Hi, I always tend to go for Blackbox if I need lightwight. Very light, quite manual.. Howto is still current :) http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=125084 Best, Bart
On 2013-02-14 22:08, Thomas Mayer wrote:
Hi,
On 14.02.2013 19:40, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
Hello
I am setting up a Asus netbook for Pure Data/Gem/pidip and would like to not load the hoggish unity or even gnome seems to slow this little guy down. Can linux users suggest a window manager that might serve me best for this purpose.
LXDE: It comes e.g. with Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi and is really usable, Lubuntu is the Ubuntu variant with it. It used GTK as default tookit.
XFCE: My favourite, I am using it on a 1 GHz one core Pentium 4 with Debian, and works really fast. The Ubuntu variant is called Xubuntu. Toolkit: GTK.
Fluxbox: really lightweight, have not used in in years.
Other lightweight WMs, that I have briefly tested, but not really used: Englightenment, Openbox, Window Maker.
HTH, Thomas