X Window Managers
December 29th, 2002
I run my Gentoo box headless, however, it is convenient to be able to be able to fire up a desktop session (VNC tunneled through SSH) remotely on occasion. TWM isn’t exactly my idea of a great desktop environment so after some consideration I decided on Fluxbox. So far I am impressed - it is small, lightweight, fast (even over a tunneled VNC session), and didn’t take hours to emerge.
Hell, after playing with it for a few hours I am considering trying to get it working on my SPARC box at work. It seems like a much nicer day to day desktop environment than the Sun Gnome Beta - all I typically need are some terminals and Netscape.
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