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jo3

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 112

Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

I'm curious to know which DE or WM you guys are running on your Eee PC's. I am currently using xfce-panel and xfce-desktop w/ openbox as the WM on my Eee 900. The setup is running fine but I'm always interested in trying new things. So, besides console only, how lightweight have you gone?

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

Seems like StumpWM would be a good choice on that little screen (or any screen).

dr.cranium

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Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 65

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

I prefer Pekwm for minimalism.  Openbox is pretty good too.  If you can get used to tiling, Ratpoison and Awesome are also very good.  The best part of Awesome for such an application would be using tags to effectively manager your windows.

tankmcp

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From: Tulsa, OK

Registered: 2007-09-17

Posts: 54

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

LXDE (with Openbox), pcmanfm (Although thunar especially with squeeze is my alternate).
Seems to be light and yet provide what I need.

jo3

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Registered: 2007-08-18

Posts: 112

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

Thx guys, I got some ideas to toy around with now.

scj

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-23

Posts: 158

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

You should probably use a tiling WM to get as much out of the small screen real estate you have.

I'm partial to xmonad but I wouldn't really call it lightweight with it's (huge) dependencies. Is it possible to run xmonad "standalone" if you don't intend to recompile your config? I'm actually kind of curious about that, since I intend to purchase one of those tiny netbooks in the future.

Issh

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Registered: 2007-12-02

Posts: 58

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

wmii would be an idea also

vomix

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 84

Re: Lightweight DE/WM for Eee PC

If you don't want tiling but still want some lightweight and screen-size-optimisation wm, you can try evilwm.