Window managers
Posted By matt on June 7, 2009
So, I added the OpenGeu repositories to my list and grabbed E17. It shows promise, but isn’t quite there yet.
- Segfaulted about once every half hour.
- Slower than XFCE.
- Lacked a system tray applet (like, for nm-applet to live in).
Some of this may be the OpenGeu build, some of it may be the fact that it is just barely out of alpha.
Anyway, I played with it for about three hours last night, got it mostly configured, and in the end, it wasn’t ready for prime time.
I may have a look at OpenBox (running it under Gnome, since it is just a WM and doesn’t try to be a full desktop environment).
Of course, the whole point to this is to actually find something which is not broken, like Xfce now is under Jaunty. See, I have this nagging fear that this stacking order is what the XFCE guys actually want and they won’t fix it.
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I am really unimpressed with xfce 4.6.0 (the one they shipped with Jaunty), there are a couple very frustrating annoyances. I used it for a month, but the deal-killer for me was the lack of a menu editor. I used to have loads of custom menus for work, which the new menuing system ignored upon upgrade. It is possible to get the menu rewritten, but it's painstaking and tedious and I'm not doing it.
I switched to very stripped down Gnome for now. This is a shocking development for me, I started on e16, went to fluxbox and then xfce. Ending up with Gnome at this point is just strange – but it's working beautifully and honestly the RAM usage on a 2G RAM system is not painful (approx 500M upon launch, where xfce was around 300M). I just miss having two clocks (localtime and UTC).
I'm looking at LXDE. Figure I'll give that a go.
I can't say I like LXDE too much.
Right now, it's either going to be “poke XFCE and see if there is some magical combination of buttons which makes it do what it did in 4.4″ or “dust off my FVWM configuration from 5 years ago and see if I can pretty it up”.