[olug] Alternatives to GNOME3

[Jordan Fox]

Wow, that was a really good overview!  Kudos. I'd forgotten about some
(awesome) and never heard of others (pekwm).  I really like xfce and have
used it for years.  V4.8 is a really nice update over v4.6.  Previous
articles, phoronix and anad tech, showed that older versions of xubuntu have
similar ram usage as ubuntu (xfce 4.6 and gnome2).  I haven't seen any
articles using other distros.  I've also been following lxde for a while,
but haven't looked at the most recent versions.  Lxde is a lot lighter on
resource usage than xfce.  Both DEs are available for fedora, ubuntu, and
debian - not sure about others.  As always, liveCDs or usb sticks are your
friends in this regard.

Jordan

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On Jun 3, 2011 11:22 PM, "George De Bruin" <sndchaser at gmail.com> wrote:
> One last thing I meant to mention... An invaluable resource for looking
> around at desktops / window managers is the Window Managers for X site:
> http://xwinman.org/
>
> <http://xwinman.org/>George
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Kevin <sharpestmarble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just installed Fedora 13, stock windowing system.
>>
>> I find that I am not a fan of GNOME3, specifically the lack of a
>> window list/taskbar. I can get around that using alt-tab. However, if
>> an application has multiple windows open, then only the most recent
>> one is selectable. I can hover on an application and click on the
>> window I want, but that defeats the whole purpose of using the
>> keyboard for application-switching.
>>
>> I would like to switch to another system, but don't know which one I
>> should switch to. I was a fan of GNOME2's system of picking a
>> configuration and going with it; KDE doesn't rub me right.
>>
>> I just want things to work, but GNOME3 makes too many compromises in
>> the way of UI speed. Does anyone know of an alternative to GNOME3 I
>> should try?
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