Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

zenfunk · Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 221

Hm, I repeat myself here, but a GTK 1 Puppy sounds a lot like PULP. I didn't use GTK1 rox but emelfm instead, allmost all of the other proggies used are GTK 1, and yes, it's fast. Wink

disciple · Posted: Sat 16 Jan 2010, 04:19 Post subject:

Does anyone know if you can build a gtk1 gtkdialog? Puppy even relies on it for a lot of configuration stuff. If you can't then you'll either be spending a lot of time looking for or creating all sorts of guis, or leaving them out.
Which word processor would you include?

bugman · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons

currently using jwm without rox desktop, as in http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51200

Cool

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 16 Jan 2010, 08:51 Post subject:

Drone-87401 · Joined: 03 Jan 2010 Posts: 74

disciple · Posted: Sat 16 Jan 2010, 19:19 Post subject:

rokytnji · Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 742 Location: Pecos/ Texas

Voted Icewm.

I run AntiX also which gives you some choice on what Desktop to run. There is a small thread at Mepis Lovers about thinking of seeing if LXDE might be a viable alternative Default Desktop.
http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24611&highlight=lxde

AntiX choices for Desktop
1. Icewm
2. Fluxbox
3. Rox PinBoard

File Manager Choices in AntiX
1. PCMAN
2. Rox

I've used a LXDE Desktop (used earlier unstable versions). I like Icewm better though.

What I would would like to see in Puppy (just a wish, puppy is fine as it is)
1. JWM
2.Icewm
3.Fluxbox

Ibidem · Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 243

IceWM is my pick.
Way more features than you can keep track of (read /usr/share/icewm/preferences for an idea, I guesstimate ~400 options), incredibly tweakable, tons of decent themes, keyboard support while working with the mouse (as opposed to ratpoison), up to 12 desktops.
Also fond of the plaintext configuration (versus XML, like JWM uses).

For file manager I like Xfe, the X File Explorer; pcmanfm is decent, while rox is lacking a tree (explore) view. I dismiss Thunar & Nautilus without hesitation.

altwan · Joined: 30 Jul 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Sweden

My favourite lightweight window manager is Scrotwm.
http://scrotwm.org
Similar to dwm but easier to configure.

harii4 · Posted: Sat 19 Jun 2010, 18:57 Post subject:

lightweight window manager that i like is "oroborus".
feh handle the background and use no icons.
its lighter on old systems if rox dose not run (control) them.
For menu(s) i use yeahlaunch with spm and 9menu.

conky and xbattbar are my eye candy. Very Happy

cebobbitt · Posted: Fri 30 Jul 2010, 07:22 Post subject: FVWM2

No one voted for fvwm2?........wow, what a shame, it does it all, including starting programs. I use it on all of my puppies!!

DM was on fire! · Posted: Fri 30 Jul 2010, 11:01 Post subject:

What? Is there no love for Xfce?
I am disappoint. :c

I use Puppy more for the fact it's easy to run off a thumb drive, not for it's speed or the fact it can run on older systems (albeit, it is a bonus if I ever want to run it on my dad's laptop), so I have Xfce. I also want to try and put KDE on Puppy since my first choice above everything is KDE.
Did LHPUp run on KDE? It doesn't seem to anymore. :s

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

Drone-87401 · Joined: 03 Jan 2010 Posts: 74

I personally love XFCE, it is very simple and an elegant solution as far as memory is concerned! I am pretty much using XFCE in all of my distributions these days.