--- In [email protected], Drmgiver <drmgi...@...> wrote: > > Rox is indeed a full desktop environment as far as I know. It certainly > is a window manager and file manager at the very > least. http://roscidus.com/desktop/ > > Justin
The link needed a little manual editing to work. Thanks for the info, I certainly wasn't aware of it; as noted before, I'd only come across the file manager (what the website refers to as Rox-Filer) as part of other custom lightweight window-manager builds. Considering that I regard full-blown Fedora distros as too 'bleeding-edge' and experimental for me, that feeling goes double for Rox. This is real 'do-it-yourselfer' territory, but hey, that's the true spirit of Linux (even if I don't go there myself). Generally speaking, no distro is going to offer Rox as it's primary desktop; it'll almost certainly have XFCE as it's primary and Rox (or whatever) as an alternate. If Ubuntu won't play nice with Rox, then DON'T USE IT ;) -- go with something else XFCE-based, and install Rox within that. Google is your friend, Drmgiver, as is the search function of distrowatch. In addition to the two possibilities I already named, you might also want to investigate Vector Linux and Wolvix, I have a vague recollection that they have (or previously had) alternative WM's as well. > > --- In [email protected], Drmgiver <drmgiver@> wrote: > > > > > > I have always been curious to try out the ROX desktop, though I have > > > been told it doesn't play well with Ubuntu, so what distro can I use > > > that uses ROX, as well as a grub installer? (or just instructions on > > > how to add it to my current grub) The distro using a live CD would be > > > very nice as well. > > > > > > Justin > > > > --- In [email protected], Gary wrote: > > I wasn't aware that Rox was a "desktop", I've encountered it as a file > > manager program (analogous to KDE's Konqueror, Gnome's Nautilus, and > > XFCE's Thunar) under distributions that offer the (extremely > > lightweight and somewhat obscure) "IceWM" or "JWM" window managers as > > options. I'm trying to remember now if it was D_mn Small Linux or > > Puppy Linux where I saw it. I do recall, from distro-hopping, that > > desktops utilizing Rox as file manager were *very* minimalist, not > > newbie-friendly. I certainly didn't continue using them ;) > > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
