March 31, 2022 - XFCE won as it looks more alike the 95's OS. IceWM looks more alike windows 7/8/10 oldthemed))) the frames are too thick.

March 17, 2025 - You might be wondering, Why did I move away from Xfce? At its core, IceWM is just a window manager, while XFCE is a proper desktop environment.

September 2, 2006 - I want to switch to IceWM or Xfce. But here's the problem: I think I am "addicted" to KDE. I don't think I'd miss most of what comes with

Minimalist Approach The minimalist ... integrated and richly featured desktop environment. Xfce is considered a good desktop environment, especially for those who prioritize speed and efficiency over the latest visual effects....

It's a fast, stable windowmanager. The thing >>I don't like is that the menu has to be configured all by yourself, >>because ICEWM doesn't import debian-menu like xfce. But if you only need >>to run firefox, you can easaly autostart it and there are also a lot of >>menueditor's for icewm!!!

February 15, 2017 - It's available in Synaptic Package Manager. Install it, and any recommended files. Probably also it would be good to install the icewm-themes package. Once installed, reboot, and (depending on your login theme), at the login window, click the Gear icon (or similar), to choose between xfce and icewm.

... It's more than allegedly heavier than it used to be, it definitely is. Also it's a full desktop environment, not just a WM. My old POS netbook runs Antix now because of how bloated Xfce has become compared to before. I use the iceWM window manager on it, and yes its genuinely light, about 150Mb after booting.

I have run xfce in the same user space with the following wms and experienced no problems (that I can recall). dwm openbox i3wm bspwm spectrm hlwm fluxbox iceWM jwm FWIW, Desktop Environments (DEs) tend to be more prone to overlap and causing each other grief (although it can be manageable).

July 19, 2002 - “Xfce is mostly a CDE clone, I recommend Icewm to those comfortable with the Windows 9x taskbar, Enlightenment runs quite fast & is stable, but I’m appalled by the garish look of the themes.”

Of course, such a machine CANNOT support a desktop. It cannot even support XFCE4. So I installed my favorite choice out of all of the "barebones" window managers - ICEWM. As with XFCE4, I first needed a basic XWindows system installed (Debian package "x-window-system-core").

December 9, 2020 - GNOME adds fluency to work with text as it understands the hyperlinks and email addresses, which redirects to the corresponding application to open. Could you consider using IceWM as the default Window Manager, as it is very lightweight, but is more themable than Openbox, and is using GTK 1 as the toolkit. ... LXDE, LXQT, XFCE i dont want any of these most used ones.

In light of (not so recent) events. I have decided to switch from using xfce to a different alternative. (One without CSDs) I personally don't like mate, and xfce-classic isnt even in alpha stage yet, so what did I choose? I chose IceWM.

Oh please... I use Linux Lite with the XFCE on an old HP Pressario tower and it works just fine. People are always trying to find fault with things just to complain. It's 2023. XFCE can't stay as "light" as when it first began. It's just a fact of life.

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October 23, 2014 - Xfce, Lxde, or IceWM are all very good and useable options.

December 9, 2020 - “Xfce is mostly a CDE clone, I recommend Icewm to those comfortable with the Windows 9x taskbar, Enlightenment runs quite fast & is stable, but I’m appalled by the garish look of the themes.”. For a quick installation of Konsole, you can ...

February 10, 2009 - I see already a set of menus. Does opensuse updates the files in /etc/icewm? Looking to not interfere with any OS process as I learn how to use configure icewm. XFCE is not in the boot menu. How do I get it there? Have a number of the xfce programs already installed (u...

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It could be that the combination of features with Xfce and alternative window managers have conflicts. Xfce is a desktop environment, but it does have a default window manager – it is xfwm4 – but it could be changed to metacity, kwm, icewm, fluxbox, openbox, etc.