Plus one for fluxbox if you're a minimalist. I use LXDE (not the specific Ubuntu take on it, but I believe that is called Lubuntu). It's nice to have fast, low bloat alternatives still around. With LXDE you can compile legacy versions of most Gnome apps for GTK2 so everything looks the same (GTK2 + 3 just isn't very pleasant, I don't care what anyone says). -- Jeremy MountainJohnson Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the pointer to fluxbox - first I've heard of it. Looks like > something I'd have fun exploring. > > -Rob > > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:04 AM, J Cruit <j at packetgod.com> wrote: > >> I still am not a big fan although it does work well on my touchscreen >> as a good interface to launch apps. So I'm warming up to it on that >> device but on all my other systems I've tried it for a few weeks then >> dumped it for gnome. >> >> At this point I think I'm done with desktops, I'm going back to what I >> remember as the good old days and just using Fluxbox, it always looked >> so good and it was quick, easy and I had everything at my fingertips. >> >> --j >> >> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Robert Nesius <nesius at gmail.com> wrote: >> > Anyone tried it yet? >> > >> > Does Unity suck less? >> > >> > -Rob >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> > tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111014/e5138411/attachment.html>