktop still uses Kubuntu Hardy. Will need to upgrade it soon. I am really considering moving away from KDE altogether. For me all the pretty extras are somewhat pointless. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html