I don’ t really care for the bloated kde or gnome desktops, especially on a netbook with limited memory. I have pretty much always been a fluxbox user since about 2003 or so. Over the years my configuration changes, partially because the way I do things changes. This means my fluxbox environment changes….but not too often. What bothers me is that sometimes I will lose the latest file for my fluxbox environment, as I often tweak it every couple of days. This used to be the case, but now pretty much everything goes to external backup in real time. But many people ask me about my fluxbox because it does look pretty damn nice, its very functional, and my entire computer runs in about 200MB of memory. So without further wait, here it is, complete with config files.
The first image below shows my fluxbox desktop. The middle image shows fluxbox with the slit showing that I have set to auto hide so its not viewable in the first image. The third image shows tmux running inside of an Eterm with two splits shown. I just started using tmux and it allows you to have multiple windows inside of a console or term window (sort of how you can split horizontally or vertically inside of terminator). I use the default bind keys in tmux, so not really anything I can tell you about it outside of providing you this link to the tmux cheat sheet.
# Updated 20111210 – several people asked about what I used on my desktop or laptops, since I sort of stupilated I didnt like bloated wm’s on my netbook, and fact is, I still use fluxbox with the exact same config. Below are two screenshots from my Quad core desktop with 16GB memory and 1TB raid 0 drives (Images 4 and 5 in the gallery below)
