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LinuxTimes: The Lightweight Experience: A Comparison of Window Managers

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 17, 2005

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“There is and will be an everlasting ‘Gnome vs. KDE” debate. The
trend is that developers concentrate building distributions around
one of the two. But not everyone wants to use Gnome/KDE, mainly
because of having older hardware or not wanting to stick with the
traditional panel/menu approach. After all, GNU/Linux is about
freedom and choice, and there are several good window managers too
choose from and to build a fully customized and lightweight
desktop.

“I will look at five window managers plus Xfce, considering
speed, features, and configurability…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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