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Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: RX Shorty on June 05, 2010, 10:58:45 am

With the default Sharp Ubuntu "Rom" which Window Manmager do you use?

And do you have some optimise tips?

Currently I am using XFCE, a bit faster as the default Gnome.
Though LXCE is faster, the Gnome network manager isn`t working.

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: Sleep_Walker on June 05, 2010, 03:23:56 pm

Quote from: RX Shorty

With the default Sharp Ubuntu "Rom" which Window Manmager do you use?

And do you have some optimise tips?

Currently I am using XFCE, a bit faster as the default Gnome.
Though LXCE is faster, the Gnome network manager isn`t working.

I use XFCE and Enlightenment 17 on Debian. Speed is fine. I switched NetworkManager to wicd, Firefox to Midori, UBIFS in flash to EXT2 on class 6 microSDHC card and distribution kernel to my own build  Default Ubuntu ROM contents untouched :b

OK, probably not the answer you wanted...

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: RX Shorty on June 05, 2010, 05:28:03 pm

Are you running Debian or Ubuntu?
Ahh switched to wicd, no driver problems? I tried it before but somehow it deleted my Wireless driver.

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: ptoki on June 06, 2010, 03:58:05 am

I am using default gnome lxde.
Its pretty fast not much heavy.

Main advantage is easy setup of lots of panel goodies.
On zaurus I succesfully use matchbox.
It is nice there because fullscreen windows and very small resource usage.
Main pains is no panel gadgets and strange minimize behavior (window dissapears but process is still alive).

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: RX Shorty on June 06, 2010, 07:32:03 am

Ah ok, some like Openbox?

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: merlin1 on June 06, 2010, 02:27:32 pm

I happily used LXDE and got the NetworkManager working by copying its .desktop file to the autostart directory and editing it to be executed in LXDE.

I was going to try pure Openbox and evilwm too but then sold my Netwalker (long story).

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: RX Shorty on June 06, 2010, 02:55:54 pm

Nice, going to try that
Sold your Netwalker. I don't hope it was the hard way...

Found the solution for the Gnome network manager with LXDE

Quote

Autostart network-manager(nm-applet) in LXDE
First, edit /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop, this file appears as follows;

———————————————————————
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Network Manager
Comment=Control your network connections
Icon=nm-device-wireless
Exec=nm-applet –sm-disable
Terminal=false
Type=Application
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=NetworkManager
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=general
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=nm-applet

———————————————————————-
Edit the file, make sure OnlyShowIn contains LXDE,
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;LXDE;
then,
$ mkdir ~/.config/autostart
$ cp /etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
This will autostart network manager(nm-applet) after reboot.

Title: Which Window Manager Do You Use?
Post by: Sleep_Walker on June 11, 2010, 06:51:53 am

Quote from: RX Shorty

Are you running Debian or Ubuntu?
Ahh switched to wicd, no driver problems? I tried it before but somehow it deleted my Wireless driver.

Debian, I have Ubuntu only as fallback if I create some problem.