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OSNews: Installing XFce-4 on SuSE 8.2

“While Linux provided the right mix of flexibility and feature
richness, I still needed to select a window manager. There is
certainly no shortage of available window managers for Linux, but
given my hardware limitations I had to be very careful with my
resources. The lighter ones tend to be so featureless or
unintuitave that productivity is hindered. Some I found to be so
unattractive that it hurt to look at them. On the other hand, many
of the feature rich graphical interfaces are too demanding on the
system resources for older hardware. So, I began my search for a
window manager that met the following four criteria; light on
resources, feature rich, intuitive and good looking.

“Does such a window manager exist for Linux…?”

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