Fluxbox

[studio32]

Once main difference is that OpenBox doesn't have any kind of panel/task bar. Fluxbox does.

Right, I prefer a panel. But the main advantage of Fluxbox it's easier (at least for me) to make shortcuts etc.

BTW its really easy to switch back and forward to fluxbox or openbox.... right mouse button > windowmanagers > Fluxbox/ openbox

Also usable: fbrun, to start apps...

[funkmuscle]

yeah, I found the feature to mix openbox with gnome or kde. nice, like a light weight version of the heavy weights.

[studio32]

fluxbox for Ubuntu http://fluxbuntu.org/explain.html

[khz]

http://xmonad.org/

[studio32]

http://xmonad.org/

did you try it yourself?

[khz]

i try it just yet, but i have some problems ... learning.

[raboof]

I use another 'tiling window manager', ion3, on a daily basis.

For my day-to-day work this is great, but for music stuff my desktops seem to turn into a right mess no matter what window manager I use .

Probably because I haven't settled on a set of tools and workflow for music stuff yet, just experimenting.

[algodon]

Am i the only one using wmaker ? I've been using it for at least 3 years and love it. It's certainly less sexy than kde or gnome but wmaker is quick, light.

[Cerebral Pain]

Well, thanks for the hint, I got a lot of xruns doing simples tasks with rosegarden and audacity, for example; I'll google it and see if I am advanced enough to use fluxbox and solve those CPU problems. I read that the real-time kernel should help as well, but only 1 CPU works...

[mixtape]

I also fired up fluxbox to see what all the fuss was about. Here's some stats:

Memory Usage by WM (In UbuStu, according to htop)

Gnome 24.3407%
Fluxbox 14.4016%

Fluxbox appears to be nearly twice as efficient as Gnome. Go fluxbox.

[tuple]

Fluxbox is based off of blackbox and I'm pretty sure that openbox is as well. If memory serves correct (it often doesn't ), blackbox was (and maybe still is) essentially abandoned and not being developed. Not surprising since its meant to be a lean mean windows manager, can't really continue to bloat it up. I think it is being worked on again but you'll have to google that for yourself

Here's a good spot for fluxbox info, including the nasty little thing I've run into where you install it, login and you're menu's are empty including no real way to get a terminal or shutdown (except of course alt+f1 )
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fluxbox
The amount that you can configure it really is crazy and limited only by you're imagination. Most configuration is simple text files.

For the love of all that is harmonious, please do not use kde on a music workstation. Its a very nice desktop but the reality is that it hoards memory and sucks cpu tics. If nothing else, switch to gnome but consider fluxbox or iceWM (and there are others whose names escape me) and leave you're workstation's resources to your software.

/preachingtochoir

cheers

[AutoStatic]

IceWM user here. I just know how it works, we use it at work too for our thin clients so that helps too. It's way faster than Gnome, especially on my netbook.

[Capoeira]

i use fluxbox for audio, too.......much better perfomance than my KDE4 desktop