Linux GUI

[Jon855]

I'm using GENTOO and which GUI would u suggest that I take a look at?

/me first timer Gentoo and am installing from stage 1

:evil:

UPDATE: I've switched from gentoo to Suse 9.3 and am currently running KDE. Gentoo's simply just too complicated for a nix newbie.

 

[n0cmonkey]

w9wm

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Enlightenment

 

[nweaver]

xfce4

 

[n0cmonkey]

Blackbox.

 

[xtknight]

KDE/Gnome for n00bs like me.

 

[imported_plasmasnake]

Fluxbox.

 

[n0cmonkey]

fvwm2

 

[Brentx]

Bah there just here to confuse you!

I would go with KDE or Gnome, since gentoo.org has the Howto Docs on them. And I do have to say... Gentoo's docs are very good.

 

[Nothinman]

E17 is pretty, but I'm not sure how stable it is. I'm still using E16.

 

[bersl2]

ratpoison

 

[Zelmo3]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
E17 is pretty, but I'm not sure how stable it is. I'm still using E16.

Ooh, I've been hearing good things about that! But being that it's still a ways from ready for regular use, I'd stick with twm.

 

[nweaver]

Originally posted by: Brentx
Bah there just here to confuse you!

I would go with KDE or Gnome, since gentoo.org has the Howto Docs on them. And I do have to say... Gentoo's docs are very good.

There are also docs on others....I know that XFCE4 has one, as I have used it!

 

[silverpig]

e17 is still like alpha

I just finished installing gentoo64 and am running xfce4.

 

[pac1085]

windowmaker ftw

 

[keeleysam]

KDE FTW

 

[sourceninja]

Ask a million linux users what they recomend, get a million answers. You might as well asked what their favorite text editor was

 

[Nothinman]

e17 is still like alpha

And E16 is still labeled a development release nearly a decade later and MS labels Windows "final" long before it's ready with every release =)

I tried the E17 bootable CD, it's based on Ubuntu and ran pretty well actually. It did crash once, when switching themes IIRC, but it switched fine a handful of times and everything else worked fine.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
Ask a million linux users what they recomend, get a million answers. You might as well asked what their favorite text editor was

joe then nano...

to the OP : I am a fan of XFCE 4.2 with the gtk/gtk2 and qt3 libraries loaded as well. Installation should be very similar to that of GNOME or KDE ( least is was when I did it on gentoo x86 ).

 

[SUOrangeman]

xfce4 is as lightweight as you can get while retaining as many features as the KDE and Gnome heavyweights.

I just wish more folks would play around with entrance (i.e., support TwinView/Xinerama over 2+ screens, etc.)

-SUO, Gentoo 2005.0 AMD64 (dual-core) Stage 1

 

[calyco]

Fluxbox for me, love the easy configuration.. as simple as editing a text file. Looks slick too