Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you > choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install.
I personally prefer to put my own desktop environment together using a window manager and my favorite tools and utilities. It's much more flexible and customized that way. If I were to pick one of the three mentioned I'd go with LXDE because it's the most lightweight of the options. LXDE is set up so that you can use all of it or just the bits and pieces you like such as lxtask for a task manager. If most of the applications you're using are Qt based rather than GTK+ based and you don't want to have both sets of user interface libraries on your system, KDE (or razorQt which isn't in BLFS but is more lightweight than KDE) are good options. Another lightweight option (also not in BLFS) is Equinox Desktop Environment. If you'd like to try out various window managers and see how they compare, there's a distribution that contains 53 window managers ( http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gangbang ). I personally liked using Fluxbox and Openbox in the past, but have switched to jwm and am very happy with it. jwm is very lightweight and has few dependencies so it's easy to build from source. The system I'm currently working on putting together right now will use mainly SDL, FLTK and Fox Toolkit based applications instead of GTK+ or Qt based ones, so I really like the idea of a window manager/desktop environment with as few dependencies as possible. If you want to conserve hard drive space, that can help limit your choices. You can pick an option that uses the same GUI libraries as other applications on your system. Otherwise, it really depends on what you personally like and everyone's tastes are different. Sincerely, Laura http://www.distasis.com/cpp -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
